Ole C. Salomonsen's photostream  

Hi,

I am a 38 year old male situated in Tromsø Northern Norway with my girlfriend Veronica www.flickr.com/photos/velectronica/ and sons Oscar and Victor.

My background is within finance/economics where I behold an BBA in finance and an MBA. My main hobbies are photography and IT/ICT. During summer I love to spend time on the sea, during winters I snowboard and go alpine skiing, when I am not sitting out in the cold waiting for the Northern Lights that is! :)

If you would like a guided tour to shoot the aurora borealis, please do contact me. I am a local, and I know when, where and HOW to shoot the lights.

Currently I shoot with a Canon EOS 5D Mark II. And I have too many lenses. If I had to choose only one, I don't think I could survive without my favorite; the Canon EF 24mm L f/1.4 Mark II.

All pictures copyrighted (c) and can not be used in any way without my approval. All rights reserved!

Most pictures posted in cropped resolutions, and all in sRGB color space.

If you like my pictures I am glad. And your comments on my pictures are very much appreciated. But please do not post glamor invites & stuff without no comments! Also please do not invite me to groups such as "post 1 comment/invite 3" etc... I'd rather you comment something with your own words, even just with one word, or something negative (constructive) on my pictures than posting/inviting me to attend such childish popularity contest!

I am constantly aiming to improve my photographic skills, and I will achieve that much better with constructive feedback, rather than attending "flickr idol".

Please bare in mind all my photos are edited on hardware calibrated screens. I have three displays, one very good wide gamut photo display capable of 98% of the Adobe 1998 color space, one descent sRGB screen, and one cheap TN panel sRGB screen. The screens are calibrated to a white point of K6500, Gamma to 2.2, and Luminance levels of 120-140.I cross check the images on all thre screens before posting.

After some time shooting aurora images I discovered the output was not consistent enough while only sticking to my expensive wide gamut screen. This is because most wide gamut displays does a poor job in displaying images optimized for sRGB color space, almost without exception.

So In my opinion it's actually necessary to have at least two descent screens to validate the output.

Wide gamut screens are good to have if you're working for prints, native sRGB screens are a must when you're working for web. This is because wide gamut displays tries to convert from a smaller color space to a much bigger, with dissapointing results. So bare this in mind if you're sitting on an expensive wide gamut screen and think sRGB images look to vivid or green.

Also I have started to work/import the images aimed for the web directly in sRGB color space. This since the majority of people are using sRGB displays. And since I am very found of shooting the aurora borealis this is a better approach, since the most clipping when downconverting color space to sRGB before output is done in the green color area, which is the basic aurora color.

Remember even Adobe 1998 is a small color space compared to the color space of most DSLR's today. So it's best to decide what your goal is and do the conversion as early as possible in the process.

There is a color profile filter available for Firefox users, I highly recommend this if you're on a so called perfect photo wide gamut display.

There is no such thing as a perfect display, but you on the path to perfection the least you need is a proper calibrated screen.

Ole