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Seen at Jokkmok's marknad in northern Sweden

A new piece of Norway explored. This year the Folgefonna glacier is melting extra fast due to the vulcanic ash from Island earlier and which has covered the ice and accelerated the melting process. Makes it good for viewing new land though.

f/11 @ 28mm
1/250s
iso100

The tricky part of this photo was not to blow out the snow or the sky. I managed to solve this with exposure locking the brighest section of the snow/ice and then do a +1EV, setting the proper focus and the result was no burned pixels and a good RAW file to process.

I haven't had time to post photos lately as I need to land on planet Earth first with other things in mind, but I've got a ton waiting as I usually bring the camera whereever I go.

This photo were taken on a sunny day at an island outside town where we seeked shelter with friends to bbq and jump in the sea to cool down. A much appreciated day after a rainy summer here in Norway.

I've been thinking about the relationship of editing photos for screen and printing photos lately. I know a lot of people put a lot of effort in editing their photos before posting them to Flickr or other. Myself included.

I have to say first, that I'm no expert in printing photos and have only printed a few of my photos earlier at a professional shop, giving away for birthdays, Christmas and weddings.

What I've been thinking about is blown out pixels (white) and black pixels. I know as much as they will turn white and black (or transparent) on a print. It's especially important for b&w photos where a print may turn out all to dark when it had a nice smooth gray/blackish gradient on your screen (speaking of experience). A full sensor camera will give you more detail in the highlight/shadow area of a photo, but nevertheless it must be a concern for all camera levels when post editing the photos.

The photo above I edited so that I have no white or black pixels (from raw) and will probably make a print not too unfamiliar with the result viewed on screen. Is this correct procedure? What if I wanted a more darker mood, having to fill the trees with black? Probably make a good view online, but would it be less good in print?

I suppose you can't apply the same rules for all photographical styles / types (as many play on the contrast), but say landscape.

It's hard to avoid the fact that some photos requires a certain mood or feeling that will allow black and white pixels, but should it be limited to framing/vignetting? Should the main content of the photo always be correctly exposed? Take my previous photo, all blown out, very nice on screen - but would it be nice printed?

I for sure would like to edit my photo only one time instead of making one different copy for the screen and one for the print. I know that printing requires a bit more sharpening, but is that pretty much all you have to be concerned about?

What are your thoughts on this. Any first hand experience? Do you edit your photos, keeping in back of your head, that you one day might want to print it? How are you concerns about hightlights/shadows?

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And yeah, the photo was unfortunately not focused correctly, but I kinda like the mood in it.

I cannot remember a shittier summer weather-wise than this year. All June and this far in July has been gray, rainy, cold and windy, except a few nice days here and there. Today the rain is pouring down as if an October storm arrived too early.

Yesterday however had a glimpse of nice weather for the quick thinker. We found ourselves licking some precious hours of sun and firing up the bbq at one of the islands outside town before the gray clouds yet again alarmed us of what was coming.

I cannot think of anything better than going out with friends in their old wooden skiffs listening to the regular "thump thump thump" sound from the one-cylinder motor, gliding through the water at a pleasent speed. A common sight in southern Norway at summer time and I wouldn't trade it for a million class yacht.

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