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Personal photo web site of Martin Joergensen
More than 30 years with SLR's - film as well as digital
Date: 27/06/2006 - Updated: 03/09/2010 12:47
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Posted: 19/08/2010

How I make my own books

Books on demand is a great way of getting your pictures on print. If no one else wants to publish you, you just do it yourself! This is a small guide to using the program BookSmart from Blurb.com.
Posted: 14/08/2010

Life starts at f/1.8

I have always loved bright lenses. If money was no issue, all my lenses would have f/1.4 and f/1.8 stamped on them. A few slow ones would be f/2.8, but only the slow ones...
Posted: 04/08/2010

Kodachrome

Kodachrome was the film love of my life. Now that love story is over. The last roll has been produced—and shot and processed.
Posted: 31/07/2010

Orbis ringflash adapter

I have always been fascinated by ringflash photography.
Posted: 30/07/2010

A small DIY striplight

Striplights are a great type of softboxes that give a nice, characteristic and very controlled light
Posted: 28/07/2010

I do books!

Publishing books has never been easier, and I thought I'd have some fun putting my own pictures in books.
Posted: 27/07/2010

My to see list

Films are a great source of inspiration... These are the ones I'm gonna see when they come.
Posted: 26/06/2010

Why free can make you money

Giving stuff away for free can be a very good way of making money. I have written about that before, and the current economic state of the world makes this even more true.
Posted: 26/06/2010

Ten movies that inspired my photography

Motion pictures have severely influenced my life and my photography. Pictures in movies are generally very well thought through and well executed, but some are just way better than average. Here's a list of my ten favorites.
Posted: 10/06/2008

Why your images are worthless

Trying to make money from your photography is a very long shot. The market is so saturated with quality pictures with extremely high availability and extremely low prices that getting a foothold is close to impossible.
Posted: 16/03/2008

When Dust Matters

The dust problem is one of my main “vastly exaggerated problems” with DSLR's. Judging from the sometimes endlessly raging online debates, many camera owners do nothing but shoot white walls at f22 in the pursuit of dust.
Posted: 26/02/2008

Build a small softbox

...very small, that is.
Posted: 20/02/2008

I'm a film shooter

No, it's not like I shoot film. I did go 100% digital the moment I acquired my first DSLR. But my photographic upbringing was in film, and that still marks my way of thinking and shooting.
Posted: 15/09/2007

Using wireless off-camera flash

I have recently started using my D200 and the SB-800 flash without cable like I used to do with my Minolta 7D and the HS5600. It's great!
Posted: 30/08/2007

Several reasons not to replace my D200

I am sure I will keep on taking great pictures with my D200 in spite of Nikon's recent announcement of a D300 and a D3.
Posted: 06/06/2007

How to drown a Canon PowerShot

It is not easy! They are tough cameras these PowerShots. I have tried with freshwater, saltwater and even coffee.
Posted: 06/04/2007

The feeling of pro glass

Oh, yes! These huge 17-55mm and 70-200mm f2.8 lenses do feel great in the hands, and the do take some awful nice pictures
Posted: 23/01/2007

B/W conversion

B/W images can be stunning, and converting color images to B/W can produce some surprisingly good results — provided you do it the right way.
Posted: 03/12/2006

A cure for lens lust

Can you really control the urge to browse shop windows, surf KEH time and time again and read the same pro lens test in a magazine for the umpteenth time? Is there such a cure? There just may be...
Posted: 10/10/2006

Urban landscapes

Even though you can't get to fabulous landscapes, mountains and widestretched plains, you might be able to shoot some 'scapes any way. Cityscapes...

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I have dug out this site and will start updating it again. For personal reasons I have left it alone for a while, but I miss writing about photography. So new and old writings will be finding their way her in the coming time.

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