Photo web site of photographer Martin Joergensen
Sigma 50mm f/1.4I have a weakness for bright lenses and always had great experiences with Sigma. So when I wanted a bright 50mm, I found it natural to look closer at Sigma's offering.
Lenses Date: 06/10/2011
What's in my bagI see these articles and videos all over the web, and like reading and watching them. Despite claiming that it's not the gear that does it, we're obsessed with equipment, aren't we? So here is my annotated gear list.
Cameras | Lenses | Date: 03/10/2011 - Updated: 24/01/2012 08:38
Exercise your photography musclesBring your camera, take pictures, have fun, become a better photographer,
Shooting Date: 15/02/2011 - Updated: 14/02/2011 17:05
I shoot RAW for the futureThere is an ongoing and almost eternal debate on the net about JPG versus RAW. I don't take part in it. I just shoot RAW and here is why.
Shooting | Post processing | Raw | Workflow | Date: 20/01/2011 - Updated: 20/01/2011 19:27
Fun with fisheyesI have had a couple of fisheye lenses in my long career with SLR's and have always considered them a lot of fun.
Lenses | Wideangle | Primes | Date: 17/01/2011 - Updated: 17/01/2011 06:04
Nikon 35mm f/1.8This lens is a no-brainer for any Nikon owner! It might not be the best lens Nikon ever made, but the quality to price ratio is unsurpassed.
Lenses | Normal lenses | Primes | Date: 16/01/2011 - Updated: 19/09/2011 03:58
Sigma 20mm f/1.8I've always liked two things in my lenses: wide angle and brightness. Combine the two and you have a winner!
Lenses | Lenses | Wideangle | Primes | Date: 09/01/2011 - Updated: 13/03/2011 17:11
Sigma 10-20mmMy acquisition of a Sigma 10-20mm wideangle zoom many years ago was the beginning of a beautiful friendship, to quote Bogart in Casablanca. It is just my kind of lens.
Lenses | Wideangle | Zoom | Date: 28/10/2010 - Updated: 16/01/2011 18:46
Digital black&whiteUpdated: B/W images can be stunning, and converting digital color images to B/W can produce some surprisingly good results – provided you do it the right way.
Shooting | Film | Photoshop | Post processing | Date: 23/01/2007 - Updated: 18/10/2010 11:19
Simple setupsI often use some very simple ”studio” setups to shoot small items in my office or my living room, even my bedroom. There's no reason to make things too complicated.
Shooting | DIY | Flash | Macro | Date: 18/10/2010 - Updated: 19/09/2011 03:56
Flash modifiers: filters or gelsThis is probably the most often used flash modifier apart from the diffuser—if not, perhaps it ought to be.
Accessories | DIY | Flash | Date: 04/10/2010 - Updated: 04/10/2010 17:07
Flash modifiers: snoots and gridsA snoot is a tube in front of your flash, which keeps its beam of light tight and concentrated, while a grid has lots of smaller, parallel tubes that do essentially the same thing.
Accessories | DIY | Flash | Date: 30/09/2010 - Updated: 17/01/2011 06:22
Flash modifiers: diffusersThis article is about different small flash diffusers, definitely the most common light modifiers.
Accessories | DIY | Flash | Date: 28/09/2010 - Updated: 27/09/2010 18:24
Flash modifiers: introThis is the first of a series of articles on flash modifiers – thingamajigs that can make your flash photography more interesting and give you more control over the light.
Accessories | DIY | Flash | Date: 28/09/2010 - Updated: 05/11/2010 18:59
Lensbaby, yeah!If you want to have a ton of fun with your DSLR and like to take creative and different images, you need to acquire a Lensbaby.
Lenses | Manual focus | Date: 27/09/2010 - Updated: 13/03/2011 19:28
How you can make your own booksBooks 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.
Software | Books | Date: 19/08/2010 - Updated: 17/01/2011 06:26
Life starts at f/1.8I 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...
Lenses | Normal lenses | Primes | Date: 14/08/2010 - Updated: 03/10/2011 09:48
Kodachrome was the film love of my life. Now that love story is over. The last roll has been produced—and shot and processed.
Shooting | Film | Date: 04/08/2010 - Updated: 06/09/2010 05:55
Orbis ringflash adapterI have always been fascinated by ringflash photography.
Accessories | Flash | Date: 31/07/2010 - Updated: 14/08/2010 15:25
A small DIY striplightStriplights are a great type of softboxes that give a nice, characteristic and very controlled light
Accessories | Flash | DIY | Date: 30/07/2010 - Updated: 13/08/2010 19:19
I do books!Publishing books has never been easier, and I thought I'd have some fun putting my own pictures in books.
Shooting | Books | Date: 28/07/2010 - Updated: 19/08/2010 07:50
Films are a great source of inspiration... These are the ones I'm gonna see when they come.
Shooting Date: 27/07/2010 - Updated: 04/10/2010 17:09
Why free can make you moneyGiving 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.
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.
Shooting Date: 26/06/2010
Why your images are worthlessTrying 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.
Shooting | Photographers | Business | Date: 10/06/2008 - Updated: 26/01/2011 20:02
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.
Gear use | Dust | Date: 16/03/2008 - Updated: 05/10/2010 09:51
...very small, that is.
Accessories | DIY | Flash | Date: 26/02/2008 - Updated: 31/07/2010 20:07
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.
Shooting | Digital | Film | Date: 20/02/2008 - Updated: 26/12/2011 04:07
A annotated list of all the "Pictures of the Day" pages on 500th.net
Pictures Updated: 01/10/2007 08:45
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!
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.
Cameras | Digital | Sensors | Speed | Date: 30/08/2007 - Updated: 13/03/2011 17:51
How to drown a Canon PowerShotIt is not easy! They are tough cameras these PowerShots. I have tried with freshwater, saltwater and even coffee.
Cameras | Point-and-shoot | Date: 06/06/2007 - Updated: 09/05/2011 18:11
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
Lenses | Autofocus | Image stabilization | Telephoto | Wideangle | Zoom | Date: 06/04/2007 - Updated: 13/03/2011 17:48
Urban landscapesEven though you can't get to fabulous landscapes, mountains and widestretched plains, you might be able to shoot some 'scapes any way. Cityscapes...
Shooting | Wideangle | Date: 10/10/2006 - Updated: 13/08/2010 18:08
Nikon 85mm f/1.8 DA great and affordable short telephoto potrait lens with excellent image quality for the price. I bought one used, and I love it.
Lenses | Telephoto | Primes | Date: 09/09/2006 - Updated: 17/01/2011 06:20
Sometimes you need to go a bit berserk, do the unexpected and surprise yourself by breaking some of the rules
Shooting | Composition | Date: 27/08/2006 - Updated: 09/12/2006 00:59
Frames per second or FPS can sell cameras. This seems pretty crazy to me. The average Joe does not need 5 or 8 FPS...
Gear use | Speed | Date: 08/10/2006 - Updated: 20/07/2007 15:57
Should you shoot in RAW- or JPG-format? Or TIFF? Or something completely different?
Shooting | Digital | Raw | Sensors | Workflow | Date: 14/08/2006 - Updated: 20/01/2011 19:26
Nikon LS-2000 scannerScanning slides was once the primary way of getting images into computers. I used — and still use — my trusty Nikon CoolScan LS-2000 for the job.
Accessories | Dust | Film | Scanning | Date: 22/08/2006 - Updated: 20/01/2011 15:42
The perfect histogramI know very well that the perfect histogram does not exist, but knowing what to aim for can be a great help.
Shooting | Workflow | Date: 05/08/2006 - Updated: 23/12/2007 12:53
When you start shooting digital, you may also start shooting dozens of thousands of images, and it's easy to be tempted to clean out once in a while. Don't!
Shooting | Workflow | Date: 26/07/2006 - Updated: 20/01/2011 17:57
Nikon 18-200mm f/3.5-5.6 VRAn amazing set of specifications for a small lens. Wide zoom range, inner focussing and vibration reduction. But the trees do not grow into the sky...
Lenses | Autofocus | Image stabilization | Telephoto | Wideangle | Zoom | Date: 25/07/2006 - Updated: 04/10/2010 04:58
LCD-displays on DSLR'sWhy Minolta's way of using the large display on the backside of their DSLR's is such a brillant idea
Gear use | Digital | Displays | Date: 24/07/2006 - Updated: 15/09/2007 22:16
Try the Golden section and other compositional grids on your own picture
Shooting | Composition | Date: 22/07/2006 - Updated: 28/12/2010 14:56
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...
What defines a professionel photographer and is it something you really want to be?
Shooting | Business | Photographers | Date: 20/07/2006 - Updated: 31/10/2010 20:01
I always shoot RAW. Because of this I have been introduced to the concept of digital workflow.
Software | Digital | Photoshop | Raw | Workflow | Post processing | Date: 20/07/2006 - Updated: 20/01/2011 19:52
Nikon 18-70mm f/3.5-4.5The full name of this neat little lens is really AF-S DX Zoom-Nikkor 18-70mm f/3.5-4.5G IF-ED. Phew! It's the kit lens to most of us.
Lenses | Wideangle | Zoom | Date: 17/07/2006 - Updated: 04/10/2010 04:58
I'm still learning to know Nikon's flagship
Accessories | Flash | Displays | Date: 17/07/2006 - Updated: 11/04/2008 23:05
This concept is a universal composition rule, which should be understood — at least in part — by all photographers.
Shooting | Composition | Date: 16/07/2006 - Updated: 06/08/2006 02:42
A little something about the person behind this site.
About | Photographers | Date: 16/07/2006 - Updated: 23/03/2010 23:02
I have used the world's leading photo-editing program for as a long as I can remember.
Software | Photoshop | Raw | Workflow | Post processing |
This is a standard medium zoom lens in the not-too-bright end
Lenses | Telephoto | Zoom | Date: 14/07/2006 - Updated: 04/10/2010 04:57
A standard zoom that came with my 7D. Nice little piece of glass, which I hardly ever use.
Lenses | Autofocus | Zoom | Date: 14/07/2006 - Updated: 04/10/2010 04:58
Just a few samples from what I shot or worked on lately
Pictures Updated: 01/08/2010 20:50
The compact digital P&S-cameras are a fantastic supplement to the DSLR — provided you choose the right one.
Gear use | Point-and-shoot | Date: 11/07/2006 - Updated: 13/09/2006 12:29
Nikon CoolPix 775My first real digital point-and-shoot camera. Back from when 2 megapixels was the standard. It has taken some really excellent pictures in spite of that.
Cameras | Digital | Point-and-shoot | Date: 11/07/2006 - Updated: 06/06/2007 08:46
The single best advice I can give with regards to configuring your digital camera is to systematically underexpose all images
Shooting | Digital | Workflow | Date: 11/07/2006 - Updated: 13/09/2006 12:17
My specimen of this little gem is closing in on 10,000 pictures, and has been a very useful and versatile tool
Cameras | Digital | Point-and-shoot | Date: 11/07/2006 - Updated: 24/05/2010 13:06
Bokeh is a thing I have always known, but only in the recent years have been able to put words on.
Shooting | Lenses | Telephoto | Date: 09/07/2006 - Updated: 14/12/2006 22:16
As normal as they come, but still a very capable lens with premium image quality
Lenses | Normal lenses | Primes | Date: 08/07/2006 - Updated: 16/01/2011 18:40
I have always wondered why photography web sites have to be so ugly in their design.
Web | Photographers | Date: 07/07/2006 - Updated: 19/08/2010 16:31
This odessey through my photographic career has made me remember gear that I had long forgotten
Sentimentality Date: 07/07/2006 - Updated: 26/12/2011 03:53
I have loved wideangles since I got my first real one
Shooting | Wideangle | Date: 07/07/2006 - Updated: 09/01/2011 07:37
Minolta 50mm f/2.8 macroAn impressing macro with superb sharpness and very good enlargement
Lenses | Autofocus | Macro | Primes | Date: 06/07/2006 - Updated: 16/01/2011 18:42
Sigma 90mm f/2.8 macroAs sharp as any macro I've worked with
Lenses | Autofocus | Macro | Primes | Date: 06/07/2006 - Updated: 16/01/2011 18:41
Minolta MD 24mm f/2.8A real eyeopener (litterally) and the start of my still ongoing wideangle craze
Lenses | Wideangle | Manual focus | Primes | Updated: 16/01/2011 18:41
Full frame or APS size sensor? The debate seems never ending. Here's my view on the matter.
Gear use | Digital | Sensors | Wideangle | Date: 06/07/2006 - Updated: 10/08/2010 23:57
I know that a lot of photographers are still shooting on film, and I respect that.
Sentimentality | Film | Scanning | Dust | Date: 06/07/2006 - Updated: 17/01/2011 06:33
Minolta 100mm f/2The best telephoto lens I have ever owned.
Lenses | Telephoto | Autofocus | Primes | Date: 05/07/2006 - Updated: 16/01/2011 18:42
Minolta 70-210 f/4A great telezoom. Known as the "beercan"
Lenses | Autofocus | Telephoto | Zoom | Date: 05/07/2006 - Updated: 04/10/2010 04:59
Small, lightweight and pretty nice
Cameras | Film | Date: 01/07/2006 - Updated: 14/10/2006 20:08
Why Minolta selling to Sony was the last nail in the coffin for my Minolta era
Sentimentality Date: 01/07/2006 - Updated: 10/11/2007 12:26
The best external flash I have ever had
Accessories | Flash | Wireless | Date: 30/06/2006 - Updated: 15/09/2007 22:18
I don't like flash images much, and I like the built-in flashes even less.
Accessories | Flash | Date: 30/06/2006 - Updated: 06/08/2006 03:00
A lot of lens for the money. Not great, but good.
Lenses | Autofocus | Wideangle | Zoom | Date: 29/06/2006 - Updated: 04/10/2010 05:00
I remember back when cameras didn't use batteries... that's a long time ago.
Gear use Date: 29/06/2006 - Updated: 06/08/2006 02:46
A flagship camera and a great and extremely flexible tool
Cameras | Manual focus | Date: 28/06/2006 - Updated: 30/07/2010 21:50
The first autofocus camera I owned — and the first comercially available camera with AF in the body
Cameras | Film | Autofocus | Date: 28/06/2006 - Updated: 06/08/2006 02:58
Soft in shape but still a hard core and rugged camera with many facilities
Cameras | Film | Autofocus | Date: 28/06/2006 - Updated: 06/08/2006 02:57
Why does one select (and stick with) certain camera brand? In my case it was coincidence and growing-fond-of
Gear use | Film | Date: 28/06/2006 - Updated: 06/08/2006 02:46
It was small, automatic and electronic
Cameras | Film | Manual focus | Date: 28/06/2006 - Updated: 06/08/2006 02:58
Why have a camera with interchangeable lenses if you don't change them?
Gear use | Lenses | Speed | Dust | Date: 28/06/2006 - Updated: 16/03/2008 17:25
Why I find the perils of dust on the digital SLR's sensor vastly overrated
Gear use | Digital | Dust | Sensors | Date: 28/06/2006 - Updated: 16/01/2008 01:40
Tokina AT-X 100-300mm f/4Built like a tank and with a very superior image quality
Lenses | Autofocus | Telephoto | Zoom | Date: 28/06/2006 - Updated: 04/10/2010 05:00
I love fisheye images, and this lens gives me the option at a very fair price
Lenses | Autofocus | Wideangle | Primes | Date: 28/06/2006 - Updated: 16/01/2011 18:45
A great allround lens — particularly for film
Lenses | Autofocus | Zoom | Date: 28/06/2006 - Updated: 21/01/2011 08:50
Other places to go for more information
Web Date: 07/07/2006 - Updated: 06/08/2006 02:41
My first ever SLR
Cameras | Film | Manual focus | Date: 28/06/2006 - Updated: 30/10/2007 00:01
A landmark in my camera life — the change from Minolta to Nikon
Cameras | Digital | Autofocus | Date: 28/06/2006 - Updated: 16/03/2008 19:16
I've had quite a few cameras over the years — film and digital
Cameras Date: 28/06/2006 - Updated: 06/08/2006 02:43
The camera love of my life!
Cameras | Film | Autofocus | Date: 28/06/2006 - Updated: 06/04/2007 13:09
My first digital SLR — and a great camera too
Cameras | Digital | Autofocus | Image stabilization | Date: 28/06/2006 - Updated: 26/01/2007 11:06
More than 30 years with SLR's - film as well as digital