Hey guys!

I know, I know.. It's been ages! And I'm soo sorry.

But as some of you know, I'm going to travel around Europe with a friend of mine, all of november.

Therefor I've been kinda bussy planing this trip :(

I spent a couple of days in Berlin (great city by the way) last week and I got some shots which are shown below. Because many of you have already seen these photos from my facebook page, this post will be more of a explaining of the photos, as to camera settings, editing and what not.

So here goes:

Photo 1: This photo is shot with my Canon 5 D Mark II and a 24-70 mm f/2.8 USM L lens

Settings: ISO 100, f/ 3.5 , 27 mm, 1/250.

The sun was very bright, so I went for a low ISO to remove and possible noise. To keep the image fairly bright I chose a big aperture, but this also caused to bottom of the skye to be overexposed. Rookie mistake -.-. 

As for editing I use Lightroom 3.5 which I am very pleased with. For this picture I removed 100% saturation on the building, while increasing contrast and clarity to make the lines going up the building more obvious. For the skye I increased the saturation, because I liked the contrast between the grey and cold building which could be something taken from George Orwell's "1984", and the clear blue skye.

Done and done!

Photo 2: This photo is shot with my Canon 5 D Mark II and a 24-70 mm f/2.8 USM L lens.

Settings: Settings: ISO 100, f/ 3.5 , 27 mm, 1/250.

This photo I particularly like. It's of the same building as the previous, I've just taken a few steps to the left and altered the perspective a little. As for editing I removed all saturation at first and thought I was done. Then I looked at the original which were in color, and I noticed the reflection of the building behind me. I thought it would create an interesting contrast, while being a nice feature and added saturation to the reflection. After that I added contrast to the lower left corner of the building, to create a better balance between the lower left and the upper right, which is really bright. All in all I really like this photo.

Photo 3: This photo is shot with my Canon 5 D Mark II and a 24-70 mm f/2.8 USM L lens.

Settings: Settings: ISO 100, f/ 3.5 , 27 mm, 1/250.

Again same building as before, just a different perspective. I like this photo because the two buildings are perfectly lined up for creating great architectural photography. Also, all of the different reflections from other buildings and elements inside of the glass tower, added a lot of color elements to the photo which I loved. 

Editing: Simply added 2/3 steps of saturation on my camera, and an addition 60% in Lightroom.

Photo 3: This photo is shot with my Canon 5 D Mark II and a 24-70 mm f/2.8 USM L lens.

Settings: Settings: ISO 1400, f/ 3.5 , 24 mm, 1/50 sec.

Well well well. This I like!
This photo is form the jewish museum in Berlin. The man in the right is my father.
What he is standing on, is a bunch of crying metal faces. The room was very dark and constructed to force you to walk on the faces. When you stepped on the metal it send clinging sounds around the room, with the sound bouncing off of the walls. Because the room was very dark I had to use a much higher ISO than usual, but my 5D handles the noise extremely well.
Also the slow shutter speed adds a bit of blur the the people in the background, but the fairly big aperture causes them to be completely out of focus anyway.

As for editing I made the photo B&W and added a great deal of contrast, especially to my father.
All in all, probably my favorite photo from this trip! :)

Well, hope you could use this for anything, but I certainly enjoyed it.
Thats all for now, and If you don't hear from be before tuesday it's because I'm on my way through germany.
Bye bye all, have a great november! :)

Stay frosty
Frederik Middelboe

"The ending of summer" Photos

Hi guys! I know I'm late with the photos which were due last friday, but here they are! I guess I've never been any good with deadlines, but hey! Aren't we all?

For me the ending of summer, has always been that last night where it's still warm enough to be outside.
It's the feeling you have, when you walk home from a party in the middle of the night. Just strolling down the middle of the road which is normally filled with noisy cars, but is now dead silent. In your drunken haze, your thoughts wonder off to strange corners of your mind and maybe you stop for a second to think. You look up in the sky feeling very tiny, overwhelmed by the amount of visible stars.
Or maybe, your drunkenness makes you pause at the traffic lights which you watch for some time.
Green - Yellow - Red. Over and over again.
Finally you wonder home, fanatically trying to walk in a straight line, but the world keeps spinning around you. You blink! Everything freezes for a second and then continues to blur out of proportion.
While walking you are protected by the warm light coming from the street lamps that curves above you, watching your every move.


Next thing you know, you're in your cozy bed and you fall a sleep. 

Thats all for now.
Wear sunscreen!
Frederik Middelboe


 
 

The end of summer :(

The summer in Denmark is slowly ending meaning the end of long days and bright nights.
I know I haven't been updating you all very much, sorry about that, but the last times has been busy and constantly occupied. You can all take this update as a promise: I Frederik Folmer Middelboe promise to challenge my self at least 3 times a month".
Now that it's said, time for some explaining: For the next couple of month, I will try to challenge my self 3 times a month, giving my self assignments or themes to work with.
Please note that I would very much like this to become a mix of my own ideas and YOURS!
Therefore feel free to come up with ideas and themes to shoot. Either post a comment below or send me a message or email @ imagophotos@gmail.com.

FIRST THEME OF AUGUST: The ending of summer

 In one week from now, being Friday the 12th I will have a small group of shots ready for you all.

Thats all folks, I'm out.
Stay frosty.
Frederik Middelboe

ps. Here is a little photo of mine, showing you all that summer isn't all gone yet.

Another summer session - Architecture!

Hey everybody!
Time for a new summer-edition post :)
This time I went out and shot this new restaurant in Farum. The restaurant possessed some really interesting architectural features, so I went for some semi-long exposures and low aperture to catch the colors and light of both the restaurant and the sky.

 

What a Sunset

Soo, the other day my buddy and I were driving around, and he told me about this place where he would go if he was feeling stressed or down. So we drove to this hill top, just in time for the sunset. The place was magical and I felt extremely inspired. I started shooting instantly, using the long exposures to capture the colors of the ongoing sunset. A sunset in it's simplicity will be boring on the long run, so I tried to experiment with the corn and the lightning. Here are the final results!

Self Portraits 1.03

Heeeads up everybody!


Say hello to my third line of self portraits! This time more artistic-kind-of-photos than earlier :)
So..why the tie, why the colors, why the outfit, why the pose?
The sad truth is that I don't know. Maybe I just thought it looked cool or maybe it actually means something to me. Of course there is an idea or a thought behind my photos, and feel free to try and grasp it. If you succeed, then tell me - because I'm dying to know.

- Stay colorful
Frederik M.

Inspiration!

Yay! I've been hit by a sudden burst of inspiration and I'm already working on my new self portraits!
Also, I've been working on different ways to display the theme: Summer. For example, I'm gonna try at shoot a strawberry in the second it hits the surface of a bowl of milk! It's going to be a lot of work, but I think its gonna be awesome!
Can't wait to get out and shoot tomorrow - its gonna be great :)!

Another thing: I really wanna try and use a model for some of the ideas I had in mind, so it's not just all self-portraits. Only thing is, it HAS to be a guy - otherwise the pictures wont make any sense.
If you wanna help out, just send me a mail @ imagophotos@gmail.com.
In general, if you wanna have some shots taken for free, just send me a mail. This will be a great way for me to experiment with different shots and ideas. This goes for both boys and girls!


Thats all for now, I'm out.
Freddy

WCU - The love is back!

Hi everybody! I just finished editing my photos of the danish ultimate tournament WCU - Wonderful Copenhagen Ultimate. There are too many photos for just a simple post on this blog, so instead just click my flick photostream on the left or just follow this link: http://www.flickr.com/photos/frederikmiddelboe/
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Your own Freddy!

First 5D mark II shots!

Hi everybody! It's time for the first photos shot on my new 5D mark II camera :) These photos are from a danish church and graveyard called Blovsterød Kirke. I don't know why I went there, but I did and it worked out pretty well. Tell me your thoughts on the photos, as I would love criticism.

Hope you all like them photos :)

Stay frosty
Frederik Middelboe.

New freakin' camera!

Oh yea, thats right!
You guessed it ;)
Finally, after saving up during the last 6 months, I have bought my new Canon EOS 5D Mark II, together with the 24-70mm f/2.8 L USM lens! I can't even begin to describe how thrilled I am for this purchase!

The lens is fantastic, f/2.8 makes it able to shoot in very low light whilst making the focus extremely sharp!
At 24 mm the lens is a decent wide-angel and without any distortion at all! The only downside for this lens is the weight. Together with the 5D body, it's 'wrist snappingly' heavy!
But, as a reviewer from DigitalRev says: "Who needs wrists anyway?", and I must say that I agree.
Because if you look away from the weight, I can find no downsides of this lens at all.

The camera itself, exceeds every possible expectation I had. The pictures it produces are of a mindblowing standard and I'm still only beginning to learn how to use this camera.
I'm still getting used to the cameras controls, for example: every time I display photos I have just taken on the camera, it will automatically show me where the picture is overexposed by highlighting the area in black. I find this rather annoying, because I can see with my own eyes where the image is overexposed.
After several days with the camera, I still haven't figured out how to turn this darn effect off. If anyone does, please tell me, because I'm on the edge of a nervous break-down!

All kidding aside, I still have a lot to learn and there is only one way to do so. Shoot more photos, which means more posts for you all, so yeah! :)
Therefor, keep an eye on my blog the next days!

I'm out and stay juicy.
Frederik Middelboe.

Party on the country side!

Yesterday I spend an awesome night in Blistrup together with Emil Petersson & Thomas Høg!
Thomas and Emil were the DJ's of a double 18th birthday and I joined in as the photographer.
We were accompanied by aprox. 90 drunk teenagers who all felt like dancing. So easy to say, we had an fantastic night and I got some great shots!

@ Emil Petersson

So, I hope you all like them photos!

Also, check out Thomas and Emil's facebook page http://www.facebook.com/hoegpetersson

If you want to hire these two amazing guys, you can do it through that site.

Aaand of course, if you are interested in a photographer, I'm also available for booking.

Obviously these are not all of the photos from last night, and if anyone is interested in them just send me a mail @ imagophotos@gmail.com

I'm out.

Stay frosty,

Frederik Middelboe.

Using the long exposures!

Hey everybody! As promised, here is some of the
long exposure photographies. Some of them turned out amazing. Thanks a lot to Thomas Høg for participating. For the two first photos i used aprox. 30 seconds exposure and for the rest: 10 sec.  Hope you all like them, and please give critizme. 

Next Project!

Hi everybody.

Because it has been some time since my last photo-post, I just wanted to let you in on what I'm working on at the moment.
Loooooooo0ng shutter speeds!

This picture is not mine btw.







The long shutter speed is an amazing tool, which opens up for a world of photography.
Not only can it be used to play with lights (highways, streets etc.), but it's a fantastic way to shoot water to get a smooth and grey surface.

I'm still very new to this kind, so don't expect too much.
I'll do my best to get some great shots.

So yea, thats what I'm working on at the moment.
Hope it wont be too long before i got some results to show you all.

I'm out!
Frederik M

Self Portraits!

Hello Folks!

As you know, I spent some time at home during the holidays due to an injury.
I suddenly felt a creative impulse and went with it.
This new series of self portraits has a theme: Contrasts.
See for yourselves and comment, hope you like it!