Away on holidays until July 27th 2009

Hello, sorry, another post with no pics.  I will be away on holiday until July 27th.  If you need to get in touch with me for any reason, please do not hesitate to leave me a message on my cell and I will get back to you ASAP

780.238.0678

Take care!  

:: Kurt

stenbergphotography.com

Hello everyone! It is now official that I am using this blog as my only website at its new alternate address :: stenbergphotography.com. If you are unaware, I was using this page under the address of stenbergphotography.blogspot.com. You can still access this blog through it's old address as well.

My old "stenbergphotography.com" is going to be deleted and I hope to launch a new website this fall. So for now, please enjoy this blog as my main page and current portfolio. In the meantime, please bear with me as I get back up to date and change some things around and add some missing information.

If you require any information that you may have found on my old website please don't hesitate to send me an email at

stenbergphotography@shaw.ca

Thanks everyone!
I promise to post photos in my next post!

Kurt

Edmonton Photographer Stenberg Photography

Hello everyone. Happy Canada Day! Just updated the blog so that anyone can now post comments on my blogposts. You no longer have to be "signed in" or have any sort of membership or username etc etc. So I hope this encourages all of you to leave comments on the blog posts you see on my homepage or archives now and
in the future. I would love the feedback and even some critique! Do you have any ideas? Is there anything you would like to see? Do you have any questions about the post or the photos in the post? Here would be a good place comment or ask any photo tech questions as well. That way I, or other photographers that visit the site can try and help answer your questions.

Take care and don't forget to post post post! I appreciate it.

kurt

Grant Mac wide angle

Ever wonder what a wide angle lens can do for you?  Well shooting with a 10mm (16mm full sensor equivalent) I was able to stand at the front doors of Grant Mac college downtown and pull in a whole lot of architecture.  

Just thought I would throw this one out there.  I came across it today and dug it up for a proposal I'm working on.

TECH INFO: 1/250th | F 11 | ISO 100 | 10 mm focal length 

Kurt

Farmers Market June 27th Downtown

You are invited to stop by and visit the Stenberg Photography booth this saturday June 27th at the Edmonton Downtown Farmers Market. I will be selling various prints (with and without frames) and a variety of blank generic greeting style cards complete with my photography.

At the same table there will also be photography for sale from a friend of mine Alex Campbell. He has a variety of travel shots from Thailand and abroad. Definitely some cool stuff.

So please stop by any time during the day! We would love to see you. Check the link above for more information about the market.

Kurt Stenberg

Corporate shoot | Selective color Part 3 of 3

Hello again!

Well its time for a mix of color and greyscale.  I do not normally edit pictures with selective color but a few shots from the 2020 project proved to be an excellent opportunity.  For example, the picture of the "blue stuff" under the microscope was so vibrant and blue and the rest of the picture was dull and almost greyscale already that I just gave it a little help into full blown selective color editing.  I was then sure to edit enough shots with selective color that 2020 could use a substantial amount of these if they so choose.  Not sure if they will be a big fan or not but in the end I provided them with a good mix of b/w, color, and selective color pics.  If you would like to see 200 photos from this project to get a better idea of what kind of pictures I provided to my client, please check them out here!  

TIP: To obtain selective color on these photos I did not have to use "photoshop".  Well I guess technically I did but the program is called Adobe photoshop Lightroom.  So I did not use layers or masks or anything.  I would simply isolate the color on some color sliders and reduce the saturation of the others.  Its takes some practice but works fairly well if there is a vibrant color in a picture without any or "any noticeable" similar distracting colors elsewhere in the picture.  I would then further edit with contrast etc.  I recommend Lightroom to any photographers that want to begin editing their photographs.  It is a nice and user-friendly program to get started with before learning photoshop

:: kurt

Jeff Morin | Bodybuilder | Edmonton | Photography

I took a few casual shots today for a local bodybuilder Jeff Morin.  He is competing twice today and met me in between shows for a quick photo session.  I set up using two light stands with hard flash (no umbrella) and set one flash to 1/4 power and the other one ranged from 1/4 all the way up to 1/1.  The flash camera left was the flash set to 1/4 power and was about Jeff's shoulder height and pointed almost directly at him from 90 degrees.  I played around with my other flash which was camera right in various strengths and heights and angles.  Either way, strong hard flash looked the best to bring out muscular definition.  When I would bring one or both of the flashes slightly in front of Jeff, it would soften the shadows and reduce the defined look.  Hard flash 90 degrees from both sides proved to work the best.  I was then able to move around and keep Jeff in the middle and shoot how I chose.

Note: When we did our shoot in the middle of the afternoon it was very hot and sunny.  I was unable to overpower the light very well so we hit the shade.  Amazingly we found enough shade that I could shoot as low as 2.8 if I had chose and still hit under 1/250th of a second.  The sun came and went from under clouds which caused me to constantly change my aperture to compensate but it went fairly smoothly.  In the end, I was impressed by the amount of ambient light I was able to knock down using two small strobes.  I could go further and burn down the background light texture but I kinda like it...

Most shots were taken with my 24-70 lens at F3.5 - 6, 1/250th sec ISO 100

Thanks again Jeff!  Hope you did well in your competition :)

If you are interested in booking a photo session for yourself please don't hesitate to contact me through email if you have any questions.  

stenbergphotography@shaw.ca | 780.238.0678

-kurt

Corporate shoot | Color favorites

Here are a few favorites of mine from the same project in color.  The seeder/trailer shot was taken from inside a tractor while actively seeding with the farmer.  This image was enhanced with a saturation boost and a lot of contrast / blacks.  The second picture was from the seed cleaning plant.  There were a lot of dark shadows inside this "industrialistic" (is that a word?) building.  I naturally chose to use them and do a lot of silhouette style photographs.  The third and fourth shots are from the lab that 20/20 works out of.  The first one with the plant is some sort of infection or growth in the petri dish.  I cannot be sure what variety of plant this was or what infection was growing.  The 4th shot is obviously some beans!... and finally the soya plant was shot inside their greenhouse, I think with natural light, down on the university campus. 

Kurt