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Made it through all of the nine daily challenges in Photoshop. Results varied. My oldest one needed a new head shot, so that will have to be this weeks photo from me. 5D Mark IV, 24-70mm

@Brian Murphy That's an interesting looking duck. Where is it shot?

Trying again to follow along with the Photoshop Daily Challenge that Adobe has on Behance. This time the host is Jesus Ramirez. The challenges are not difficult at all, but I feel it is nice to try to flex those creative muscles a little bit. Training helps. Anyone else doing the same? This week I was up in Dalsland again. And this Canadian goose was not very shy at all. He just kept grazing even when I opened my car to get my camera out. 5D Mark IV, Sigma 150-600 S

Full speed ahead! 70D 24mm pancake

Man in boat. 5D mark IV, sigma 150-600

The sun is setting slightly north of west. It is spring.

I was in Barcelona on a short business trip. I had a changeover in Amsterdam on my way home. There were at least tulips at the airport. There was a short window of oppurtunity where I was able to see Barcelona city, and have a first sense of spring. It was great. And my trusted 70D came along. 70D 24mm

We had a light gale the other day (not really a gale, but just below). When the wind speed is steady around 10 m/s the sea gulls like to soar leisurely in the air. Just outside our house. Surprisingly they do not care for when I go out with my 150-600 sigma lens. They do like my company much better when my husband and I sit on the patio eating shrimps. Go figure... 5D Mark IV, 150-600 Sigma S

Wow! That's really nice. I wish I was in Tampa.

@andy_szeto Amazing shot! @jdebever Nice to get a break from those meds. I do hope you'll be feeling better soon. We had this amazing sunrise on Tuesday morning. I stopped the car and grabbed my camera. I stopped at a bus-stop so I had to move almost instantly, but I managed to get this.

Toys? Well, I got this little cute thing from my husband on Valentines Day. Not the GoPro but the stand with the tiny ballhead.

I have photographed a bunch this week. Almost exclusively headshots. I will spare you of those. But here's an underexposed image of Harald that I managed to rescue. I do not know why he could not manage this expression when the strobes were syncing.

Another week just flew by. I'm participating in the Photoshop Daily Challenge hosted by Adobe on Behance (also available on youtube). It is one Photoshop exercise every day. A basic level, but still, it's good training using tools not normally in the photographers standard toolkit. Didn't have any time for photography, just this one photo of our curly girl. 5D Mark IV, 24-70 2.8

I was really going to shoot something else this week. A funeral and sick kids came between me and photography. All is well now and there's some snow which makes them all happy. I, on the other hand, do not like cold feet. This triptych is three images shot about 1 hr apart. It's interesting how the light changes fast in the morning. @jdebever sorry to hear about the flue. It was not very nice this year, it had a long recovery period. Take care. [uSER=8132176]@fred_strobel|1[/uSER] What's that in the middle? What lens do you use with your EOS R? What's your verdict? 5D Mark IV, 24-70 2.8

My view again. It's kind of repetitive - I know. I didn't shoot anything else this week. 5D mark IV, 24-70 2.8

I shoot some video. Occasionally 4k, but most often full HD. If I'd like more data from my camera, full raw and color depth would be much more useful for me. I would not care for 8k at this point. Also, the huge amounts of data that 4k eats up if you need to do something more complex. for me, it is just not worth it right now. My computer is not that bad, I have a graphics card with 11 GB of graphical memory just to give an example. It can handle 4k, but if the editing becomes very complex, I will notice some lag. I would not like to edit 8k, it is not double the amount of data. It is 4 times that of 4K and 16 times (!) the data per second compared to full HD. However, given how everything has evolved at the speed of light the last couple of years, I had better never say never. Have a nice week y'all.

After New Years, we enter in to the Semmelbulle-phase in Sweden. This is a traditional Swedish Semla. Traditionally eaten in connection with lent, but we like it so much so we start a bit early. 5d mark iv 24-70mm

This was not the best I could do. But it was as much as I had the energy for. The family had the flue during Christmas break and I'm still very tired.

Not really fisheye, but the Samyang 14 mm lens. The photograph is take from above which makes me look three apples high and with a huge head.

One of my kids got a toy train for Christmas. My little girl has really curly hair. Rotating equipment and curly hair. You get the picture. 5D Mark IV, 135mm 2.0

Cold weather will be an issue no matter what gear. I think this photographer who went to Jakutsk to photograph the coldest place on earth might have some practical tips: Photographer Travels From Yakutsk To Oymyakon, The Coldest Village On Earth As far as I remember I've read somewhere that he uses Canon gear.

I did this one before christmas actually. But I was unable to show it because it is a christmas gift. I've made this as a small wall paper. It's for the restroom in my husbands study. He loves it. Might not be the most flattering portrait though.

Working with the files is one thing for sure. I have my SSD-drives. My 11GB state of the art videocard. My 32GB of RAM. An HDR-panorama works. But you have to think about how you work in Photoshop because I have on occasion run into their maximum file-size limitation. Of course at a medium size you wouldn't have to resort to the Brenizer Method. The other thing to think about is the physical storage. Say you're a wedding photographer with a reasonable throughput. You would like to have at least three versions of each file just in raw format. One working copy, one on-site back-up and one off-site back-up. Then comes the files that you actually select and retouch for your customer and keep in an editable photoshop-format. It will cost in the end, I'm sure giving the number of files every wedding produces. But on the other hand, wedding photographers might not be the market group considered here? Perhaps you could sell your raw files and get rid of the hassle, but I know that it is not a common practice in Sweden.

I think it was something similar that Canon showcased at Photokina 2016. You could try it out, it was on a mount over a well-lit still-life. After the file was produced you could investigate it on the computer near by. Not really testing conditions though... but a huge file - that's for sure. UP. I question if Canon is going for medium size. If they would have I think they would have developed that long ago. It just isn't worth it for the majority of professional photographers IMHO. Today's sensors produce high resolution images with a decent amount of noise. I don't think more pixels is that necessary. It costs a lot to handle all of these files professionally. Storage and back-up etc. Not to mention the size of the retouching files in PS - ajajaj.

Fastest Christmas lights on the block.