I couldn't agree more - technical specifications have nothing to do with a great photograph. Or maybe the other way around?
Sunday walk in Malmö
When I first started shooting more "seriously", I had a Nikon D80 that I shot with it until the shutter broke down. Then I had it fixed and I shot even more with it. In fact, I used it once or twice last summer. It was a great camera, but at high ISO, the pictures weren't fantastic. So in order to avoid the high ISO numbers, I always tried to shoot with as long a shutter speed as I could get away with. This led to many blurry pictures, but when I was lucky enough to get a sharp one, it wasn't so noisy.
Now I'm using the marvellous cameras in Fujis X series, that produce fantastic pictures even at high ISO numbers, but it wasn't until just a few days ago that I realized that I was still shooting with the slowest possible shutter speed and that I was still getting all these blurry pictures for no good reason. So today, I set the shutter speed to 1/250 and went on a walk to try to hammer in this new way of shooting. In fact, about half of these pictures I shot at 1/1000 while riding my bike.
Klagshamn and Lillgrund
Vattenfall organized a boat trip out to Lillgrund, the wind mill park in Öresund between Malmö and Copenhagen and some friends and I decided to go. To be honest, there were not a ton of interesting pictures to be taken out there. Afterwards, though, we walked around the horse riding club where they are tearing down old buildings. That was more interesting..
Circus
The circus is in town and I stole some shots of the artists backstage while they were making the horses ready for their performance.
My 10 favourite photos from 2014
It's a tradition at year's end to go through all photos I've shot over the last year and try to cull it down to my 10 favourites. These are the photos I choose for 2014. I think.