High resolution desktop wallpapers

Posted on 2015/01/13 by christoffer

It has been a while since last upload of desktop wallpapers. In this upload, however, the resolution have been increased to 2880×1800. You know, laptops with a high screen resolution are more common nowadays. Click the images for full resolution.

The image below is one of my better wallpapers, in my opinion. It is actually three images layered on top of each other. It is called high dynamic range (HDR) photographing. See the wikipedia article for the facts, or my other attempts and some thoughts on the software needed.

Another HDR image below. The sunset almost looked like a red northern lights. There was northern lights the night before, but I forgot to bring my camera that night. Bad luck.I will definitely do more HDR images. I think they look stunning, once you get the hang of it.

Leave a comment if you like the images. All photos are taken by yours truly, in Hemsedal, Norway.

Norway

Posted on 2014/09/30 by christoffer

Ok, I’m going to post some amazing footage from my country & the city I live in. I’m not the one who has made these, but they serve as an amazing advertisement for Norway as a tourist-destination. You could say they caught my attention. 🙂

Norway in a nutshell (timelapse)

NORWAY – A Time-Lapse Adventure from Rustad Media on Vimeo.

Tall ships races Bergen

Oh, and by the way: We clearly don’t have bad weather in Norway, as you might see from the footage.

Shiba Inu puppies

Posted on 2014/08/10 by christoffer

I am so happy to own a pair of female Shiba Inus. (Yes, the doge meme breed.) Both are with puppies at the time. Thought I would share some photos. This is the third time they’re having puppies, and belong to Kennel Enerhaugen. Several of their “children” have won awards, which is kind of fun.

Last one is Sheila and her newborns (3 days old). The rest are Suki’s puppies (approx. 7weeks).

Cheers!

Autumn in Bergen

Posted on 2013/10/04 by christoffer

After I bought the Photomatix HDR plugin for Aperture, I’ve been trying to make time for an evening outside, shooting some more images with high dynamic range.

Here are some pictures i shot during last “photowalk”.

I am still not completely satisfied with the results. As you might know, there are many factors influencing the result. When I shoot three images with different exposures, objects in the image may move, or the camera might slightly get out of place, giving “ghosts” or a fuzzy image. Camera-settings, noise in the picture and the settings in the photomatix-plugin will affect the quality of your “end-product”. Theres much to learn, and it’s really fun!

//Christoffer

New attempt at HDR photographing

Posted on 2013/08/14 by christoffer

I’ve never been a fan of instagram-effects on photos taken on a device with 0,5mm image sensor. However high quality HDR photos has always amazed me. I’ve tried before, but even with hours spent in Adobe Photoshop, I could not get the image to POP.

I don’t normally use Photoshop, and think it is a to “big” tool to use when you’re editing photos. I googled around a bit and the first three results were Hydra, Photomatix and HDR EFEX PRO 2. I landed on Photomatix, because, firstly I liked the idea of having the HDR functionality as a plugin in Aperture (which is the image editing and sorting app I use), and secondly, it looked like it produced better true HDR images then Hydra’s images.

Buying, installing and using Photomatix was as easy as hoped, and gave me the editing options I wanted. Took me 5 minutes to get the result below, by of course over-doing the sliders a bit. Will probably get better results when I’m done toying around. But still, I think the result is a lot better then insta-hipsta-über-matic apps for Android/iPhone.

Ps. Photomatix is currently working on a standalone Linux version. Hopefully, more application developers will follow in their footsteps.

Australia

Posted on 2011/08/29 by christoffer

Nå er det under 2 uker til jeg drar mot Australia. Miriam og jeg vil skrive blogg/dagbok på www.miriamogchristoffer.com. Inntil videre varmer vi opp med dette bildet 🙂

Nye skrivebordsbakgrunner: Måne

Posted on 2010/11/12 by christoffer

Hey! Fikk låne et objektiv av en ålreit kompis, og nå har jeg fått tatt noen kule bilder av månen.

Liker måten en kan se krater fra diverse kollisjoner med andre mindre/større steiner som også flyr rundt i det ytre rom! 😀

Moon 2 by ~chr85 on deviant ART

Moon by ~chr85 on deviant ART

Moon 3 by ~chr85 on deviant ART

Wallpapers!

Posted on 2010/08/02 by christoffer

Edvin, Miriam og meg var ute på tur for å ta litt bilder! Jeg måtte jo teste ut nye objektivet mitt, så nå snekret jeg sammen noen nye skrivebordsbakgrunner for dem som vil ha! 🙂

Håper bildene falt i smak, hvis du vil ha større utgave, klikker du på bildet for å komme til dA siden hvor de er ligger i fin størrelse. 🙂

Onkel Chris

Posted on 2010/07/31 by christoffer

Store ting har hendt! Jeg er for første gang blitt onkel! 🙂

Rebecca og Daniel har fått en liten krabat på ikke mange kiloene! Nå blir vel jeg onkelen som lærer fra meg alle rampestrekene han kommer til å gjøre 😉

Ferie!!

Posted on 2010/07/28 by christoffer

Da har jeg endelig hatt meg en skikkelig ferie! For første gang på noen år, tar jeg sammenhengende ferie, og reiser og gode greier! Vi hadde oss 2,5 uker rundt omkring i Norge, og det store utland.

Jeg var først en tur innom Skjærgårdsfestivalen på Risøya i Tvedestrand kommune. Her har jeg vært før, og det pleier alltid å være vellykket (uavhengig av været igrunn, selv om det var fint vær i år 🙂 )

Etter masse god musikk og avslapping i sørlandsidyllen, bar det over til Rygge flyplass, hvor 10 reiseklare folk tok flyet til Puerto Banus, Marbella. Vi fikk et fantastisk hotellrom, med en utrolig utsikt!

Vi oppholdt oss i en ganske ok del av byen hvor folk flest var relativt velstående. Siden bilder sier så mye mer enn ord, legger jeg ved et par her. 🙂

Vi dro litt rundt på båttur, Miriam forsøkte seg på å finne ut hvordan man brukte kameraet mitt, og fikk det til 😉

Til slutt hadde vi oss en tur til østlandet / Oslo-området hvor vi besøkte venner, familie og andre kjente. Miriam fikk besøkt den norske operaen for første gang. 🙂

Nå er det tilbake til hverdagen, som faktisk er litt spennende for tiden! 🙂

Christoffer Osland

Tanker og hendelser

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