Photography
I (Karin) have always been interested in taking pictures and started very early, when my parents gave my brother and me a camera. First I used slide films, then moving on to 35mm films. My father had a good equipment and liked to take and process his own pictures. I always remember a pic he took and showed on a small exhibition. It was a B/W picture of a birchtree and he used the technique of solarisation on it.
There were uncountable amounts of photomagazines and of course I used to look through them. So there was enough input for me.
Later in school we got the chance to attend the optional subject "Photography and Film", where we did photoexcursions and developed our B/W pics afterwards under the guidance of our teacher. I was proud owner of a reflex camera (Yashica 230-AF) by then and tried a lot of things, but mostly photographed nature, animals and buildings in B/W and colour.
When digitalcameras where affordable for everybody, I got myself a Sony DSC-F505 Cybershot and was ready to move forward into the digitalworld. I liked very much that you were able to move the lens to take pics from an unusal angle. Getting myself a fisheye for this cam made it even more flexible and I enjoyed taking pics a lot.
Besides the digital cam I still had a small waterproof 35mm camera, which I used for taking pics on horseback, especially during my trips in Iceland. It was so substituted by my first Olympus digicam a MJU Mini with a waterproof case and followed by another Olympus, the MJU 770SW, which I used quite some time as my sole camera and after getting myself my first DSRL as a tiny travelcam. My first DSRL was of course an Olympus! I chose the E-420 SLR with 2 lenses, which opened a whole new world. But as you maybe know, these things are very addictive and so I ended up buying a Sony alpha77 with a good kit lens and a Tamron zoomlens. What I really like about my Sony cam is the possibility to take up to 12 pics per second, which comes in very handy when taking pictures of horses. But I was far from using all my cams features before attending a great workshop during summer 2015 with Gígja Einarsdóttir, who encouraged us to just try and try and try all the features our cams offer and if we don't get the result we wanted, just keep on trying things out.
Well, I have to admit, I still have a second cam for rougher shots, it's an Olympus Tough TG-4. Great to take videos and pics in crazy weather and other situations, when you are reluctant to "sacrifice" the big cam.
My favourite motives are
- Horses
- Northernlights
- Nature and birds