For a couple of month’s I’ve been trying out Fotomoto, an online service that make’s it possible for me to easily offer high quality and fine art prints for sale. Just a couple of days ago they launched the fin arts choice and finally I think I can offer some selected images as limited prints. Check them out here, and if you’re interested in another of my images contact me for pricing.
It really differs what kind of processing you use on pictures from a city environments and other. In Vonwallstrom Sunny Urban preset collection I’ve collected some of the most essential looks that I use on images that are taken in a city. It has a lot of the washed out look that I think is essential in cities. In the collection there’s everything from the small enhance to really harsh bleach bypass.
Of course there are times when you’re going for something completly different, but these presets are a great tool when you want to enhance the city feeling. Download the presets here.
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Sunny Urban Light
Sunny Urban Dark
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Sunny Urban Bleach 1
Sunny Urban Bleach 3
I love vintage, in general everything vintage. For example we used the lovely vintage Alfa Romeo Spider ’73 in Maud & Leo, and it does look amazing in the visually stunning landscapes of Norrland. I think vintage things has a lot more personality and history. Therefore my images often have a vintage look to them. I try to do it in a modern way though.
Vonwallstrom Vintage is preset collection for Aperture that I use a lot. I’ve collected a lot of the setups I regularly use. With a little tweaking this collection is all I need to create a vintage look. Download the presets here.
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Vintage Dark
Sunny Urban Vintage
Neutral Vintage Light
Golden Vintage Dark
When I first started with photography it was all digital, I’m that young. The cameras was crappy, even worst than the iPhone camera. I think that there’s something beautiful in that. There was a total digital hype for the cameras, even though it wasn’t even close to being a decent alternative for the analogue cameras. Back then I REALLY was a technology freak, more interested in the technology than the story-telling. I think these technology changes has a really interesting effect on things. As always when you leave one way of doing something, you are forced to think of why you’re actually doing it.
I had never actually been working with analogue photography, of course I had come in contact with analogue cameras, but it was never my ambition to work as a photographer. I was studying to become something in digital media, possibly web design or motion graphics. But when I got my first camera during my studies I was hooked. Instead of being all about aesthetics, which I think most design is, I found a love for the real in photography.
I was born into a new generation of digital photographers. Breed into a life of Flickr, Facebook and Twitter. Something that I think is amazing with that generation is the fearless attitude towards doing things in a new way. A lot of the people who started early with digital photography always had to hear that it can’t compete with analogue. Of course it couldn’t, but it was the ambition to advance photography to what it is today that was interesting.
I had one of the earliest digital cameras and in that camera I fell in love with photography. Because I was able to take as many photos as I liked I felt really free. Analogue is a bit scary in that sense. If you want to work in a experimental way it’s almost impossible to finance it when your working analogue as a young photographer.
Unfortunately a lot of times there’s an insane focus around the technology of things. Earlier it was all about analogue vs digital, now it’s RED vs D-SLR. This is insanely boring. Don’t get me wrong, I LOVE NEW TECHNOLOGY, but I hate the fact that the technology get more focus than strong story-telling. The foremost ambition should always be to create something that touches people for real, not something that simply is cool or looks amazing. Those things does not live long.
Working with digital photography really has some great benefits, but also some really negative effects. It’s really easy to get caught up in the all digital world, creating photoshop-photos, which I really think is one of those things that we will laugh at in the future, thinking it was done with crappy technology. Another negative thing is taking thousands and thousands of photos, and maybe not even stopping to think about what you’re actually trying to express.
A couple of months ago I had that feeling. That was when I picked up my analogue camera, which I hadn’t touched since I studied creative photography about 5 years ago. It was a great feeling. For every photo I took I really had to stop and think of what my ambition with it was. As a moment-photographer that was a really great experiment. I think it makes things a little bit clearer for me. I have my Canon 5D Mark ll, it’s often too heavy to carry with me and when it’s with me I feel like I have to take images. With the Olympus OM-1 that was collecting dust, I really feel that I can have it with me at all times. A great benefit of the analogue camera is taking photos in a different way. Instead of focusing on the tools, this is what discussions around new technology should be about. The willingness to try new things to advance your already great photography.
Since I started using Aperture a lot of the stress that I have about processing images is all gone. My photography once started out with me being really interested in Photoshop and to create amazing photo collages. Eventually I learned Photoshop in and out, which bored me a bit. My interest turned to Photography rather than processing photos. Since then opening Photoshop has never been the same.
Nowdays I really hate processing images, I don’t want to retouch images, but I really love being able to tweak colors and enhance the images. All to get closer to the artistic feeling I’m going for. This is something both Adobe and Apple has understood and they focus a lot on photographers with Lightroom and Aperture. I’ve used both of them but I must say I favor Apple’s Aperture. It’s a bit more focused on the simple darkroom processing, and it is really easy and fast to use.
With that said, I’ve during my many hours in Aperture created a lot of presets that I’d like to start sharing. This is the first of many collections, first out is “Vonwallstrom Favorites”. Download it here.
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Enhance
Golden Bright
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Golden Dark
Today I’m featured over att fotografi. A great photography blog that should be checked out and saved as your favorite RSS-feed.
In The Forrest I’ve detained the magical quietness that surrounds the forrest on a misty night. I’ve been traveling Sweden to capture the images that expresses the beauty in the dark and silent nature. When the mist and darkness meet and create the most fascinating mood.
A picture of my dear friend Linda, she’s on her way to a picnic at the Eiffel Tower in Paris 2009.
In Bird City I’ve imprisoned the freezing of time in a big city. A feeling that the people has left the city, and you can’t stop yourself from wondering what has happened? Bird City captures Stockholm in it’s quietest moments, as if the world had ended.
In Roads I’ve travelled Sweden and France to find places and moments in time that resembles each-other. Roads imprison when french meet swedish, in time and environment. The images detain a moment of silence when the world meet and create a symbiotic place.
