Norway during winter. Some images from yesterday. All of them snapped by Eirik Solheim. Creative commons licensed. Contact me for commercial use.
Icy old Volvo in Oslo, Norway What should I say? Cool car.
(Canon 400D with Canon EF 50mm 1.4 @ 1/250 sec at f / 3.5. ISO400. Adjusted to B&W in Adobe Lightroom.)
Wet Dog. At Bygdøy, Oslo, Norway
Satisfied with the fact that the dog’s eye is pretty sharp.
(Canon 400D with Canon 70-200 F4 L IS USM @200mm 1/60 sec at f / 4.0. ISO200 RAW. Adjusted to B&W in Adobe Lightroom.)
Looking at birds. Speaking in phone.
I think this one would have been better with focus on the birds. Or maybe not?
(Canon 400D with Canon 70-200 F4 L IS USM @200mm 1/125 sec at f / 4.0 ISO400 RAW)
Lamp. Snow. Night. Evergreen.
Yeah, right – night. Not. This is Norway at 5 PM in January.
(Canon 400D with Canon 50mm F1.4 USM @ 1/125 sec at f / 2.2 ISO1600 RAW)
Snow. Night.
Camera and lens. Had to survive quite a bit of snow when snapping this image. Still works fine.
(Canon 400D with Canon 50mm F1.4 USM @1/80 sec at f / 2.0 ISO800 RAW)
eirikso 
Nice. BTW, your new watermark is so much better than the old!
And the old watermark is the one I’ve used in posts like this one:
https://eirikso.com/2007/12/24/entering-holiday-mode/
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If so, I can actually change that now. On all images. That watermark is dynamically generated on the server by SmugMug and can easily be changed.
…to something more like the one in this post.
Did you use one of the presets when you converted those pictures to black and white?
Yes, I did.
“Icy old Volvo in Oslo, Norway” = BW Low Contrast
“Wet Dog. At Bygdøy, Oslo, Norway” = BW High Contrast
+ some aditional fine tuning
How much work do you normally do in Photoshop after Lightroom?
I have been using Lightroom now for a couple of months and are very impressed by the advanced functionality and easy user interface.
I do most of the work in Lightroom. It’s very powerful. I leave for Photoshop if I have to do masking, advanced removal of dust or stuff like that.
Tried http://scoopt.com?
You might have some chances with you pictures!
Hi my name is Rosie and I really like the image of the “wet dog”. I was wondering if I could use it to make a drawing in charcoal? You can see my work at the website provided.
Thank you,
Rosie
That is absolutely no problem. Simply include some kind of credits telling that the artwork is based on an original image by Eirik Solheim / eirikso.com
The image is licensed with a creative commons license, meaning that you can use it for non commercial projects as much as you want.
But I think it’s interesting that you want to add value to the image by making a charcoal drawing based on it. So even if you end up selling your artwork I’ll let you use it. If you end up making millions selling drawings based on my image I hope you’ll be kind enough to provide me with an original drawing or something. 🙂
And please let me know when you’re finished so that I can feature your drawing on this blog.
Let me know if you need a high resolution copy of the image.
You can also contact me directly through the email on my contact page: https://eirikso.com/about/
This is the high quality version that I have published already:
But the original is a 10 megapixel RAW image that I can make available for you if you want it.
Thanks so much! The high quality image you have provided is all I need.
I will definitely send you a copy of the finished product,
Cheers,
Rosie