Joakim Knudsen

Weekly Photo Challenge: Down

knudsens — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 17:17:10 +0000

One day I went for a walk in the city I saw this lying forgotten in the roadside. Most people who passed by didn`t see it, they were all too busy looking everywhere else than down.

Weekly Photo Challenge: Regret

knudsens — Sat, 11 Feb 2012 16:18:06 +0000

This week’s photo challenge from WordPress was about regret.

Life is of full of crossroads.

Gadgets for the photo nerd

knudsens — Sat, 11 Feb 2012 15:20:10 +0000

Like Nikon, hot drinks and walks in nature? Why not drink the hot beverage from one of your lenses? I found this on Photojojo.

Vodka is also good in a lens. Get it on Photojojo.

Use your SLR lenses on your iPhone. Get it on Photojojo.

DIY Enlarged Photo Art

knudsens — Sat, 11 Feb 2012 09:45:16 +0000

Reblogged from :

I’ve always struggled with how to fill large walls, and I swear that how all the walls in our house are…large and empty! I have a gallery wall going in the entry, but unfortunately there can only be so many gallery walls in one house. Enlarged photographs are a great way to go, but I wanted something with a little more interest. So here is what I came up with! I started with a photograph that I loved. This was taken when Jesse and I drove up the Sunshine Coast of British Columbia, and spent an …

A creative way to show off you photos

My dream UE place

knudsens — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 18:31:39 +0000

There are many abandoned sites around the world I want to visit. But on top of the wish list is Pripyat, the city that was abandoned after a nuclear accident for almost 30 years ago. I have seen many pictures from there and it looks really amazing to me. Everything was left behind and the time has stood motionless in the big city.

Q: Whats your top of the list place to visit?

Why i am fascinated by Urban Exploration

knudsens — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 18:44:51 +0000

Many people have asked me why I’m so fascinated by the Urban Exploration. And instead of answering them privately, I answer all through this post.

From a abandoned amusement park in Sweden.

I like abandoned places because they show us humans how temporary our existence really is. We can be large and powerful one moment and cease to exist in the next. We can build large hospitals, have big plans and develop countless innovations to help people. We can build large shopping centers as evidence of our wealth. We can build large amusement parks to the joy of many generations of children and adults. And we can build the great operas and theaters. But eventually, we will cease to exist and only leave behind traces of our greatness in the form of abandoned buildings.

All the stories behind the abandoned places fascinates me very much too. Who owned the building? What was it used for? Who worked there? What happened there? And the stories are many. I have visited places where people have been victims of great injustice, I have visited places that are the scene of personal and financial ruin and the places where we have abused people in unspeakable ways in the name of medical science.

: From an abandoned amusement park in Norway.

And what I like to photograph? Many people like overview pictures and images of the architecture. I like the small details. Small objects that tell their own story, things like a broken disposable camera, an old dusty typewriter or a battered little teddy bear that sits forgotten in a broken chair in a room. And there is often something sad over the little details you find. Who owned the little teddy bear? Was there a child who grew up and no longer felt the need to love and find comfort in the teddy bear? Was there an adult with mental limitations who found comfort in the teddy bear? Or how about the worn straitjacket you found hanging in a broken cabinet in a darkened doctor’s office? It was used properly or it was used to make the employees work day easier and less full of conflict.

From an amusement park in Norway.

All urbexere have their own preferences when it comes to places and motifs. But joint is the excitement and the desire to photograph something no one else has photographed before them.

PS: Genuine urban explorers never vandalize, steal or damage anything. They take only pictures and leave only fotprints.

Into the Light (chrisdmrf.wordpress.com)

When to contact the police

knudsens — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 17:49:14 +0000

When I started working at my current workplace, a photo shop, I thought that I would never be faced with a problem like this. I thought people were far more aware of what they sent to the laboratory.

I see a lot different things when I digitize and print out pictures at work. Everything from unfocused pictures to pictures with heads cut off and other strange compositions. And that`s okay. But what should I do when I get pictures that break the law? If we are talking about child pornography, the case is simple, then I’d called the police right away and kept the images until they came. But what about other crimes? I have digitized images of a person sitting in a room full of marijuana plants, pictures of people who apparently is engaged in savage driving and people who seem to make burglary or assault other people.

I have not shown the police anything yet. And I’m not sure if I should or not. What would you do?

Can you photograph everything or is a limit?

knudsens — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 15:50:43 +0000

The Norwegian freedom of speech gives me the right to express my opinion on absolutely everything. I am allowed to say that the Prime Minister is an idiot in public, if I think he is. But is freedom of speech photography too? Can I take pictures of what I want and we publish it in public?

I can, with very few exceptions, take pictures of what I want and publish them here in Norway. I can not take pictures of children without parents’ permission, but I can take pictures of children in a parade without permission from anyone. Photos of adult, I can basically take without permission, if the images have a public value. I can for example take pictures of someone who has been arrested by the police and publish it without permission from the police and was arrested. I can also take pictures of accidents, dead people and other horrible things and publish them without permission from anyone.

But is it right to have such freedom when it comes to posting pictures? Is there or should there be a limit to what we can photograph and publish?

New software reveals retouched photos

knudsens — Mon, 16 Jan 2012 17:59:08 +0000

Researchers at Dartmouth College in the state of New Hampshire wants to introduce a method that can reveal retouched photos. They are tired all the photographers who hide behind retouched photos and refuses to admit that they use retouching.

This photo is taken and retouched by me.

Retouching of images is common practice for many photographers, especially those engaged in photographing people. Teeth are made whiter, acne, wrinkles and other undesirable elements are removed. Others will also have their waist reduced and breast size increased. But extensive retouching is a problem, apparently, that has engaged politicians in Norway, England and France, and there are specific legislative proposals to introduce so-called tagging of images that have been manipulated. And in the U.S. physicians’ self-interest organization American Medical Association advised against using images that give an unrealistic body image in advertising.

I can`t see the problem with retouching images. Most of us are able to see the difference between an unretouched person and one that looks like Aphrodite. We do not need the government to tell us that. I know that the woman on the face of a man’s magazine has been retouched, no woman has such a silky smooth flawless skin, so perfectly proportioned breasts, or a rear end you can bounce cents on.

Q: What are your thoughts about retouching?

Photo Retouching Detector of the Day (geeks.thedailywh.at)

From Norway with love

knudsens — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 20:20:52 +0000

I hope you are happy for the package Nina