Peter Bergdahl's Personal Blog

A while ago when i was in Angkor Wat in Cambodia i took a short tour up in the mountains outside Siem Reap. I noticed a cute little monkey and decided to take some images. I had a tele lens on my EOS 5D so i had to back off a little to get the whole monkey in the viewfinder.

When I backed off a little i felt something jumping on my back and pulling my hair. I jumped forward and turned around and that’s when i realized this monkey was the one guilty for misconduct. I completely forgot the cute little monkey and took some images of this little rascal instead.

So whatever you do, never turn your back towards this guy!

Monkey outside Siem Reap

Despite this “monkey experience” I had a great time in Siem Reap and Angkor Wat.

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Another old image i “dug up” when organizing my old images.

My mothers English Springer Spaniel likes to play in the snow as should be obvious from this image. I pressed the shutter when she looked up at me after rolling in the snow and it looks like she’s thinking “What the heck are you looking at?”

English Springer Spaniel Playing in the snow

The dog is black and white and the background contains only snow so it looks like the image is in Black and White. The image is taken in Piteå in northern Sweden, just 1.5 hours drive from the arctic circle.

The name of the “star” in this image is “Maja” and she is now 9 years old (4 years when i took the image).

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I’ve taken some time to organize my images lately and found this image i took a couple of years ago when i lived in Guangzhou in southern China.

I went out for some street photography and not far from my home i looked up and saw this window cleaner hanging on a thin rope and stretching all he could to reach the window.

If someone asked me to do it i would strongly object

Window Cleaner in Guangzhou, southern china

What do you think?

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Ok, so in this 3.5 minute video tutorial i’ll show you a super simple way to boost the local contrast without “overcooking” the global contrast in an image.

Here’s a condensed step-by-step guideline in written form:

• Go to Filter -> Sharpen -> Unsharp Mask
• Set Amount to 20
• Radius to 50
• Threshold to 0
• Click OK and you’re done!

You can experiment with Amount from 5-20 and radius from 20-300 pixels.

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In this 4.5 minute video i’ll show you two simple ways to correct leaning horizons using Photoshop CS.

Here’s a condensed checklist of the video.

Method 1:

• Select Analysis -> Ruler Tool
• Place the cross on the horizon, press left mouse button and place the line along the horizon. Release the mouse button
• Go to Image->Rotate Canvas->Arbitrary
• Press OK (rotation angle is already pre-set)
• Crop the white edges around the image
• You’re done

Method 2:

• Select View->Show->Grid
• Select Select->All
• Select Edit->Transform->Skew
• Grab one of the small rectangles and push it upwards to straighten the horizon
• No cropping required
• You’re done

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