CutLoose Photography

Norrköping boats

thaber — Thu, 03 Jun 2010 00:20:08 +0000

A marina on the gulf near Norrköping.

Tiny climber, big rock

thaber — Tue, 01 Jun 2010 21:22:40 +0000

While appearing small in this image, she was a truly impressive and fearless climber. Taken in Windstein.

Waldeck rock

admin — Fri, 28 May 2010 00:16:33 +0000

Some great looking piece of sandstone rock in Waldeck

Climbing in Norrköping

admin — Wed, 05 May 2010 12:20:38 +0000

We took some time of from the conference to have a look around in the neighbourhood of the city. Not far from the centre, there is a nice sea port and a gulf surrounded by a forest.

I was pleased to find some boulders within this forest and before moving on was able to pull off some impressive first-ascents in my jeans and sneakers

One line looked quite interesting: a flat plate with tiny holds. Sadly far too tiny for the big, slippery sneakers.

Hopefully, there will be some actual (hard) climbing next week in Niederbronn les bains.

Hotton

admin — Sat, 24 Apr 2010 16:58:56 +0000

The second climbing school day took place in Hotton (Google maps)

More juice please!

admin — Tue, 20 Apr 2010 23:45:08 +0000

I ordered some more batteries from amazon today to avoid the big failure from Friday in the future.

Got myself some 2700 mAh AA’s for the flashes and 1000 mAh AAA’s for my brand new Yongnuo RF-602 Flash Trigger’s. I continued the spending spree by upgrading the crappy GP battery charger with this baby. This one should automatically stop charging when ready. The charger from GP involved a guessing game, and not an enjoyable one.

In other news: the route I built in the local climbing gym last Sunday seemed to well received when I dropped by. Besides some bouldering and gymnastics, I spent the better part of the evening promoting and discussing the route. It’s quite fun watching people climbing your creation and some falling out of the crux moves In the end, we graded it 6a+.

Out with cvangtlicht

admin — Tue, 20 Apr 2010 00:34:08 +0000

On Friday, I went with cvangtlicht to Petrol Club where Chase&Status was playing. Wanting to try out some party photography, I brought the camera along for the ride.
Sadly, one battery of my “good” set died earlier that day and this left me with just one set with a lower mAh.
Stuck with slow recycle times and a set that could run out at any minute, I decided to shoot at ISO 6400.
Images can be found here with a fair bit of noise.

I found it difficult to move through the massive crowd to get the shot. Not to mention, avoiding someone blocking line of sight or having one of the other 5 photographers in the middle of shot. I don’t know how C does it, but he seems to manage really well. I myself prefer to have some movement space.

To be continued? Maybe.. Although not having the camera and bag smell like an ashtray is pretty nice

The party itself was off the hook! Chase&Status delivered as expected. And it turns out there is such a thing as good dubstep, not the boring stuff I heard before… go figure

Climbing in Yvoir

admin — Sun, 28 Mar 2010 15:02:02 +0000

Last sunday, the climbing school took us to Yvoir (Google Maps) for our first outdoor climbing session.

The highlight of the day was definitely climbing the route ‘Just like a woman’. I led the first pitch of this two pitch route graded 5c+ and 6a. Some really cool moves and a super experience.

Can’t wait till next time…..