Coelho explains the myth of the vampire and the interaction of people and changes. I did not know Coelho had a video podcast…. This changed.
Monthly Archives: January 2012
x10 – Testdrive
x10 – Testdrive, ein Album auf Flickr.
Took the new X10 for a testdrive. So small, so fast, so handy – an makes great pictures… …see for yourself. The pictures are all sooc and without any postprocessing.
A walk in the floodplains of the Danube
A nice walk with my dear ones on Saturday also brought some nice pictures of a warm winter in the floodplains of the Danube. At least there were no mosquitos.
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HDR and back light – wallpaper “Gloriette”
One great situation to use the HDR technique is when having backlight. In this picture here I used 5 brackets +/- 1EV. I could have used seven or nine brackets, but then the effect would have been gone.
I threw in a polarizing filter and my trusted Sigma 10-20mm to catch the magic beauty. I left my tripod at home so I made the shot handheld.
In postprocessing Nik HDR color efex and the updated Nik color efex was to be used. They had this promotion so I bought the update. They finally added support for stacked filters, so I can skip some steps and win time. Some filter algorithms are also working smoother – until now it was worth the money.
I did all the processing in lightroom 4 beta, which works like a pearl. I cannot wait to see the final.
So here is the wallpaper I promised. Click on the picture and rightclick afterwards to save the wallpaper.
Gloriette wallpaper
Wallpaper: “Sunset on Vienna”
Facebook is a bitch.
I am one of those people who randomly post their pictures on facebook. And I am one of these people who want their pictures to be seen – I consider them art and not instances of reality. So if somebody asks for a wallpaper I cannot say no.
This might explain why the picture looks like it is. 
10mm have a very distinct look of its own and when you turn it into an HDR and apply the usual suspects: Contrast treatment, some glow, slight color shifting and some other lightroom thingies. Tataaaa – after approximately 100 minutes you get this.
Consider this a gift and use it as you like. Dimensions are FullHD (1920 x 1080) and license is creative commons. Have fun and consider sharing this post with your friends.
Or maybe you want to put this picture on your wall (german only)?
Strong wind timelapse
I used the Magic Lantern again to create a timelapse. But the clouds were so fast (stormy wind) that I had to slow down the framerate to 15 fps. See for yourself. It is still very fast…
