I have been to a dinner with a pedalo and before we left (because the mosquitos also wanted to dine) I took this shot. A hot day’s end…
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To see the difference in the details
Sometimesyou take pictures out of a different cause. I tend to take vanishing point pictures and the picture with electricty ligh was taken because I drove past and saw that the points where cable hangs from are different in the two towers. Call me Monk…
Postcard kitsch at the end of the day
At the end of the day the colors of the sky turn kitsch. Today was very hot and the colours are amazing. So here is some postcard kitsch for you.
Wide angle HDR
The HDR process seems to be also a wonderful way to reuse that ultra wide angle lens I own. Typically the heavy distortions make nice pictures impossible, so you have to use some arty technique to make them bearable for the viewer. I still love the manipulation of depth and the compression of background. The picture above is made from 9 exposures at f/16 and 10mm with HDR Efex Pro.
For other pictures created with magic lantern look at these posts.
How to install Magic Lantern in some easy steps
I had to install Magic Lantern again, because I formatted the card where it ran from. Because people always ask or look for it, I decided to write a short list of things you have to do. And the good thing is: I can look it up too 
Basically the whole Magic Lantern Setup consists of 6 steps. Continue Reading →
Reading
I always wanted to make a HDR of a person. Problem was: People get washed away and look like zombies.
So what did I do?
Let’s leave aside that I took 9 (!) exposures with magic lantern. Let’s also oversee the fact that they were in steps of 0.5EV. (Why? Because I could 
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I layered the medium exposure and the HDR up and painted the skin through. Not 100% but enough to give the impression of a real human being.
She was so patient. And concentrated. She was reading the third part of Sacer Sanguis (which only exists in German until today – I do not know why but it is a very good book series).
Sunset
Red door to hell?
I was fascinated by the way the red mask was dominating the door. The details yelled color and the the texture of the wall cried mono.
So I did as I was told.
High key pictures can be spooky
In my picture “White ghosts guard the castle” I wanted to emphasize the bright and painterly look of what I saw.
I tried the color version first but soon used the monochrome one. It turns out, that the picture now looks like an old oil picture turned monochrome which makes it even spookier.
“Donkey Kong’s nightmare” hits Flickr’s explore
So these are the moments, when you see your picture on Flickr’s explore. I liked the perspective and took the shot. More than a month later I met the RAW on my hard drive.
Some Color and Silver Efex later it looked like it is was posted. Interestingly it was also mistaken for a HDR. Must be that people are not used to black and white with tonal contrasts any more…
