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“Donkey Kong’s nightmare” hits Flickr’s explore
Donkey Kong’s nightmare, a photo by stst31415 on Flickr. 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…
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Lessons learned with my first manual lens on DSLR
I recently bought a manual lens on ebay. I saw some pictures taken with a manual lens on flickr and got curious. Some minutes and EUR 88,- later (USD 125,-) I was the owner of a Revuenon 55mm f1.4, an adapter for the M42 screw mount to EF and a lens hood. The first impression…
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DOF dice Test with Revuenon 55mm 1:1.4
DOF dice Test with Revuenon 55mm 1:1.4, a photo by stst31415 on Flickr. Still trying to master the 1.4 with manual focusing on my 60D. It seems bad to focus with the liveview. I have seen some good shots and some bad ones but it still hits me like a hammer how shallow DOF can…
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50 pictures
50 pictures, ein Album auf Flickr. I just ran across this Album on flickr. Some algorithm thinks these are my 50 best. I would take others. The funny thing is that I see so many pictures with vanishing points. Is it that people like pictures with vanishing points or do I take many of them…
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The red rule
Bratislava is full of contradictions, a photo by stst31415 on Flickr. A picture consisting of contradictions can be especially nice to look at. But still there is room for improvement. The strange thing is, that the red rule nearly always gives you nice results. If you see something red, pull the trigger. Sometimes the outcome…
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Playing with exposure
Have you ever asked yourself: Who decides which exposure is the right one for my picture? If you are in green rectangle mode your camera decides. Sometimes this makes things easier, but even when you switch to P, Av, Tv the camera decides what is good for you. It takes another small step to get…
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The virtual dolly – time lapse next gen
I finally made my proof of concept: By using Blender I made a time lapse video and applied some virtual dolly movement. Meaning, that the camera is moving across the picture. This is possible due to the bigger than full HD video source made from the single picture recorded with the Canon Powershot S95. A…
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Digital Crossprocessing
Chaos made of lines, a photo by stst31415 on Flickr. As one doesn’t have theoption to do digital crossprocessing I thought, why not develop a RAW in color and monochrome? I blended the two pictures and the result was quite crossprocessed.
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Lessons learned from Timelapsing with the CHDK
I wrote earlier on about my contact with CHDK and how I tried to do some time lapses. I was fascinated how easy this technique is and how powerful the visualizations are. I had my first failures and I did some of them again. I will return to this point at the end.
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Catching a lightning made easy
Motion detection is one of the features most cameras lack. There is some kind of trigger for taking group pictures by waving. But that’s it. If you own a Canon point and shoot and have already installed the CHDK, you will easily find a script on the CHDK page. I wanted to give it a…
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