February 8th, 2010 by Markus
My preference for shallow depth of field is well known, but of course it is not suitable for each and every subject. Since some time I am experimenting with means to transport the specific way in which the camera records to the viewer. Shallow depth of field is, as well as bokeh, a concept unknown in human seeing with the naked eye, as we are constantly accomodating and combining the images of the different focal planes in our visual conception. Combining two such images in a kind of diptychon is – for me – a promising way of enhancing the visual experience.
I hope a grey day in Salzburg, with a subject photographed probably a gazillion times, is a suitable example for this approach. Oh yes, and don’t forget to click on the image to view it large.
Tags: depth of field, grey, salzburg, winter
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February 6th, 2010 by Markus
Can’t help it: those fishermen on the ice of the Hintersee (a rare scenery in the Bavarian alps) made me immediately think of Walter Matthau and Jack Lemmon in their famous movie.
Tags: bavaria, fishing, Hintersee, ice, lake
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dahoam (at home), winter | 36 views | 1 Comment »
February 6th, 2010 by Markus
The dreamy effect in the image above results from the lens wide open at f2.2. To get enough interesting detail I used the detail slider of lightzone – bibble5 currently offers no such tool. There was no toning necessary as the evening (non-)light with shutter speeds of 10 to 30s provided a natural blue toning.
Tags: blur, ice, reflection
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dahoam (at home), winter | 35 views | No Comments »
February 4th, 2010 by Markus
This was one of the rare occasions where I dug out my summer lens, the venerable 16-80mm zoom. It renders very sharp images, but the slow f-stops from 3.5 to 4.5 make it quite unsuitable during our current short and dark winter days, especially when the sky is overcast. But here I could stop down to f8, resulting in sharp grasses and florescences but still blurred background.
Tags: grass, reed, thumsee
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dahoam (at home), winter | 53 views | 2 Comments »
February 3rd, 2010 by Markus
Tags: light, munich, psychedelic
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commuting, urban | 60 views | 4 Comments »
