Sky Blue
Tuesday, August 17th, 2010
Shipping Vessel “Karlo” in Krk harbour. Thanks to the intensity of light the dirt and grime in the harbour spill remains invisible.
Posts Tagged ‘ship’
The More the Merrier: Fenders
Tuesday, June 15th, 2010
Whilst it made up for attractive subject matter, I admit being astonished about this amount of fenders, especially in a quiet harbour and a mooring area where the ships don’t stay even overnight. But then, who knows, maybe this is a local way of demonstrating power.
New Gallery: Blue Ship Details
Saturday, June 12th, 2010
The two last years I have collected images of the red shipping vessels moored in the harbour of Krk. The best frames went into the small gallery “Red Ship Details” here on this site. In a certain sense finding these images was simple as red is compelling, almost shouting at you. Add to that the fact that where I live red is a rare color (only some train waggons are red) and it is easy to understand my fascination.
The new gallery “Blue Ship Details” is less “pushy” in its colours. The blue ships in Krk have wooden hulls and are generally older. Here my interest was sparked by the weathered surfaces and the blue-white contrast. These images are more quiet, but I love them not lesser than my red series.
Naval Battle
Wednesday, May 26th, 2010
Playing in the shadows sometimes is the best part of the holidays. For fathers with cameras and daughters with books and games as well.
Red Ship Reflection
Monday, August 17th, 2009
The harbour water is not such an attractive medium – oily, smelly and so on, probably the same in every harbour of the world. Amazing enough locals are fishing there, and I guess even that fish is ending on the table.
But the reflective qualities of the water are still intact, and the way the ripples dissolve the form of the ships was really amazing.
Those images just required some adjustment of the black point and a bit tuning of the curves. It was already late in the day when I took the images and the low light required a high sensitivity resulting in higher noise levels in the shadows. But the Bibble5 beta did a great job here.
plimsoll mark, krk
Friday, September 5th, 2008
feasting in red was a major attraction in the past holidays. here are two last images, the upper one really grabbed me with its strong forms. red is a major signal color with its own significance in the human perception system, and it is a rare color in my habitat (of course these facts are connected, an abundant color could not have that signalling capacity). here in old europe, especially in the bavarian countryside almost nothing is painted in bright red, and cars that are have a decent ‘show off’ quality and therefore get despised.
but that croatian fisher boat wore an almost painful red, and when i saw it in the first morning sunlight this red was boosted by the low sun to almost insufferableness.
red ship detail II
Tuesday, August 19th, 2008
my hometown seems to be a colorless, pale place in comparisons with the colors i see here in krk, croatia – or is it my eyes that suddenly open to see more then they use to do at home? george barr already had a go on this topic here and from what i know from fellow photographers, this seems to be a quite common problem.
at least here i seem to have overcome it, and so the days are – besides having fun with the kids – full of new things, images among them. vacancies at it’s best, that is.
ship detail in krk V
Thursday, August 14th, 2008
krk harbour is a busy place. during the day dozens of leasure boats fill the air with their noise, the sound of alternatively diesel or 2-stroke fuel is abundant. but what a bonanza in reflections, color patches, harmonious forms it is, especially early in the morning. stay tuned – there is more of it to come.
ship approaching weggis/lake lucerne
Sunday, August 12th, 2007
taken earlier this year in switzerland. the scenery was difficult for a digital sensor to capture due to the extreme bright light, but i think the camera (minolta 7D/maxxum 7) did amazingly well.
re-processed the raw file with lightzone for linux and tweaked the saturation of the flag with a mask. Other than that just standard tone curve adaption and sharpening
