always good for a postcard-quality picture, the church of maria gern is located on a very powerful place just over the street coming from berchtesgaden. evening is an excellent time to go there as it is almost abandoned then and the noise from the surroundings and the streets has pretty much died down. the mountains…
my daughter’s school had an art project at the banks of our river: on saturday morning they created this beautiful stone snake. Andy Goldsworthy was definitely an inspiration for this. his film “rivers and tides” (4 min. clip on youtube) is surely worth to be seen (again). this photo on .
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the sun was in the perfect direction and angle to highlight the iron nails and the lock as well as to shed some light on the the cast iron trellis with its golden coating I had to change my raw converter as lightcrafts decided to drop the linux version of their lightzone raw converter. The…
a firewall in petting, a small village on the shore of lake waging. exposed to north west and getting sun only late in the afternoon, the virginia creeper showed all colors from deep green over blue to red and yellow. postprocessing this image, i did not touch the saturation but only adjusted brightness and contrast…
This is no b&w picture… The evening light was incredibly soft, showing only faint layers of the mountains in the slight fog. In the lower right corner you see Fraueninsel with the clocktower of the monastery’s church. Taken from a public transport boat to Chieming on the east coast of Chiemsee.The original contrast range was…
working through my archives i found this picture taken 2005 on a tsunami evaluation trip waiting in Colombo for the transfer to the east coast. this photo on .
found outside a soap shop in st. wolfgang, austria. taken with the famous beercan (ofenrohr for german-speaking), and i had to learn holding it steady đ
suddenly summer is over. cold rain starts, and the snow suddenly is visible again not high above my hometown. strange feeling to operate the camera with wet, cold, unwilling fingers again. used lightzone for linux to differentiate the sky and faint mountains.
as there is no time to go out shooting, one last from the shenzen festival in nuremberg. The others are here, here and here.i found their pose really striking in front of the black background. raw file developed with lightzone for linux.
one of the rare sceneries if have found that express a nothing-more-nothing-less than utterly relaxing mood. usually i develop my raw files, but this jpeg was already so good that i did only really minor tweaking in digikam before uploading it. this photo on .
abundant flowers (pelargonium) on this facade of an old house in St. Wolfgang, austria.
it was quite dark in this church – 0.5s on a monopod is long, even with internal stabilization. i love the scenery with that single woman adding scale to this big hall.
if i would need to capture all of bavaria in on picture, that might come close: costume, music, beer, reflection helping to view the world not as it is… bavaria is really special. a (in its majority) rural country thrown in the 21st century, still believing in conservative doctrines.
another one from Bad Reichenhall: on an old deserted house I saw this wonderful door handle. lightzone again for postprocessing, but I had to burn/mask/blur to make the handle really stand out.
took a walk yesterday through my hometown. one of the doors i often pass by stood open this time and formed a much more inviting picture than the times before. i had admired the marble doorframe quite often, but it never made a picture for me. lightzone for linux helped in dodging the corridor so…
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…
i already had worked on this picture in color, but when finally deciding to try a b&w conversion it turned out much stronger. work done in lightzone for linux
strange world far away from us – quiet, graphical in this picture, and with no proper means of communicating with us humans. lightzone for linux again, to pimp that raw file with only a small contrast range due to the nature of the light. Great software, poor company.
the mongolian troop formed the first part of the shenshen festival – their performance and especially their music was really amazing. The ended with a song in frankonian tongue – the local dialect of nuremberg – in something like a “zwiefacher” rhythm (two rhythms alternating) whicht showed their extreme musical capabilites. lightzone again made my…
i have to admit i was ebbing between fascination and a certain kind of distance to these chinese dancers. quite a lot reminded of old american dance films just teleported to chinese costumes and music. still the images that formed on the stage were sometimes stunning. And if Karl Moik would perform in Shenshen, probably…
i get the taste for available light again. fortunately i was seated at a table from which i got support for my elbows. i liked specially her self-forlornness in front of a stage with very active performances. on a sidenote: supporters for the freedom of tibet were waving banners. the chinese consulate-general wanted to get…
how to symbolize a music schools summer concert where children show what they have learnt in the last six months? listening intently to the performance of a girl together with her mother playing four-handed on the piano, i suddenly realized the nice composition of their feet
i start getting the taste for b&w again – positve feedback helps. and it makes no sense comparing the b&w version with the color original, because each has merits of its own. and they require different treatment, as i have seen with with the picture above. Whilst the original needed no extra treatment for the…
the wrought iron crosses on St. Peter’s graveyard in Salzburg probably catched my attention. it is a nice and quiet place in spite of the many tourists that come and go. lightzone’s region feature helped in accentuating the foreground cross by just a little darkening of the wall of the chapel. the slr’s viewfinder, especially…