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Archive for June 2009

When traveling by car. The sun pushes itself out from behind a cloud. Briefly ran right twice, mobilized the camera, and make two or three shots. One of them had prior to the internal quality filter components - this here. Again such a moment that you must take if he offers himself. No, let me, I can do tomorrow - that does not work. I love this picture. Perhaps, because I've screwed auuch not long remember: Simple RAW development with small corrections for the contrast and saturation.

Recently had our friends (the one with the wedding , the shoes are not made ​​for long marches and the party ) visiting a friend. My photos are somehow really good, they were the best. Well maybe, but the longer I am dealing with them, the more they are viewed and processed, the more they lose their magic. At least for me.

Probably you should take pictures to put in an optimal state (through adaptation, cropping, correction ...), and afterwards they can disappear for some time on a hard disk. I dig it out again then that is, they seem fresh and new. Or I add them immediately, without having given them too much attention - that has a similar effect. All other blocks the view.

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What the poet wants to tell us?

Someone once said that the real reward comes from the inside of the photographers - from the knowledge that they have just taken something very special. This feeling of satisfaction of a very special shot. (Now please do not think yet again that * one * of filth!)

Special photos but need appropriate opportunities. Yesterday there was one such: We were invited to a party that had the edge the way to do it with filth, although at a high level, but also with the pleasure of physical fitness by (* filth *!) Swinging the dancing leg the beat of the music. It was dimly lit (* filth! *), It was hot (* S * ... you know!), And it was really well-blended music. The illumination along with artificial fog was really her thing, and there were a number of good photo opportunities.

And then this picture:

Small tripod plate on it, ball, time delay 1 / 8 seconds, and gradually ramped up the ISO to 1600. A few photos, not all bad, until this opportunity arose. I pulled the trigger after I had looked at some time the light rotation, at the very moment that I thought was entirely appropriate. BANG BANG, a slight acceleration rate (which had nothing to do with filth * *), then I gave the camera to the host to view the image. (No idea why I have not even seen it, maybe I was afraid that it was not turned out as I had hoped. But no, I do not think that was the reason I felt that shot me a special was successful.)

They looked at the picture on the screen, in silence, then a faint "Very cool!", Breathed rather than spoken. Then I looked at the monitor - it was perfect!

From the RAW image, I developed a version of the color monochrome, which comes as follows:

Both have their place, both ended up at Flickr. And of course I am delighted with awards and group invitations and favorite choice, but the real satisfaction is intrinsic. An incredible bargain.

Yes, I know that no one writes H crane. Back in the 1870s, they wrote it Abeer even so, perhaps based on the crane, the just emptied the boat ... A Krahn.

I grew up in a darkroom. At least photographically.

The old man had to jump a Canon A-1 (that reminds me to always, what an old bag but I am even now: the A-1 in 1980 fell on my hands!). In school, I had an art teacher who was incredibly well the basics and teach tricks of photography. With him, we sat in the photo lab, wrapped Ilford from FP-4 and Agfa Pan 400 film from a large roll and tipped the photo boxes themselves exposed film did not go to the lab: Prepare developers await the development time and always set the rhythm of tilt, then fixer pure, dry, finally - the dark room full program, including the prints on different paper with different gradations.

The love of black and white photography has remained until today. For some time I have been photographing and digitally in monochrome. Thanks to the RAW mode, I can still recall the color version, if I feel like it.

Why am I one may SW? Now draw these pictures to look at the basics, to graphics, to contrast. The content is dominated, not a surfeit of colors. The world in monochrome is not just a discolored - it opens up new possibilities, even for images that would not otherwise be considered because they were too colorful or recorded in low light. Color distractions are of no consequence. Monochrome images are a reduction to the statement on lines, geometric shapes and structures.

Sometimes you do sepia tones like an image well. Get a quiet time to experiment! A really good picture is also in Black and White!

Here is a recording that has emerged in the B5 in Lauenburg / Elbe. The monochrome color variation

and the sepia-tinted:

I had to work yesterday. Outpatient care. In addition to 18 other patients, I looked after an old lady who is in the fortunate position of having one partner at their side. While I was washing here, there, applied ointment and dripped into her eyes, she asked me if what I had heard about the European elections. My mobile phone has a radio, on NDR Info ran a special program, so I had heard and reported.

When we were done and I documented, her husband said that he had no mahr has long been interested in China China. "Can not happen", I thought, and dedicated myself to my records again. "Since 1945," he added.

And suddenly he had all of my attention. Flakhelfer he was convinced and excited about the idea of the system. Something was stirring in me, crystallized the image of diehards in front of my eyes.

"Then came the end, the idea collapsed, we were robbed of all of our ideals."

And since he was interested not just in politics. * Amazed * BAFF

I have met older man and Damschaften who were of the opinion that not everything was in Nazi Germany was bad. Likewise, some who were, the system had been in order. But all had somehow found a way to come to terms with democracy, which has already been a few decades under their belts. But a case of nostalgic glorification of belief in and enthusiasm for National Socialism, yet it expressed so openly, I personally have not yet come.

I quickly unhooked from the last open fields, protected by a glance at the clock extreme time pressure before and recommended me. Outside, I took a deep breath. I do not know how it would go to you, but to me is the thought that soon need to work there again, not very pleasant. And that, that this problem is not solved by this generation die off, much less.