introduction

0205 - in the spotlight

in the spotlight

setup: canon eos 400d with efs 18-55mm | 27mm | f4.0 | ISO1600 | 1/50 | aperture priority | raw files cropped, aligned and processed in lightroom 4

... for tina is today, that her night duty proceeds as relaxed as it had begun. i just surprised her with a thermos bottle filled with hot mcdonalds cappuccino.

afterwards she showed me the stark mood of an abandoned hospital at night.

marginal note:
during the last days i have bothered about my blog and its keynote. in my opinion there are enough 365 days projects that have no quality. it's all right as long as a pic is published every day. the quality of these blogs' images suffers for example from the lack of adequate scenes. that is not what i want. that's why i have declared some rules for me and my project:

- the photo is the central element on the blog.

- the most important thing is not the equipment (although i'm looking forward to my birthday and hopefully a nice present), the important thing is you by yourself. the idea, the composition, the implementation, the processing, nothing else matters. nevertheless i'm going to milk the capabilities of the nex as good as possible.

- like the blog name explains i'll publish (minimum) one photo a day, but the blog isn't a dedicated 365 days / one year project, it's simply a day by day photography website. why shall i commit myself to only one year? is the aim of shooting a pic a day so nerving that you long for the end of the project already at the beginning of it?

- if there is nothing to tell on a given day, no posting will be published. instead of wasting my and your time with struggling about the bad quality of an enforced shot on an uninspired day i'll have a good time fiddling with my bunch of other hobbies. stress and restrictions are ever-present in the daily life, i don't want to get worked up over by this project someday.

- but: my cam will accompany me every day and night to every location. i'm very disciplined, you can expect that certainly more than 300 pics will be shot and published during the next year.

for this reasons i hereby declare my project as already on-going. only the tools will change in a few days, but that's why i don't expect real improvements in the overall picture quality by itself. at first i have to hone my skills.

cu, trshptr

1503 - introduction

trshptr, t.r.s.h.p.t.r or trashpater, that´s it. not really.

offstage there hides a (much more than only) photography interested nobody (named Alex), born in 1984, whose decision to upgrade from smartphone snapshoting to serious digital imaging arrived in summer of 2011.

with this tiny little webpage i´d like to document my personal progress of learning photography techniques and developing an eye for moments and details.

if you participate in this blog you´ll accompany me on my way through germany and europe, through public and private issues.

in my opinion in real world photography the photo itself should not gain center stage. what is your achievement if you missed the situation?
that´s why my future camera has to be compact and inconspicuously - sony nex, ready for competition?
currently i work with the canon eos 400d of my mother-in-law, but an upgrade is abundant.

coming trips will lead my wife and me in the next three months to manchester (uk), sardinia (it) and algarve (pt). my stamping ground is the area around lake constance in the south of germany.

it is my intention to get this blog to work in the coming weeks publishing some "old" shots from the eos 400d until i give the nex - probably the 5n - myself as a present in may 2012.
after that i hope to hang on to publish a photo every day , in consequence of dead zones in the middle of nowhere a delay of few days has to be accepted.
http://366nex.blogspot.com served as a model for this blog, i recommend luca´s blog to everybody who´s interested in superior photography and plastic and straight real world stories told by one simple image a day.

my challenge for march and april is to determine which lenses i should buy as a basic package.
at the moment my favorites are the sel 50f1.8 (already ordered), the kit lens (increases the price of the cam only about 180€ - must-have) and maybe the sel 55-210.
furthermore i observe ebay to purchase a secondhand sel 16f2.8 pancake. in the distant future my view will focus on manual lenses but therefor i need a bunch of more experience. time will tell.

don´t worry, the blog design will receive an update soon.

cu, trshptr