clashing horns

April 06, 2013 in 50, action, agriculture, animal, b+w, bermatingen, bokeh, candid, contrast, countryside, eyes, face, germany, grain, hair, light, nature, nex 7, old photo, portrait, sel, shadow, sony

a few weeks ago i stumbled upon google's nik collection discount: only 149$ for six pretty useful lightroom plug-in applications, srp actually round about 500$, that sounded too good. go for it!

today i'd like to show a first result, that was processed with the newer version of silver efex pro - i had used the predecessor for a while, too - and explain, with which workflow the shown sample, that was photographed today a few minutes on foot away from our home, was edited by me: firstly the import in lightroom, application of lens correction, convertion to tiff and transfer to sharpener pro 3 (part 1) for raw pre sharpening, in between buffering in lightroom, transfer to silver efex pro 2 and main editing, again fransfer to sharpener pro (part 2) for final output sharpening and finally export the image from lightroom to jpg. pooh, and all that with my good old laptop... i'm going to familiarise myself with the new software during the coming weeks and i will surely publish more samples.

kittens in da club

April 01, 2013 in 35, action, art, atmosphere, bar, bokeh, candid, cat, colour, corridor, contrast, darkness, deeper meaning, face, eyes, germany, fun, hair, indoors, kitty, light, nex 7, night, people, portrait, ravensburg, red, sel, sony, vintage, party, disco

some people represent the personalisation of self-confidence. regardless, of whether i like their doings, styles, apperances or whether there is a doubting soul underneath the cool exterior: just because of their bravery these people earn my respect.

time leap

March 23, 2013 in 35, action, atmosphere, bar, berlin, blue, bokeh, candid, colour, corridor, diner, dinner, face, germany, indoors, light, nex 7, night, people, portrait, red, restaurant, sel, shadow, sony, townscape, trip, urban

spending time in a metropole at the weekends can be compared to pure quality time. once again i'm able to visit extraordinary restaurants and bars, like the absolutely cheesy sixties diner in the center of berlin.

urban image

March 21, 2013 in 35, action, architecture, art, atmosphere, berlin, building, candid, contrast, colour, corridor, facility, fun, germany, glass, mist, nex 7, orange, people, sel, snow, sony, street, townscape, pattern, trip, urban, wall, window, winter, yellow, red

in berlin nothing is usual. have you ever enjoyed a building site view like the one above?

scratching the (white) surface

March 20, 2013 in 35, architecture, b+w, building, car, contrast, facility, germany, grain, mirror, monument, movement, action, nex 7, pattern, people, reflection, sel, shadow, snow, sony, street, townscape, trip, truck, urban, wall, water, window, winter, stairs, bridge, river, crane, sky, berlin, bundestag

as threatened yesterday i have to torment you mercilessly with images of this white, consolidated mass of water this week again - the forecasts predict nothing but winter. thereby i try to allot not more than a minor role to the still not escaped, meanwhile less strongly loved season and hope to cope with using its peculiarities as a stylistic device.

the german bundestag is the place of our government here in berlin. the shown, very cool and artistic building with a huge glass facade is one of the great many facilities that are occupied by parts of the governing parties and belongs to a vast complex of modern architecture in the middle of historic monuments besides the river spree.

there are a great number of things why i take to this photograph: the multifacetedness, the snow blower or the lonely soul in the middle of the frame, but i especially like the three-dimensionality of the picture - from the front with the blown snow flakes via the building with its diagonal stairs to the bridges and the crane in the reflection that had been located behind my point of view there are a lot of layers superimposed by each other.

feline football

March 16, 2013 in 35, action, animal, backlight, bermatingen, bokeh, candid, cat, contrast, corridor, fun, germany, green, hair, kitty, light, movement, nex 7, pattern, sel, shadow, sony, street

another street photograph, this day with participation of an animal. saw the flower pot - the abstraction of the net - and the blazing sun light. while looking and focussing through the holes in the bottom of the pot i additionally spotted the red berry, that represents, of course, the ball. finally the crossing kitty as the central figure completed the pretty funny composition.

kitchen nook

March 12, 2013 in 8, action, architecture, atmosphere, colour, darkness, dinner, fisheye, germany, home, indoors, kitchen, light, nex 7, old photo, orange, people, personal, portrait, sony, vintage, walimex samyang rokinon, wash, vegetables

this is the functional part of our kitchen. the room per se is very large, but most of the time the action takes place in the shown corner. to make matters worse, there is a guy who - instead of helping the chef - runs around with his camera all the time... well, who might that be?

fun ride

March 09, 2013 in 50, action, car, facility, fun, germany, nature, nex 7, old photo, people, sel, sepia, sony, street, urban, vintage, water, brown, colour, mtb, bicycle, mud, markdorf, wash

although today's story isn't about a separate business - like the title may suggest - we had to make use of one at the end of two hours of unresisted bathing in deep mud. at this season it is a common procedure that all the local (mountain) bikers wash their bicycles in the car wash in markdorf. this being the case, we didn't attract any attention yesterday, even though our heavily speckled appearance should have been extraordinary enough...

driving all night

March 02, 2013 in 35, b+w, candid, car, contrast, corridor, darkness, deeper meaning, germany, grain, light, nex 7, night, old photo, sel, shadow, snow, sony, street, winter, truck, blur, action, movement

have you ever thought about the peculiarities of an engagement as a long-distance truck driver? considering the unfavourable boundary conditions i have great respect for this profession. it's not just that the family men are mostly not at home to wake the children in the morning or to put the kids to bed in the evening (like pilots, mariners, soldiers and probably a good many other professionals, too), in return they bring in only very little money. due to the schengen agreement the average wages for truck drivers still decrease since the east european drivers do the same job with less grumble for less money.

0802 - snow streaks

February 09, 2013 in 35, action, blur, car, friedrichshafen, germany, grain, light, light track, movement, nex 7, night, pattern, sel, snow, sony, street, texture, winter

snow streaks - sony nex 7 | sel35 f1.8 | f2.8 | ISO1600 | 1/4

as one might expect particles, light and movement form interesting streaks in the eye of the beholder and of course this circumstance works also in nature.

awhirl - sony nex 7 | sel35 f1.8 | f2.8 | ISO1600 | 1/4

if in the case of a nightly car drive in a snow storm also the background contains a minimum of texture the drawn winter image should be really expressive.