0311 - (full) tilt

November 04, 2012 in 30, action, colour, concert, diversity, felsenkeller, festival, germany, indoor, leipzig, light, live, movement, music, nex 7, night, pattern, people, sigma, sony

setup: sony nex 7 with sigma 30 f2.8 ex dn | 30mm | f2.8 | ISO800 | 1/60 | lightroom 4.2

what a day! got up at 4am, drove to berlin, visited the opening ceremony of my second study at the beuth university, drove back towards homeland, but stopped in leipzig for the dynamite ska music festival and my brother-in-law's 18th birthday.

arrived at home at 2am, almost 24 hours and more than 800 kilometres lay behind me when I finally collapsed into bed.

setup: sony nex 7 with sigma 30 f2.8 ex dn | 30mm | f2.8 | ISO1600 | 1/60 | lightroom 4.2

10 bands entertained the diverse crowd of punks, hools, skins, rastas and ordinaries for more than 7 hours. at the latest at half past ten the most of them all were dancing at full tilt.

with today's pics i like to show you differently tilted views of the wonderful felsenkeller from last night.

cu, trshptr

3110 - invigorating hustle and bustle

November 01, 2012 in 8, action, dinner, eyes, face, fisheye, fun, germany, hair, home, indoor, kitchen, nex 7, night, people, personal, portrait, sony, walimex samyang rokinon, zeulenroda

setup: sony nex 7 with walimex pro 8 f2.8 fisheye | 8mm | f2.8 | ISO320 | 1/60 | cornerfix & lightroom 4.2

reunion with the family after a long time is always a special event. everybody is excited, great food is served and old stories are told. and you realise that the next generation has finally taken command.

i'm looking forward to the next days here in our homeland, with marv and the rest of the gang.

cu, trshptr

2110 - way of seeing

October 21, 2012 in 50, abstract, architecture, art, barcelona, contrast, deeper meaning, electricity, light, minimalistic, nex 7, night, sel, sony, spain, street, street lamp, townscape, urban

setup: sony nex 7 with sel 50 f1.8 | 50mm | f1.8 | ISO100 | 1/200 | lightroom 4.2

things in life appear in different ways. depending on the way of thinking and especially the relation to an absolute reference good and bad can differ a lot. you by yourselves have to set your own levels.

setup: sony nex 7 with sel 50 f1.8 | 50mm | f2.8 | ISO200 | 1/80 | silver efex pro for lightroom

nobody is able to speak for you. and nobody else than you knows what is good for you.

btw: both images were shot from the same position with exactly the same angle of view in quick succession. only the exposure settings and the post processing were adjusted in different ways.

can you see the analogy between this and real life?

cu, trshptr

1910 - top view

October 20, 2012 in 30, architecture, bar, barcelona, light, memorial, monument, nex 7, night, restaurant, sigma, sony, spain, square, street, street lamp, townscape, trip, urban

setup: sony nex 7 with sigma 30 f2.8 ex dn | 30mm | f2.8 | ISO1600 | 1/25 | lightroom 4.2

urban development is definitely a topic that i could have studied, too. for me it's very interesting to see and investigate the history and structure of cities and towns i visit.

i don't want to go into detail too much, the (german) wikipedia article about the placa reial is very detailed and profound. but one fact is worth to be called: antoni gaudi, one of the most famous architects of spain ever, (who had designed the sagrada familia, the most prominent building of barcelona, you might know it) has also projected the "sheltered lanterns" on this placa reial.

the square that is located next to the world-famous street ramblas, the square where our hotel is directly attached to and the square where we look down from our roof terrace. time to catch a breath and relax.

cu, trshptr

1810 - anticyclic acting

October 19, 2012 in 8, calm, fisheye, germany, immenstaad, lake, lake constance, landscape, mountain bike, nature, nex 7, night, rest, self portrait, sony, sunset, tripod, walimex samyang rokinon, water

setup: sony nex 7 with walimex pro 8 f2.8 fisheye | 8mm | f8.0 | ISO100 | 3.2s | cornerfix & lightroom 4.2

anticyclic acting is a way to escape from the daily routine.

after i hadn't managed to be the first on the roads yesterday, my today's alarm rang already at half past six in the morning. with an eye to the great weather forecast for today and hopefully a great sunrise at the lakeside i ate my breakfast in less than 15 minutes and left home still in complete darkness. equipped with my ultra bright led headlamp and red blinking lights on the back pack i started my journey into the dark.

having the knowledge of being the sole human in a dark forest and withal riding a bicycle with a visibility range of not more than 20 metres is a very special experience. i spotted the sparkling, sometimes white, sometimes yellow incandescent eyes of the forest animals a few times through the undergrowth of the woods. at last i felt like a real man again.

getting up early paid off today.

cu, trshptr

1610 - parabolic arc

October 16, 2012 in 8, architecture, bar, colour, dinner, fisheye, germany, indoor, light, markdorf, nex 7, night, people, red, restaurant, sony, symmetry, urban, walimex samyang rokinon

setup: sony nex 7 with walimex pro 8 f2.8 fisheye | 8mm | f2.8 | ISO1600 | 1/20 | cornerfix & lightroom 4.2

in the past i often moaned about the minor opportunities to spend a great evening.

but i told you a few, proper possibilities, too. after a long and intense week in berlin and hamburg i was wishing for a more comfortable and smaller surrounding to enjoy nothing but the presence of tina when i arrived at home. the restaurant lichtblick gave us this environment without limitation.

great place for a tiny little town like markdorf.

cu, trshptr

1510 - shadow play

October 15, 2012 in 50, abstract, architecture, building, colour, door, facility, germany, green, light, markdorf, minimalistic, nex 7, night, pattern, sel, shadow, sony, townscape, tree

setup: sony nex 7 with sel 50 f1.8 | 50mm | f2.8 | ISO1600 | 1/15 | lightroom 4.2

till today i extremely rarely came home very late in the evening and work wasn't over yet. from now on this case will arise more often.

nevertheless now, that i'm writing the daily post, i'm completely satisfied and relaxed although i've organised and worked up to now. i don't think that this is down to the picture above that i've captured on my way home after work today: the interesting monochromatic shadow-light-structure of the green illuminated entrance of a office building in markdorf in connection with the equally coloured tree pleases me although there is no message within this pic. sometimes simplicity counts.

i think my today's positivity is still down to the fact that i'm home again. i'm very happy about that.

cu, trshptr

1410 - home again

October 14, 2012 in 50, b+w, bathroom, blur, bokeh, eyes, germany, grain, grey, hair, home, light, mirror, nex 7, night, personal, portrait, sel, self portrait, sony

setup: sony nex 7 with sel 50 f1.8 | 50mm | f1.8 | ISO1600 | 1/40 | silver efex for lightroom

being separated from tina for more than a week let me feel sick.

coming home after ten days feels a bit like getting to know her and the whole surrounding completely new. a sense of delight mixes with a feeling of relief. hopefully this will stay forever.

cu, trshptr

1310 - hatari

October 14, 2012 in 30, art, bar, eyes, face, germany, hair, hamburg, light, nex 7, night, partial coloured, portrait, restaurant, sigma, sony, still life, texture, wall

setup: sony nex 7 with sigma 30 f2.8 ex dn | 30mm | f2.8 | ISO1600 | 1/40 | lightroom 4.2

is this art or trash?

interesting fitment doesn't always have to be expensive. the interior (and of course also the food and the service) of the bar hatari in the schanzenviertel of hamburg is really attractive although it doesn't seem to be very luxury and high-cost.

cu, trshptr

0610 - the admiration

October 07, 2012 in 8, arena, berlin, blue, cobble, colour, fisheye, germany, light, nex 7, night, o2, pattern, people, portrait, sky, sony, stadium, sunset, walimex samyang rokinon

setup: sony nex 7 with walimex pro 8 f2.8 fisheye | 8mm | f2.8 | ISO1600 | 1/15 | cornerfix & lightroom 4.2

often in life the right moment is very if not most important.

unfortunately we hadn't purchased tickets for the basketball match between alba berlin and dallas mavericks in advance. therefore we had to see to buy two tickets for the second of four matches of the nba's european promotion tour directly in front of the arena on the black market. we even saw a few ticket seller, probably all private sellers and not managed by an organised ticket mafia. but either the seats weren't contiguous or the prices simply maddening. in other words today we didn't come upon the right moment to have the necessary luck you need to have to get tickets for such an outstanding event last-minute. as a consequence we had to admire the wonderful arena from the outside.

the importance of coming upon the right moment in such situations of life is quite similar to photography. at least for today's pic i chose the right moment - the sun had already set down behind the newly built parking ramp and funnily my mate martin was standing completely isolated from the rest of the people what in my opinion expresses our situation in a great way.

cu, trshptr