following the joint

March 30, 2013 in 35, architecture, b+w, backlight, bermatingen, bokeh, building, contrast, corridor, darkness, facility, germany, grain, historic, home, indoors, light, monument, nex 7, night, pattern, personal, sel, shadow, sony, door, floor, cobble, stone

there are always two sides of the medal: unfortunately our time in the historic flat here at lake constance won't be everlasting, where the change will probably bring along a lot of new opportunities. so it's high time for me to document the characteristics of the more than 300 years old building more often now, before we will have to leave this place in the near future.

1102 - scoops of ice

February 11, 2013 in 35, abstract, colour, germany, ice, nature, nex 7, pattern, sel, sipplingen, sony, stone, texture, winter, yellow

scoops of ice - sony nex 7 | sel35 f1.8 | f5.6 | ISO100 | 1/100

not all scoops of ice are that delicious. in return these pretty uneatable ice balls look all the more nicer. you see the again freezing, just from the icicles escaped defrost water in its natural, wonderfully coloured catch basin.

0502 - storm

February 05, 2013 in 35, alps, b+w, blur, germany, grain, grass, immenstaad, lake, lake constance, landscape, nature, nex 7, old photo, sel, shore, sony, stone, water, wave

storm - sony nex 7 | sel35 f1.8 | f11.0 | ISO100 | 1/8

i always wanted to compose and process a copper engraving like image of our wonderful lake, the bodensee. today the time had come. there was really strong wind, gusting over 30km/h. so on the one hand all the soft components of an image were supposed to be definitely blurred when captured with a longer exposure time, on the other hand the alps were clearly visible on the horizon because of the consistent west wind. and finally due to the built-in stabiliser of the sel 35 i was able to work without a tripod in the course of a short stop at the lakeside.

0412 - shady side

December 04, 2012 in 30, b+w, contrast, gangplank, germany, immenstaad, lake, lake constance, landscape, nature, nex 7, shore, sigma, snow, sony, stone, sun, tree, water, winter

sony nex 7 with sigma 30 f2.8 ex dn | 30mm | f4.0 | ISO100 | 1/640

in times of passages from one season to the other the forces of both usually fight very hard against each other. thereby the opponents conduct war by every trick in the book - providing cover is only one of the applied methods.

cu, trshptr

0210 - stacked & bread rain

October 03, 2012 in 8, action, animal, art, bird, bodman, duck, fisheye, lake, lake constance, landscape, nex 7, people, portrait, seagull, sky, sony, stone, walimex samyang rokinon, water

setup: sony nex 7 with walimex pro 8 f2.8 fisheye | 8mm | f2.8 | ISO400 | 1/25 | cornerfix & lightroom 4.1

fortunately the announced walimex pro fisheye lens has arrived already today in the afternoon. for the evening i'd planned to shoot a special scenery in bodman-ludwigshafen at the western end of lake constance. a friend of mine had told me of the presence of an example of a very special kind of "lake art" - every now and then a stone artist places stone towers at the lakeside that seen as a stress engineer could really never bear.

for the viewer they exude calm and balance, really adorable.

setup: sony nex 7 with walimex pro 8 f2.8 fisheye | 8mm | f4.0 | ISO400 | 1/100 | cornerfix & lightroom 4.1

heading for the place where the work is located we met a nice guy who was feeding the ducks and seagulls. although he seemed to be a bit strange he's surely a very nice and sensitive guy who cares about the nature and its animals.

i'll write more about the walimex pro fisheye lens during the next days. in advance only a very short information: it touches simply wonderfully and seems to be built of very high quality.

furthermore my two today's samples show how differently a fisheye lens can be used. both the emphasis of the distorted fisheye character as well as the use as an almost normal ultra wide angle lens are imaginable.

cu, trshptr