1703 - yo soy

setup: canon eos 400d with efs 18-55mm | 55mm | f5.6 | ISO100 | 1/200 | aperture priority | cropped and processed in rawtherapee

today the weather was beautiful. so it was our decision to chill a little bit at the lake, drink a bunch of coffee and capture some photos. slightly inciting that tina shot two photos which are at least as coherent as the best of mine.

so now it is a pleasure for me to publish a partial image of my own with the first serious photography that was taken by my wife.

cu, trshptr

1603 - street art london

setup: canon eos 400d with efs 18-55mm | 18mm | f8 | shot 3 pics in aperture priority | mounted on gorilla pod | exposure values -2, 0, +2 | hdr composed in picturenaut

at the beginning of february 2012 my wife tina, one of my best friends martin, his girlfriend jule and i flew to london for a chill and party weekend.

we walked around most of the time and looked for any kind of interesting location to absorb the atmosphere and learn about the finenesses of london.

as far as i can see eyery city has its own flavor - in 2011 we visited many european cities with great characteristics including bilbao, edinburgh, zurich, glasgow, porto, stuttgart, munich and so on. not any of this has the cosmopolitan flair of london, neither my favorit city hamburg where my wife and i spent four years of our lifes. in return central london can´t afford that real english image - its core is a melting pot like new york, berlin, paris and maybe milan.

So for me the most interesting areas could be found in the suburbs and minor roads.

in one of this "second class roads" next to the waterloo station the city government established an official graffiti area where already banksy had left his marks. i developed this realistic hdr photography for my friend martin because he is such a big fan of street art. on his birthday in the middle of february i gave him a printed book with the best shots from our london trip as a present, the photo above was included.

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