2812 - headless

December 29, 2012 in 35, alps, bokeh, friedrichshafen, germany, indoor, light, museum, nex 7, night, pattern, people, review, sel, shadow, sony, technics, zeppelin

sony nex 7 with sel 35 f1.8 | f2.8 | ISO100 | 1/80

although i often rail against the dreariness of friedrichshafen, its museums are not less than first class. both the dornier museum at the airport as well as the zeppelin museum on the waterfront have straight, clear shapes and consequently message. besides huge bodies of knowledge that are presented in different modern and interesting ways - new media included - and are only waiting to be checked out by the visitors, also the photographer doesn't come off badly.

sony nex 7 with sel 35 f1.8 | f4.0 | ISO100 | 1/60

today i used the visit to the zeppelin museum of friedrichshafen as a chance to attach the new sony sel 35 f1.8 to my nex7 the first time. how shall i put it? it's gorgeous!

sony nex 7 with sel 35 f1.8 | f4.0 | ISO100 | 1/100

what's the easiest way to shortly describe the capabilities and peculiarities of a new gadget without using technical wording and rattling out specifiations?

in my opinion the sel 35 is rather a shrunken sel 50 than a hybrid of the sigma 30 f2.8 and the sel 50. although i must confess that i haven't stopped down the lens above f4.0 yet, it seems to be obvious that the sigma will remain the sharpness champion in this competition, but the sel 35 is almost on level. however in all the other categories there is a clear decision by me - the sony is the better package. stabilisation (i love it!), much better look and feel and the low light advantages definitely compensate the plus in costs. moreover the 35mm focal length gives a bit of a more interesting angle of view, at least for my photographic eye.

i'm going to use the sel 35 continuously for at least one week now. so stay tuned to my daily updates if you are interested in further details, images and opinions about the sony sel 35 f1.8.

2512 - yoo-hoo smile

December 26, 2012 in 35, advent, blur, bokeh, candid, christmas, colour, eyes, face, fujian, germany, hair, home, nex 7, night, people, portrait, sony, tree, winter

sony nex 7 with fujian 35 f1.7 | f1.8 | ISO1600 | 1/20

although you might think that the pic of our today's (second) presents hand out looks a bit like a frame of a posed scenery, there was truly not more than a yoo-hoo by me to attract tina's attention for a short time, this one (almost) candid image. your eye for the details - colours, lights, atmosphere and so much more - is the key to success.

my enchantress tina and i wish you all the very best!

1912 - crossing the cross

December 19, 2012 in 50, contrast, friedrichshafen, germany, hospital, light, movement, nex 7, night, partial coloured, pattern, people, rain, red, reflection, sel, sony, street, umbrella, water

sony nex 7 with sel 50 f1.8 | f2.8 | ISO400 | 1/160

it's funny how things appear after getting multiplied with a transfer function. is the lady really walking with a luminescent umbrella?

rain has a stimulating effect on me. sometimes when i have to wait for the end of tina's work day, i observe the people around the hospital. they often don't expect to be photographed so you can work calmly. today everybody's solely aim was to reach the rescuing entrance of the hospitals main house, except me. i intentionally stood out front and watched the hectic races of the visitors, nurses and doctors. great environment for a photographer.

1812 - k42

December 18, 2012 in 30, architecture, bar, colour, contrast, dinner, friedrichshafen, germany, glass, light, mirror, nex 7, night, pattern, people, reflection, restaurant, sigma, sony, urban

sony nex 7 with sigma 30 f2.8 ex dn | f4.0 | ISO1000 | 1/60

there are a few great restaurants on the lake, even in boring friedrichshafen. for our today's christmas party with some work mates tina had chosen the k42 felders restaurant, which is located directly on the waterfront.

sony nex 7 with sigma 30 f2.8 ex dn | f2.8 | ISO500 | 1/60

in retrospect i have to say that this was the best choice she could have made - in my opinion the k42 is the best restaurant in friedrichshafen. cool design, pleasant service, great food and delicious wines. recommendation!

1412 - half

December 15, 2012 in 50, architecture, ceiling, contrast, exhibition, germany, glass, jet, munich, nex 7, pattern, people, plane, reflection, sel, sony, street, symmetry, texture, window

sony nex 7 with sel 50 f1.8 | f2.8 | ISO100 | 1/500

taking candid pictures of people in public is about catching the right moment. you already see the scenery but you still have to wait till another object or another boundary condition is completing your image.

in case of the photograph above the third person crossing the bright reflections of the sunlight was the key for an interesting composition. the lady - the person is carrying a handbag - causes exactly the amount of confusion i wanted to have in there.

sony nex 7 with sel 50 f1.8 | f5.6 | ISO100 | 1/400

(almost) perfect symmetry. even simple things can be so beautiful when you arrange them differently.

1312 - reasonable doubt

December 14, 2012 in 50, air safety, bokeh, deeper meaning, exhibition, germany, jet, light, munich, nex 7, pattern, people, plane, portrait, reflection, sel, sony, symmetry, war, window

sony nex 7 with sel 50 f1.8 | f1.8 | ISO100 | 1/250

till today tina hasn't completely taken to the things i'm concerned with. this stands to reason, since even i by myself don't feel certain with every detailed issue of this complex topic. all the things that are made for killing bring along a very negative connotation, regardless of whether the underlying engineering achievement deserves acknowledgement or not.

sony nex 7 with sel 50 f1.8 | f1.8 | ISO100 | 1/500

how much sorrow had this old jet brought upon the global population before it was retired? this is definitely the wrong question.

the evil itself isn't arising from the existence of weapons. quite the opposite, due to the incredible power, energy and force of tools like jets (today's dangerous, irregular) enemies can be thrown again and again. in the best case it's enough to deploy every weapon only in the context of show of force. i wish this could be the custom.

1012 - out

December 10, 2012 in 30, b+w, ceiling, contrast, corridor, germany, grain, immenstaad, movement, nex 7, pattern, people, rain, sigma, snow, sony, stairs, street, wall, winter

sony nex 7 with sigma 30 f2.8 ex dn | f2.8 | ISO160 | 1/60

principally you can escape from wet and cold only temporarily. anytime everybody has to clench his teeth and stand his ground.

both wet and cold are tolerable if they don't appear together at the same moment. currently temperatures are rising a bit so that the pleasant cold with crystal-like snow is turning into a nasty mishmash of medium low temperatures and additionally wet snowfall. hopefully this is only a temporary condition, too.

0912 - christmas spirit

December 09, 2012 in 50, animal, bokeh, cat, colour, germany, home, indoor, kitchen, light, nex 7, night, people, personal, portrait, red, sel, snow, sony, window

sony nex 7 with sel 50 f1.8 | f1.8 | ISO1600 | 1/80

to tell the truth, i've never felt such an intense christmas spirit before. we have consistent snowfall since almost two weeks now and tina decorated the whole flat already at the end of november with all the lovely stuff that makes for a comfortable surrounding.

on that matter i can understand that even the neighbour cats try to escape the cold and warm up on our heated floor.

0612 - fleck

December 07, 2012 in 30, abstract, architecture, cern, contrast, exhibition, geneva, green, light, minimalistic, nex 7, night, partial coloured, pattern, people, sigma, sony, switzerland, trip

sony nex 7 with sigma 30 f2.8 ex dn | 30mm | f2.8 | ISO1600 | 1/20

cern is a world-famous, huge laboratory located in geneva, switzerland. more than 10000 guest scientists work on high-energy physics research, their main function is to provide the different particle accelerators. the most famous experiment plant is the lhc, the large hadron collider. unfortunately the testing plants are continuously running till middle of 2013, so that you may not go down to the experiments itself. after the shutdown in summer of 2013 a two-years maintenance period will follow and then visitors might be allowed to have a look at the large tunnel system (lhc is 27 kilometres long) with the detectors.

besides the accelerators cern is the birthplace of internet, cloud computing and different other very useful and meanwhile prevalent things, although all these things were basically used as necessary tools to manage the scientific problems. it is a honour for every scientist to work at one of the great many institutes on the french border. today we had a very detailed behind-the-scenes tour with our department, executed by a retired, former cern researcher from germany.

fundamental research of a topic is as complex and simultaneously as simple as trying to understand each issue in life. many things surface not until later and completely different than expectable and incarnate intangible phenomena. you have to be able to handle this.

2911 - illuminated maintenance

November 29, 2012 in 50, candid, corridor, door, facility, germany, handicraft, immenstaad, light, maintenance, nex 7, night, partial coloured, people, portrait, sel, sony, yellow

setup: sony nex 7 with sel 50 f1.8 | 50mm | f1.8 | ISO250 | 1/80 | lightroom 4.2

there are images that suggest thinking about different kinds of stories. with today's pic i could tell stories about seeing light at the end of the tunnel and so on. but i actually don't want to talk about such negative things although the dark clouds that are currently gathering here at work state something different.

i for one know that no matter what happens, if everything should collapse anytime there will be a fall back position at home at my girl's shoulder. so let's look ahead instead and marvel at the craftsman who was working in a sun-like, warm light all the afternoon. he was the only one who got out of the grey today and deservedly so because he is one of the men who get our corridors in pretty and neat order again.

cu, trshptr