0602 - awakening

February 06, 2013 in 50, architecture, blue, building, car, colour, facility, friedrichshafen, germany, hospital, light, moon, nex 7, night, sel, sky, sony, stairs, street, window

awakening - sony nex 7 | sel50 f1.8 | f4.0 | ISO1600 | 1/25

as stated elsewhere i've already expressed my surprise about the chosen colouration of the two new auxiliary buildings of friedrichshafen hospital and like to renew this statement: for whatever reason the medical centre for the resident doctors with attached psychiatry was designed in bright colours, whereas the also new mother-child centre is coated in olive. for me this is hardly to understand.

3101 - fifth season of year

January 31, 2013 in 50, bermatingen, blue, car, carnival, colour, decoration, germany, nex 7, night, orange, pattern, people, sel, sky, sony, street, street lamp, sunrise

fifth season of year - sony nex 7 | sel50 f1.8 | f5.6 | ISO400 | 1/25

now time has come again. the fifth season of the year, like people say in germany for carnival, is dawning. all the coloured rags hang across the streets of the small towns and villages again. it won't be long until the party reachs our village bermatingen and instead of three kids on their way to school in the morning, a whole parade with more than 200 crazy, already drunken guys will march through the village. for me this hubbub is a pain in the a***, but of course i respect the people who conduct this tradition year after year. and sure, this too will pass, in the middle of february everything will be over again.

2801 - arenight

January 29, 2013 in 35, architecture, arena, blue, car, colour, friedrichshafen, germany, light, mirror, nex 7, night, reflection, sel, sony, sport, stadium, stairs, street, winter

arenight - sony nex 7 | sel 35 f1.8 | f2.8 | ISO1600 | 1/40

usually this parking area directly next to the arena of our local volleyball club vfb friedrichshafen, that has one of the best, if not even the best volleyball team in europe, is well-filled with vehicles from all the spectators. but on non-matchdays and into the bargain at dark night only a very few people and cars stray on the grounds.

2701 - blue intrusion

January 28, 2013 in 35, architecture, blue, contrast, corridor, germany, light, nex 7, night, railstation, ravensburg, sel, sony, stairs, street, tunnel, urban

blue intrusion - sony nex 7 | sel 35 f1.8 | f2.8 | ISO100 | 1/125

in these days of icy winter the underground acts as a welcome escape from the cold. however sooner or later the clear blue frost will outrun everybody, at the latest after it had completely converged to the dark black of the night.

1401 - barred

January 15, 2013 in 35, bicycle, blue, car, colour, deeper meaning, germany, immenstaad, light, light track, movement, nex 7, night, scooter, sel, shadow, sony, street, street lamp

barred - sony nex 7 with sel 35 f1.8 | f2.8 | ISO400 | 1/10

why has there always to be at least one maverick in our society? does the majority need the strange guy to feel better? actually we are all birds of a feather, painted with the same, blue colour.

2912 - focus on top

December 30, 2012 in 35, b+w, bermatingen, blur, bokeh, colour, flower, friedrichshafen, germany, light, mirror, nex 7, night, people, purple, reflection, sel, sony, street, sun

sony nex 7 with sel 35 f1.8 | f1.8 | ISO100 | 1/2000

both manual focusing and autofocus work well with the sony sel 35 f1.8. for the picture above i focused on the solitary flower in the upper middle of the frame. due to the focus peaking feature of the nex system and the butter smooth focus ring manual work is rather a pleasure than a step backwards in history. i really like the atmosphere of this (definitely imperfect) photograph, it might have been captured also at the mediterranean seaside.

sony nex 7 with sel 35 f1.8 | f1.8 | ISO1250 | 1/60

some hours later cold and rough friedrichshafen got us back. for this street shot i used the autofocus system, applied on the four ladies on the left-hand side of the frame. the chief difficulty in this scene was the fact that what you see in the photograph is actually a scattered reflection of the goings-on in the street, quasi an image of the ceiling of this corridor. despite that issue the autofocus didn't pump and did his work satisfactorily.

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.

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.

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.

2411 - transition

November 25, 2012 in 30, abandoned, brown, building, deeper meaning, facility, germany, mannheim, nature, nex 7, partial coloured, sigma, sony, street, suburb, townscape, tree, urban, wall, window

setup: sony nex 7 with sigma 30 f2.8 ex dn | 30mm | f2.8 | ISO100 | 1/1000 | lightroom 4.2

after an evening like yesterday's it's always good to face up to the opposite side of the society. while my girls were insensitively shopping in the rhein-neckar-mall of mannheim-viernheim, i had the time to stroll around the blocks. there weren't many coloured dots to find in the middle of the almost brown and partly abandoned environment.

setup: sony nex 7 with sigma 30 f2.8 ex dn | 30mm | f8.0 | ISO100 | 1/200 | lightroom 4.2

the transitions there from the occupied areas to the abandoned and inhospitable ones are hard, immediate and obvious. a suburb of mannheim in the year 2012: plain straight.

cu, trshptr