no smoking

i saw this man sitting in his mercedes on the ferry late in the night. the reading light was highlighting his bald head and inviting me to portray him within the whole context. despite the very tricky conditions - the backlight was much brigther than the inner car - i decided to try to keep as much detail as possible in the important section of the image and set the exposure accordingly onto the person. knowing the capabilities of the nex7's sensor the resulting overexposed high key image was worth keeping and provided the basis for a reasonable post-processing in conclusion.

have a look at the "rauchen verboten" sign in the upper left corner and compare it to the original, not processed image.

pretty bonita

bonita is keeping half an eye on you.

between benches

looking down the lake; an interpretation in high contrast black and white, ooc.

lunar flame

olympia is not far off.

despite having not intensely dealt with the special historical issue of the chosen location sotschi yet, the political and human rights concerning reasons against russia as an appropriate host for an event like the olympic games seem to be strong enough to form a personal view on the current discussion in media...

so for me the usually in front of events like olympia exceedingly burning fire is a bit chilled at the moment; maybe somewhat like the rising moon's vibes, at least compared to an ordinary flame.

occupied base

unfortunately dusk was already falling, when i stumbled upon this wonderful piece of nature,

golden decay

after some days of usage and playing i come to the conclusion, that at least the hefty frame with all the actually distracting information will be banned for the most of the time here on the blog again. probably depending on the subject the sharpening routine might be used every now and then. additionally i decided to go one step further and remove the obligatory watermark to clean the image as much as possible...

sometimes a personal approach is unalterable and necessary to get your view on a thing. 

staring into distance

unfortunately there is a high probability, that the regular walks with our neighbour's dog kingston will come to a soon end. for that reason please forgive me portraying my dear fellow again and again.

strung

waiting for better weather... or finally some fish surfacing. it's too bad that i didn't get on my knees to let the birds sit on the horizon...

on this occasion and for the first time i'd like to test the appearance of the results from a new blog photo sharpening and resizing routine, which automatically generates multiply sharpened and resized jpgs with integrated titles and exif information directly from lightroom. the setup of the necessary tools is not that easy, but with a little computer knowledge and a concept of what you want to obtain from the perl-based scripts, the installation and configuration should be possible for the most people. if you are interested in more information, please follow this external link to the website of an (unfortunately german) mirrorless camera board: click. the tool does not replace the situational sharpening in lightroom, but makes for an appropriate preparation and rescaling of your images for the web presentation. i don't know yet, if i'll use it from now on, but at a first glance i'm taken by this solution.

welcome 2014

it's just the second of january and fortunately the new year 2014 is already extending a warm welcome to tina and me. the upcoming months will be the riskiest but most thrilling time of our lives. we are crossing our fingers, that things will turn out very well. i hope for each of you that your 2014 will bring along all the things you long for, and vigorous health in particular!

entering the matrix

happy new year! take care of yourself. you never know, danger is all around you ;)

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almost in - sony nex 7 | sel35 f1.8 | f2.8 | ISO400 | 1/320