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2010-05-29
2010-05-22
Best of 2008 (Year Two)
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"Fading Light" (clicking on the image will take you directly to the Picasa Web Album with the photos)
I finally made up my mind and selected the photos for the "Best of 2008" album (subtitled "Year Two" - because I began to make photos more consciously in 2007, when I bought my first DSLR cameras). Most of the photos appear just the way that I originally published them throughout the year, some of them received additional and/or new editing.
The selection contains all images that I marked as "Pick" in Lightroom and rated with 5 stars. For the selection process, I first filtered the view to show all picks with 4 stars to decide if any of them would be worth a higher rating. After that, I switched to the 5 star view to see if they all really deserve the 5 star rating. Interesting enough, the final selection contains 32 photos, so the total amount is not much different from the 36 photos in the old "Best of 2007 (Year One)" album.
I hope you enjoy the selection!
PS: I created an unpublic album and uploaded the photos, then waited for something like one hour before switching it to public. I did not want my fans on Picasa Web to get an automated notifications when I "recycle" old photos, and I did not want to appear in on my Buzz stream either - because of this blog post. Turns out the one hour wait wasn't long enough. Sorry for the inconvenience if you see the announcement for the album twice now.
2010-05-20
Über Eck / On the Edge
During the recent 2-on-2 photo walk with Shuwen here in Burghausen, at some point I had the idea of mounting the camera on the monopod and then lifting it high up into the air (combining my height and the height of the monopod:-).
It didn't take me long of course to alter that technique and use the monopod to get the camera "where no camera has gone before" - right above a street in Burghausen's old city center, for example:
"Über Eck / On the Edge" (NIKON D700, 1/125s @ ISO 220; f/8, 17 mm)
(Clicking on the photo will open it in 800x800 pixels size in a lighbox, so don't do that if your screen is not big enough, it will just look strange - sorry)
And sometimes, it takes me a little longer to fully realize what I have with some of my photos - especially with those that I do not exactly consider "my kind of thing" - and well, making photos in the city isn't exactly my idea of having a good time with the camera (there's nothing like being out in the fields and forests, alone - I love the contemplative quality of making photos there).
But thanks to the friendly comments I received when I first showed the photo in my Picasa Web Album, I looked at it again and thought "hmmmm... yes... that's quite a funny combination of graphical elements" - so I submitted it to SeenBy, and guess what, it was accepted! Cooooool. :-) So now that photo is available as a fine art print (and I have to update the page again *grin*).
And you can be damn sure that the monopod will be my regular companion more often now!
It didn't take me long of course to alter that technique and use the monopod to get the camera "where no camera has gone before" - right above a street in Burghausen's old city center, for example:
"Über Eck / On the Edge" (NIKON D700, 1/125s @ ISO 220; f/8, 17 mm)(Clicking on the photo will open it in 800x800 pixels size in a lighbox, so don't do that if your screen is not big enough, it will just look strange - sorry)
And sometimes, it takes me a little longer to fully realize what I have with some of my photos - especially with those that I do not exactly consider "my kind of thing" - and well, making photos in the city isn't exactly my idea of having a good time with the camera (there's nothing like being out in the fields and forests, alone - I love the contemplative quality of making photos there).
But thanks to the friendly comments I received when I first showed the photo in my Picasa Web Album, I looked at it again and thought "hmmmm... yes... that's quite a funny combination of graphical elements" - so I submitted it to SeenBy, and guess what, it was accepted! Cooooool. :-) So now that photo is available as a fine art print (and I have to update the page again *grin*).
And you can be damn sure that the monopod will be my regular companion more often now!
2010-05-16
Status / Update
Yes, yes... I haven't posted to the blog for quite long. My girlfriend visited me for my birthday, and we were exploring my favorite places - which means outdoors, which means tough luck with the current weather in Germany. It's the middle of May and I'm wearing a pullover, and I saw people that jog in the woods in the morning are wearing gloves! Brrrrrrr!!!
Here's one of the photos that is the result of D700 madness and my birthday present (the 105mm Micro Nikkor - wow, thank you so much, Shuwen!). It's a combination of 13 single frames, showing Cuckoo flower (german: Wiesenschaumkraut) swaying in the wind. It's not an in-camera multi-exposure, the images have been combined after the fact using Enfuse (LR/Enfuse for Lightroom by Timothy Armes, to be precise - and the same effect is possible in Picasa by using the collage feature). The results of in-camera multi-exposure vs using Enfuse are almost identical, so it's not really necessary to wade through the menus of the camera. :-P
Swaying Rosy Clouds (NIKON D700 @ ISO 800; f/8, 105 mm DX)
I had the camera at ISO800 to get a reasonably fast shutter speed of 1/160s, set it to continuous shooting mode, and that's it. Just cropped it in Lightroom and adjusted contrast & colors a bit.
This rotten way of a multi-exposure has led to an even more rotten technique of getting sharp handhold macros... just firing off a burst of shots, and usually one of them has the sharpness exactly where I wanted it. I then begun expanding that approach for photos with a relatively long shutter speed (blurring water)... I think I'll make a blogpost out of that. Thanks to that rotten technique, the shutter count of my D700 is already over 3000 releases... after just 4 weeks! Holy cattle, I celebrated the 10k release of the Fuji's shutter after something like 1 1/2 years...
Other than that... I pulled my own website and simply integrated the content as static Blogger pages to the Weblog page. I now use my name instead of "Everblog" as the blog title - makes more sense for the redirect when people come here from www.alex-kunz.de and land on the Tenset page (what's the Tenset? an idea by TOP) ...which reminds me that I have to finish it. :-P
In case you didn't know yet - my girlfriend Shuwen and I met through Picasa Web Albums. And we just found out that we're not the only Picasa Web Albums couple! "Bill" and "dOrataya" also met through Picasa Web Album and are engaged by now - how great is that?!
At the moment, I'm drowning in new photos... have to catch up with more than a week of pictures. Shuwen and I started a collaborative album where we collect pictures of a photo walk through Burghausen's old city.
To-Do list for the blog: 1. finally write Part II of the "Exploration" article and 2. do that "shoot out" between the D700 and S5pro, dynamic-range wise.
Here's one of the photos that is the result of D700 madness and my birthday present (the 105mm Micro Nikkor - wow, thank you so much, Shuwen!). It's a combination of 13 single frames, showing Cuckoo flower (german: Wiesenschaumkraut) swaying in the wind. It's not an in-camera multi-exposure, the images have been combined after the fact using Enfuse (LR/Enfuse for Lightroom by Timothy Armes, to be precise - and the same effect is possible in Picasa by using the collage feature). The results of in-camera multi-exposure vs using Enfuse are almost identical, so it's not really necessary to wade through the menus of the camera. :-P
Swaying Rosy Clouds (NIKON D700 @ ISO 800; f/8, 105 mm DX)I had the camera at ISO800 to get a reasonably fast shutter speed of 1/160s, set it to continuous shooting mode, and that's it. Just cropped it in Lightroom and adjusted contrast & colors a bit.
This rotten way of a multi-exposure has led to an even more rotten technique of getting sharp handhold macros... just firing off a burst of shots, and usually one of them has the sharpness exactly where I wanted it. I then begun expanding that approach for photos with a relatively long shutter speed (blurring water)... I think I'll make a blogpost out of that. Thanks to that rotten technique, the shutter count of my D700 is already over 3000 releases... after just 4 weeks! Holy cattle, I celebrated the 10k release of the Fuji's shutter after something like 1 1/2 years...
Other than that... I pulled my own website and simply integrated the content as static Blogger pages to the Weblog page. I now use my name instead of "Everblog" as the blog title - makes more sense for the redirect when people come here from www.alex-kunz.de and land on the Tenset page (what's the Tenset? an idea by TOP) ...which reminds me that I have to finish it. :-P
In case you didn't know yet - my girlfriend Shuwen and I met through Picasa Web Albums. And we just found out that we're not the only Picasa Web Albums couple! "Bill" and "dOrataya" also met through Picasa Web Album and are engaged by now - how great is that?!
At the moment, I'm drowning in new photos... have to catch up with more than a week of pictures. Shuwen and I started a collaborative album where we collect pictures of a photo walk through Burghausen's old city.
To-Do list for the blog: 1. finally write Part II of the "Exploration" article and 2. do that "shoot out" between the D700 and S5pro, dynamic-range wise.
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