HDR panorama of Manhattan
Posted on Januar 9th, 2014
It tooks me a lot of works to do this. If you want to make some panoramas then you shoot several images with an overlapping range and stich it together with a panorama software. And if you want it more complex, then you shoot a bracket series for each image. Make an HDR of each series and stich it together.
But my HDR workflow ist different. Because after I used an HDR software I’m manually fix all the ugly parts with pieces from the original images. But hell, the stiching software are made every panorama different, they are no more congruent. So I have first to make 3 hdr images with manual corrections and stich it together at the end. But then you’ll have no more clean intersections. It was a bunch of work and I’m not really happy with the finish… btw. watch it in FULL resolution!
The stave church of Heddal
Posted on Januar 8th, 2014
This is one of the oldest still existing stave church in norway. It was probably built in the 13. century, there is no exactly date when it was built. Of the 750 documented stave churches existing in the medieval are only 28 left until now. These fully wooden buildings constructions are an interpretation of the viking ship constructions and not a copy of other european stone churches.
I used a 5 image bracket series three times for this picture, to eliminate the moving people inside.
Weinheim at sunset
Posted on Januar 7th, 2014
One year ago, me and my wife were invited to a wedding in the beautiful small town, called Weinheim near Frankfurt in Germany. Of course I was photographing this event :). At the day before, after our arrival, I saw this nice alley with the restaurant and I couldn’t resist to take a photo of it. The sun was allready deep in the sky and send her colorful light to this scenery.
I took a bracked series of 3 images with 2EV steps, for this hdr shot.
Deep in the sky with the Pleiades
Posted on Januar 6th, 2014
The last time, when I was going to get some deepsky images with my Astrotrac, I turned my lens to the Pleiades. You can see this star cluster by your eyes in the constellation of the bull. The Messier object 45 is 380 light years away from Earth.
I took this image by 6 shots of 110s at f/5.6 with ISO 3200 on 400mm FF, no telescope. For the noise cancellation I used Fitswork as stacking software. And next time, I will also take some darks to eliminate the static noise.
Exploring night shooting spot
Posted on Januar 5th, 2014
It’s allready two years ago as we had the idea of shooting some starscapes in the alps. It should go nearly three weeks until we had some images with stars from this location at Tschappina, but step by step.
The temperature on this image was below -20°C and I forgott my wind jacket at home. I used 4 layers of sweater, luckily there was no wind. I shoot this image right after the sun was down but to late to see the moon rising over the mountains.
Because it was so damn cold, we drove back to the valley, eating something and getting a jacket for the foolish photographer. We want to come back, when it’s dark enough to get this exciting sceenery at night. Well, as you can see the weather was the best you can get, at this moment, but after we came back, the fog was cover all what you can see. We walked two hours up to the peak, but the fog was getting thicker and thicker. So we had to go back, teeth grinding, without any nightshots, only with cold hands.
How’s everything begun
Posted on Januar 4th, 2014
After I saw some breathtaking night images, not the everyone known noisy images, no some very clean colorful starscapes, I was infected. This is what I want to do. Unfortunately nobody knows how to take this kind of images, because the guy doesn’t tell anyone how to do this.
That makes me curious and my ambition was awoken. I was made some experiments and going out nightly and I found a way to make better nightshots. Now it was time to improve the technique. After I had more knowledge I was going to more interesting landscapes, like mountains. I was testing other hardware, bodies and lenses. Until it was possible to me, to make night photos in the best possible quality I known.
But this image is the very first shot a took it. It was a bright cloudless full moon night. I shot 24 images for this picture, but I used only 8 of them for this work. It’s amazing what I can do know, after so much learning of post processing in the last few years.
St. Peters Church
Posted on Januar 3rd, 2014
Some weeks ago, I showed you the same church from the inner part. Now I have a nightshot of the outside view for you. It was at my last stay in Vienna short before christmas. That’s the reason for the big light in the upper left corner. I took this shot during my nightly photowalk through the old part of the city. You know how many people there are during the day, stressed for the last gifts for christmas? You can’t get a nice shot of the city without hunderts of people on the image, but going at night, especially on sunday night…
This is a HDR image made of 3 images bracket series, with Photomatix, Photoshop, Topaz Adjust and Lightroom.
Huettwilersee
Posted on Januar 2nd, 2014
After all these rainy and foggy days without snow, at least in our region, I need a view to more sun. It’s not the hot summer day, but a more friendly late winter day. It was a nice walk around this small lake and I could get some images.
Each time I was walking without a camera on me and see some phantastic lightings, I think to me, why I didn’t took the cam with me and my wife, on the other side, is pleased to see me without a lens.
The moon clock
Posted on Januar 1st, 2014
Something’s wrong with the clock on the picture. I can see the shadow of the bar, but it doesn’t show the right time. I rechecked it with the EXIF datas, but I can’t help me, the shown time is wrong.
Maybe it’s because the earth axis has moved or the global warming is the reason. Probably the medieval people couldn’t build exactly working watches, yes this must be the solution. We here in modern times have more knowledge and wisdom. Well good to living in the most important watch building country, Switzerland!
The knowledge about time was placed in my cradle.
