The handy man
Posted on Februar 12th, 2014
This was the night before the wedding of friends of mine. It was a mild spring night and we stayed outside of a restaurant in Weinheim, drinking, eating and were anticipating for the next day.
As a nightly photoshooter I could not resist to take some images of this pretty small town. At the background you can see the nearby church and at the top of the trees you see, it was not completly windless. What also cool is, there are not only this yellowish sodium vapor lamps and this gives the image more colors. It is a bracketing series of three with 2ev steps.
The Brooklyn Bridge
Posted on Februar 10th, 2014
This is an interesting view of the Brooklyn Bridge in New York. It’s only me and the bridge… and about 2000 tourists on the bridge. This was the only angle without any people on it. Next time I will go early in the morning for the sunrise and then… maybe are there all the other photographers with the same silly idea 
But hey, I will try it – promised!
Cafe Central
Posted on Februar 9th, 2014
On my nightly tour through Vienna I came to this impressive building. The Cafe Central was founded at 1876 and closed at the end of World War II. In the 1980’s was the building refurbished the the famous cafe has reopend in this building with the name “Palais Ferstel” again. It is another part in Vienna with history and if you visit this town go and get a coffee at Herrengasse 14.
Die neue Burg
Posted on Februar 5th, 2014
I don’t know why it’s called “The new castle”. I mean, I can imagine, but why not a visionary name? However this is one of the many awesome buildings in Vienna. And I shot this picture at night, without the whole tourists and all the traffic in front of it, except for a few cars. The hard part is this yellow light. There are nearly no other colors in the image and I don’t know how to correct it. A bit yellow is okay but it looks like yolk to me.
Schloss Belvedere
Posted on Januar 21st, 2014
Still in Vienna, it was a cloudy cold day were we watching the sightseeings of the city. It’s not easy to take images if the sky is only a white nothing. But if you take braketing series and go dark enough you can see the clouds in sky. This image looks much better with a structured sky than with a white background like the normal images will look like, without HDR. So I tell you, shoot everytime a bracketing series, you never know when you need some extra dynamic in your photos.
Homeland
Posted on Januar 19th, 2014
It was a cold winter day and short before the sun disappeared. And I was to the right time at the right place, to take this beautiful winter sunset. The sunset in cold winter days are not so colorful as in other seasons. But look at the wonderful pastel colors in the sky. Isn’t that awesome, isn’t it? So every season has its own charme, to get great images. You have just to do it!
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.
