Jul 2008
Flickr Favorites Week Till 30. July 08
Summary: It’s Wednesday again. So here they are once again: my new favorites from Flickr for this week. A total of 23 new favorites this week and my new shots this week, too.-----Pictures after the jump----- Lesen Sie mehr...
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New Tripod
25/Jul/08 19:15 Filed in: Hardware
Summary: A bit about my hunt for a new tripod. Lesen Sie mehr...
Flickr Favorites Week Till 23. July 08
Summary: It’s Wednesday again. So here they are once again: my new favorites from Flickr for this week. A total of 25 new favorites this week and my new shots this week, too.-----Pictures after the jump----- Lesen Sie mehr...
New Photo slideshows
21/Jul/08 16:10 Filed in: Photo | Organizational
Link to this image on Flickr
I spent the whole of yesterday evening processing and editing the pictures I had taken during the day. My workflow usually consists of looking at all pictures while the rest is still importing to get a first overview over what pictures I have and about the average quality of the pictures. Afterwards I go thorugh the pictures a second time and give ratings to the pictures I like best - 5 stars to those that are pretty perfect in every regard, 4 for quality pics that are sharp and everything but somehow are missing „something“ and 3 stars for pictures I like but do not love. The rest does not get a rating, indicationg that they are not worth publishing but not so bad as to delete them. This time I decided to do the processing while I was rating the pictures which took me a pretty long time even though I only edited pics that got a rating and only did very basic editing on most of them. But after a few hours I was finished and this morning I decided to split the pictures into two slideshows: one with pictures that got 4 or 5 stars and one with pictures that got a rating (so all with 3, 4, or 5 stars).
You can find the shorter slideshow (even that has 140 pic or so) by clicking here.
The long version can be accessed via this link.
I hope you ejoy the pictures and feel free to leave me a comment here in the blog post or via email
I will also upload the best pictures to Flickr in the next weeks.Teaser: A lot of new pics
20/Jul/08 22:22 Filed in: Photo
Just a small teaser photo. I spent the day in the botanical garden in Frankfurt and took loads of photos (over 750). I have already gone thorugh them and edited a lot of the and I am left with 345 I want to show off - but I am still debating the best way to do that, so it’ll be a few days till I do post a slideshow (or several).
iPhone Wallpaper
18/Jul/08 23:16 Filed in: Photo
On my old site I had a photo album containing pictures already resized for the use as wallpapers on the iPhone that I had created for my personal use and then decided to share with other users. This post on the german photosite photoappar.at reminded me that I wanted to update my selection and also post them on this site, since I will not be updating the old site.
So now you can find some of my favorite photos in portrait orientation in a separate photo gallery, already resized for the use as a background on the iphone. You can download them for free but all rights remain with me - that’s also why I added a little watermark to them but that is very discreet, so it won’t get in the way of viewing the picture. In total there are 58 pictures, so a lot to choose from. I hope you’ll enjoy them.
Additionally, you can download all of them from here.
Presenting a photo to its best advantage
Summary: Last week in my entry „make it POP“ I spoke about selective coloring as a way to make your subject stand out more. While browing my photos from the trip to the Berlin Zoo I saw another picture that I thought would benefit from selective coloring. As you can see (if you look closely), there is a reptile in that tree looking directly into the camera. The problem? Nobody will be able to see him hiding in that tree because he has the same coloring as the leaves around him! Click on „Read more“ to find out what I was able to do to improve this shot. Lesen Sie mehr...
Flickr Favorites Week Till 16.07.08
Summary: It’s Wednesday again. So here they are once again: my new favorites from Flickr for this week. A total of 58 new favorites this week and my new shots this week, too.-----Pictures after the jump----- Lesen Sie mehr...
Make it POP
Summary: A short exploration into the reasons why sometimes selective coloring will give you better results and also an explanation on how you can use this simple technique. Be sure to check it out to see the full before and after shots. Lesen Sie mehr...
Flickr Favorites Week Till 09.07.08
09/Jul/08 14:26 Filed in: Flickr
Summary: It’s Wednesday again. So here they are once again: my new favorites from Flickr for this week. A total of 56 new favorites this week and a lot of animal and landscape shots this week, too.-----Pictures after the jump----- Lesen Sie mehr...
Taking out unwanted objects
Berlin Cathedral
Flickr link
Summary: Do you know those awesome architectural pictures you have - which would be really awesome if it weren’t for some object taking away from their beauty? Sounds familiar, right? But what to do about them? You can’t just go to the people using the crane and ask them to remove the crane for a minute... (if you DO go out and try it, please tell me about your results
).I don’t know how you got rid of them during the film days but I do know how you can get rid of them in the digital age. Lesen Sie mehr...
Trip to the Zoo in Berlin
Close up of an Orang-Utan
Flickr Link
Summary: In my last post I shortly mentioned that I was in Berlin for a two-day trip last week. One of these two days was pent in the Berlin Zoo, which is has the most types of different animals in the world (according to their website) and is the oldest zoo in Germany. Find out more about my trip and the pictures I took by clicking „Read More“. Lesen Sie mehr...
Flickr Favorites Week Till 02.07.08
04/Jul/08 14:01 Filed in: Flickr
Summary: Some of you might remember that I used to do a post with my favorites from Zooomr and DeviantART each week. I got out of the habit because I didn’t have the time for it but I want to try this again - but this time with the favorites from Flickr. Below you see my favorites from the last week - starting with the first one, going all the way to my most recent favorite. All of them provide the links to the pictures on Flickr - so if you like some of the shots, head over to Flickr and leave those guys and gals some comments or favorite their pictures, too.-----Pictures after the jump----- Lesen Sie mehr...