Photo of the week #16 (w33): Karting

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As I said, I try to do more sports. This Monday I was karting with kollegues of mine and brought my camera along. I tried for the forst time to capture the moving carts by moving the camera so that the kart is always centered. This gives a blurred touch to the background. It’s not a bokeh blur that we are used to have using small aperture in makro or portrait photography but a more swishy blur. The experience was good but I still have to practice…

Photo of the week #15 (w32):Balloons

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Well, this was ballons flying into the night sky with some firework (Wunderkerzen) attached. Looks a bit psychadelic but I thought it is good anyway. Cheers!

Photo of the week #14 (w31): The “Alex” of Berlin, Alexanderplatz

The “Alex” of Berlin, Alexanderplatz, ursprünglich hochgeladen von martin zeile photography

The “Alex” of Berlin, Alexanderplatz Sketch, ursprünglich hochgeladen von martin zeile photography

 

A HDR of the “Alex” on Alexanderplatz in Berlin, Germany by night. Exposures -2, 0, +2. Exposure times were about 5 to 30 secs, f/5,6 tripod mounted, shot from a distance of a few hundred meters with 300mm zoom. The Blowout at the bottom of the sphere was intentional to give the impression of very bright light Acutally, this image was publicated in a scientific article covering the subject of city lighting which was presented at the CORP 2007, Vienna.
The other image is the same picture but processed with a “pencil sketch” filter and inverted.

Buddleia (butterfly bush): Zoom experiment

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I tried this time something I saw recently to give this organary flower photo a more sophisticated touch.
I used my Tamron 28-300 macro zoom on a tripod (vibration control turned off). I made this one in the early evening with ISO 100 and 4 seconds exposure (f/22). The first 2 or so seconds I did nothing. the last to I slowly zoomed in, beginning at around 50 to 60 mm up to 150 or so. I needed a few tries but finally i got what I wanted and what you see in the two pictures above - a shallow glow-like halo around the flower. I did not try it the other way (to zoom out) as it comes to my mind right now, but for sure I will.
The black background was achieved by a black shirt hanging on my kitchen door in 50-75 cm distance, as simple as that is the small “home studio”.
I hope this encourages you out there to try this as well.

’till next time….

 

 

buddleia / butterfly bush zoom experiment 2, ursprünglich hochgeladen von martin zeile photography

Photo of the week #13 (w30):Magdeburg: monument with dove

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Once more I took a stroll to the elbe river in Magdeburg and did shoto the monument, from which I already posted a HDR with a dove atop. It gives a more “alive” touch to this old stone structure. As well the weather was ideal for shooting this one in the late afternoon.

Photo of the week #12 (KW29): Magedeburg Tunnel

Magedeburg Tunnel, ursprünglich hochgeladen von martin zeile photography

Racing through city nights…what a dream. Well, I wasn’t racing, I was driving at about 50 to 55 kph (35 mph) with my camera on the dashboard (image stabi activated) and was thinking how it would look like to shoot a picture right now. Done as thought, entering a tunnel aperture to maximum and fire! Half a second exposure…this picture turned out.

Fire bugs!!!

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While walking my dog I came across a tree with a lot of these red bugs flocking together. As I found out these are firebugs (in german Feuerkäfer oder Feuerwanze) which are quite common as well in big numbers. THe last days when I did not had my camera at hand, I saw a about 200 to 400 in a half-ball like conglomerat. Well theseare only few but I got a quite crisp picture, so I thought I share it anyway.

Wednesday photo blowout #2: high dynamic range imaging (HDR) and depth of field imaging (DOF)

Check my newest photo blowout of HDR and DOF here or click on the in Pages at the right side of the screen.

Wednesday photo blowout #1: Flowers

This week I released my first “Wednesday photo blowout”. It’s all about flowers. You can find it on the right under: Pages - Wednesday photo blowouts or here.

On that page, I will release multiple images to one topic on an iregular basis - as they come. Check it out! If you could leave a comment I would highly appreciate it.

Photo of the week #11 (KW28) another double feature: Skateboarder

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Skater2Original, ursprünglich hochgeladen von martin zeile photography

Well I blog this a little earlier, because I don’t know if I will find the time next week.
As I said, I tried to get a little more in sports photography lately. Therefore I was looking for less “still life” sports but real action.
I saw a bunch of skateboarders this Monday and asked if I could take some shots while practicing jumps. Look what turned out…

Photo taken at the river Elbe in Magdeburg, Germany with Conan EOS 40D and wide-angle Lns 17-55mm f/2.8 stopped down two steps at about 40mm at ISO 400 (if I remember it right or was it 100?).