Looking back: 2019’s favourite photos
Every year, for Christmas, I choose my favourite pictures taken that very year and create a calendar, that I give away to family and friends.
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Looking back: 2018’s favourite photos
For sure, pictures of Hamburg will pop up, and a wonderful hike (you can’t plan on the sun to just shine through the trees in the perfect angle).
Hot summer: cool cascades
A hot summer day, a cool location and a light camera-set: not the worst plan to spend a day off with a friend.
Exhibition: public space redefined
The Department for Public Appearances has been designing and realizing art projects and interventions in public spaces since 1995.
My iPhone: a handy camera
“The best camera is the one you…” – no need to finish this phrase, since it is a commonplace phrase amongst photographers. So just have fun with the gallery I created from my latest photos, I took with my iPhone 6.
Looking back: 2017’s favourite photos
I am sure, you’ve experienced that, too: sometimes, your hobby comes to an inexplicable halt. Sometimes completely, sometimes partially. Looking back into the year 2017, I did not find as many photos as in the previous years.
Looking back: 2016’s favourite photos
2016 has been a mixed year, both in gear and in activity. Gearwise, I got myself a Sony Alpha 6000. Activity-wise, there were three main events to remember
Theatre: editing “The Mousetrap”
Theatre photography is fascinating – especially if you can get onstage with the actors during a dress rehearsal: intriguing perspectives are the reward.
Munich: a Zebra in a WhiteBox
“WhiteBox” is a new artists’ studio community located in an art-oriented quarter in Munich. I documented the opening with vintage glass and a Sony A6000
Hamburg: a Zebra and a Nikon
“Choose just ONE lens with a fixed focal length and go discover a city”. A well-known advice I followed in Hamburg, using a vintage Zeiss Flektogon.
Looking back: 2015’s favourite photos
When I was looking back to my first “DSLR year” in 2014, I wrote: “so many experiences”. This still is true for 2015. Join me for a “photowalk” through the year gone by…
piccure+: lens correction at its best?
Piccure+ promises correction of motion blur & optical aberrations caused by lenses with never before seen quality – I put the software to the test.
Squeezerlens: a lens like a jello shot
Discovering the “Squeezerlens” is like a photographic jello shot: unexpected visual side effects combined with the “Vodka” of a russian Zeiss-replica.
Fall: a season for all senses
Fall is a season for all senses: misty mornings, sunny afternoons and early blue hours, with an unique quality of light and colors. It is a season rich with motives calling to be captured.
Amalgamum: going beyond constraints
How can you go beyond the constraints of a single picture and dissolve time, perspective, movement, form and even color? My project AMALGAMUM tries to achieve that…
Black Forest fall: foggy, sunny, pretty
Fall in the Black Forest is amazingly beautiful: leaves changing colors, vines lit by the October sun, foggy mornings slowly revealing the landscape…
Blood Moon: a rare & stunning experience
On September 28th, 2015, we could watch a rare astronomical event: a lunar eclipse, combined with a supermoon. They called it SuperBloodHarvestMoon…
Sunsets: turn around 180°, once
How good it sometimes feels to have the camera with you – especially, when the light becomes unexpectedly beautiful at sunset.
Back to analog: old stock film emulation
Emulating old stock film brings back the look of analog film into digital photography. Follow my tutorial on how to work with the Lightroom presets from VSCO.
Thumbs up: Sunsets & Lightroom 6
Don’t we all love sunsets? Browsing my photo-library, I discovered some old ones and added a few new ones exploring the new tools in Lightroom 6
Painting with the camera
The more experience I collect with Lightroom, the more I realize, how much I’m able to express what I call “painting with the camera”.
Looking back: 2014’s favourite photos
Looking back to my photographic year 2014 – full of new experiences, so much learned…
Winter storm: (sort of) High-Key editing
Are High-Key and snow a good combination? As for my taste, I guess so: upon editing pictures I took in winterly Allgäu, I immediately went for that look.
Plugins & presets: stylizing a photo
Presets and plugins in Lightroom and Photoshop offer a wide variety to stylize your photos. Here are my experiences using a real-world example.
Food photography: creating yummy looks
Chefs make an art of arranging their food perfectly – food photography makes an art of capturing this. My first steps in that area gave me plenty to learn.
Vienna: color or black&white?
Color or black&white? High-Key or Low-Key? Which look should I choose for my photo? With pictures I took in Vienna, it was hard to decide.
November: fighting the blues
Days are short, morning mists persist and the sun hides: it’s time to fight the November blues with some summerly flower-pictures!
Myrafälle: a mystical place
Vienna is one of my favourite cities in the world. Highlight of my last visit was a trip to a mystical place outside the city: the “Myrafälle”
Proud: 500px-jury chose my photo
The acclaimed photo-community 500px chose one of my photos to be amongst the winners in a contest looking for the best pictures taken with a mobile phone.
Supermoon: a chance taken
On Sept. 9th, 2014, I finally succeeded in capturing the super-moon after the disappointingly cloudy and unsuccessful Supermoon-day in August.
Supermoon: a chance missed
On Aug. 10th, 2014, Stuttgart waited for the supermoon to rise at 8.15 pm. Being a full moon and extremely close to the earth, it should present itself in full glory.
Lightroom: changing your perception
My first encounter with Lightroom was something like “too many knobs”… I just was so used to different image editing software from my Windows-years
Nightly Stuttgart: there ARE stars!
Freezing cold winter nights with a clear sky: I guess, most people hurry back to their warm homes. But not, if you just read how to take pictures of the night sky
To fish-eye, de-fish or wide-angle?
After calibrating my Samyang 8mm Fisheye, I went downtown Stuttgart to try it out for the first time. I thought, the new Art Museum would be a great subject
Samyang 8mm Fisheye
Exploring the new world of DSLR-photography also meant to decide, what lenses to use (and buy). One lens-type always fascinated me, but I never owned one: a fisheye.
iPhone: a good camera?
I never wanted to take pictures with my iPhone. That was in 2011. Then I took some and was surprised. Yes: it’s in no way a replacement for my DSLR, but why being stubborn and demonize the iPhone’s camera?
Heritage: about Venice & a Leica
I am extremely grateful for growing up in a family, where art has played an important role – be it music, theatre, fine art or photography.
Marleen Session Gallery
On June 8th 2014, my dear theatre colleague Marleen agreed to stand in for my first “photo-shoot” – a spontaneous idea and completely unplanned.
The Marleen Session
On June 8th 2014, my dear theatre colleague Marleen agreed to model for my first “photo-shoot” – a spontaneous idea and completely unplanned.
About Me
Based in Stuttgart, Germany.
Love to be creative.
Try to look over the rim of my teacup. Try to learn from your creativity & expertise. Love the exchange – don’t hesitate to get in touch!
