Let me show you my photographic work
On March 19th and 20th, I got a chance to participate in an exhibition on the color „Red“ in Lohra (Hesse, Germany).
I presented three images:
Bildsymphonie & friends „R O T“:
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The exhibition took place in a carpenter’s workshop giving me a chance to shoot some impressions of the tools and machinery as well:
The exchange with the co-artists and visitors was great after all this time of being artistically locked-in.
Don’t we all know this: You quickly take a snapshot on the beach with a perfect situation, beautiful colors and a funny face that you will never be able to reproduce. 🙁
Only later, you see that you did not properly align your camera and the horizon is not really „horizontal“ as it should be.
You can easily check the tilt angle using the added helper lines.
Now, being old-fashioned, you could open the image in photoshop, copy the layer, select the main motive, cut it out, copy it to the clipboard, rotate the background layer, insert the cut out main motive again, adjust the missing parts with the repair brush and save the image again…
However, there is a much easier way: the lens correction filter (German: „Objektivkorrektur“).
2. Select the „Level“ tool on the left.
3. Draw a line across a truly horizontal part of your image.
4. Click OK.
Note aside: Alternatively, you can also use the Ruler tool with Straighten layer.
Only the blank edges now need to be filled or cut away. I want to fill them using the Repair tool.
5. Select the Repair tool on the left.
6. Use the brush to draw in the areas to be repaired.
Photoshop will fill the missing bits with matching content.
The result is stunning… in less than 5 minutes‘ work.
Your holiday snap is perfectly in shape now and you can continue to relax. 😀
These days I experimented with a new setup using my old analog lens on an adjustable macro extension.
I started to shoot what I had available on my desk and thus picked a red pencil. These pictures were the result.
Your first impression was slightly different, even X-rated, wasn’t it? 😉
Here’s the pencil from another angle. Just to prove my point. 😉
I really liked the optical illusion created by a super closeup of such an everyday item.
What do you think?
By the way, here’s what the retro setup looked like:
In September, our local photo group „Fotofreunde Herborn aka. DieFotoMafia“ held a photo competition on the subject „Eyes“. As my 6-year-old daughter as my usual favorite model did not show too much motivation this time, I thought of an alternative. As „eyes“ also occur on dice and the German word for the grease drops on a soup etc. is „Fettaugen“ („fat eyes“), I improvised and turned a champagne bowl, some vegetable oil, water, syrup and two dice into my setup for the shot, and lit it with my mobile’s torch.
The result was stunning, I think, and it turned out at position three in the competition. I am quite pleased with this result.
These days, my family, some friends and I went exploring the fairy tale hike „Little Roothaar“ near Bad Laasphe. Apart from the lovingly prepared stations for the kids, I encountered some of the minute beauties next to the footpaths. They were please to model for some shots and the outcome was quite pleasant, I think.
This month’s topic of my group of co-photographers was „clouds“ so I browsed through my archive to find that I have already shot various images of clouds in all sorts of contexts over the years.
What do you think?
Over the last couple of years, I kept shooting a similar setup whenever we went for the final night picknick on the beach. This year was no different and the picknick on the beach of the German Baltic Sea in July resulted in this:
In previous years, these shots looked „same, same, but different“…
What do you think?
As usual, some photo friends went on a walk on April 1. This time, we chose to look for motives in the historic park of the VITOS clinics. The weather was fine this time. Unlike our previous attempt to shoot there last winter. This time, I was able to get quite a few nice shots of the architecture, the plants, and the historic cemeteries.
Recently, a couple of photo friends and I went on a photowalk in the historic town of Wetzlar (Germany). The sky was overcast, the snow had almost fully melted and an almost constant drizzle lowered our expectations of good shots to a minimum. However, I accepted the bad lighting and weather as a challenge and here’s what came out:
I think, they came out not too bad at all. What do you think?
These days, around Halloween, when it is getting darker, our little town of Herborn lends itself for an eery tour and our municipal marketing provides these tours, telling tall tales and spooky stories from the past while they go (only in German).
I was asked to take some pictures for later marketing of these tours and joined the guide last week.
However, the light and some settings were quite challenging as I did not have a chance to „stage“ any scenes but had to shoot them while the tour was running. Thus, I had to take what I could get and add some spookyness later, partially decreasing the saturation and sharpness and adjusting other bits and pieces in Lightroom.
Here are my highlights:
