Photography
So many of them...
And here are even more. And I have some more on my computer. Today was a great day for taking pictures, but now I have to postprocess them and decide which ones to keep. Deleting pictures no work that I like to do... Clicking on "Vom Laufwerk löschen" is such a hard decision.
Hier sind ein paar Fotos aus Neustift und Umgebung.
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Trying something new:
No Ansel Adams yet...
Today I finally got my new Canon 50mm f/1.4 lens and I like it 
With the 1.6x crop factor on my 350D it is just perfect for taking portraits in low light conditions.
Moritz wants to show everybody how much he likes Algebra:
(he has explicitly requested that I put this photo here)
BTW: The book which he holds is "Algebra" by Serge Lang of which I got a copy just days ago. Though it is far to extensive for my curent course in Algebra, I think it is a good book to have for reference and further study.
We had some wonderful weather last week, so I just had to get out an run around with the camera.
The best of the outcome is in this flickr set. Some, like the photo above, are also available framed over at DeviantArt.
Whenever I heard peaple saying that they always shoot images (with their DLSR) in RAW mode (meaning to save the original data from the sensor instead of a processed JPEG), because it gives them so much more choice, I thought that they were just needlessy sponsering the memory card industry. After all - I thought - the bit additional control aver white-balance and exposure-correction must only be relevant to professionals. I have been wrong. About two weeks ago I started to save the raw file in addition the the jpeg and was quite astonished how much more flexibility one gets from the additional date in the raw file. Granted, it is by far more work to process the raw file than it is to simply do the levels on the jpeg, but the outcome is just way better. Tip for Linux users: Try the GIMP/ufraw/dcraw combination.
Posted this pictures yesterday evening and was overwhelmed by the response to it when I logged in this morning. 10 comments, 7 favs, 130 views and 4 persons who decided that I'm worth being watched.
Though I take most of my flower-photos just for recreational (while studying or working it is nice to have a break and go into the garden with the camera) and learning (technics and composition) purposes, it is good to know that this pictures also make somebody else smile.
Back to photography: Here are some guidelines and basic rules about composing your photographs. Nothing spectacular, but a good basic introduction worth reading.
I am spending quite a lot of my time travelling through the global net. Amogst a lot of rubish I there are a lot of very good/interesting/informative/funny sites and my bookmarks are growing by the day. So I thought I might as well share them with you. This is planned to be a more or less daily feature. To get only the Links of the Day, go to the category listing or subscribe to the RSS feed.
I am starting this series with an excellent article by ArsTechnica: Editing your digital images without the mystery. This article/tutorial covers the basics of enhancing digital photos:
We'll cover a number of goals like adjusting contrast, warming imagesup and reducing noise from shadows in a more accurate and controlledway. Then we'll get into advanced stuff like masking but all explainedin an almost-too friendly, "why are you touching my arm?" sort of way.
The article does not cover photo manipulation, but only the stuff most good digital photographers do with most of their images.