Month: November 2017

art, landscape, photography, travel, world

Monochrome Madness 4-32

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 Bretagne, France FX 14mm, f8, 30sec, ISO 400

This is my contribution to Monochrome Madness organized by Leanne Cole. Look at here site on Thursday (Australian time), to see many more monochrome images created by many other talented photographers from all over the world.

I’d also encourage you to participate. The conditions are  published in each of her Monochrome Madness posts.

Take care!

Computer, software, Windows

Luminar 2018

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Today I have some news on Luminar for you: A new version is available

First of all, MacPhun is about to change the company name to Skylum.

Luminar is the the second software product available not only for Mac, but also for Windows. There are demo versions available for a 14 day full functional test period.

Luminar is a raw developer as well as a non-destructive image editing software.

Currently, you can get with a special “Black Friday” discount ’til Nov. 30th: 30% off!!!

Take care!

 

 

 

landscape, nature, seasons, travel

In the forest after the rain started

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Monochromia

Here in Germany we have a saying “Steter Tropfen holen den Stein” (~ constant dripping wears away the stone), but also “der Tropfen, der das Fass zum überlaufen bringt” (~ the drop that makes the barrel overflowing).

Same is, when rain falls on the forest ground. First, the rain will be soaked. The longer the rain lasts, the more water won’t be soaked. Instead, it searches a way to escape. So, the water comes back to skylight at a tiny, but growing, spring.

More of my images can be seen at my own blog.

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art, landscape, photography, travel, world

Monochrome Madness 4-31

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This is my contribution to Monochrome Madness organized by Leanne Cole. Look at here site on Thursday (Australian time), to see many more monochrome images created by many other talented photographers from all over the world.

I’d also encourage you to participate. The conditions are  published in each of her Monochrome Madness posts.

Take care!

landscape, nature, photography, seasons, travel, world

Travel Tuesday: Sunset at low tide

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It’s mid November. So, sunrise is quite late (at about 8). Therefore sunset is early (at about 5). Over the next 5 weeks the days will shrink further.

Additionally, the sky is overacted by a thick dark-grey layer of clouds and it’s raining very much. Most of the trees don’t have leaves anymore.

That’s, why I need some some colors. I hope you like this sunset as a reminder to the past summer.

Take care!

 

art, landscape, nature, photography, plants, travel, world

Monochrome Madness 4-30

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This is my contribution to Monochrome Madness organized by Leanne Cole. Look at here site on Thursday (Australian time), to see many more monochrome images created by many other talented photographers from all over the world.

I’d also encourage you to participate. The conditions are  published in each of her Monochrome Madness posts.

Take care!

art, flowers, macro, nature, photography

Monochrome Madness 4-29

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Today’s image isn’t taken with a common camera lens. Instead, it’s taken with a projector lens (slide projector) made by Meyer Optik located in Görlitz (then G.D.R, now FRG): Pentacon 100/2.8. It’s a complete manual lens: fixed aperture of f/2.8, fixed length of 100mm, manual focus by screwing the front-lens in and out. The lens holder can be removed, so the length of the tube limits the minimum distance.

Currently I don’t have much time, so I was able to spend only a few minutes for testing the lens. But, I’m looking forward to test it extensive soon. It’s considered as a bokeh monster.

The lens module sticks inside a tube. Inside the tube you can move it forward and backwards and you can screw it in and out for focussing. But, you can also pull it out of the tube. On the backside of the tube (opposite to the lens module) one has attached a minimum part of a bayonet. So, I can mount it on front of my camera. Although, I don’t have an aperture inside the lens and the focussing has to be done manually, I can use it quite normal. The light-meter works fine. Thus I can use my camera as always: in A Mode. Instead of dialing in an aperture, I have the fixed aperture of f/2.8 and the camera finds the correct shutter-speeds based on the ISO value.

Focussing is done by moving the lens module inside the tube. Now, the focus has to be fine tuned by modifying the distance between camera and subject.

This is my contribution to Monochrome Madness organized by Leanne Cole. Look at here site on Thursday (Australian time), to see many more monochrome images created by many other talented photographers from all over the world.

I’d also encourage you to participate. The conditions are  published in each of her Monochrome Madness posts.

Take care!