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silent night

markus — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 17:27:54 +0000

couple of days ago i felt the need to get out into the snow, though freezing cold – someone gotta test camera’s batteries anyhow 8) the planned short walk then took over 3 hours, back home past 2 in the morning..

my main goal of course has been our village’s castle, as it’s lights could give nice effects with lower fog, but unfortunately the fog wasn’t that low.. but with snow and all this light-pollution around here one can shoot at night nowadays at speeds nobody ever would have thought of couple of years ago!.. did i mention lately i actually *love* light-pollution? ;)

all done with bibble 5, just some tweaking of colors/whitebalance, no photoshop.

steaming sugar

markus — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 01:13:21 +0000

on my way home from a job the other day i simply couldn’t pass a big sugar refinery where there were just huge piles of steam towering up against the partly cloudy moon-lit sky.. unfortunately the steam was quite a bit less yet when i found my first spot to shoot, but still i thought it would be a nice test-drive for the nikon’s night-abilities which i omitted to test till now..

weinbergtrophy ’09

markus — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 22:12:31 +0000

some shots from a 5 hours mtb-race – not too far from home – actually planned on takin part myself, but weekends at this time of the year are rather packed.. :(

gone hikin’

markus — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 19:02:13 +0000

some shots of a day in the mountains back in july, climbing the peaks above zauchensee/salzburg.

it’s been a great day with ever changing light, and the d700 with 50/1.4 and 12-24/4 prove to be a nice combo for this ~6 hours hike.

zauchensee

attwenger @bisamberg

markus — Sun, 17 May 2009 23:25:59 +0000

just a handful of snapshots taken at and around a small concert of the legendary attwenger – taken place on the bisamberg, a hill next to vienna – on the area of the yet obsolete sender – maybe the last time to get that close to it as it’s rumored to be taken down soon..

don’t drink and drive.

markus — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 14:53:11 +0000

a slug’s fatal journey.

nightlights

markus — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 23:39:41 +0000

having had it planned for a while now, i finally made it out to shoot a little at night again.. put my shortest lenses on the two big canon-bodies, so i could play with one while the other was exposing – mostly bound to 30″ as i still don’t have any timer, nor a lockable cable-release with me :(

as most often i again used the lights of vienna, but also played a little with a flash and a flashlight.. all just gone through bibble for whitebalancing and minor tweaks..

long way – short trip

markus — Fri, 19 Oct 2007 20:45:00 +0000

some snapshots (to be taken literally) of a 10 day – including 2 days sitting in planes – trip to australia, sydney and canberra where we covered the world’s biggest 24hr-mtb-race .. great race, great country, way too little time..

all shot with a ricoh caplio r7 whose design still (though delivering poor file-quality) is my favorite for a compact/carry-along-camera, if ricoh ever built in a less noisy chip and an orientation-sensor i would not consider anything else anymore.. though having had mechanical issues with this current sample, it’s definitly *the* holiday-camera for me.

autumn quest

markus — Mon, 24 Sep 2007 07:01:35 +0000

on my search for vincent’s photos i stumbled across a folder dated quite exactly a year back.. it’s been a sunny autumn day and time for a little relaxing, so i grabbed a couple of lenses and climbed up the woods behind our house – as always being followed by our girl gizmo who loves such raids, coming with me no matter how far i go ..

bubbles

markus — Fri, 02 Feb 2007 15:33:31 +0000

for a current job, the layout of a folder, i had to shoot quickly arising tiny bubbles “in action” and to show one of those pics in full res i thought i’d try out zoomify.. so here we go, just click and pan or use the controls at the bottom:

this has been shot with the 24-70/2.8 (in macro position), and generally i used extension tubes to get close.. for lighting one flash (550ex) for the background (a blue garbage bag ;)) and one handheld right next to the lens to light the plastic where the bubbles came out which in turn lit the bubbles from below..
as usual, shot raw and developed with bibble, that zoomify-tool seems to have added a little more jpg-compression that i whished, but well.. maybe i’ll add a gallery with some of the other views i shot later on..