Illuminated ways
Posted on Februar 5th, 2015
On the ground the illuminated way through the mountains and above us the illuminated way of the stars, the Milky Way.
I optimized and optimized allways the technique to get starscapes with visible landscapes. But this location under this conditions was a really hard piece of work. I shot this with my Canon 6D and a Samyang 14mm f/2.8. It was a moonless night a valley in the middle of the alps with narrow mountains around me and it was pitch dark.
For this image I took 4 shots. The first one was over 240 seconds with 800 ISO @ f/4 guided with an astronomical tracker. This brought me the beautiful sky. For the foreground without a smearing effect, I turned off the tracker and made a second shot with the same settings. But it was way too dark. Okay I need more light and I pushed up the ISOs to 1600 with 240 seconds, but it is still too dark. Well I thought, go to the limit and I shot a last one with 3200 ISO over 480 seconds! And I became a visible landscape, dark but visible.
It was really difficult to get a usable image under this conditions but I mastered it 
It took me about an hour to walk to this spot and more than a half hour to take this single image and another hour to post process it.
Sunrise at the mountain lake
Posted on Januar 31st, 2015
The early bird catches the worm or when the sky is burning.
It was realy the right decision to crouch out of the warm bed and go up to the lake for an exciting photo shooting. You may think this image is way to red but I was surprised by my self about the redness in the image on the camera with the auto white balance. I belief the white balance in my brain was too strong and I saw the landscape a bit less reddish as it was.
All the clouds above me were red and the brown and red tones of the autumn trees completed the red environment.
Sunrise at the mountain lake
Posted on Oktober 21st, 2014
There was only short time, but I used it and drove for 24 hours up to the mountains. I had a full programm, first go for hiking in the afternoon, taking photos at night, take a short nap and up again go for the sunrise to the lake.
Then back to home because I had a business meeting at noon. So I was really at the end of my power after these days. But I also had some awesome images taken. And I don’t regret all the stress at the weekend.
Therefore lean back and enjoy the stunning landscape while the sunrise at this beautiful lake in the swiss alps.
