Waterfall
Posted on Dezember 7th, 2014
I was on my first journey with a DSLR, we just left the Yosemite Nationalpark and I saw at the border of the road some tourists hanging around.
And what should you do, if tourists are looking at something? Right, hold out, pick up your camera and explore the situation. There were two chinese guys with big cameras and large camera bags. They mounted their gear on tripods and put some large sqare filters in front of their lenses, as I now know it was a Lee filterset and on the other side of the street was a bored chinese girl waiting 
I saw what they where shooting, a waterfall. And probably they want to have soft water. Hmmm, I already then knew how to do that too. I mounted my ND Filter, put my camera on my mini tripod, yes in the ancient time I wasn’t carrying a good tripod, I set my camera in AV mode und choose f/22 as the aperture. E voilà a soft looking waterfall and as I think not so bad, for a midday shot.
Yosemite
Posted on Oktober 24th, 2014
Long long ago, with my first DSLR in my hands, I was visiting the Yosemite Nationalpark. It was not my first visit there, the first time was in 1990, far away from any digital photo cameras, therefore I used an SLR without D.
But last time, I had a DSLR with me and no knowledge about photography. So I’ve got only a few photos which I like it. After then I learned so much about it, I think I should go for another trip to doing the images right Hmmm… sounds good 
The Wolf
Posted on Oktober 1st, 2014
At the beginning of my obsession with the DSLR, we made a trip through the USA. Therefore I buyed a better camera, than the small, old point’n’shoot, which I used before. Our journey leads us also through the Yellowstone Nationalpark.
At the second day on our drive through the Yellowstone, I discovered some parked cars at the roadside. My motto is: Are there some tourists on the wayside, stop and take a sight!
So also this time, and what a luck! There was a wolf coming out of the coppice and settled down right on the other roadside, as if there were no humans there. I took my camera and crawled behind the rear car and hold on it with my tele lens. Full format sized a wild wolf in the box – WOW!
A bit later on the same day, I drove on a parking lot, because there were a whole pack of tourists. All of them in a row and they were watching through some giant binoculars, planted on tripods.
A friendly guy told me, there was a wolf faraway between the bushes and sometimes it stuck up the head and you can see it. I was allowed to take a watch through and really I could recoginze a pair of ears.
With a wide smile I walked back to the car, if they had known…
Taxi Taxi
Posted on September 22nd, 2014
Hands up, who was at New York once? There are unbelievable many taxies, the bigger part of the cars are yellow.
And it’s easy to see, all the clichés about the taxis in New York are true. Once somebody told, if you throw a stone up in the air, in New York City, then most likely the stone will hit a taxi when it comes down. Well, this comparison is not so far from the reality.
But if you’ll find a free cab if you need one, this is a totally other story.
The wave
Posted on April 30th, 2014
If you are near Las Vegas, you should go to the small State Park called “Valley of Fire”. You will find beautiful stone formations. This specific one is called “The Wave”. Unfortunately I was too early in the park and the sun was high in the sky. The better time will be short before sunset, when the sun brings more color and longer shadows to the stones.
It is a smaller State Park and not a National Park, but the landscape is really awesome! Here is the official homepage: http://parks.nv.gov/parks/valley-of-fire-state-park/
Grand Teton
Posted on Februar 25th, 2014
On our last journey thru the USA, we visited the Yellowstone National Park and drove along south. On the way to Jackson Hole you can see the impressive mountains of the Grand Teton. You can stop at a stight seeing place and enjoy this massiv mountain front. I made this panorama picture from 8 shots and it shows nearly 180 degree. And because I made this picture at my very beginning of my photo adventure phase, I didn’t stay until the sun goes down, for better a lightning. But maybe this was better for my marriage
Watch this image in full resolution!
The Brooklyn Bridge
Posted on Februar 10th, 2014
This is an interesting view of the Brooklyn Bridge in New York. It’s only me and the bridge… and about 2000 tourists on the bridge. This was the only angle without any people on it. Next time I will go early in the morning for the sunrise and then… maybe are there all the other photographers with the same silly idea But hey, I will try it – promised!
A cloudy holiday
Posted on Februar 2nd, 2014
It was on my first journey with my DSLR and I made so many things wrong. It seems I had to do this journey through the US again to fix the mistakes I have done
I was not so happy on this day with the weather. After I woke up and watched out of the window, I saw it was snowing, in May near Las Vegas! Hell I wasn’t prepared for this cold temperatures. But well, the weather was bad but good for getting nice HDR images. Bad weather conditions are made for this kind of images. If you do normaly shots, you will get a nice white sky, but with a bracket series…
HDR panorama of Manhattan
Posted on Januar 9th, 2014
It tooks me a lot of works to do this. If you want to make some panoramas then you shoot several images with an overlapping range and stich it together with a panorama software. And if you want it more complex, then you shoot a bracket series for each image. Make an HDR of each series and stich it together.
But my HDR workflow ist different. Because after I used an HDR software I’m manually fix all the ugly parts with pieces from the original images. But hell, the stiching software are made every panorama different, they are no more congruent. So I have first to make 3 hdr images with manual corrections and stich it together at the end. But then you’ll have no more clean intersections. It was a bunch of work and I’m not really happy with the finish… btw. watch it in FULL resolution!
