kweide wonderland » river

Intruder

kweide — Mon, 08 Apr 2013 08:52:05 +0000

Well, nature can not be stopped. She holds out her fingers and will occupy their new space. Just watch and do not ask me to clone away that drought fingers of grass, coming in from left. That ARE the intruders :)

Olympus E-M5, M.Zuiko 12, ISO200 @ f16, 25 seconds, tripod, 3 ND filters stacked

The flow of water

kweide — Sun, 07 Apr 2013 17:57:17 +0000

Go to your local dealer and invest some small money into ND filter. 2x, 3x and 4x ND filter are best. I took them for my wide angel lens and was lucky enough to see that the filter size matches 3 other lenses as well :). If you are smart you will take larger diameter filters and use a step-down adapter ring :) Just a tip. Now stack them together and dial down your aperture to, lets say 16 or even 22. Mount your cam on a sturdy tripod and the next river is your landscape model. Best results are with very long exposure times. 15 to 30 seconds in my case. And do not forget to dial down your ISO to the lowest value ! And now have fun

Olympus E-M5, M.Zuiko 12 mm, 3 ND Filters stacked together, sturdy tripod, 2 second anti shock

Eisblume

kweide — Sun, 26 Feb 2012 10:19:31 +0000

What if you walk over the frozen river, it is early morning, the soft and pale sun just kissing the snowy ice. You are all alone and in the middle of the river when it suddenly happens. The ice cracks. Just a second, a heartbeat later you are 100% down into the cold icy water, the river tears you underneath the ice, far away from where you broke thru. No chance at all. No one there to help you. No one could hear your under water screaming, your fight against the hard ice, against the cold water tearing you more and more under the frozen ice mantle. No one could see your eyes so wide opened full of anxiety until the finger of death touches you, calming you down….

Hours later the tragedy is discovered by some skaters. Finding your body under the ice

Looking so full of peace and beauty. Eisblume…..

Both pictures are made of 6 layers, blended together. Starting material was done with: Olympus E-P3, ISO200, Summilux 25, F2, 1/80 second. No flash used here but some PP with simply opacity and mask adjustments…. have a try. One final word : The model is 100% healthy, she was never under the frozen ice of a river :)

Out for a walk

kweide — Wed, 15 Feb 2012 07:30:15 +0000

Out for a walk. Even in very cold weather. Take your “always with you camera” with your “walk around lens” on it it and simply do it. Go and look for your pictures.

In this picture you see a frozen river which was last time frozen 15 years ago. I went onto the ice and had some sweet hours trying NOT to crash on that slippery ice. That was fun ! I did it in the early morning, so just a few other persons were on ice too. When i left, the river was crowed with thousand and thousands of people.

Olympus E-P3, ISO 400, f6-3, 1/250 second, Zuiko 12 mm. No flash here. But manual exposure to get the right overall exposure settings.

Give me an “A”

kweide — Mon, 21 Nov 2011 09:17:57 +0000

From time to time it is helpful to recalibrate not only your monitor but your eyes as well. Too many beautiful girls and you are too fast used to their beauty and you will not recognize their special items. So go out into nature and snap a little trees, grass flowers. bees, ants, whatever you like

This is my contribution. nAture is A. It is a very welcome new world. so different in colors and it helps to rediscover the beauty of …. you know what i mean :).

Olympus E-P3, Zuiko 12-60SWD, 60 mm focal length, f6.3, 1/160 second, ISO 500