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Teide

kweide — Sun, 06 Jul 2014 09:56:41 +0000

If you ever have the chance to visit the island Teneriffe, do not miss Teide National Park. It is a fantastic vulcano landscape. Go there and if you are lucky, catching a slight cloudy day you have to pass the clouds to reach the top. Slow down in the cloud area and enjoy this spooky atmosphere. Just like i did. Wait for a while, for the best light, perhaps you will get the lucky kiss of the sun breaking thru the clouds… enjoy.

Again Olympus E-M1 + M. Zuiko 12-40 f2.8

Another …

kweide — Tue, 02 Apr 2013 06:32:50 +0000

Another spooky day in Tuscany starts. Foggy and with dimly light. Just ok for vampires or werewolfs :) Just a joke. The fog lifted and faded away within a few minutes and the sun was seen again. Birds singing their songs of spring. A beautiful day in Tuscany started.

Olympus E.M5, what else ?

The Dark side

kweide — Wed, 13 Feb 2013 12:24:03 +0000

No, this is not inspired by Resident Evil, no, this is just a try to visualize the Dark Side, the other side beyond beauty. It is easy to do, just a massive desaturation of the skin, darken eyes, background, adding a new color styled layer, blending this and that. You can do an Internet search on “Dark Art” to find a DIY instruction as well or on Youtube. There a quite a lot of videos on that theme. Try it. Its fun. But be warned: Your model may take the stick and beat you for what you are doing. So ask her first !

Olympus E-M5, ISO200, M.Zuiko 45mm @ f1.8, 1/160 second and one snooted flash on a lightstand.

Eyes

kweide — Sun, 18 Mar 2012 10:13:29 +0000

Eyes from a special series i made, called “The other side”. Enjoy

Olympus E-5 + E-P3, various focal lengths and shutter speeds. Made from several layers, blended to get the needed look.

Spooky

kweide — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 18:31:34 +0000

Today you see a total different thing. My spooky forest. See these dark big trees, with its cold fingers up into the sky. See the light breaking thru the branches. Would you like having a walk thru my spooky forest ??

I can promise, you will enjoy it. The spooky forest does not exist. Just in my and your imagination. In reality it is a wonderful bright tree. See here:

How i did it ?? Easy. Just one shot with my infamous E-P3 and the miraculous Zuiko 12mm. In PP i made tree new copies of the original layer and blended them together with blending mode Multiply. Opacities adjusted per layer. Thru individual masks i removed sharp edges. The last was converting it into b&w and a little curves and levels. Add a little grain to it. Thats all about it. 5 minutes works.