Parade der Kulturen: Madagascar

I want to show that I am not partial to women, so here a photo of a drummer boy from Madagascar:


Here the partially desaturated version (which I think is my favourite):


In sepia:


and black and white:


Which one do you like best after all?

Sore Throat

And that's how that feels:

Colour-less

Last Sunday, I used my friend's bridge camera, a Canon Powershot, for a little experiment: His camera has the option of selecting one colour while focussing and in the picture, just this one colour will show while all the others appear b/w. The effect is a bit spooky, especially on flowers I think:

One ring to love them all

If you position a ring in an open book and the light comes from the perfect angle and with the right intensity, it casts a heart shaped shadow. This is my first attempt and yes, I blame the soft sunlight as well for results that are far from crystal clear...

Luminale VI

Firefighters - people who fight fire or those who fight with fire? Make up your mind now...

Experiments with fountains

Warning: Today's pictures contain theory!
Don't be scared, it's actually not that bad, I'm just showing one picture that was taken with a high and one with a low shutter speed plus ND-filters.

1/100 s:



2 s:

Colour Study

If you figure out what exactly this is, you can make a wish .. not to me, to the universe ;-)


PS: It is meant to be like that even though it was a lucky accident..

Star-Gazing

I hung up a slice of a star fruit at my window, took a picture and then did a few things to the background. The result is not exactly what I was going for but I will get there.

Ewwwww

A fungus colony? No! Rotten spinach? No! Moss? No, what you can see here is a ball of Play-doh that I had needed for a jewellery project a while ago and then forgotten in a drawer. Now today while cleaning up I came across this treasure in its new appearance ;-)

Refraction

This is my version of a refraction picture - a little fork seen through an acrylic roller. Was too lazy to change lenses when I saw that, so I used my 18-55 mm instead of the macro lens.

Light Show

What you can see here is the famous (well..) Frankfurt Museumsufer at night.

First the way you would normally see it if you don't squint:


And then, if you do squint, you will see nothing but little light circles and stripes:

Augenblick

I love the combination of light eyes and dark hair. And even though you can see only one light green eye, a few lashes (due to the wide aperture) and part of an eyebrow, you get an idea of the hair colour: as dark brown as lashes and brows.

Self-portrait

Nothing more to say, is there?

What's wrong with that one?*

This is one of the photos I took of London Eye while waiting for the New Year's fireworks to begin. One out of many - you can take a lot of pictures during a 9-hour-wait.
The effect results from slowly zooming in, from 18 to 55mm.

*And no, there is nothing wrong with it as R. assumed, it is supposed to be like that ;-)

A very special tree

That is a tree in the park near my place and apparently, it grows quite peculiar fruits ;-)
My second successful multiplicity picture, this one being my first.

My friend C., an ever so patient model of mine, the best one a would-be-photographer can have. I can even chase her up trees and ladders (and that with her fear of heights), she never gets tired and even suggests more adventurous setups whenever I come up with an idea.

Depth of field

In these two photos it is visible how the aperture influences the depth of field. The main motive - the blossom - is equally sharp in both but while the background still shows in the first picture, it is almost completely blurred in the second one.

aperture f20


aperture f5.6

Like Ice In The Sunshine...

This is another picture of my "Splash"-series where 11 pictures of originally 140 and two hours work were keepers. I quite like this one, too but want to point out that it was my first attempt in the matter.


Soundtrack to the picture.

Face off

Another zooming in and out with long exposure experiment by the highway. Humans can look quite inhuman that way ;-)

Orchestral Experiments in the Dark

Zoomed "into" a chocolate cheesecake, with long exposure.