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How to motion-blur

By Ingo, on May 25th, 2011%

Shooting at night with a fast lens is so much fun. I took this photograph with the same lens I talked about yesterday – the Canon 24mm f/1.4.

I didn’t have the tripod with me that night but I wanted to get a slight motion blur of the passing train. The rule of thumb I apply for motion blur is to shoot with the same shutter-speed than the moving subject is passing by in mph…hmmm – I hope you are very confused now because I would be. Here is what I mean:

I your subject moves with a speed of 20mph, you shoot it with a shutter-speed of 1/20th. You obviously need to guess the speed if you do not have a radar gun with you but that shouldn’t be too hard. The train in the photograph was not driving by in full-speed but was rather breaking to stop at the station.

Exif Info:

Camera: Canon EOS 5D Mark II
Exposure Time: 0.05s (1/20)
Aperture: f/2
ISO: 3200
Focal Length: 24mm

When the sky goes dark, brighten up and shoot

By Ingo, on May 13th, 2011%

This is an 8-exposure HDR of the Goldau train-station shot right before the sky turned black.

Exif Info:

Camera: Canon EOS 5D Mark II
Exposure Times: 1/5th – 25s
Aperture: f/10
ISO: 400
Focal Length: 20mm

Golden Hour at the Trainstation

By Ingo, on May 11th, 2011%

This was supposed to get published on May 10 but I somehow didn’t click the Publish button – bummer.

Getting really low can be an embarrassing experience – especially if you’re having your dog with you who gives you strange looks when you lie on the floor – but it provides a great perspective.

Bahnhof Arth-Goldau

By Ingo, on April 15th, 2011%

The train-station of my home-town has an important factor in the Swiss railway system as it connects the major routes from Basel/Lucerne and the one from Zurich with Southern Switzerland and Italy.

I shot it just a few minutes after Sunset with the awesome Canon TS-E 17mm f/4 L Tilt-Shift Lens. I shot a total of 9 bracketed exposures 1 f-stop apart but ended up using just 4 of them to produce the tone-mapped version.

I might do a tutorial about that specific shot if there is demand for it – just drop me a comment below.

In the shadow of the Cherry Tree

By Ingo, on April 14th, 2011%

Today’s photograph shows a Cherry Tree backlit by the setting sun. I used the tree as a gobo to prevent the sunlight hitting my lens. It’s an HDR made of 3 handheld exposures shot in Aperture priority mode.

Exif Info:

Mode: Aperture Priority
Lens: 24mm f/1.4
Aperture: f/8
ISO speed: 160

Shooting in my back yard - well, kind of

By Ingo, on April 5th, 2011%

This is the view from top of Rigi Scheidegg, a mountain right next to the village I live. You can actually see part of my home-town in the lower left corner of the picture.

This is not an HDR picture – it’s a single exposure image with no tone-mapping processing at all. This was possible as I shot this quite early in the day On December 26, 2009 at around 10am. I added a graduated filter in Lightroom to darken the sky and boosted the contrast using a black&white layer in Photoshop by using an overlay blending mode. Finally some minor tweaking in Lightroom by desaturating the image a tad.

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