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Golden Alley in Blue Hour

This picture would not have been possible without HDR. The road was heavily lit by the street lamps while everything else was almost pitch dark. You can even see the stars in the sky.

Exif Info:

  • Date Taken: 2011-07-04 22:21:22
  • Camera: Canon EOS 5D Mark II
  • Exposure Time: 8 exposures between 1/8 and 30 seconds
  • Aperture: f/4
  • ISO: 400
  • Focal Length: 24mm

 

A few seconds of Lunar Eclipse

I wasn’t really expecting to see the lunar eclipse last night. The totality started at 21;22 local time (MET) and ended at 23:02:42.

I shot following picture at 22:02 and had no hope to see anything within the hour:

But then at 23:01:29 – one minute before the totality ended, the clouds broke for just a few seconds and I got this:

Exif Info:

  • 2011-06-15 23:01:29
  • Camera: Canon EOS 5D Mark II
  • Exposure Time: 5s
  • Aperture: f/5.6
  • ISO: 1000
  • Focal Length: 420mm

 

A couple of minutes later, the moon was visible again but the totality was gone.

Exif Info:

  • 2011-06-15 23:08:16
  • Camera: Canon EOS 5D Mark II
  • Exposure Time: 2.5s
  • Aperture: f/5.6
  • ISO: 1000
  • Focal Length: 420mm

 

Lunar Eclipse, June 15, 2011

In the Heart of Switzerland

I photographed that landscape in late fall 2009 while hiking down a mountain close to the town we’re living in.

Exif Info:

  • Exposure Times: 1/80,1/320,1/1250
  • Aperture: f/4.5
  • ISO: 200
  • Focal Length: 35mm

 

How to motion-blur

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

The Swiss Farmhouse

I shot this photograph in the village of Buonas (Canton Zug) in Central Switzerland last Summer. I liked the rich colors and the contrast between the old farmhouse and the construction sites in the background.

It’s a 3 bracketed exposure HDR image handhold and shot in Aperture Priority.

Exif Info:

  • Camera: Canon EOS 5D Mark II
  • Exposure Times: 1/20, 1/80, 1/320
  • Aperture: f/11
  • ISO: 100
  • Focal Length: 16mm

 

When the sky goes dark, brighten up and shoot

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

 

An old House also known as Schloss Hallwyl

Schloss Hallwyl

Golden Hour at the Trainstation

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.

The 92 Megapixel HDR Panorama - new HDR tutorial available

This is the view of Zug, Switzerland during early morning hours in April around 1 hour after sunrise.

My newest tutorial shows in detail how I created that picture:

HDR Tutorial – Part 3: The 92 Megapixel HDR panorama

92 Megapixel Panorama in HDR of the city of Zug in Central Switzerland. Shot during early morning hours about 1 hour after sunrise.

It's Springtime in sunny Switzerland

It was very hard to find a cloudy sky while the sun was shining during the past few weeks. I hate to shoot landscape without clouds as the sky tends to get really boring, especially when shooting HDR’s.

This is another example of high-noon HDR photography – shot at 1:20pm in mid April – and the proof that it really works.