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Bild­be­ar­bei­tung in Luminar Neo 

Skylum had asked me if I knew Luminar? Yes, I said, of course! But so far I’ve only ever used it for one or two effects as a plugin in Photo­shop. Perso­nally, I think the color harmony func­tion is bril­liant. Luminar has changed a lot in the last few years. Can it also prove itself as a “stand-alone” in a complete image editing work­flow? And has it really become as fast as promised? Let’s find out in this BLOG/VLOG!

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30. May 2025  No Comments 
Behind the shot

The perfect morning? — The only important tip in photography 

Oh, it could just have been the perfect morning. The mood of the light, the presence of the perfect amount of misty haze, the spring green and me stan­ding in the biggest sea of wild garlic to take pictures. But the world isn’t perfect and so it is that some places full of wild garlic fell victim to the forestry work in winter and the other­wise perfect morning didn’t coin­cide with the peak of the wild garlic blossom. A pity really. Nevert­heless, some great pictures were taken and I have a very basic tip for you in this BLOG/VLOG!

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2. May 2025  No Comments 
Image proces­sing

The influence of image proces­sing on nature photography 

Maybe you’ve been there: You’re on a holiday that you’ve been saving up for for a long time and you capture your expe­ri­ences in pictures. After­wards, you’re a little disap­pointed because your pictures don’t even begin to reflect what you saw. If you have photo­gra­phed in JPG, you won’t be able to do much about it, and some of the pictures might just be for the bin. However, if you have saved the RAWs at the same time, your chances of getting some­thing out of the images increase signi­fi­cantly. This BLOG is all about what is possible with modern image proces­sing using the RAWs of today’s cameras. PS: Without sky repla­ce­ment or adding atmo­spheric elements!

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2. April 2025  No Comments 
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Taking photos when the weather doesn’t cooperate 

Oh man, I wish I’d just stayed in bed. Now I have 30 minutes of hiking uphill in complete dark­ness through the Pala­ti­nate Forest and over an hour’s drive behind me and I’m stan­ding here in the middle of the fog soup instead of above it as planned. And yet the weather models were all in agree­ment. Fog level, dawn, ever­y­thing should have been fine. What now? Turn around, go home and give up or pull through and see what you can get out of it with a little crea­ti­vity? In this BLOG/VLOG, I finally get to grips with the auto­matic focus bracke­ting of my Sony a7IV, go in the direc­tion of B&W fine art with my images, show you how to get black and white images quickly and easily in LR/PS and prove to you that giving up is not an option and that you can always find some­thing photo­gra­phi­cally interesting!

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15. November 2024  No Comments 
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Photo­gra­phing mush­rooms in the forest 

Fall time is mush­room time. And although I was told it wasn’t going to be a mush­room year this year, I was comple­tely surprised when I saw mush­rooms ever­y­where to my left and right on my jogging route. While I was running, I thought to myself that a visit to the forest with my camera would be wort­hwhile. At home I set up my equip­ment and saw the email that the Sony a7IV can now do focus bracke­ting. I have to try that out. So I quickly installed the update and headed into the forest before the sun went down. Trans­lated with DeepL.com (free version) 

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8. November 2024  No Comments 
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Fokus-Stacking in Photoshop 

Was ist denn das? Als ich joggend an diesem Baum­stumpf vorbei­lief, hatte ich direkt den Plan für die nächste Stunde im Kopf. Ich lief nach Hause, duschte mich schnell ab und fuhr mit dem Fahrrad zurück zu der Stelle im Wald. Ich wollte das Abend­licht nutzen, um diesen Baum­stumpf samt Kame­ra­aus­rüs­tung erneut einen Besuch abzu­statten und ihn zu foto­gra­fieren. In diesem VLOG/BLOG widmen wir uns dem kompletten Prozess des Fokus-Stackings, von der Aufnahme vor Ort, bis zur Bild­be­ar­bei­tung in Ligh­t­room und Photo­shop. Beson­ders inter­es­sant für die Foto­grafen unter euch. 

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1. November 2024  No Comments 
Blog

6 methods to create the Orton effect 

Im heutigen VLOG/BLOG gebe ich euch insge­samt 6 Methoden an die Hand, wie ihr mit Ligh­t­room oder Photo­shop schnell und einfach den soge­nannten Orton-Effekt auf eure Bilder legen könnt. 

Der Orton-Effekt ist ein märchen­hafter, male­ri­scher Look der euren Bildern ein wenig Glow und Soft­ness verpasst. Mysti­sche Stim­mungen werden so noch etwas verstärkt, Nebel oder Dunst wirken noch etwas kräf­tiger und geheim­nis­voller, Struk­turen im Wasser etwas weicher. Der Effekt selbst stammt aus der analogen Foto­grafie von Michael Orton. Dieser benö­tige zwei Bilder dazu. Eins scharf und etwas über­be­lichtet und ein weiteres über­be­lich­tetes unscharfes Foto. Diese hat er dann in der Dunkel­kammer über­ein­ander gelegt, und so entstand der Look, der mit Orton-Effekt heute bekannt ist. Dank der digi­talen Foto­grafie, müssen wir diesen zwei Aufnahmen nicht mehr tätigen, sondern können den Effekt ganz einfach, und vor allen Dingen auch präziser und feiner in Ligh­t­room und Photo­shop nachbauen.

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19. July 2024  No Comments 
Germany

Always perfect drone photos 

Today I’m reporting back from my home region. More precisely from Steins­berg Castle near Sins­heim. For this morning I had planned to take some wonderful drone shots at sunrise with surroun­ding fields of fog. In this blog, you can find out whether I succeeded and what I look out for when taking the perfect drone shots!

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5. July 2024  No Comments 
Behind the shot

Fanta­stic wild garlic photos — how to photo­graph and edit them 

Actually, I just wanted to take a quick walk through the forest and see when the wild garlic is ready to bloom again. But now I’m amazed to find myself stan­ding in the middle of a sea of white flowers in the other­wise green wild garlic forest. 3 weeks earlier than last year. That was certain. I’ll be back here tomorrow at the latest to take photos. 

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26. April 2024  No Comments 

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