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Simple tips to get more out of your forest photos 

Heute habe ich nicht mal einen Wecker gebraucht. Ich bin recht­zeitig aufge­wacht, habe mich ange­zogen, das Foto­equip­ment gepackt, ins Auto gestiegen und los. Bereits gestern Abend versprach der Wetter­be­richt, dass die Bedin­gungen passen werden. Dichter Nebel sogar in den Wäldern möglich. Außerdem damp­fende Wasser­ober­fläche, viel­leicht auch ein wenig Himmels­fär­bung, etc. Egal wie, irgendwas wird schon dabei sein. Ich hatte eine Loca­tion geplant, die ich schon häufig besucht hatte. Ein See im Wald. Eigent­lich kann nichts schief gehen. Doch was ich dann vorfand, war alles andere als ein easy-going.

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Time blen­ding – why it pays to focus on just one image 

Tonight will be a piece of cake. All weather models are predic­ting a beau­tiful sunset. I arrive on site in good time and am pretty sure what I want to photo­graph and how. My tripod, camera and filters are set up in no time, and the sunset is already looking really great at sunset. Now I just have to wait until it really kicks in. But wait a minute, has it already faded a little between the last two shots? Yes… what now? 

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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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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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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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