Behind the shot

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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Forest photo­graphy in the rain — ideal or torture? 

What do you do on a Sunday morning at 6 a.m. in summer? Right, you’re stan­ding deep in the forest in the pouring rain. Instead of wrap­ping myself up in my comforter again, the rain is drip­ping off my camera and nose. But I don’t want to moan, I chose this fate myself. Is rainy weather ideal for forest photo­graphy, or will the morning be torture for me? Read/see for yourself in today’s VLOG/BLOG

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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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One picture is enough — photo chall­enge in the forest 

Suddenly over 1000 follo­wers! 1000 thanks to you all! I actually wanted to tell you about the Faroe Islands this week, but I’m still strugg­ling through the videos and pictures. So you’ll have to be patient a little longer. But to make sure you hear from me again, here’s a short enter­tai­ning video today. Out and about with my daughter, I set myself a photo chall­enge. But see for yourself! 😉

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Das Geheimnis groß­ar­tiger Landschaftsfotografien 

Als Land­schafts­fo­to­graf kennst du sicher die “Regeln der Kompo­si­tion”. Aber hattest du schon jemals Probleme damit zu verstehen, wann du sie einsetzt, wie und ob du sie über­haupt verwenden soll­test? In diesem Blog gehe ich der Frage nach, was das Geheimnis groß­ar­tiger Kompo­si­tionen ist und wie du ein besseres Gespür dafür entwi­ckeln kannst, wie du die Kompo­si­ti­ons­re­geln in der Praxis einsetzen kannst – oder eben auch nicht.

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In 6 Schritten zur eigenen Fotoreise 

Es ist immer wieder etwas beson­deres, wenn der Fokus einer Reise nur auf dem Foto­gra­fieren und dem Genießen der Natur liegt. Doch dafür braucht es Vorbe­rei­tungen: Reise-& Loca­tion-Planung, Wetter- und Tages­pla­nung und natür­lich eine gut durch­dachte Pack­liste! Wohin ich gehe und wie ihr eure Fotoreise in 6 einfa­chen Schritten selbst planen könnt, erfahrt ihr diesem Blog. Außerdem teile ich euch meine Pack­liste und gebe euch ein paar Tipps zum Verreisen mit Fotogepäck. 

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Analyze and evaluate your own land­scape images 

Do you know this situa­tion? You were out and about and took photos. You come home full of euphoria, show the pictures to your friends and acquain­tances or post them on Insta­gram. But then you realize that hardly anyone shares your enthu­siasm about your pictures. Why is that?
The ability to pick out the best pictures from a series of images is one of the key skills of photo­graphers. How can you learn this, what can you look out for, what are possible criteria? Read about it here in the blog.

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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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Kame­ra­modi – Wann brauchst du welchen? 

Heute gibt es nochmal einen BLOG über die Basics in der Foto­grafie. Nach dem wir im letzten Video geklärt haben, wie die Blende, die Belich­tungs­zeit und der ISO-Wert mitein­ander verknüpft sind, geht es heute um die verschie­denen Kame­ra­modi, genauer um Blen­den­vor­wahl, Zeit­vor­wahl und den Manu­ellen Modus. Ich erkläre euch kurz ihre Funk­ti­ons­weise und gebe euch direkt Tipps, wann ihr welchen Modus in der Land­schafts- und Natur­fo­to­grafie benötigt

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