„Wichtig ist nicht, besser zu sein als alle anderen. Wichtig ist, besser zu sein als du gestern warst!“
– japa­ni­sche Weisheit –

Photo­graphy tips

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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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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Magi­sches Belichtungsdreieck 

In diesem BLOG-Beitrag geht es um ein Thema, das vor allen Dingen für die Einsteiger in die Foto­grafie inter­es­sant sein dürfte. Er richtet sich an alle, die endlich durch­bli­cken wollen, wie ISO, Blende und Belich­tungs­zeit zusam­men­hängen. Wenn ihr euch bisher schwer damit getan habt, dann lest ihn aufmerksam durch, oder schaut mein Video dazu auf YouTube.

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