Had a shooting with Ulli last weekend. We intended to start shooting portraits and see where it might take us, as she was interested in having some shots of her Tattoo as well. This is one of my favorites from the portrait session. The Tattoo part also came up with an amazing shot. I’m glad [...]
If you happen to visit South Africa during the Soccer World Cup, you might run into troubles getting to Cape Point and Cape of Good Hope. During our stay the amount of tourists where not too disturbing. Being one of them, I should not blame them being there But I guess, it might get hard [...]
As of my problems with Aperture 3, I am limited in further publication of images done during the shooting with Danja. Nevertheless, Apple was kind enough to confirm, that they are working on it. Hopefully, a solution will be available soon, so that I will be able to continue editing. Exporting these shots took me [...]
One of the most wonderful things of South Africa is the amazing multiplicity of wildlife coexisting in many wildlife reserves. For us as European visitors, we only know those animals from the zoo or the circus.
Like South Africa, this posting will have a bit of everything in it. For the shot above we went for the valley of desolation, where one gets an amazing view over Graaff Reinet laying afoot. Being up there we ran into the problem of not knowing the current time, but knowing the gates of the [...]
Of course, a country is nothing without its people. And we would not be traveling a country, without getting to know them.
I finally managed to go through the first set of shots and pick out some of the better ones.
I’ve had this idea for quite some time, shooting with several lamp shades, the ones made from chinese paper one can buy at Ikea. I already purchased a bunch of them when Jaz asked me over to Lausanne for a spontaneous shooting.
Shooting at minus 15° Celsius
I recently received a note on ModelMayhem by Jaz asking for a shooting in Lausanne. After some notes and some mails going back and forth we decided to do a spontaneous shooting last weekend. Not knowing it would be one of the coldest weekends.
It is not easy, to keep the eyes open, while knowing, one will have a water balloon splashing in ones face just about the next second. Having done this myself, I know how hard it will be for a model.
A dream is a dream but as soon as you try to touch it it will be gone…
Today we went for the “Wildpark Zürich”. It is a nice park, having some animals and one can spend the day walking in the woods.
After more than 3.500 km on the road, paved and unpaved, we finally arrived in Cape Town. Not a very pleasant thought, to go back to Switzerland, -5° Celsius and Snow, but my mind is almost as full as my laptop, both having stored numerous of amazing shots I did during our travel. All of [...]
… we are still alive, not eaten by lions or leopards yet. But there are still some weeks to come. Since I did not take my Mac with me, and I am shooting in RAW, you will have to wait for me to come back from ZA until I’ll show my shots….
Some days back in a posting I mentioned the “get published” contest held by lensbaby. They state that more than 2.000 images had been submitted but they only could choose twelve. The chosen artwork can be found here, sad but true, mine did not get picked. But seeing the artwork chosen – and one of [...]
Last weekend, I was asked by Markus to join in for the Photo09 exhibition in Zürich. We met on deviantArt, because he was shooting the same model I did one week past my shooting with her. Having seen his shot of her with her bear hat on said everything.
I got involved into numerous discussions about Hardware, and there seems to be no end in sight. One of the statements mostly targets at the used hardware and its correlation to good pictures. Of course it is hard to shoot the perfect shot using a crappy camera. Nevertheless, a good camera will not make the [...]
I have entered two images to the Lensbaby contest for the Lensbaby Book. All voting will take place from January 1, 2010 – January 7, 2010. The Image I sent in is calles Cindarella, which is part of the Lamp Shades series. It would be great if you would put in your vote. If you [...]
The last “Surfing the Net” has been a while ago. This time I would like to point out some interesting sites for all sorts of shots. First of all, let my point out something. I am quite aware that whatever image or text one puts online, can and will be copied and reused. There are [...]
I’ve had this idea for quite some time, shooting with several lamp shades, the ones made from chinese paper one can buy at Ikea. I already purchased a bunch of them when Jaz asked me over to Lausanne for a spontaneous shooting.
I recently received a note on ModelMayhem by Jaz asking for a shooting in Lausanne. After some notes and some mails going back and forth we decided to do a spontaneous shooting last weekend. Not knowing it would be one of the coldest weekends.
It is not easy, to keep the eyes open, while knowing, one will have a water balloon splashing in ones face just about the next second. Having done this myself, I know how hard it will be for a model.
I have decided to move my Domain from http://photography.zugenmaier.de to http://fastfocus.ch. The old link will still work, but will be redirected to the new URL. Nothing new otherwise. Sorry. Have a nice start for the new week. Dirk
A dream is a dream but as soon as you try to touch it it will be gone…
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