January 2017

[John Geerts]

Thanks Akira. 

For some days now it  is cloudy and cold.  The cold weather is no reason to cancel the Open Air  market. There are heating lamps to make the purchasing a more pleasant occasion...

D600   300/4.5 ED-IF  AIS

[Frank Fremerey]

Thanks Akira. 
For some days now it  is cloudy and cold.  The cold weather is no reason to cancel the Open Air  market. There are heating lamps to make the purchasing a more pleasant occasion...
D600   300/4.5 ED-IF  AIS

Strange mixture of WB points. The man with the plaid hat looks best to me. I wonder how the D500 might have solved this... one of the really big differences in the new generation...

[Frank Fremerey]

January 23/30

.curly whirly.

25 01 02017

I took a lot of interesting shots today, but this one is different. Somehow it makes me woozy when I look at it and it touches me emotionally too, So I chose it. I see a tendency towards monochromatic shots.

technical: D500 & 1.4/24 @f/1.4

[John Geerts]

Strange mixture of WB points. The man with the plaid hat looks best to me. I wonder how the D500 might have solved this... one of the really big differences in the new generation...

It's not something of WB points, Frank.  The man is standing in a yellowish light, and the lens and sensor captured it as it was. It is a mix of different light.   The point here is the post-processing.

It was quit dark, and for a 300mm the shutter speed goes up, took some risk with 1/200,  hence an increase in ISO to 720. Every increase from base ISO limits to a certain extent the post-processing possibilities.

For this picture, I did some framing to focus on the people behind the stall as I wanted to emphasize, the eagerness (or perhaps hurry) to pay, or to do the purchase quickly. So I wanted all neutral visible in the image, meaning the man in the yellow spotlight, decrease in lightness, and the others a slight decrease of the shadow.   

Many ways are possible to post-process it.    On Flickr I uploaded a natural version in the originale frame which reflects the cold morning atmosphere in a different way.  https://www.flickr.com/photos/fisherking/32145379850/in/dateposted-public/

[Frank Fremerey]

It was quit dark, and for a 300mm the shutter speed goes up, took some risk with 1/200,  hence an increase in ISO to 720. Every increase from base ISO limits to a certain extent the post-processing possibilities. On Flickr I uploaded a natural version in the originale frame which reflects the cold morning atmosphere in a different way.  https://www.flickr.com/photos/fisherking/32145379850/in/dateposted-public/

I like the Flickr-version MUCH MUCH better!

I like the framing and the more intimate atmosphere. Just perfect & much better in my eyes than the version above!!!

[Frank Fremerey]

January 24/30

.double spread.

26 01 02017

To me double tree trunks sometimes look like legs. I took this because two double trunks, one behind the other, seem quite unusual to me.

technical: D500 & 1.4/24 @f/1.4
annotation: I might have closed the aperture a bit more

[John Geerts]

Sunny and cold. The frost is visible in our place in fountains and frozen water pools

The Spoorzone, the former Railway factories, is still a deserted place.

[Frank Fremerey]

John: Perfect moment, movement, position, color scape!

[Frank Fremerey]

January 25/30

.75.

27 01 02017

German architecture of the 1950ies is unloved, mostly unprotected, build with very bad material and therefore replaced without further consideration. I try to fixate some typical examples with my cameras before they disappear completely. I chose this picture for today because the window decoration seems to be a hint that someone is living here since the house was built!

technical: D500 & Neo-Noct @f/1.4

[Fons Baerken]

[Frank Fremerey]

Hi Fons:
Looks like a full value breakfast ;-)
Love to see you back here!

[John Geerts]

Thanks Frank. 

Love the 50's architecture.  I always assumed it was rather good in quality. (sustainability)

Nice collection Fons.  Unusual beer brands.  From far away?

We still have sun and frost, but clouds, and above-zer0-weather is approaching.

City-transportation.  (like the two before D600 - 300/4.5 ED-IF AIS -  the poor man's  PF     )

[Akira]

Welcome back, Fons!  Too much beer for me to toast your return, though.   

John, nice atmosphere.

[Frank Fremerey]

John. They had to re build a lot after the war and the material was often of poor quality. There were people with old money who used cheap labour to build with expensive, lasting material. But most were poor and got what they could afford. So you can hear the neighboours having sex two storeys away because walls and ceilings are only as thin as needed to survive daily life for some decades. These houses lose heat. No insulation. You heat the outside more than the inside

[Fons Baerken]

Thank you Frank, Akira, John
They came from Lidl in a box, classical ales, pre-brexit stock i think.