About me
Photography is my passion. I’ve been fascinated by photography as long as I can remember. At the age of 12 (in 1988), I got the chance to learn many things about photography, especially black & white photography, at school. I’ve been given the opportunity to use a fully equipped photo lab there. Unfortunately, I could use it for four years only, but I learned a lot about the basics there, about how to shoot photos, to develop the films and to apply effects in the darkroom (without Photoshop :-) ).
Now, I’m an IT engineer, keeping the internet up and running (well, at least a small part of it ;-) ), but I still love photography and the technology behind it just as much as I used to back at school. Of course, I’m using a digital SLR and computer technology to develop the images today.
About what I’m photographing
All I get in front of the lens.
I especially like all kinds of scapes (landscape, waterscape, cityscape…), architecture, nature, animals and so on. I love to use filters or advanced technologies like pano stitching or HDR. Of course I’m still a photographer not a painter or digital artist, so I’m very cautious when retouching. I love people/portrait/studio photography too, but I’m too shy to do it myself.
Milestones
1988 First (analogue) SLR camera with interchangeable, but fixed lenses. Manual focus, manual aperture,
manual exposure, manual everything ;-)
1997 My first experimental digital camera with 0.9 Megapixel
1999 My first digital camera (Casio QV-3500EX, 3.5 Megapixel)
2007 My first DSLR camera (Canon EOS 400D)
2009 Upgrade to Canon EOS 50D
2013 Upgrade to my actual camera body – Canon EOS 7D
My current equipment:
Camera: Canon EOS 7D
Lenses: Canon EF-S 15-85/3.5-5.6 IS USM * EF 28/2.8 * EF 50/1.8 * EF 70-200/4 L IS USM
Sigma EX 10-20/3.5 DC HSM * 150-500/5-6.3 DC OS HSM
Tamron AF 28-300/3.5-6.3 XR Di VC LD
Tripod: Velbon Sherpa Pro CF-645, Velbon RUP-L43 (Monopod)
Software: Photoshop CC, Lightroom, PTGui, Photomatix Pro, Nik Tools and some other tools
Other: GigaPan EPIC Pro (automatic robotic panohead for capturing panos and gigapixel images)
Promote Control (controlling device for HDR bracketing, focus stacking, time-lapse etc.
Canon GP-E2 (GPS device/logger)
Battery grip, Ballhead (Giottos), nodal point adapter (Roundabout-NP Deluxe), etc.
General remarks
Thank you very much for all of your
s,
and Llamas! I really appreciate them, and I feel very honoured if you devote your time for watching or commenting my work.
Thank you!Please bear with me if I’m unable to answer every comment or fav. That’s not a sign for a lack of interest. I always try to take a look at your artwork, but unfortunately my time is very limited – sorry! Thank you for your understanding!
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