Month: April 2015

April was really nice so far. The weather is more than friendly, and so is the light – especially in these mornings. Here are three photos which I took today, at my employers’:

At the pond 1/2

At the pond 2/2

Screenshot 😉 (my start screen at work)

At home – as regular readers will probably know – I’m using Debian instead of Red Hat. But both are free and open source operating systems, based on the Linux kernel. Still with the Gnome 2 desktop at work, but with Gnome 3 at home.

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Today was the first time in this year that I took a long(ish) Sunday morning photo walk, alone. Well morning isn’t quite right – I was late, and my walk lasted well past noon. So my solution for this (bad light at or around noon) is to go into the woods, which I also did today.

I wasn’t sure about which lens to take, so I took them all. Turned out that I left the M.Zuiko 45mm/1.8 on my E-M10 all the time, so I could as well have left everything else at home. The photos I’ll show here were all taken at or around one of the wooden bridges, except the last one which is still nearby. In case you want to find the place, I geo-tagged that last picture in Flickr, so you can look up its location.

All photos are as good as directly out of camera. I used exposure compensation on some, and apertures from 1.8 (fully open) to 4.5:

It’s all close to the airport, where they plan to build a new terminal. So I’m afraid that we’ll lose quite a bit of that wood…

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Had to interrupt this because of too many passing cars in the foreground. That’s why I cropped it square:

Spinning round… ‘n’ round…

It’s an in-camera composite again, slightly over 90 exposures of 30 seconds each. In case you search for it in your newer Olympus cameras: they call it “livecomp”, and you’ll find it when setting the camera to manual and increase exposure time. And set time time of the single exposures with the ‘menu’ button.

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Yesterday after shopping, we went to the new “Northwest” runway of our airport again, where I took two photos. Then later the same day, Tuna the cat jumped up Zuleikha’s seat just when we were about to have dinner. And today, I took one of some decoration, applied to a tree by Zuleikha:

Swiss HB-IXV taxiing at Frankfurt 07L/25R (new Runway Northwest), Germany

Touchdown of a “Condor” at Frankurt 07L/25R (new runway Northwest), Germany

“What’s for dinner?”

Plant deco

All taken with the Olympus OM-D E-M10 camera. The first three with the M.Zuiko 45mm/1.8 lens, the last one with the Four Thirds ZD 40-150mm/4-5.6 zoom of my DSLR, mounted via Mitchies MMF-2 adapter.

Update: The weekend isn’t over yet, and evening light is always beautiful. Here’s another one:

One of my studio strobes in indirect and reflected sunlight

Another update: Now my weekend is over (I’m posting this short after midnight). But some half hour ago, I went on one of the building’s Northern balconies to let my camera find polaris. And I had it straight in front of me, but slightly above my frame:

Another quick test (“with “quick” meaning 15 minutes)

So next time I won’t have to get up early, I’ll go for the full round (which will probably take some three hours or so).

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This is a composite of 900 pictures into one, which lasted exactly 15 minutes with a one-second exposure (times 900):

Short trails

ISO 1600, no noise reduction.

Update, from short after midnight:

Here’s another one, with only 90 pictures composed into one. But now each picture had an exposure time of 20 seconds at ISO 200, which actually took double the time – half an hour:

Star trails II

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