This morning when I arrived at work and went out for a smoke before the action, the sky looked breathtaking. So I sat down, took out my camera, and photographed it:
Tho you see a camera, it’s still not “camera porn” 
Who likes “security cameras” anyway?
After getting up to my workplace, and looking in the exact opposite direction, I decided that I just had to take another one:
Both taken with the Olympus E-PL1 and the Panasonic Lumix 14mm lens.
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Also seen today:
Both taken with the Olympus E-PL1 and the 45mm lens wide open.
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Yesterday Alina, one of Zuleikha’s friends, brought a present from her grandma:
Orchid. Olympus E-PL1 with the 45mm lens. Daylight, approximately from the 10 o’clock position. Cropped into a 7:6 format in post.
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Update, from later the same day: I took another photo of the same plant from this morning, this time lit by our normal overhead LED room light:
Orchid. Olympus E-PL1 with the 45mm lens. LED light from above. Cropped into a 7:6 format in post.
Funny how different the same subject can look. Thanks again for viewing.
A while ago, one of the Debian developers announced the release date for the upcoming version 7.0 (codename “Wheezy”) as the first weekend in May. A bit unusual to go public with an announcement like that, since usually the questions about a release date were mostly answered like: “It’s ready when it’s ready”.
However, it is ready, and it was released yesterday. The official announcement can be found here.
Since “Wheezy” will bring Gnome3 (instead of 2), I will most probably first install it onto an additional partition of my hard drive, on which there’s currently Ubuntu – I rarely look into that anyway. But before even bothering with that, I downloaded the 64 bit “netinstall.iso” via bittorrent (yes folks, regardless of what your provider(s) might say, it’s perfectly legal to use that protocol for free and open source stuff like this!), which I’m at the moment installing into a VirtualBox container – while at the same time uploading some video Mitchie took to a Dropbox folder shared with my brother:
While I’m typing this, it finished downloading already, and is installing. Let’s see how it will run, but, this being Debian, I expect nothing else than excellence. As always.
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Update, from short after 10pm: … and here it is. “Wheezy” running inside “Squeeze”, showing this very article on my blog:
Looks good. And brings the latest and greatest RawTherapee, amongst other packages.
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Today we went to Bingen at the river Rhine. Mitchie took more photos than I did, and also a video with a swan and some ducks and doves we saw at the river; haven’t seen these yet.
Here’s just one I took, of the mouse tower, and Ehrenfels castle:
Mouse Tower and Ehrenfels Castle, from Bingen. Olympus E-PL1 with 14-42mm “kit zoom”. Added some contrast, luminance contrast, and also a bit of “vibrance” with RawTherapee to fight the haze, which is still visible. No sharpening. Cropped 16:9.
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Today I used the old Olympus OM-2N film camera more than any other. I have Kodak Ektar 100 colour negative film in it, and on a short walk we gave each other the camera and took photos of ourselves – so I’m really excited to see these later.
But since man is impatient, I also took a few digital ones. Here’s one of these:
Zuleikha. Olympus E-PL1 with the 45mm lens fully open at f/1.8, 1/100s at ISO 250 (minus 0.7 stops set in camera). Only slight global corrections as almost always. No sharpening – this lens doesn’t need any. Cropped into a 5:4 format.
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Same flower as yesterday. Olympus E-520 with OM G.Zuiko 1:1.4 50mm lens at f/1.4, almost out of camera, with only slight negative corrections for exposure and saturation. Hand-held at ISO 400.
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Or rather, at my workplace:
I used both this combination of my E-520 DSLR with the manual OM G.Zuiko 1:1.4 50mm lens as well as the E-PL1 “Pen” camera with two different lenses today, but I didn’t get too many really good photos. Not my day it seems.
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Today a friend of Zuleikha’s and her grandma brought some flowers. I took a photo of these:
Flowers of spring, Olympus E-520 with OM G.Zuiko 1:1.4 50mm at f/4.
The depth of field is a bit thin, could have stopped down to get more of them in focus, but then again I just liked it.
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See Sebastião Salgado’s 17 minute talk at TED. And thanks to Michael for pointing me to this.
Please also consider his exhibition at the National History Museum in London, or, if you can’t go there, to buy his new book which was just published by Taschen (that means that in Germany you’d probably get it at 2001).
Also on the travelphotographer blog, and on the.me. Oh, and if the name doesn’t tell you anything at all, look at the English or German or Portuguese Wikipedia entries about him (more languages linked to from there). Or visit his website.
Hallo!
Mein Name ist Wolfgang, und dies ist mein Weblog.
