family – Page 18 – Wolfgang Lonien

January 3, 2015January 3, 2015

Kind & Katze

Since the new year began three days ago, I’ve only taken photos of the family, and also of the cat (which is a member of this family, too). Took some with flash, some with available room and/or the modeling lights of the studio strobes, and some using daylight. But almost all of them – except the first one of Tuna the cat – with the camera set to black & white, and with the same Panasonic Leica DG Summilux 25mm/1.4 lens, which has the angle of view of a “normal” lens on our µ43rds cameras.

Here are some of them:

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January 1, 2015

Happy new year from the Loniens!

Tuna the cat, January 1st, 2015

Like every year, we watched some TV yesterday, and then the fireworks. And like every year, it scares the hell out of our cat, Tuna, who hid under our bed since about 10 to 12 until this afternoon.

Normally we wouldn’t allow her to sit on our dining table. But she was eating the grass leaves off the decoration, and I couldn’t help it but to take a picture of her.

So to all who read this, a happy new year 2015. Thanks for coming back and for looking at the pictures and for reading those short stories about our lives.

December 31, 2014

Setup shot

Today Mitchie told me that her father wants some new photo of Zuleikha, so I offered to help with the setup. I built up this for them:

Setup shot for a Mitchie (photographer) and Zuleikha (model) portrait session

What you see is my grey background, 1.35 meters wide, and two studio strobes (one with a beauty dish from the front, one with an umbrella from the left, beside the background). What you don’t see is a third compact flash on a small tripod behind the armchair. This one was gridded and pointed directly onto the grey canvas background.

Mitchie got some good shots, and if she’ll upload some onto her Flickr page I can show them here as well.

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December 28, 2014

Back from a birthday party

Yesterday was Zuleikha’s tenth birthday, and today she invited some of her friends to her party at a bowling center. It was lots of fun, and I took over 300 photos, most of which I can’t show here without further admission. So here is one which does not show any of her friends:

I guess this one is ok as well, because you can’t really identify anyone except our own daughter:

All of the photos will go to all of the parents of course. I’m glad that everyone who was invited also came. Like I wrote already, this was real fun.

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December 5, 2014December 5, 2014

Tuna’s birthday

Zuleikha decided that December 5th is the birthday of Tuna, our cat. Since the cat chose us when we moved in here, we don’t know her real date of birth, so our small one just made that up. It’s explained in the birthday card the girl made for our furry friend:

And I took some photos after I came home from work. Our cat was well fed and obviously enjoyed the heated floor:

Bigger files on Flickr as always.

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November 30, 2014

Hanna Zuleikha – and Hanna Tuna

Our two kids:

Zuleikha, November 2014

Tuna The Cat aka Hanna Tuna Lonien
Photographer: Mitchie

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November 15, 2014November 15, 2014

– and the meter works as if nothing happened

Yesterday I wrote about some sudden problem with my light meter, and that it began working normally shortly afterwards. It still measures just fine again today, so I don’t have the slightest idea where that hiccup came from. Measured only the first of these two photos – by now I pretty much know the apertures I need anyway as long as I don’t move things around:

Concert cards. Olympus E-520 with Zuiko Digital 50mm/2 Macro lens at f/6.3.

Zuleikha, looking at a toy catalog, November 2014. Olympus E-PL5 with Micro Zuiko 45mm/1.8 lens at f/6.3.

Oh, and while you can count every single eyelash of our daughter, the chin and everything beneath falls nicely out of focus already even at an aperture of 6.3 – so whoever said that Micro Four Thirds wouldn’t give you enough blur or had no “depth of field control” obviously never took any portraits like these. Just love those lenses.

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November 14, 2014November 14, 2014

practising, measuring

Today I wanted to take another cat photo, with flash – but my light meter constantly showed me “E.u” (about which the manual said: underexposed). Hm. So I guessed the exposure for this one:

practicing

After changing batteries a few times (which didn’t help), and simply waiting a bit and trying again, it worked:

measuring

Strange. Thought it was the battery, tho the symbol for that showed just fine. And now it works with the battery which was in it before. Have to keep watching that…

By the way, if you care for these settings you see: yes I set the light meter for a reading at ISO 125, both for the E-PL5 at ISO 200 and the E-520 at ISO 100, which are their lowest settings. And according to DxO these settings are pretty identical, and both are nearer to what they also measure as ISO 125 than to anything else. So setting that ISO value in the light meter gives me good results, and I agree with DxO in this regard, even if I cannot understand some of their lens measurements.

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October 26, 2014October 26, 2014

One from a short Sunday walk

We were out looking for the bridge construction works, which were planned to be finished in two weeks from now. Zuleikha found some stuff and showed it to me, so I took a picture:

Flower on a leaf bed. Olympus E-PL5 camera with Panasonic Leica DG Summilux 25mm/1.4 lens at f/4. Almost like out of camera.

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October 5, 2014

Zuleikha, decorated

Another photo of Zuleikha. Same camera and lens as in the last article and photos, this time with flash instead of natural light:

Zuleikha, decorated by a friend’s mum, October 2014

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