photography – Page 62 – Wolfgang Lonien

March 7, 2015

Some photos in black & white

I had my E-M10 camera set to black & white lately. So here are some photos mostly like they came out of camera already (except the first one which I cropped into a 7:6 format which the camera cannot do by itself):

Self portrait, grim, b&w, 7:6, March 2015

Tuna the cat, March 2015

Crossy road

For the last one I set the camera to crop into a 3:2 format internally, so it looks a bit more like that old Leica format (which is used in every other APS-C and also “full frame” (film-sized) camera today).

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March 1, 2015March 2, 2015

Zuleikha in concert

Today was the annual spring concert of the local music school. And for the first time, Zuleikha gave a piano solo of two classical pieces. As usual, the light within our town hall wasn’t that good, but still we had to take some photos of course. Here is one I took:

Zuleikha in concert, March 2015

Update from March 2nd, 2015:

Mitchie took a hand-held video of Zuleikha’s short performance, and uploaded it to Youtube. And Zuleikha wrote about it on her blog, where you can see the video as well.

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February 27, 2015

A remote controlled camera

Like many of the newer cameras, the Olympus OM-D E-M10 has WiFi. Which I haven’t tried until today, when I borrowed Mitchie’s tablet PC (a Google Nexus 7) for it. So here are some shots from this evening, including the very first one:

Charlie and the great glass elevator

Tuna the cat, February 2015

– and last not least, a self portrait:

Wolfgang, February 2015

For longer sessions, I’d suggest to set up the camera so that it doesn’t fall asleep after some inactivity (like caused by picture viewing on a remote 7 inch display).

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February 25, 2015

The baby OM-D

A friend saw it only yesterday, but I have it since a week now (thanks again to Mitchie and Zuleikha for this wonderful present). And like every Olympus camera, it’s great: the OM-D E-M10, shot by my E-PL5:

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February 23, 2015

Tuna, and some toy cars

From yesterday:

And from today:

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February 22, 2015

… and one of Zuleikha

Took this one in mixed daylight and artificial light (from the kitchen) today. Zuleikha on Mitchie’s notebook:

The daylight is a bit Rembrandt-style again. See the small lit triangle under her left eye?

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February 22, 2015

Cats, again

Yesterday we were invited to a neighbour’s place – she had her birthday lately, like Mitchie & me as well. And this is “Racoon”, her 16 year old cat:

And today I’ve tried “focus peaking” with my old manual OM Zuiko 50mm/1.4 lens wide open. It works:

You have to assign a button for it first, and you also have to be careful with moving targets – it’s easy to still get the “wrong” eye in focus, especially if you stop down a bit for better overall sharpness. Interesting.

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February 15, 2015

A visit from Mélanie

Today Mélanie came over to visit us. She was one of the other two photographers with whom I met on January 18th in Mainz for an outdoor photo walk together with Meike, Rhia, and Jana.

After having some cake, we started to play around with my lights, so Mélanie took some photos of me, and I took some of her – with both her camera and mine.

From the ones out of my camera I selected nine, and it’s hard to narrow them down further – even Mitchie wasn’t able to select just a few out of these. So I decided to upload all nine to Flickr, and to let Mélanie see if she likes or even can use any of them:

I cropped the first one into a 5:4 format, but the rest are as good as out of camera. Not cropped and definitely not retouched.

To see more of Mélanie, and to have a look at her own art, please consider viewing her page on Facebook.

Merçi Mélanie – it was great to have you here. Cannot wait to repeat this.

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February 14, 2015

Heated floor

With +6 degrees Celsius it’s a bit warmer outside right now. And Tuna (our cat) was out already, but still prefers the heated floor when having a relaxed look out:

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February 13, 2015

A single white flower

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