Zuleikha’s first horn, from last year in mid November
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Meike at the Rhine river in Mainz
– and here is something like “the making of”:
Taken by and © Markus Kuhn, used with his friendly permission
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Zuleikha in 16:9, from March
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How cool…
The discussion about Thunderbird doesn’t stop (no comments about that because I can’t come up with some positive stuff about it). For the “what if?” scenario (in case we would lose Thunderbird and also Icedove), I was reading about Claws – some friends are using that one since years.
Loved this part from its manual:
“What Claws Mail is not
Claws Mail is not a full-featured Personal Information Manager like Evolution or Outlook, although external plugins provide these functionalities. Claws Mail will not let you write and send HTML emails or other kind of annoyances, hence it may not be the software you need in some business environments.”
Hahaha. Sounds like a perfect tool for the job. Or does your favourite wrench also try to make coffee? 😉
– and back to the old layout
Hmmm. These headlines in Twenty Sixteen are really bold. Plus it wastes lots of space. So for the moment I’m back to Twenty Fifteen.
Update from Thursday morning, December 10th, 2015:
– using a theme called Origin for the moment. Love its simplicity; let’s see how it goes, and if I still like it after a while.
A search input is missing here, so if I want to recall what I wrote about something or someone (like for instance Youn Sun Nah), that content will be hard to find. Found the search, which you can add as a widget like usual. But And this one sure looks good, even on different devices. Check here (also for your own webpage/blog).
A “featured” image
Never tried this until now, so I decided to have a look at blog posts with a “featured” image.
The one you see here is one of myself, but it is not a “selfie”. It was taken by Mélanie Gomez in February, two days before my birthday. She used her Nikon D800 camera and one of my studio strobes (and grey background) to make this.
Merçi encore, chère Mélanie!
Of course I had to take some of her as well. Here’s one I took using my E-PL5 with the 45mm lens, also with studio strobes:
Mélanie Gomez, February 2015
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Blog news
WordPress 4.4 “Clifford” is out, and together with it came the Twenty Sixteen theme which I’m using here. I changed the almost black border to a white one, everything else is standard until now.
Zuleikha changed her layout, too as you can see above. And Mitchie is also working on an old/new page, see below…
Click on the screenshots to visit their pages.
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P.S.: still playing around with that theme… so be prepared for further changes 🙂
This morning, at work
Sunrise from the 4th floor at work
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The camera. The lens.
E-M10 with 20mm lens
In my last blog posting, I praised the virtues of Mitchie’s Panasonic Lumix 20mm/1.7 lens – and not for the first time. Together with the Olympus OM-D E-M10 which I’ve got for my birthday this year, it’s – for me – the ideal combination for general photography.
I took this photo with my Olympus E-PL5 camera which has exactly the same sensor as this E-M10, and with the Olympus 45mm/1.8 lens – another one you’d really need for portraits, or for product shots like this one.
Together – again, for me – they’re unbeatable. Except of course when I give this lens back to Mitchie, and use my Panasonic Leica 25mm/1.4, and the 14mm/2.5 as well.
Owning all these, we’re “happy campers” as the Americans say.
Oh, in case you wonder about the lens hood: this is a third-party one. The brand name is JJC, and it’s made of metal. Very cheap, very nice.
And just in case you’re also wondering about the lights I used here: these are two Simock studio strobes with 300Ws each, one from front/above with a 20″ beauty dish at 1/8th power, the other one from behind the camera, a bit to the right, at 1/32nd. Again: very cheap, very nice. Triggered by Yongnuo CTR-301P radio remotes. Aperture measured with a Sekonic light meter. Custom white balance made with a ColorChecker – so the picture is just like out of the camera.
Having the right tools is always fun.
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Update from Friday, December 11th, 2015:
Imaging Resource just finished their test of this camera’s successor, the Olympus OM-D E-M10 Mark 2. And they call it “the most capable all-around camera in its class“. The same was (and still is) true for mine, which is an incredible offer right now as I write this. It’s 599€ vs. 427€ for the body. These prices will change over time of course, but I’d know which one to get.
Another photo of Tuna the cat
Took this one for Zuleikha yesterday, so she could blog about it:
Tuna the birthday cat
By the way, I used Mitchie’s Panasonic Lumix 20mm/1.7 lens here, at an aperture of f/2. Still love that one – it’s the perfect lens for the µ43rds system IMO, and this and the Oly 45mm/1.8 would be more or less all you need for a starter kit for general and portrait photography. Highly recommended (and I get nothing for recommendations).
Alternatives would be the 25mm lenses from both Panasonic (f/1.7 or f/1.4) or Olympus (f/1.8), or the 17mm/1.8 Olympus. But 40mm-equivalent is very close to the sensor diagonal, so I consider this one as the real standard lens for the system.
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