Posts Tagged: alpenglow

Landscapes / Photo First — 1 Comment
26
Mar 11

High fog at sunset

Photographic condition sometimes look dull to me, and then suddenly I recognize that I am wrong – something magical can happen anytime. Especially in landscape photography I keep getting suprised by nature.

On a rather cold day some weeks ago in the Chiemgau mountain range, I was backcountry skiing, the weather being rather boring with high fogs hiding the sun from view throughout the day, providing a very flat light (which is, with snow, normally not a good thing photographically speaking).

On my way home I was still looking for a chance to get some nice sunset light, but the light was very dispersed and I had nearly given up and moved into a valley running from north to south, knowing I would not get any direct view of the sun should it decide to show itself before sundown.

So I was not in a position to get the sun itself into the picture when it send its rays toward me – but the high fog of the day provided a very nice medium for the sun rays. I like especially the peaks’ shadows in the foggy air. The image above was taken with my little Olympus Pen E-P1, cropped to a Panorama. Colors and contrast have been enhanced in post production. I hope you like it anyway ;-)

Workshops — No Comments
25
Sep 10

Wildlife photography workshop cancelled – where are you guys?

For today I had booked a wildlife photography workshop with Konrad Wothe, an award-winning professional wildlife and nature photographer, but the workshop got cancelled. Why? Low attandence.

I find this hard to believe – the workshop which was to take place in the wildlife refuge at Poing near Munich was offered by the vhs-foto organizers (great team, by the way!), and usually they get all their seminars booked out within days of announcing them. They are extremely good value for money too, only 70€ for full 6 hours of helpful instructions. This time, it seems, Konrad might not have hit the Zeitgeist for this season :-)

I had attended three workshops with Konrad in the past, all of them in the Munich zoo Hellabrunn, and can not praise him high enough for always being available for tips and tricks, and being able to set expectations (and also lower them) about what is possible and what not – a very important reality check whether your own skills have progressed or if you are struggeling with the same problems (sharpness, mostly…) as the year before.

The Euros invested in workshops pay faster off than those in new equipment, if you ask me.

But honestly, as the weather has turned really bad in the last 12 hours – from 25° C sunshine (well, it is Oktoberfest right now and that is the expected weather for the 5th season in Munich…) down to 10° C and pouring rain, I am not too disappointed right now. Making good pictures in Poing without sun has been a challenge before, and can make you use very high ISO values you should better avoid.

So as compensation for you, one more photo from my last trip with Konrad:

It actually might give me some time for the next blog entries! Stay tuned and make sure to subscribe to my RSS feed!

Alpenglow blog — No Comments
28
Oct 08

The first day of the rest of my life (and yours too)

…and a new era, at least for me. Never considered blogging to be my type of thing, but having read many blogs over the last years, and having learned a lot, and laughed a lot, I decided to go down the same path as many did before and find me a place to share my thoughts, and in the case of this blog, my photos.

Being an amateur photographer enjoying being amateur only earning my money with my day job, I want to use this blog as my scrap book for ideas, photo sessions, learning experiences, reviews and bookmark collection. And of course I hope that someday somebody might find information here that is useful, giving me the chance to give back to the community a tiny fraction of what it has given to me.

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