robvisual - photography

Just wait for it and don't do a thing. Just let it happen and watch the financial crisis slowly unfold itself. But don't come crying when it hits you hard and there is no option left than following the billionaires. Sapere aude!  

     

This is my photographic view on this new landmark in Hamburg. I tried to avoid the cliche and focused more on the tourists and the surrounding architecture.

A good question. Let us put the price beside and pretend you have enough money to buy every Fuji camera out there. Would you buy the GFX? It has a resolution of 50 megapixels and you can do different shots with a different depth of field and less noise etc. I know that there are some reasons to gain more resolution when it comes to product photography or fashion photography. But keep in mind that you can archive medium format like results for many occasions by using today's panorama algorithms. 35mm f8.0 / 50 megapixels by combining two images free hand - works even with street shots Just think out of the box. Aim your camera at a subject and think about the possibilities in post production. The next image was taken in London at the Barbican Centre (a nice socialist looking urban landscape) and I had my 35mm attached to my XPRO2. A wide angle lens was not at hand and I wanted more resolution so I can crop the images and print it on a larger scale. Barbican Centre London ...

I love street and documentary photography from my heart but sometimes I need a little break from it to gain new inspiration. Do I need to put the camera away for a certain amount of time? No. I can have a break without doing so. the new Elbphilharmonie in Hamburg (long exposure, XT1) I use long exposure, architecture and travel photography as a break from the daily routine Sometimes I meet with a friend who is mainly addicted to long exposure photography. We meet and look out for some nice places to take some photos. At the end we have a nice (vegan) burger and a craft beer. For me this kind of photography is the opposite of what I do most of the time with my camera attached to my eyes. It is more reduced to one subject. You try to find the right exposure and viewing angle. You play with the settings and the whole thing feels like fishing: it's quiet and slow. You focus more on one perfect shot out of fifty or hundred resulting images. That one big fish. the stage (X...

Composition and timing are good friends. When you find a good spot it is useful to camp there and wait for something to come into the frame. The following photo was made in a backyard of a group of small skyscrapers. Each building was painted in a different color and the backyard was mostly grey with some trees in the middle. I stopped by an interesting scene full of diagonals, shapes and an open frame that called for a moving subject walking into it. The walking subject adds more life to the photo. The lines are leading the viewers eyes into the hole in the upper middle where the movement is taking place. The different shades of grey and the green and blue tones in the fore- and background creating an artificial and futuristic look. Perfect for an urban street photo. I will print this one and hang it on a wall at home. Cheers, Nils

Sometimes an open aperture is great to give a architecture photo more visual punch and make it look more 3D. I love the different colors in this photo. But with an open aperture focused on the VSN-tag in the middle of the scene it works even better. The vanishing point does the rest. X-PRO1 (35mm at 1.4)

train (x100s) I took this shot under a building that leaves a gap for the underground train tunnel near the town hall in Hamburg. I love the framing of the building and tonal bandwith of the scene in black & white.

This is a snapshot in evening-light. I did some pp in lightroom to lower the exposure of the sky and bringing out some details. castle schwerin (x100s edited in lightroom)