War Photographer
Photojournalists are not allowed to enter Gaza, AP reports. In some cases, photographers were arrested by Israel’s military police, their cameras seized and the images erased. What is today’s role of photo journalists in war? Early War Photography The visualization of war scenes goes back to Renaissance. However, those paintings did not reach a mass [...]
Printing Digital Photographs
Printing digital photographs is the equivalent to the work in the darkroom in the film era. Printing Work-flow Of course, first comes appropriate RAW conversion, editing and post-processing before you can jump to the printing work-flow. These steps are not discussed here, i.e. there must already be a final edited photo with prepress proofing before [...]
Edward Hopper’s Influence on Contemporary Photography
I was in Vienna over the week-end to see the Hopper exhibition at the Kunsthalle: Western Motel. Edward Hopper and Contemporary Art. Great! I’ve already blogged about the exhibition. After getting up at 4 AM in the morning for the first flight (beautiful view over the alps in the sunrise!), we enjoyed a lot of [...]
Lausanne Half-Marathon
Yesterday I’ve run my first half-marathon in Lausanne at the lake Geneva. It’s a wonderful place with many villages on the course with famous names like Epesses and St. Saphorin well-known for their wine. Lake Geneva is also famous for the Montreux Jazz Festival and the song ‘Smoke on the Water‘ by Deep Purple (1972 [...]
Creating Time-lapse Movies
To create a time-lapse movie from a series of photos, consider the following points: Put the cam on a stable tripod. It’s not necessary to use the full resolution of the camera. Full high-definition (HD) video only has 1080 vertical pixels. For a typical 16:9 aspect ratio, use 1920 horizontal pixels. As an alternative, you [...]
The Barefoot Runner
After two weeks vacation in Sardinia, it’s quite hard to get it running again… On the beach, I read an interesting book about the life of the marathon runner Abebe Bikila: “Barefoot Runner” by Paul Rambali. Abebe Bikila was born 1932 in Ethiopia. He was spotted by Onni Niskanen, a Finn hired by the Ethiopian government to [...]