by Matthias Kirsch | Jan 16, 2011 | Photo of the day
We made a short trip to the baltic sea today for a short Sunday walk. One the way back we could already see the light of the cathedral reflected in the clouds, later from the hills we saw the cathedral itself. The sky was clearing fast from the west, so I took a...
by Matthias Kirsch | Jan 15, 2011 | Photo of the day
Experimented a bit with smoke photos today. I got a scent stick that produces a constant flow of smoke and put one flash beside it. Then I set the camera to take a totally dark exposure in the light of the room, so that the only visible light came from the flash....
by Matthias Kirsch | Jan 14, 2011 | Photo of the day
An electric guitar entered our house on Christmas. Combined with the Beatle-Mania of Javi that reached it’s climax at the end of the year, it was used regularly right away. I used the “session” on Saturday morning to test some (for me at least) new...
by Matthias Kirsch | Jan 13, 2011 | Photo of the day
Okay, this snake is not real… anymore, at least. This snake skin was brought back to “life” in the natural museum in Flensburg. I liked the contrast of the greenish/blueish background made by florescent lights and the warm foreground created by...
by Matthias Kirsch | Jan 12, 2011 | Photo of the day
Don’t they look like that? I took this photo in 2006 in Finland, on the frozen Aura river. Those leafs of ice occured one frosty morning, and they got me enchanted. A whole part of the ice surface was looking like this, like made by a confectioner. Yummy…...
by Matthias Kirsch | Jan 11, 2011 | Photo of the day
On the weekend I was experimenting one morning with creating soft light by putting a white bed sheet in one door frame and shooting one or two flashes though it. While my “model” was not that much happy with those efforts, Lumi was all the more interested....