by Matthias Kirsch | Aug 27, 2010 | Photo of the day
Today’s photo is taken at the beach close to Waabs, on the baltic sea near Eckernförde. I was testing the “black card technique” here (as described here on Flickr), but the effect of the darkened sky was lost again in the black-and-white conversion....
by Matthias Kirsch | Aug 26, 2010 | Photo of the day
This herring gull surprised us on a little canoe trip on the river Schwentine close to the state capital, Kiel. When I saw it coming with the low sun illuminating it from behind I just had enough time to quickly raise the camera and fire two shots. I love the position...
by Matthias Kirsch | Aug 24, 2010 | Photo of the day
This photo of black-eyed susans was supposed to be part of a series of three postcards. Today I picked up the first test print.. terrible! It seems the printing service people were feeling bad for my photos, which lacked contrast and saturation… and cranked up...
by Matthias Kirsch | Aug 22, 2010 | Photo of the day
I took this photo of the Cathedral here in Schleswig on the longest day of this year, almost at midnight. We don’t have midnight sun in this area , but it stays quite bright around june 21st. The cathedral “St. Peter” is one of the mot important...
by Matthias Kirsch | Aug 21, 2010 | Photo of the day
I love barley fields in early summer. The soft stalks wave in the slightest wind like a green carpet. Add some dramatic clouds to it and you got me. This photo is actually made of three exposures combined to an HDR image and then tonemapped to have a dramatic, somehow...
