PEOPLE, REPORTAGE, SPORTS

What do you know about Schwingfest 2013 in Trub (Switzerland) ?

Trub is a town in the upper region of Emmental.
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Emmental is a Swiss valley that names the cheese you probably know.
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Schwingen is a Swiss traditional sport, similar to catch.
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Fighters score points with special combos in a time of 5 minutes.
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The fight ends by knocking down the opponents on their back.
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The winner becomes the king of the Schwingfest!
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Last but not least beauty is an important part of the festival!
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If you pass by Switzerland between May and August get the chance to watch the fighters of a Schwingfest! Watch the full reportage on our flickr.com channel by clicking here.

All pictures shot with a 70-200 VR-II on D800

FREE TIME, REPORTAGE

Artborghi’s reportage on La Dolce Vita: a tour in Rome with D800 and 16-35mm f/4 for Easter 2013

What better occasion than a trip to Rome to test the 16-35mm f/4G, or was it the other way round ? Click on each post picture to open a flickr.com artborghi set either on Rome or on Ancient Roman locations or Vatican City. For technical specifications and tricks, just read further below
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The city of Rome perfectly fits in 16 mm: click here for more pictures on the “Dolce Vita” in Rome

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The huge floor mosaics of Ostia Antica need wide angles to be captured: click here for more pictures on Roman ruins

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Saint Peter is the biggest church in the word: a perfect playground for wide zooms. Click here for more pictures shot in the Vatican City of the new Pope Francesco

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BLACK&WHITE, FROZEN, WATER

The long winter in Zurich almost passed by …

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These pictures show the two faces of the Brunnen (fountain) you can find in Stadelhofen square in Zurich. Despite the frozen temperatures, the City of Zurich leaves several fountains running through the whole winter. The effect is quite spectacular, as you can see by clicking the two pictures of this post.

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Will they ever wake up as Spring approaches again?

COLORS, LESSONS

White Balance or Automatic White Balance? A delicate state of mind: the Nikon D800 case.

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I recently had the duty to shoot overcast-outdoor-mixed-with-tungsten-and-candle-lit-low-light-indoor (quite a nightmare without flash) and I always had the D800 AWB on. I tested Lr on raw files to see how good was my choice. D800 AWB was  doing a very good job … look at the paper in the hand of the girl in the post picture: it was white, not cyan, not yellow.

WB is quite an artistic choice, not a technical one. That said, there are different WB schools out there. Purists go for a fixed daylight WB. Warm-saturation lovers go for a fixed overcast WB. If you do not belong to any of them, you are probably very often satisfied with your AWB and you correct it in raw when needed.

There are many rumours around D800 bad quality AWB and suggestions agree on A2, M1 (or even A3, M2!). It’s a good solution to get better pictures on the LCD … and magenta overcast pictures on the card. So, I would not suggest doing such adjustment.

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