Love is … on a cold Autumn eve on Lake Zurich
Love is a dark silhouette … invisible without a colourful background.
Pictures shot hand-held in the darkness of a November eve thanks to Nikon D800 plus Nikon f/1.4 50 mm (f/1.6 ISO 800 1/100 sec)
Finibus Maris Nostri: the East end of the Mediterranean Sea at Haifa shores, Israel.
When in Haifa, climb up Mount Carmel at sunset and enjoy when the city lightens up at your feet.
Sunset from Stella Maris Monastery on Mount Carmel.
The Israel Oceanographic and Limnological Research (IOLR), Haifa.
Bat Galim area from the uphill district Carmel Hof
Haifa from Carmel Hof
Haifa harbour and power plant.
Enjoy the full night view from the awesome terrace of Barbarossa restaurant on the mountain top.
Click to magnify each picture. All shot with D800 plus Nikon 16-35 mm f/4 or Nikon 70-200 mm f/2.8
The night sky over Brunnen fires: a night on the Swiss Alps with D800
After a 5-hour-long hike up-and-down from Stoos to Fronalpstock with camera-tele-50mm-wideangle-tripod on my back …
… the night of the 1st of August covered the sky and the peaks of Rigi and Pilatus and the Mythen and the lake boats with fire…
Wood-fire and fireworks in a night enlighten by the Milky Way.
Up there, through Scorpio to down there on Lake Lucerne, billions of fires turned on.
What a show the night sky on the Alps… watch it at least once in your life…
How to feel (the) blue without the need of a tripod: the Nikon 16-35 mm f/4 VR
The long awaited Summer painted the city of Zurich with its finest blue.
Can you feel the whispering of the couples walking in the streets of the old town?
Do you hear the chatting of the restaurant guests from the outdoor tables?
People and buildings and sky blend in these nights of forgotten dreams.
The most beautiful time of the year, the longest blue nights did not come unseen:
suck all the marrow out of these nights with greed.
And in case you are just walking around with your camera but not with your tripod, the Nikon 16-35 mm f/4 VR on my D800 made an excellent job. Pictures all shot hand held with times down to 1/3 sec (!) Click to open them full size in a new tab.
Alps REWIND: a D800 interval-timer-shooting point-of-view
Interval timer shooting seems easy. Just fix the camera on a tripod, switch off all automatic setups, start the program and wait to fill up the card(s).
However, I could not find yet a way to have a smooth from-day-to-night sequence. Whatever slightly overexposed setup for the day I choose, it will be too dark for the night.
I could find no software for auto-toning the whole sequence. Additionally, with too dark pictures colour noise increases and does not look good. Any help is appreciated.
