fuchsphoto photoblog

TURBULENT WATER

Thu, 06 May 2010 14:21 +0200

The river "Blau" which means blue in Ulm. A detail shot taken during a phototour through the city of Ulm.

RED VESPA

Thu, 06 May 2010 14:19 +0200

This red scooter caught my eyes when walking through the city of Ulm. A friend of mine acted as a human lightstand. The flash was fired by remote.

PICTURE POSTCARD FROM ULM

Thu, 06 May 2010 14:17 +0200

This is one shot out of many from a photowalk through the old part of Ulm/Germany

ELKE

Thu, 06 May 2010 14:16 +0200

This is one shot out of many from a portrait session with a friend. See here the complete colleciton.

FROSTY MORNING

Fri, 19 Mar 2010 15:09 +0200

Composition out of 3 images. Sun and background, tree, grass

MAX

Fri, 19 Mar 2010 15:03 +0200

My "little" baby boy. 17 months

Used the black foamie thing by Niel van Niekerk with flash on camera pointed to the left wall, controlled by a black foam not so spill to the front. This was more like a snapshot as my kids were sitting on the couch in my office room at home.

LONESOME TREE

Fri, 15 Jan 2010 12:19 +0200

Mandatory winter shot of a single tree. Taken during a short walk near Ulm.

T O R N

Thu, 12 Nov 2009 15:19 +0200

3 single images:

The face was the background image. Some beauty retouching below my eyes to remove crinkles.
The paper was copied and flipped horizontally to have two edges. After that they were arranged so that they form a cut. Then via a layer mask with a pretty sharp brush the paper cut was extracted by painting the rest of the paper black in the layer mask to hide it. Layer property was "negative multiply".
The hand was extracted using the magnetic lasso. This was pretty easy as the contrast to the background was high enough. Later on this hand was added as a layer and the edges were fine tuned using a layer mask and a round brush with a slight soft edge.

Some fine tuning like painting the shadow inside the hole, adding a shadow under the thumb, adding shadows below the whole hand, colour saturate the eyes a bit, sharpening, text with drop shadow and hiding my shirt with a soft light layer painting black with a soft brush.

So all in all no real difficult techniques. It took me about 2 hours for taking the photos (selfportrait, hand and paper), importing them into lightroom, basic editing, exporting them to photoshop and doing the steps mentioned above. After all I converted it to 8 bit Mode, changed the color space to sRGB and saved it as a JPG. The original PSD file has about 400MB and 19 Layers.

Strobist info: One silver reflective umbrella directly over camera, powered by a Nikon SB-26 at 1/2 power, triggered via Cactus remote. Nikon D300, 50mm 1.8@f10, ISO 200, cable release

I did it my way

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 15:25 +0200

Another selfportrait I took just for fun. I wanted to try some extreme editing. This time the clarity was risen and sharpened with a very high radius. This enhances shadows a lot.
Setup: Silver reflector umbrella behind camera with one flash, and one flash left behind me.

Engagement

Mon, 12 Oct 2009 08:47 +0200

Shot during an engagement shooting of some friends. I like the tight crop here and the pure black & white.