Code Crunching

Most of you readers know, that photography is one of my hobbies. Being born in '77 and having real contact with cameras in the mid '90 for the first time, I am a kid of the zooms. I did not even really think about fixed focal lengths. In the last months I have read over and over, that using fixed focal lengths is the best that one can do to improve when taking photography a little more serious.

So searching I learned about the "nifty fifty" from Canon. Why am I writing that? Simply, if you own a Canon and want to learn more about it, think about getting this lens. It usually comes for less than 100 EUR/USD and is a very good glass for that money. Lot's of light and fairly good optics for less than any other SLR lens on the market.

Now, I have taken this step and started on a group on Flickr.com called "Project 50." They encourage you to take 50 photos using a 50mm prime lens. It is fun and it should teach you quiet a lot about photo composition. Below is the fourth photo I've published using the lens and I love it. What do you think?

Taking over... on Flickr.com

I am interested how I'll improve over the coming weeks toying around with that lens. I am already very interested in doing more prime lens photography. But new lenses will have to wait, since they usually are a lot more expensive than 99 Euro in a media market chain store ;-)   

Vor wenigen Tagen hat Olympus die neue Pen Kamera E-P1 offiziell vorgestellt. Jetzt bietet Olympus Deutschland 10 Fotografen die Möglichkeit die neue Kamera zu testen. Sie haben Interesse? Dann bewerben Sie sich doch einfach mal: http://www.olympus.de/digitalkamera/pen.htm#?home

Ich habe mich auch beworben und will die Kamera liebend gerne mit der Canon EOS 5D Mark II vergleichen. Mal schauen, ob es klappt. Schreiben Sie in die Bewerbung, warum gerade Sie der geeignete Kandidat sind und vielleicht haben Sie Glück und können die Kamera testen.   

Ein guter Freund von mir, André Hotzler, veranstaltet am 11. Juli 2009 einen Fotoworkshop, welcher sich speziell an Amateure richtet. In 4 Stunden erhalten die Teilnehmer Einblick in die Zusammenhänge von Blende, Verschlusszeit und ISO-Empfindlichkeit und den daraus resultierenden Ergebnissen. Wenn auch Sie schon immer mal weg wollten von den Standardprogrammen Ihrer Kamera und Ihre Kreativität zum Ausdruck bringen wollen, dann schauen Sie doch mal rein.

Alle Informationen zum Kurs und zur Anmeldung finden Sie auf XING: https://www.xing.com/events/359475/description

Well, in a word: fantastic! The "Delphi-Tage" (Delphi Days), this year in Hamburg, are over. Last Friday and Saturday were great. Lots of sessions, quiet a few things to learn (and give away), fantastic people and friends. It was great. Thanks to all speakers and visitors, as well as thanks to Sabine Rothe from Embacadero Germany and Daniel Wolf of the Delphi-PRAXiS for making the event such a success!!!

Here is a selection of my pictures:

Do you have pictures yourself? Publish them on Flickr.com and tag them with the following tags: Delphi-Tage 2009 Hamburg Delphi Tage myEvents:event=Delphi-Tage myEvents:DT=2009, allowing us to display them on www.delphi-tage.de.