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Ever wondered why those product shots look that much better than the pictures you take of your grand-granddad’s heirloom watch? Most probably because of the light. As we all know, lighting is everything in photography. A lightbox is a neat little gadget that helps you light stuff you want to take a picture of. Well, it’s not suited for everything because of spacial restrictions, so people will most likely not fit in there. But everything else does, like watches, food or that amazing shell you found on the shore last vacation. This little article shows how I built myself a cheap lightbox, so maybe you can take inspiration from this. There’s of course countless other build instructions on the web on how to do this, so feel free to fire up Google and get creative!

Here are the first results I got from my lightbox. Not great, but ok I think. I need another flash light…

Just thought this app looks pretty interesting. Essentially it’s a remote control for your Canon DSLR for Android devices. It is still in beta and only a very limited selection of devices is supported (meaning only the Galaxy S2 – good I own one – and some Gingerbread tablets). The idea is acutally pretty cool though, I could imagine this to be pretty useful in some situations. Guess I’ll check it out when it’s out of beta

As you may have probably noticed, I have moved my digital photography efforts to Flickr. It’s just way more convenient to host and organize the pictures there, plus they get more exposure I found some nice plugins though for WordPress to link my Flickr account into the site. On the right you can see the latest pictures of my photo stream and on the photography page here there’s an up to date list of all my Flickr collections.

If you’re into digital photography you should definitely consider creating a Flickr account. For me, the switch was good as it motivates me more to post process my images and put them online. Otherwise they catch virtual dust on the hard drive and no one ever gets to see them.

Last Friday my old colleague Tilo paid me a visit and since he’s an ambitioned hobbyist when it comes to photography (check out his Flickr account: http://www.flickr.com/photos/galllo) we decided to do a little bit of that. We decided to do a tribute to the great Dustin Diaz and recreate his night shot portrait style as best as we could. Here’s one of the results:

You can see Tilo’s efforts in his photostream. The light setup consisted of three speedlights, one to the left through an umbrella using an orange gel, one from the right behind bare white and one behind the subject with a green gel. The last one is barley visible as it just pointed on the floor. Funny thing was, this was shot right in the middle of Karlsruhe with a lot of people passing by. I wonder how many of them were thinking we were doing some sort of professional shooting there …

When I found out that I could  use my Google account to login in to Flickr I made an account there as well. I’m yet undecided where I will post pictures from now. I just know that I don’t want to keep two places up to date. We’ll see how Flickr does.

Not posted anything in a while, been kinda busy with other stuff and also lazy

Alas, I did finish selecting and postprocessing images from a walk in the forest I made with my girlfriend some weeks ago. Autumn is a really good time of the year to be in the forests, when the sun is shining everything is colored in bright oranges and yellows. Pretty lovely! So without further ado:

Forest walk

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Camera / Type	Canon EOS 550D
Aperture	F 5.6
Focal Length	55 mm
Shutter speed	1/160 sec
Date / Time	31/10/2010 13:57