New HDR's.
It's been a long time since I last posted some of my images here. I'm trying to upload at least 5 new works every week…
Photography (72)
Medium format photography, visual storytelling, and experiments in style – with a focus on people and places.
Jewelz - Mermaid (Original Mix)
3.318 pictures were used in this video. Shot entirely in Shanghai, China. Jewelz' track was produced by Pete Tong's Bedroom Bedlam and can be bought…
Tianjin Business Trip.
Jiajia and I have been in Tianjin on a business trip. Tianjin is about one hour away from Beijing and has not that much too…
Lights. Taken with my new Tamron lens.
So, a 300mm lens is finally mine. Actually, it's a 70mm - 300mm lens from Tamron. Now my Nikon D50 can take pictures of things…
A walk on the wall.
Yesterday we took a day off from all that family-meeting-during-spring-festival business and took a almost two hour long walk on the famous Xi'An city wall.
Golden week, so far: Ningbo, a lake, tea mountain and faked cities.
This pictures was not taken in Beijing.
Confusing headline? You should have seen me when I was standing in the fake forbidden palace! Hengdian World Studios is the name of the crazy movie studio that 'rebuild' the forbidden city for cinematic purposes. And not only Beijing, but they also copied some buildings from Xi'An, Hongkong, Guangzhou and other cities. I didn't know this, but quite a few big movie titles were completely or partly shot here: Gong Li's THE EMPEROR AND THE ASSASSIN, Zhen Kaige's horrible THE PROMISE and last but not least Zhang Yimou's latest drama THE CURSE OF THE GOLDEN FLOWER. And countless chinese TV series, as it seems.
Jin Mao Tower & World Financial Center: Vertical Panoramas.
So when I went to Lujiazui yesterday to take some new Pudong pictures for the ChinaNext competition, all of a sudden an idea flew to my head: Why not create a vertical panorama of the beautiful Jin Mao tower? So I took five images at full zoom and stitched them together in Photoshop CS3, which has a new and goddamn hard rocking Photomerging function. Do you like the result?
Cooking spaghetti - my way.
Since my guests always seem to like my spaghetti, I thought I'd post my recipe. Today my friend theshanghaieye from flickr came over and took pics while my wife and I were cooking, so you can see the progress with images.
Nikon D50 HDR test: Single RAW vs. 3 RAW's vs. 3 JPEG's.
Since people keep telling me that you can achieve better HDR results by taking images with different exposures, I performed a test for this. I was quite surprised by the result. But let's begin with the setup.
Zhouzhuang.
Zhouzhuang is supposed to be the most famous, or at least most beautiful water town in China. You may have never heard of it, but…
D50 RAW to HDR tutorial.
NEW TUTORIAL FROM 2009 HERE!
Here it is, the promised Nikon D50 HDR tutorial or 'How To Make A HDR Image Out Of A Single RAW file'. Do you want to make a image like the one above? Then read my tutorial and try for yourself. Now I didn't teach everything myself, I learned a lot from 'stuck in customs', but there are some things I do different. Let's get started.
(Fake) wedding pictures.
Following the chinese tradition, we had a couple of wedding images taken yesterday. Funny, in China you have to shoot these pictures before and not…