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Last Saturday in Taipei

Matthias — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 10:00:02 +0000

Images from a walk through Taipei last Saturday afternoon.

Street View

Girl

Fontain

Taipei 101

Food Corner

Coca Cola Back Yard

No Alcohol is No Solution

Experimenting With Video

Matthias — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 12:21:55 +0000

Recently I bought a GoPro Hereo 2 to record some of my motorcycle rides here in Taiwan. It also gives me a chance to play around with video editing which is a completely new field for me. A major challenge is to add some music to your footage without getting in trouble with copyrights. Even if you bought the music on CD and your video is not for any commercial purpose it will be easily blocked by YouTube in certain countries. E.g. due to GEMA restrictions in Germany. There are many sources in the Internet where you can find free music for your videos but it is quite time consuming to find a suitable one. I finally found some music for the video below here at Jamendo. There is a interesting blog post at fstoppers.com for more sources of Royalty Free Music for video editors.

So here the first result:

Sonnentor Cafe

Matthias — Sun, 04 Dec 2011 14:14:00 +0000

Nice coffee shop with an art focused decoration.

Head Shots

Matthias — Sun, 27 Nov 2011 05:23:55 +0000

Last weekend I played around with my Westcott Apollo JS 50″ Softbox and Elinchrom Quatra at my living room studio. It is a great combination withe the really large softbox designed for speedlights but with the power of the Quadras.

First approach was as a single light from camera right to feather over the face. It pointed in from 90deg and was very close close to the face.

Second I placed the softbox right behind camera to give it more a beauty lighting look. The large 50″ softbox creates a real nice and soft light ad you can see me standing in front if it in the catch lights in her eyes.

I rally like the 50″ Westcott with the indirect lighting. The flash had is inside the box and pointing into the boox that the light will be reflected ones first before it goes through the front diffuser. It is a great combination for ‘on location’ shots. The only problem could be the huge size in strong wind conditions. So you need a strong assistant to get old of it ;-)

All photos were shot with my Nikon D3 and my 105mm/f2.0 DC lens to limit the DOF.

Vintage Photos

Matthias — Wed, 07 Sep 2011 10:00:45 +0000

Istanbul

Turkey August 1989.

Vintage Photos

Matthias — Tue, 06 Sep 2011 10:00:55 +0000

Fisher Man

On my trip to Greece summer 1989. A small fisher village near by Volos.

Fisher Man

Vintage Photos

Matthias — Mon, 05 Sep 2011 10:00:18 +0000

Mud Camp

After a lot of rain the camp ground becomes so muddy that this was the best use of it.
Pfingsten 1989

Vintage Photos

Matthias — Sat, 03 Sep 2011 10:00:47 +0000

Palm Tree

The first palm tree in the nature I saw in my live. Sicily, Dec. 1988

Vintage Photos

Matthias — Fri, 02 Sep 2011 10:00:14 +0000

Breakfast

December 1988 in Sicily, breakfast in the morning sun…

Vintage Photos

Matthias — Thu, 01 Sep 2011 10:00:34 +0000

Olive Trees

On my Sicily trip Dec. 1988 my friend and I spend one night below these two olive trees. We were walking there late night so we only saw after sunrise how beautiful this place was we picked.