Danshui River Photowalk

Finally last Sun­day I could make it and join my sec­ond photo walk here in Tai­wan. This time Craig invited us to walk from Zhuwei MRT sta­tion to Danshui.

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Star Sky in Taiwans Mountains

Last Mon­day night I was lucky and was able to take some long time expose photo’s from an incred­i­ble clear sky full of stars. It was the first time for me that I saw so many stars on Taiwan’s sky.

All pho­tos was taken with my Nikon D3 mounted on a tri­pod with a wide angle lens f2.8/14-24mm @ 14mm. ISO set to 3600, shut­ter speed to 30 sec. and f2.8. The clouds are lit by vil­lages in the moun­tains and some far behind from Ilan.

Click on the images to see a larger ver­sion on a dark background.

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First Studio Trial

JuliaFinally I got my first stu­dio gear set­tled and found a vol­un­teer who was brave enough to stay in front of my cam­era. I decided to go for a set of two Elinchrom BXRi-500 strobes, inspired by a review from Scott Kelby on his Pho­to­shopIn­sider blog. Here is the link. As light shap­ing tools I used dif­fer­ent spot reflec­tors, one Rotalux octag­o­nal 135cm and one Rotalux rec­tan­gle 90x35cm soft-box.
Julia, a col­league from Ger­many who spend some weeks here in Tai­wan, agree to be my first ‘guinea pig’  in my stu­dio. We both had no make-up expe­ri­ence for stu­dio light­ing at all and we decided just to skip this part and con­cen­trate on light and pose.
By try­ing a lot of dif­fer­ent setups, poses and a bot­tle red wine we had a lot of fun with my try and error approach till late night and we was some­how sat­is­fied with the outcome.

Now I’m look­ing for the next vol­un­teer and hope there will be more pho­tos on my blog soon…

Here some more pho­tos from my first stu­dio ses­sion. ->Julia

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Skype for iPhone, it rocks but not for everyone…

Yes­ter­day I got aware that Skype is avail­able for iPhone. In the case I live in Tai­wan, ~8000 miles away from home, it is a good oppor­tu­nity to bypass the expen­sive cel­lu­lar net­work providers. It seems that this appli­ca­tion is not avail­able in all iTunes stores, espe­cially in coun­tries where the telecom­mu­ni­ca­tion com­pa­nies still behave like monop­o­lists. Accord­ing to the Ger­man ‘Mir­ror Online’, the Ger­man T-Mobil is going one step fur­ther, they sim­ply block this appli­ca­tion. Their argu­men­ta­tion: Qual­ity reasons….

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Transform: Inspiring Thoughts from a great Photographer (VIDEO)

Recently Scott Kelby host Zack Arias as guest blog­ger at his Pho­to­shop Insider blog. Zack Arias deliv­ered an uncon­ven­tional blog post in form of a video where deliv­ers inspir­ing thought. Highly recommended!

Orig­i­nal Video at zarias.com

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Model Shooting in Shi-Men-Ting

Hi, mid of Decem­ber last year I had the plea­sure to join a photo shoot­ing orga­nized by a Tai­wanese photo club ‘Pho­to­Sharp’. It was quite inter­est­ing to see the streets which are nor­mally so crowd that you can not see fur­ther then 10m now totally empty in a nice morn­ing light. It was really fun together with pho­tog­ra­phers all ages and a quite expe­ri­enced (not only beau­ti­ful! ) model who can han­dle a bunch of wilde photo shooters ;-)

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Three Photos from Singapore

Around Novem­ber 2007, I went to Sin­ga­pore and recently I found these three pho­tos from this trip I like to share with you.

Flamingos at the bird park Singapore Beach in Singapore Priest in little India in Singapore

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Boys need toy’s

Now it is my… The iPhone 3G and it sup­port Wordpess :)

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Free RAW File Preview for Windows Explorer

Nor­mally it is not pos­si­ble to see the lit­tle pre­view images of your RAW files brows­ing through your files and fold­ers with the Win­dows Explorer. Only JPEG, GIF and TIFF pic­tures could be pre­viewed. With the help of the quite use­fully Plug-in form Arc­Soft you can see the lit­tle thump­nails from most RAW for­mats, also the cam­era inde­pen­dend DNG for­mat from Adobe. You can down­load the Plug-in from Arc­Soft for free. Dur­ing the instal­la­tion wo are asked to enter your email address for reg­is­tra­tion but you can can­cel the reg­is­tra­tion process later when it switch to your Inter­net browser. I tried already and it works fine so far…

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Lantern Festival 2008 Taipei 101

Yes­ter­day I had the chance after a busi­ness din­ner to take some pho­tos from the lantern fes­ti­val around Taipei 101. I real­ized that shoot­ing in high ISO is not a major dis­ci­pline of my Nikon D300.

Moon and Taipei 101 I Moon and Taipei 101 II Stone Monk

Taipei 101 II Man in Green

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Taipei 101 I Taipei 101 II Memorial Hall I

Lantern I Lantern II Lantern III

Memorial Hall II Memorial Hall III Memorial Hall IV

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