Yesterday I discovered the work of David Chancellor, especially his project on „the complex relationship that man has with animal in sub Saharan Africa, seen through the eyes of the tourist trophy hunter“. The documentary work is amazing and the topic very interesting. So far the project was completely self funded by David. To print a limited edition of 2000 copies in cooperation with an dutch fine art publisher he needs the support of the photographic community. So I pledged $75 what will get me a signed 1st edition book as soon as it’s published. What hopefully will be in October.
Go on, watch the video below and support this great project.
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As last year on Mallorca, where we layed our hands on the G3, it was a lot of fun and perfectly organized by JDB – thanks to Catie. We had two days packed with sun, rain, wind and a lot of activities. Thank you Panasonic!
I have to say I like Sylt and would like to go back there to photograph more of the landscape and the people. It’s an interesting mix.
Short review of the Lumix G5
The Lumix G5 is a really good camera in it’s market. It sits perfectly in my rather small hands and after knowing the Lumix G3 I was really quickly comfortable using it. The AF is fast and the electronic shutter is completely silent. That makes this camera perfect for shooting completely unnoticed. Combined with the brilliant 20mm f/1.7 pancake lens it’s a small, light and very fast camera. I can’t say much about the image quality because I’m not able to process the RAW files, yet. The JPGs look good, though.
If you are in the game of buying a mirrorless interchangeable lens camera, definitely have a closer look at this one.
Shooting square format right out of the camera is what I really like and what my X100 isn’t able to do. So I took the opportunity and only shot squares on Sylt.
But now let’s look at some images I shot with it on the first day. I will post photos from day two in a separate entry. As I said these are JPGs, processed in Lightroom.
Had a pretty heavy rain shower today here in Hamburg. I snapped this one out of my window which was open all the time. I like the sound and the smell of the rain, especially if it was warm before. Have a nice sunday evening.
Yesterday we released a new version of the QUOTE.fm bookmarklet. It looks better, gives more information about the article you are going to recommend and generally behaves more like the rest of QUOTE.fm. In the future it’ll also give you the ability to read an article now or later and even send it to your Kindle.
To use the all new bookmarklet you don’t need to do anything. Just use it like before, it’s automatically updates to the newest version.
The summer in Hamburg is finally here – at least for a few days. So yesterday we decided to have a small barbecue celebrating our QUOTE.fm iPad app beta. I had a hard time deciding between processing the photos in color or black and white. I went with the latter as you can see. I think it’s harder to take and develop a good black and white image but I think it turned out well. Stay with me or just wait until Marcel posts his color photos from yesterday afternoon.
I shot this photo last weekend as I took a walk around our office. It has no deep meaning or something like that, the scene just caught my attention and I like the result. I can’t tell why, it even is in portrait orientation which is quite unusual for me but it just worked better.
I discovered the documentary work of Daniel Milnor already some time ago but got distracted by other photographers and styles. Now I’m back to reading a lot about his work and his thoughts as well as viewing his photographs. I’m trying to understand what he’s doing and why he’s doing it. Gone are the days of skipping over blogposts with a bunch of photos without reading the text accompanying them. Or at least that’s how I want it to be.
Daniel also does a lot of videos in which he presents photos and gives a back story and some advice. One of the best is about environmental portraits and you can watch it below.
On our trip to Bonn last week we stayed at the InterCity Hotel next to the main station. The room was okay and the breakfast good. Just the view out of my window wasn’t quite that nice, but as someone pointed out to me on Facebook, it seems to summarize the look of Bonn quite well. No offense.
