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2015-01-25 People: Bad Guy Good Girls

Studio session with:KC, Rassamee and Böhser Onkel

Topics: Strange kind of Kormorant, Steampunk Ladiy, Moonchild, Warriors of the Wasteland (inspired by the upcoming Mad Max Movie and House of 1000 Corpses

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2014-07-06 Ha Ny in the magical forest

Today i was finaly able to take some pictures of the beautiful model Ha Ny in a forest south of Munich. I am always looking forward to shooting a new face.

All images were shot with available light only using the E-M1 and the 12-40/2.8 and 75/1.8 lenses with exposure adjusted to the face of the model, i.e. the background was deliberately overexposed. This effect was further enhanced in Photoshop and with RadLab filters.

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2013-11-02: A bad case of GAS or "Bigger is better"

You may ask yourself why someone using a mFT camera is writing about GAS and FF sensors. Well, today we met at Stefan's studio for a workshop on how to create realistic scars. It was a bit late for Halloween but we had lots of fun and Nadja (Spiegellicht) did a great job teaching. During lunch one of the participating photographers asked for advice regarding an affordable FF camera because he thought his own APS-C model wasn't good enough anymore and he wanted a bigger sensor but had limited budget. I was a bit puzzled because i simply adore his pictures and never assumed he was feeling his gear was not producing good enough quality.

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2012-02-11 The OM-D E-M5 Sensor Mystery

Last Friday i had the chance to test my latest object of photographic desire: an Olympus OM-D E-M5. I honestly admitt that i was actually less interested in taking pictures than in finding out what the supposedly new sensor can achieve in terms of high ISO and DR, whether it is on par with or better as the E-P3 … AND last but not least who designed it and who builds it.

On Friday evening i actually considered dissassembling the camera, when my friend Catherine called me. She happens to be a kind of priestress of an ancient and forgotten cult and lives south of Munich in the middle of a beautiful area with lots of forrest, hills and small lakes. Catherine is really something special, not only because at 55 she looks even better than Madonna but also because she has the uncanny ability to learn things by simply touching them (works with human hands too) and she owns a crystal ball that – according to her – sometimes allows her to see the future as well as the present and the past.

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2008-10-11 People: Nude Workshop @ Stefan Gesell

I wanted to improve my portrait and people photography because due to hating being photographed myself i realized that i was simply shy taking pictures of others, assuming they'd hate it as much as i do.

Instead of booking some boring portrait workshop i decided to book a 2 day nude, portrait and post-processing workshop with Stefan Gesell, an artist i admire very much because his images are very special. Additionally the Photoshop queen Melancholie promised to show us some of her beauty retouche tricks.

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