My trip in Alsace
My trip in Alsace
Since I don’t contribute much I thought I’d post some of the photographs I took this week during my trip in Northern France.
Random photos from Colmar, Alsace.
Sigolsheim, Alsace. “The grateful Alsace, the veterans of the 1st French Army, Rhine and Danube, to their American friends. Liberation of Alsace 1944/1945, 21e CA US, 3e DI US, 28e DI US, 75e DI US, 12e DB US, 36e DI US, 45e DI US, 62e DI US, 103e DI US”
Kaysersberg, Alsace
Stained-glass windows from a church in Sélestat, Alsace
The Alsatian plain viewed from the dungeon of the Haut-Koenigsbourg castle.
Offenburg, Germany.
And a stupid bonus, taken at night in Sètes, Southern France.
Random photos from Colmar, Alsace.
Sigolsheim, Alsace. “The grateful Alsace, the veterans of the 1st French Army, Rhine and Danube, to their American friends. Liberation of Alsace 1944/1945, 21e CA US, 3e DI US, 28e DI US, 75e DI US, 12e DB US, 36e DI US, 45e DI US, 62e DI US, 103e DI US”
Kaysersberg, Alsace
Stained-glass windows from a church in Sélestat, Alsace
The Alsatian plain viewed from the dungeon of the Haut-Koenigsbourg castle.
Offenburg, Germany.
And a stupid bonus, taken at night in Sètes, Southern France.
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Thank you all for the positive feedback.
Richard, HDR is an amazing tool though the risk is to produce images that are all alike. Just to be precise, only the photos of Colmar, the backhoe and the church are HDR.
Glenn, thank you. A few weeks ago I hit a wall and was not able to produce any images to my satisfaction. I deliberately decided to ban my routine tools in order to force me to use new post-processing techniques.
By the way, here’s a bonus, the church from Kaysersberg:
Richard, HDR is an amazing tool though the risk is to produce images that are all alike. Just to be precise, only the photos of Colmar, the backhoe and the church are HDR.
Glenn, thank you. A few weeks ago I hit a wall and was not able to produce any images to my satisfaction. I deliberately decided to ban my routine tools in order to force me to use new post-processing techniques.
By the way, here’s a bonus, the church from Kaysersberg:
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Dominic, I like how I managed to take all the photographs with nobody in them.
Gareth, thank you very much. What you like is the perspective distortion created by the ultra-wide-angle lens (damn, how am I suppose to hyphen ultra wide angle lens?). It allows for a wide angle of view of 102.4° and a minimal focusing distance of 9.4" / 24 cm. Anything near the border is heavily distorted. For comparison purpose, look at that (heavily post-processed) canon:
Here’s the same canon taken two years ago with a regular wide-angle lens.
Gareth, thank you very much. What you like is the perspective distortion created by the ultra-wide-angle lens (damn, how am I suppose to hyphen ultra wide angle lens?). It allows for a wide angle of view of 102.4° and a minimal focusing distance of 9.4" / 24 cm. Anything near the border is heavily distorted. For comparison purpose, look at that (heavily post-processed) canon:
Here’s the same canon taken two years ago with a regular wide-angle lens.
I keep going back to look at the one of the village, it looks like a model railway layout - surreal.Gareth wrote:Yukio, I am so impressed with your photography that I have downloaded them all to my computer to use as background photographs. I'm using the one with the digger in it at the moment. I find that one particularly interesting in the way you have taken the photo.
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Give a man a fire, he'll be warm for a day.
Set a man on fire, he'll be toasty for the rest of his life.
Dominic