tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36716752024-02-19T13:17:37.695+01:00Jim's PhotoblogTasty bits of photo art and writing from my creative kitchenJim Martinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14583963002037127112noreply@blogger.comBlogger231125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3671675.post-25919947683758234882022-01-25T13:39:00.002+01:002022-01-25T13:39:00.168+01:00Flowery fish-eye photos<p>I first purchased a fish-eye lens in 2012. That was an ASP-C f3.5/12mm lens that found much use for my "Looking up" series. When I bought the full-frame f2.0/6.5mm lens, I was able to triple the scope of my viewing to 190°. In contrast to the older lens, the new one produces a round image. </p><p>Here is the same room (the baroque palace in Ludwigsburg) taken with the 12mm (effectively 18mm) and 6.5mm lenses:</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhREOZa9T5HMgDtzOUO6xjt-nuRynbaJG0Bsm6GhxYCdEzuNuTO4MUm2Tt3WIOMQcOarDHAzlpXdVW7h8qwd4OOVqSvYEUhtOGMRAVL11PL9AWUiombjvjJCe6hk8PxGZ0ikt7ciuCX264GrbqVPbV9BZFtbaMhePCuV0e8XGwc5lv41vWqccY=s2048" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1365" data-original-width="2048" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhREOZa9T5HMgDtzOUO6xjt-nuRynbaJG0Bsm6GhxYCdEzuNuTO4MUm2Tt3WIOMQcOarDHAzlpXdVW7h8qwd4OOVqSvYEUhtOGMRAVL11PL9AWUiombjvjJCe6hk8PxGZ0ikt7ciuCX264GrbqVPbV9BZFtbaMhePCuV0e8XGwc5lv41vWqccY=w400-h266" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgbPv_JC_ZyY6W0w2tEZGx1ntYJWpt5WuRlKxuGxkBnyzfmaNl79o_LBIJGLTKtQDLKMCvGOAcYRfB7DUblPkLSPOUkHrp9L9WwWbq3u7nVzaX5jv77uykJ9NWY-OyvYup6Wvo3xqWl5RuMANTu628--XYttjVagmjnwI4kYxP1TFTZpS58IPo=s1972" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1972" data-original-width="1972" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgbPv_JC_ZyY6W0w2tEZGx1ntYJWpt5WuRlKxuGxkBnyzfmaNl79o_LBIJGLTKtQDLKMCvGOAcYRfB7DUblPkLSPOUkHrp9L9WwWbq3u7nVzaX5jv77uykJ9NWY-OyvYup6Wvo3xqWl5RuMANTu628--XYttjVagmjnwI4kYxP1TFTZpS58IPo=w400-h400" width="400" /></a></div><br /><p>Obviously, if you are photographing people, you have to be careful to not have them at the edge of the picture because they will be distorted. With a normal wide-angle lens the distortion will be the opposite, making them look broader.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">In order to make the image look a bit more normal, I usually move the distortion slider in Lightroom to +100 and add a -100 vignette with +100 roundness and no feathering to create a clear black frame around the center of the photo.</div><p>The following pictures were taken in the gardens around the palace, also in Ludwigsburg. I've maintained the black border, left and right, as a frame.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiPBz9Llfa1bK65wxZ3vQb5Vv_0O8Os2GbL2NVYm-kIoyTGqwRHnfvplhsR0cw9Gc7x_ltFqsDHnRog2DTkP7OEfBKIfiq4RQVrE4Rb6HWQGeI7gxjyjAbk68uX8JaH5BiyhVIFdw4iNftA9oOg12Ox8pZSkL2qtXJ9B1-FYQM_Yb7FJKS8HCU=s2048" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1365" data-original-width="2048" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiPBz9Llfa1bK65wxZ3vQb5Vv_0O8Os2GbL2NVYm-kIoyTGqwRHnfvplhsR0cw9Gc7x_ltFqsDHnRog2DTkP7OEfBKIfiq4RQVrE4Rb6HWQGeI7gxjyjAbk68uX8JaH5BiyhVIFdw4iNftA9oOg12Ox8pZSkL2qtXJ9B1-FYQM_Yb7FJKS8HCU=w640-h426" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEj6u2MU-Vx1_p_XAqy-vnctTU7moO4YF0JvI-U-oAMfv3nhyCgvb0I8oulMR__GeM-G7DlDuoxY9G_CL0gxrFE5lTnNMCe16A_HUMr8-_RIbZPWdCH-oaR9kQLbnH2PPsG1W_ZJag_R2b-tVOhlM98HilyilXbIazHl05kGApBbVr-_Gfvl2kQ=s2048" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1365" data-original-width="2048" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEj6u2MU-Vx1_p_XAqy-vnctTU7moO4YF0JvI-U-oAMfv3nhyCgvb0I8oulMR__GeM-G7DlDuoxY9G_CL0gxrFE5lTnNMCe16A_HUMr8-_RIbZPWdCH-oaR9kQLbnH2PPsG1W_ZJag_R2b-tVOhlM98HilyilXbIazHl05kGApBbVr-_Gfvl2kQ=w640-h426" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgp1JsFOdhUxYFlmAy7kLkn4oHeQ9GL_M4gRKxqDeZx1Wqqm7o51WxqvorIrXM6rny5L0j4IcnBcz7Am2n122iKnW84DxCA1Dg4VnhH3k8S7oJlMP4fAQRqJmj3_33mCSBFKvGqhfQSUk47C9-yNFXWhSxbeA4M5ukHxOmP6mhSTlFavpreeAc=s2048" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1365" data-original-width="2048" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgp1JsFOdhUxYFlmAy7kLkn4oHeQ9GL_M4gRKxqDeZx1Wqqm7o51WxqvorIrXM6rny5L0j4IcnBcz7Am2n122iKnW84DxCA1Dg4VnhH3k8S7oJlMP4fAQRqJmj3_33mCSBFKvGqhfQSUk47C9-yNFXWhSxbeA4M5ukHxOmP6mhSTlFavpreeAc=w640-h426" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEireo5Ax9cxfiwNpxba8T1I7vmjxfBNLePoprkfPLId3wJELXYomVSwGeLkNNLyMzP1_VRrdDcUikFshI2RuU8dD8V1eTdhuLkD6ulhEWmV3THxuk3DL0PTflZdjk7EBQ1nAVyn0fkF2IBDVveeHZ0VU4liDqD2ShFsqRsIX8mUEw20htKW2rI=s2048" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1365" data-original-width="2048" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEireo5Ax9cxfiwNpxba8T1I7vmjxfBNLePoprkfPLId3wJELXYomVSwGeLkNNLyMzP1_VRrdDcUikFshI2RuU8dD8V1eTdhuLkD6ulhEWmV3THxuk3DL0PTflZdjk7EBQ1nAVyn0fkF2IBDVveeHZ0VU4liDqD2ShFsqRsIX8mUEw20htKW2rI=w640-h426" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiYK7YGJFniX2ZBPxZPx9Nxejjp8QN5N7o1uLUcNxh1lZwUKmVfpqg2o-4_S8Fr5R8ZHDLgJgIPpA7fy7XCl_PfcwrrBoHfPwHRCx9R6TRFFGy6ARhb_TvSBTIGNHyH1Y3K3_mzm_d52SncU5U763zssiU4zjprrDiTR6I8JpBX6eb9wiDl0jY=s2048" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1365" data-original-width="2048" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiYK7YGJFniX2ZBPxZPx9Nxejjp8QN5N7o1uLUcNxh1lZwUKmVfpqg2o-4_S8Fr5R8ZHDLgJgIPpA7fy7XCl_PfcwrrBoHfPwHRCx9R6TRFFGy6ARhb_TvSBTIGNHyH1Y3K3_mzm_d52SncU5U763zssiU4zjprrDiTR6I8JpBX6eb9wiDl0jY=w640-h426" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p>As you can see, the fish-eye lens allows - almost forces - you to get up close to your subject, giving the viewer the feeling of being right there splashing in the water or smelling the flowers. The starburst appears when you close the aperture all the way to f22. I like that effect.</p><p>Which of these images is your favorite? Why?</p>Jim Martinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14583963002037127112noreply@blogger.com0Ludwigsburg, Germany48.8891149 9.194283419.765282047555974 -25.9619666 78.012947752444035 44.3505334tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3671675.post-53325584682831493832022-01-23T13:06:00.001+01:002022-01-23T13:45:28.349+01:002021<p>In 2021 we were in a lockdown, in home office, dealing with home schooling, not on vacation, looking for new ways to express ourselves since the old ways apparently might prove fatal.</p><p>While I still did a good number of portraits and weddings, I found myself not getting out into nature as much as I used to. Perhaps this stay-at-home attitude affected my way of visual thinking and I turned to my fish-eye lens again and again when I did go out.</p><p>Here are four relatively different views through the fish-eye lens, a bit of optic trickery which allows the camera to capture 190° with one shot (I was using a f2.0/6.5mm lens from Meike - affordable and good).</p><p>At f22 the sunlight turns into a starburst.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjvqCPp8LHrN9kPB2jHdhW7ljsPvicrLzMxbLkK3guB0jw8XaFBjPzA9pGX_bqRPSkpWlIdL2HpCGutaEzjrRbq5_zTPvlZoiZkgqlx2s9tBDMI8SMy-HNfZrn2h3wlBjb8Ia4TBARX6k9tgvIwgfpmg8Or2wUVl_fMiyQT5AH5H0jkrUYCnOs=s1924" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1924" data-original-width="1924" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjvqCPp8LHrN9kPB2jHdhW7ljsPvicrLzMxbLkK3guB0jw8XaFBjPzA9pGX_bqRPSkpWlIdL2HpCGutaEzjrRbq5_zTPvlZoiZkgqlx2s9tBDMI8SMy-HNfZrn2h3wlBjb8Ia4TBARX6k9tgvIwgfpmg8Or2wUVl_fMiyQT5AH5H0jkrUYCnOs=w640-h640" width="640" /></a></div><div><br /></div><div>The photo-within-a-photo genre takes on new possibilities with this lens because so much of the worlds are captured by the extreme range of the lens.</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjq1eyJ3TVsWQN35Ja1316-oHZGxlRokvuePo6ideoKwcm-Z3PxTuBiSmJERwTk1a-UXRBdLKujCeCPJsHhl1z9CgofrbURblVBF9s_FywTLBvGH0-USITUqAe2_ki9GXKWuLVlen4F737t-yR_u-nTi7EalwGAlt-o9Rty3rTOCEYvtXmpGO8=s2048" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1365" data-original-width="2048" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjq1eyJ3TVsWQN35Ja1316-oHZGxlRokvuePo6ideoKwcm-Z3PxTuBiSmJERwTk1a-UXRBdLKujCeCPJsHhl1z9CgofrbURblVBF9s_FywTLBvGH0-USITUqAe2_ki9GXKWuLVlen4F737t-yR_u-nTi7EalwGAlt-o9Rty3rTOCEYvtXmpGO8=w640-h426" width="640" /></a></div><div><br /></div><div>For my attempts to make my photos take on an abstract quality, the fish-eye is often helpful.</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEi_oxsePz-QnHKOazLGL1S_itC-zteW_GUNmk-kGOkFWDEvmCbVSOXggRaavW7xkcHaYGp7G2EgEFCMWO1MdABG4fP4oywlChQhog_E1xfnDK-jRxstRdc028qM0Yk_nE5lPAFPo3QrNq85vg4PGfwD0Pi4vcdG8gUKo5Pm306V1PMHdNhmcYc=s1488" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1488" data-original-width="1488" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEi_oxsePz-QnHKOazLGL1S_itC-zteW_GUNmk-kGOkFWDEvmCbVSOXggRaavW7xkcHaYGp7G2EgEFCMWO1MdABG4fP4oywlChQhog_E1xfnDK-jRxstRdc028qM0Yk_nE5lPAFPo3QrNq85vg4PGfwD0Pi4vcdG8gUKo5Pm306V1PMHdNhmcYc=w640-h640" width="640" /></a></div><div><br /></div><div>The larger the frame, the more expansive is the story you can tell with one shot. I like reflections in puddles for the multi-layered experience they offer.</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEguG-MumDq5ay0jh4WxHEvlGu7LM19RdNOhIMoJDETYo4tBSlrmjhEEkkgUi-GUkmLl9wE-uF8-REChIFPZUI4iRJn4dpVYKAaqSKgMBYcnAjZ3TiQ9TPBbq6n_bf8qzsXTBxQTgq3VQbjMGtduXg5W6wE9mZGj5lPvZb00kAuH5yzodOThphE=s1810" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1810" data-original-width="1810" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEguG-MumDq5ay0jh4WxHEvlGu7LM19RdNOhIMoJDETYo4tBSlrmjhEEkkgUi-GUkmLl9wE-uF8-REChIFPZUI4iRJn4dpVYKAaqSKgMBYcnAjZ3TiQ9TPBbq6n_bf8qzsXTBxQTgq3VQbjMGtduXg5W6wE9mZGj5lPvZb00kAuH5yzodOThphE=w640-h640" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p>Have you used fish-eye lenses during your shoots? What do you most like using them for?</p>Jim Martinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14583963002037127112noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3671675.post-9594758219928013532020-11-07T17:41:00.000+01:002020-11-07T17:41:04.892+01:00Autumn leaves<div class="separator"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-JsLReW7bg8bWJEhSV4asKOPb7O3otmlCJHIs1rHzA9mfWB0d5_8DZjcKiZb5JraNT7qAtisj9sz46wTVcuq6hYmOatnCODBnZkPNBiK6nFXhyphenhyphen1j-9NaXjfGeHVnODlIvCXuRIA/s2048/DSC01752.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="2048" height="477" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-JsLReW7bg8bWJEhSV4asKOPb7O3otmlCJHIs1rHzA9mfWB0d5_8DZjcKiZb5JraNT7qAtisj9sz46wTVcuq6hYmOatnCODBnZkPNBiK6nFXhyphenhyphen1j-9NaXjfGeHVnODlIvCXuRIA/w477-h477/DSC01752.jpg" width="477" /></a></div><br /><p>Often it takes little more than a glimmer of interest from a friend to give me an idea for a photo project. In this case a friend made me aware of the fact that where she lives they don't have deciduous trees, so she misses the colors of fall leaves as they turn from green to yellow to orange to red to brown. Evergreens are just that and, while she can still bask in the sun on the beach, she misses this floral rainbow.</p><p>From the violet heather that adorns many a doorstep on our street...</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjW9C0y6apI-S4n4w4KZHJK072dg-ghbwlzc5EcB9eb6UP0EdtL25QXxzDkuWasdWBKTiLkEW4OIKd7UtsnqRooXQiH9ntTfU7rtxSjMGEDfptXE0v-FXPZDw9aHyYsh8Q6JPOHLg/s2048/DSC01646.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="2048" height="449" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjW9C0y6apI-S4n4w4KZHJK072dg-ghbwlzc5EcB9eb6UP0EdtL25QXxzDkuWasdWBKTiLkEW4OIKd7UtsnqRooXQiH9ntTfU7rtxSjMGEDfptXE0v-FXPZDw9aHyYsh8Q6JPOHLg/w449-h449/DSC01646.jpg" width="449" /></a></div><br />...to the lone magnolia tree near our house.<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj3bTzFD08foFKHhlKLV4oEJFcYtte4cd_TBfH9MirUhCTIsKl0MRrQiIQUgzSlGvImtQySBlbDTp3zXXF9x9GI73C3DvRsHPWVwAVUk57r9PI35Cms5AaSUE_dJoMa3xF7RBGqYw/s2048/DSC01697.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="2048" height="505" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj3bTzFD08foFKHhlKLV4oEJFcYtte4cd_TBfH9MirUhCTIsKl0MRrQiIQUgzSlGvImtQySBlbDTp3zXXF9x9GI73C3DvRsHPWVwAVUk57r9PI35Cms5AaSUE_dJoMa3xF7RBGqYw/w505-h505/DSC01697.jpg" width="505" /></a><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: left;">And the last roses of the season hang on to their stalks, presenting themselves with mature saturation.</span></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiUeOdjp6CJWv9knTj5gtaGzJBc_K_P-ERub5pE6g38BOwf3J0DsEWRDb43Wbpw0E_R37Sd7FNTU0ciZi9B-Hy3RHgO8jZvosPD_KyKSUlsx-Oj7eR68hvW6QC7AxJDR3JznMmJ6g/s2048/DSC01706.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="2048" height="488" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiUeOdjp6CJWv9knTj5gtaGzJBc_K_P-ERub5pE6g38BOwf3J0DsEWRDb43Wbpw0E_R37Sd7FNTU0ciZi9B-Hy3RHgO8jZvosPD_KyKSUlsx-Oj7eR68hvW6QC7AxJDR3JznMmJ6g/w488-h488/DSC01706.jpg" width="488" /></a></div><div><br /></div><div>This frail looking tree is covered with gorgeous colored leaves, each one proof of the resilience needed to shine in the autumn of life. 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Even though we are allowed to go out and take walks, there is a lot to explore in the home, especially when beautiful flowers land on the kitchen table. This time the flowers were among my favorites: tulips!<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I like the intimacy of this one.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The innocent feel to this one touches me.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The dramatic lighting and the shadow make this one a winner.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This flower is doing one more dance before it loses its petals.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Do you notice how the two petals in the foreground are sharing a secret from the others?</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Light and shadow create the composition here. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Contrasts in light/dark and focus/blur make this one interesting.</td></tr>
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<br />Jim Martinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14583963002037127112noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3671675.post-84678558016871305762020-04-20T13:26:00.000+02:002020-04-20T13:26:31.192+02:00Hallia Venezia 2020<br />
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Little did we all know but in one month we would all be wearing masks at home in quarantine! On February 16, 2020, however, things were still fairly normal, and yet even in fancy Schwäbisch Hall this spectacle was not really normal.<br />
A week later gusting winds would cause the Carnival in and around Cologne to be cancelled or held in a limited fashion, for example, with no horses in the parade on Rosenmontag.<br />
But in Schwäbisch Hall the tradition of Hallia Venezia continued. One week before Carnival-Sunday every year (since 1998) the town turns into a colorful display of elaborate costumes, beautifully set against the backdrop of the rich old town.<br />
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In the morning approximately 200 masked (a Covid omen?) and costumed people traipsed through the town and posed for the approximately 400 <a href="https://www.fotocommunity.de/spezial/hallia-venezia/4315" target="_blank">photographers</a>, who had come from all over the region for the opportunity to capture pictures such as these. The weather is not always good in late February, but this year it was perfect. At 2:00 pm the participants gathered at the top of the 54 steps leading up to St. Michael. The photographers and other onlookers gathered below. The sunlight accompanied the couples as they slowly and gracefully descend the steps.<br />
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Some take the opportunity to draw extra attention to themselves. This tall man, dressed like Gene Simmons of KISS, thoroughly enjoyed the event and the applause he drew for his homemade costume.<br />
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Schwäbisch Hall (and every other German city with "Hall" in its name) was originally known as a source of the valuable commodity salt ("salary" comes from the root word for "salt"). Today this town - called only "Hall" by its residents - is best known for this cultural spectacle and the theater festivals that take place both on the steps of St. Michael's and in the <a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haller_Globe-Theater" target="_blank">Globe Theater</a> there. The <a href="https://kunst.wuerth.com/en/kh/startseite/startseite.php" target="_blank">Kunsthalle Würth</a> is an incredible (free!) art museum and well worth a visit anytime you are in the area.<br />
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The entire town becomes a backdrop for the beautiful costumes, some of which are made anew every year for this spectacle.<br />
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Children also enjoy the spectacle, sometimes as viewers...<br />
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...and just as often as participants.<br />
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It is quite a challenge vying for position to get the right motif, the perfect light and background, and no photographers with their modern equipment in the picture. Sometimes you succeed.<br />
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That's why you must have patience and the right lens(es). I had a 70-300mm lens on my Sony A7iii body for this event. Many photographers had two big cameras slung around their neck, one with a wide-angle and the other with a telephoto lens on a camera body. I just had my Sony RX 100iii in my pocket for the wider shots, those being the first two shown here and the picture of the two couples and their dogs.<br />
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<br />Jim Martinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14583963002037127112noreply@blogger.com1Schwäbisch Hall, Germany49.1124645 9.737264948.9461435 9.4145414 49.278785500000005 10.0599884tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3671675.post-91682050153499677272019-11-09T18:07:00.000+01:002019-11-09T18:07:50.080+01:00Auf dem Württemberg<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Up in the little town of <a href="http://www.wirtemberg.de/ut_31.htm" target="_blank">Rotenberg </a>across the river from me there is a most picturesque mausoleum where the former <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catherine_Pavlovna_of_Russia" target="_blank">Queen Catherine Pavlovna</a>, who died at the age of 30, lies next to her second husband, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_I_of_W%C3%BCrttemberg" target="_blank">King William 1 of Württemberg</a>. His first and third wives, both cousins of his, are buried elsewhere. <span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caroline_Augusta_of_Bavaria" target="_blank">Princess Caroline Augusta of Bavaria</a>, the first wife by arrangement, was divorced from him after a six-year marriage which, they told the Pope, had never been consummated. Wife #3, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pauline_Therese_of_W%C3%BCrttemberg" target="_blank">Pauline Therese</a>, suffered the same indignities of playing second and third fiddle to Wilhelm's lovers as did Katharina, and was left out of his will. The <a href="https://www.stuttgart-meine-stadt.de/stadtentwicklung/paulinenbruecke" target="_blank">bridge </a>in Stuttgart under which the drug addicts and winos hang out is named after her.</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">I've posted many pictures of the <a href="https://www.grabkapelle-rotenberg.de/en/home/" target="_blank">mausoleum </a>which I took from our house; it's always the same perspective, only with different weather and light. Above you see a picture from the mausoleum back to our house.</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">When I go to Rotenberg, I challenge myself to see the building anew. Sometimes it becomes a tangle of architectural lines, as in the photo below.</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">However, when you are over there on a sunny day in autumn, you are drawn to the colorful vineyards surrounding it. </span>And so from the vineyards you get a fresh view of the building.<br />
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But I knew the shot would look much better if I had a colorful background, so I climbed up the hill and shot down, which didn't bother the birds one bit.<br />
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Or should there be more of the lovely landscape in the shot?<br />
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Or concentrate on only one <a href="https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Birdie" target="_blank">bird</a>?<br />
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The sky that day was captured by many photographer friends of mine. The particular atmospheric conditions allowed the contrails to stay visible for a long time and you could even see shadows of the vapor trails. And yet, I didn't see any pictures of the trails with a trail sign!<br />
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The <a href="https://worldwidephotowalk.com/walk/esslingen-altstadt-old-town/">Worldwide Photo Walk in 2019</a> was similar to the last eleven I've been on and yet it was in many ways different.<br />
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Again, a dozen photographers gathered at the appointed time and place and tried to take some interesting shots to enter in a worldwide contest offering a host of prizes for the top ten images. Once again, the leader - in this case two leaders, Beth and Martin - shook our hands, glanced at our glass and then they introduced themselves. And the introductions went around - again much too quickly, so I repeated the names to myself as best I could - and camera brands were duly noted. Ronja also had a Sony Alpha 7, I noticed. Otherwise, Canikon and phone photographers.<br />
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What was different was that I knew the leaders from our walk last year in Tübingen. And they really set the tone for the next several hours that we spent together. And my good friends Andy and Adi were there with their two boys. We have been on over a dozen photowalks together over the years. but what was really different was that the people smiled and looked at each other. Call me strange, but I found this odd in a very good way. These were not artists set on winning the grand prize and showing off their pixel power. They were people who wanted to see Esslingen on a nice fall day (it had just stopped raining) and meet some others who had this similar goal for the day. We even stayed together throughout the walk and took some shots together and taught each other to see in various individual ways. It was fun to be out there again!<br />
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Down in the town it was difficult for me to get excited about much that I saw. I was still trying to feel my way into the group, the town, the groove. When we walked up the hill, though, and looked out over the city and saw the vineyards, the groove tapped me on my shoulder and said "Here I am."<br />
Actually, it was just a leaf that Andy had put up on an old gate, but it was enough to get me going.<br />
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Then, since Beth had told us to try to surprise her, I started thinking outside of the box. let's go abstract, I thought.<br />
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But there wasn't enough direct sunlight to give the photo above what it needed to really shine.<br />
Walking around the corner from this house there was a lot of construction going on which could have provided some real highlights. After all, my biggest <a href="https://www.jpalik.com/PhotographyByJamesPalik/Menu/4-Events/Stuttgart-21-JimMartin/Event-Iframe.php">show </a>was entitled <a href="https://jimmartinphotoblog.blogspot.com/2014/08/construction-without-consensus.html">"Construction without consensus"</a>. Now, I may be best known for my series <a href="https://jimmartinphotography.zenfolio.com/p890812558">"Looking up"</a> but here I had to look down and look through.<br />
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But unfortunately there wasn't a whole lot going on either way. And a construction site without people or some interesting gesture is just a construction site.<br />
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Still, I thought the fish-eye reflections in the drainage pipes looked interesting.<br />
Back to abstract thinking. "Ab-stract" means "detached" or "pulled away from". I tried to pull away from reality and representational images and shoot something that was only a composition. That's more difficult than it sounds in photography. When I'm drawing, most things tend toward the abstract. Here is another attempt.<br />
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Continuing to think in terms of composition, I came to an underpass as we walked back into town under the main street. With compositions, as with portraits, color rarely distracts from the image. In the photograph above I kept the colors because there were only two and they play a role in the composition. Below, however, the image works better without any competition from the palette.<br />
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I was finally rolling, shooting this architecture from various angles until I was satisfied with the image above.<br />
Then we came upon a cute little street in the <a href="http://www.beutauflair.de/" target="_blank">Beutau-Viertel</a> and saw this possibility. I thought it was pretty cool and imaginative, but nowhere near perfect.<br />
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I love playing with reflections because they enable us to see two things - different perspectives, emotions, realities - at once. In a side alleyway I noticed a Vespa and tried a few shots in the rearview mirror, trying to line up the gutter and the vanishing points, or leading lines, as a photographer might call them. I was happy with it, but still not totally satisfied.<br />
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I had been to Esslingen numerous times, but had never seen this sculpture before (which doesn't mean it hasn't been there for years; only I had never noticed it before). I tried to make the most of it, but this is all I could manage without wading into the canal.<br />
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Then finally, shooting in bracketed bursts (-2, 0, +2 Ev), I passed by the window of a hipster restaurant and, thinking of my best shot from last year in Tübingen, pressed the lens to the window and shot a burst. The +2 shot was taken at 10,000 ISO, but with the Sony A7iii that's like 800 ISO with my old A77. I think this one sums up the afternoon quite well: There I was looking for light (the bulb is out) and patterns and something different in the old town and here it is all in one shot. The overexposure makes it look somewhat out of the ordinary, which is what I like so much about it.<br />
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Shortly after 6pm nearly all of us congregated at the Roter Hirsch für some wonderful Swabian food and a very pleasant conversation and exchange of tips and tricks for the future.<br />
I sat myself down in the S-Bahn and headed home. I was so caught up in looking at my pictures from the day, however, that I missed my stop and decided to continue on to the Wasenfest, something I kinda wanted to do anyway. I had a second battery and plenty of room left on my 64GB card; plus, I had a second in the other slot anyway.<br />
The great thing about going through the Wasenfest at night (if you can avoid all the puddles of this and that) is that you are among other photographers who are also looking for great light. I found some.<br />
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And some fun gestures.<br />
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And some unexpectedly serious faces.<br />
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Thanks to Beth and Martin, Andy and Adi, Ronja, Stefan and Dominik and all the others who made this a terrific day!<br />
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<br />Jim Martinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14583963002037127112noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3671675.post-44399756106050535472019-08-31T17:21:00.001+02:002019-08-31T17:21:11.687+02:00Messages from the Polit-Parade 2019<br />
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Every year - since its inception in 1979 - the Stuttgart <a href="https://youtu.be/0duw-sXVx1E">Christopher Street Day Parade</a> has been organized under a motto. This year's motto was "<a href="https://youtu.be/3MIZIJ-sD90">Mut zur Freiheit</a>" (literally "Courage to freedom"...or "Dare to be free"), but nearly every individual group had its own motto, too.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">On the other side it says "Gender is dead & so am I". Um...not so straightforward.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">If bisexuality is (<span style="color: red;">only?</span>) a phase ... then I hope it lasts a long time.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Love is varied/diverse</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Some people had several messages to share</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The placard in the back claims (in the Swabian dialect) that "Diversity is the best" while her heart says "Open for diversity"</td></tr>
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<br />Jim Martinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14583963002037127112noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3671675.post-80049653290440386942019-08-31T17:19:00.003+02:002019-08-31T17:19:41.576+02:00Eye-catchers at the parade<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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This post is for my friend, Vince. When I posted the picture above on Facebook and said it was from the Pride Parade, he very astutely replied that, to him, it looked more like cosplay to him. Yes, there were indeed many costumes at the parade. Here are some of the most eye-catching ones that I saw. </div>
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Even without the colors of the rainbow gracing their costumes, some people simply exuded an eye-catching aura.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This was his costume in 2018!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">How much liberty do we need?</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This man walked right in front of the heart before the parade began. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Don't worry, Mom, he's wearing a fake chest!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.tz.de/muenchen/stadt/franka-muenchens-schillerndster-csd-star-22155.html">Franka K., a hairdresser from Munich</a>, always creates a costume that touches on a current topic. Here the point is that homosexuals should also be allowed to donate blood and bone marrow, thus the cotton swabs.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">In 2018 Franka's motto was the diesel scandal.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">And it was wind energy in 2016.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">And I guess the message in 2015 was to hang up your clothes!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">In 2011 flowers were in fashion.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">And in 2010 Franka was looking for a young man to ride around (with) him.</td></tr>
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<br />Jim Martinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14583963002037127112noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3671675.post-53100227193697270992019-08-31T14:59:00.000+02:002019-08-31T16:18:35.381+02:00Pride Parade in Stuttgart 2019<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Getting from one end of the parade at Erwin-Schöttle-Platz to the other at the Schloßplatz was open to all kinds of options - by foot, rollerskates and inliners, motorcycles, bikes & trikes, tractors, 16-wheelers, vans, automobiles and wheelchairs. You name it, it made its way through Stuttgart for the big Pride Parade.<br />
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Some took the hard way of walking the three miles in high heels (when they probably weren't used to them).<br />
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And still others took the even harder route of crawling in their submissive dog costumes.<br />
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And whether roller skates...<br />
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...or <a href="https://youtu.be/hQwq45CQu4s">Rolls Royce</a> - the mode of transport didn't necessarily guarantee how much fun you had.<br />
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The large groups from Bosch, Daimler, the SPD or Vodaphone (below) usually took to the back of a semi-trailer truck with a loud stereo system.<br />
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But the winner in my book goes to this couple. The guy below is actually saying, "Hold my beer."<br />
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And then he carries this tall beauty through the streets as if it were the easiest thing in the world.<br />
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And this woman stayed up there without a wiggle or wobble. <a href="https://youtu.be/3MIZIJ-sD90?t=3096">Amazing</a>!<br />
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She has caught my eye in years past as well.<br />
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I'm looking forward to 2020!<br />
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<br />Jim Martinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14583963002037127112noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3671675.post-82274677315069384952019-08-30T18:45:00.002+02:002019-08-31T15:06:31.843+02:00Christopher Street Day in Stuttgart 2019<br />
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This post is going to be in several parts because there are so many colorful images that need to be shared!<br />
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The rainbow is the symbol of the gay pride movement. The group of parents of homosexual children always dresses in rainbow attire and carries colorful umbrellas.<br />
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Others choose to paint their faces with the colors of the rainbow. In these days of body modification, tattoos, piercings, ear gauging and permanent make-up, it takes a lot of imagination to come up with something eye-catching at such a parade. This young woman was successful.<br />
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The <a href="https://www.abseitz.de/">Abseitz </a>sport group toted a huge rainbow flag through Stuttgart, adding color to the parade 10 meters at a time.<br />
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Armbands, bow-ties, suspenders, stickers, capes and even halos were adorned with the colors of the rainbow to bear witness to the people's pride.<br />
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The Stuttgart City Theater and Opera was also represented at the parade by a van touting a banner urging people to be courageous enough to love (whomever you will).<br />
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Rainbows upon rainbows: garlands, fans, more eye make-up...<br />
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...banners, more make-up...<br />
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...and more fans with messages from the Green Party...<br />
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...and even the Stuttgart TV tower semi-transported to NY by a Lady Liberty.<br />
However, the winner this year goes to the maker of this piece of whatcha-may-call-it clothing with the colors of the rainbow in it. Congratulations!<br />
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<span id="goog_1218181755"></span><span id="goog_1218181756"></span><br />Jim Martinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14583963002037127112noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3671675.post-9530418811582938152019-07-26T10:45:00.002+02:002019-07-26T10:45:30.817+02:00Christopher Street Day Parade 2018<br />
It was a hot day in Stuttgart on Saturday, July 28, as the colorful parade made its way from the Erwin-Schöttle Platz to the Schiller Platz through the crowded streets lined with partying onlookers.<br />
In contrast to many other parades here in Germany, the interaction between the marchers and the watchers is in no way hindered. If you recognize a friend coming down the street, you can go over and give him or her a kiss and take a selfie. Kids are given candy as on Halloween in the US or Karneval here, and after the two-hour spectacle I had been given various business cards by drag queens, invitations and coupons for visits to a couple of dungeons and stickers saying "Süßer Typ" or "I love vaginas". What a day!<br />
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But I wasn't there for that. I wanted to take pictures with my friends Andy and Conny (above), as we had done <a href="https://jimmartinphotoblog.blogspot.com/2017/09/christopher-street-day-polit-parades.html" target="_blank">last year</a>.<br />
The parade opened with Dykes on Bykes and then Dudes on BMWs. Even with the same light, you can process "his and her" bikes differently to give them a different look.<br />
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Every year promises a new motto and new costumes, even if many of the paraders are the same. It's great to see how much effort goes into the get-ups.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Perfect hair and make-up - and elaborate wings for good measure!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Visiting friends on the sidelines</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Every year this drag queen has an elaborate costume. This year the diesel scandal is in focus.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Masks and chains and leashes? Check.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Butterfly eye-candy</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The viewer in leather says it all with his facial expression.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Some of the best things in life are free. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I wonder if the bishops ever imagined a parade like this would ever pass by the heavenward spires of St. Maria.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Two for the price of one</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Her teenager has grown up.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">All in all it is a peaceful - yet very loud - and friendly event.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Should scenes like this cause you concern, this parade is not for you.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The Christopher Street Day Political Parade is an even for posers and photographers.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">How can you draw the most attention to yourself? It seems the higher, the better.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Different strokes</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Family is...what we make of it!!!</td></tr>
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<br />Jim Martinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14583963002037127112noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3671675.post-25902431173941509992019-07-26T10:15:00.002+02:002019-07-26T10:18:09.883+02:00Starkes Blech 2019Two years ago I marked the dates June 7-8, 2019, on my virtual calendar. Starkes Blech is one of my favorite concert events in Stuttgart. It is overwhelming to hear 300 brass players being led through music from Wagner to The Scorpions - with a world premiere performance of a new work every time to boot! If that weren't enough, the courtyard of the Old Castle in Stuttgart serves as the perfect setting.<br />
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Finally it's showtime. Months of rehearsals with individual ensembles and tutti meetings are about to pay off for the hundreds of listeners.</div>
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The program for 2019 included music from over 500 years, including Luther, Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, Debussy and Wagner (both in moving arrangements by bass trombonist Tobias Rägle).<br />
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For the final encore Christof Schmidt conducted the players and the audience in a tutti version of "Der Mond ist aufgegangen". Each verse was played in a different arrangement. The first was by the German father of the brass choir movement, Johannes Kuhlo. The second was arranged by Traugott Fünfgeld, a contemporary composer of sacred music who has written several pieces played in Stuttgart over the past decade. Music for the final stanza was arranged by the initiator of Starkes Blech, Hans Holzwarth.</div>
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<br />Jim Martinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14583963002037127112noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3671675.post-14569881420710023952019-07-26T09:33:00.000+02:002019-07-26T09:33:50.120+02:00Brass, brass and more brass!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Those of you who know Hans Holzwarth are aware of how incredibly enthusiastic he is about his music projects. He initiated <a href="https://ejus-musik.de/starkes-blech/">Starkes Blech</a> in Stuttgart back in 1999, which is now a bi-annual <a href="https://www.stuttgarter-zeitung.de/inhalt.konzertreihe-starkes-blech-280-blaeser-musizieren-im-schlosshof.35616d36-08cd-427d-a2c7-9fcaffed0c65.html">concert </a>in the courtyard of the Old Castle downtown.<br />
This past spring he gathered the musicians from his Variate Brass Ensemble and added to this nine-person band a contrabassoonist and arranged two hours of music for them. The result of all the rehearsals was enjoyed by an appreciative audience at the Lukaskirche in Stuttgart-Ost on March 23, 2019.<br />
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At one point Hans was conducting while playing percussion. The multi-instrumentalist was a bass soloist with regional choirs, leads the <a href="https://www.friedenskirche-stuttgart.de/kirche-und-musik/posaunenchor-ost/">Posaunenchor Ost</a>, plays the flugelhorn in brass ensembles, and arranges music for his various ensembles with an amount of enthusiasm that I have rarely seen in anyone. He also conducted a brass choir concert at the train station in Stuttgart every Christmas Eve for 38 years until his retirement in 2015.<br />
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<br />Jim Martinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14583963002037127112noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3671675.post-1795503955609004372018-11-28T11:20:00.001+01:002018-11-29T18:03:55.248+01:00The Real Thing<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<b style="font-size: x-large;">Celebrating the end of Prohibition (90 years ago)</b></div>
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Sometimes the universe allows good things to happen to good people. Tiffany is a good person and last Thursday night she showed it. After a year of dreaming and months of preparation, she got the acts together and got the people motivated to dress up and have fun (What, in Germany? Well, OK, if I must.). Musicians and dancers graced the stage of the Theater am Olgaeck for over two hours of song and dance like I've never heard about - much less experienced - in Stuttgart.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Salvatore sang about <a href="https://youtu.be/_-kkAZ8U1AQ" target="_blank">Carina</a>...and a lot of other girls!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Three ladies - a blonde, a brunette and a red-head! Prego!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The <a href="https://youtu.be/bWdHy94md5Y">Nonos </a>accompanied <a href="https://youtu.be/y8wmPV6nRGU">Tiffany </a>throughout the evening</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The musical star, <a href="https://youtu.be/AM1fh9DCwOE" target="_blank">Kimberly Trees</a>, treated the audience to a couple of hot numbers.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Janine Grellscheid brought <a href="https://youtu.be/RV8l4krw2Aw" target="_blank">Cabaret </a>to the Speakeasy!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Max Oisin added a couple of jazz <a href="https://youtu.be/u9VP_yFBpOI" target="_blank">standards </a>in his inimitable style.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Adrienne Sorg provided us with a <a href="https://youtu.be/6mB5AggcVfE" target="_blank">Vie en rose</a></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Tiffany and Salvatore performed "<a href="https://youtu.be/06NtlltxCFM" target="_blank">I Can't Give You Anything But Love, Baby</a>"</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Sylvia Owens sang her heart out with "Oh When the Saints Go Marchin' In"</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">As the night drew to a close, even the <a href="https://youtu.be/qjOcPZFeGww" target="_blank">aisles </a>became part of the dance floor</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">It was a total <a href="https://youtu.be/wS0cMALeRMg" target="_blank">performance </a>with the audience having as much fun as those on stage.</td></tr>
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The after-party chill-down was at Hillson's Bar, where Applaus Gin provided us with a taste of their finest liquor.<br />
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<br />Jim Martinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14583963002037127112noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3671675.post-31647451239447594572018-11-15T10:30:00.001+01:002018-11-15T10:30:11.993+01:00Behind the linesExperimental music and contemporary dance: Georgia and Germany<br />
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This past weekend Russudan Meipariani and friends performed an evening of original music compositions and dance to full houses in Scheer, Schorndorf and Stuttgart. In Schorndorf I was positioned right next to the dance floor and fired off 2500 photos.<br />
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I was aiming to save only the highlights, so the camera was set to -1.7EV most of the time.<br />
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After a while, I realized that, thanks to the WISIWYG electronic viewfinder, it was helpful to toggle the AEL and shoot at a certain exposure as long as I was pointing my camera in a certain direction.<br />
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I was shooting into the lights most of the time. I did some experimenting with shutter speeds varying primarily from 1/30 to 1/500. Did I want to capture motion in the hands and legs or stop them in their tracks with a fast shutter speed? In the best case, I'd get something like this:<br />
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The colorful dresses and waving hair of the beautiful dancers were so intoxicating that I couldn't stop taking pictures.<br />
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The f4/24-105 lens was perfect for the dance performance. I took a lot of the photos at 24mm in order to capture the entire scene - musicians and all seven dancers, who were spread out over the 8x8m dance floor in the Versöhnungskirche. I took about a third of the photos in APS-C crop mode so that I was shooting from the center of the sensor. I was thinking the image would be less distorted and of a better quality at a high ISO. It also crops the picture tighter when I want to concentrate on just one or two dancers.<br />
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After analyzing my statistics for the shoot - something I like to do - I see that most of the best pictures were taken at somewhere between ISO 4,000-10,000 and at either 1/125 or 1/250 sec, with a slight preference for the shorter exposure. That means in order to capture this kind of motion, one needs speed and a sensitive sensor.<br />
I was shooting with a silent shutter because I didn't want to disturb the performance. The only picture which showed signs of rolling shutter distortion was the one below, where the dancer's hand looks strange; however, that could also come from the angle and normal movement. In short: the silent shutter worked like a charm!<br />
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A tightly cropped photos sends a different message from one with a frame of empty space around it. And when you get the fact, the open eyes and a hand all in one frame, you are pleased as punch!<br />
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<a href="http://www.zentner-kommunikation.de/" target="_blank">Martin Zentner</a> was sitting in another corner taking pictures throughout the performance, too. His photos on Facebook show these dancers from another perspective - and with the light shining on them (as opposed to shooting into the light). His photos turned out incredibly well! Check them out.<br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Have you ever heard of a speakeasy? Back in the 1920s the US federal government outlawed, by enacting the 18th Amendment to the Constitution, the <span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">production, transport, and sale of intoxicating liquors (though not the consumption or private possession thereof). Did that stop Americans from drinking alcohol? Nope!</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">That just means there were private parties where liquor "appeared" (for it couldn't be transported) and was consumed, often with jazz musicians and dancers providing entertainment.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">This autumn I'll be showing some of my work in three different exhibitions in and around Stuttgart. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">The first one opened on October 17 at Café <a href="https://www.kuenstlerbund-stuttgart.de/pdfs/Pressemappe/Pressemappe_AmericanDays_Okt2018_Internet.pdf" target="_blank">Künstlerbund</a> to a full house - even two of my children attended! The collection of art there shows a high regard for aesthetics and technique. The nine American artists displayed some of their best work - including photography, oil painting, encaustic and multi-media drawing. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">The café is open from 10 am until midnight. Give me a call and I'll meet you there for a drink! The show runs through November 10, 2018.</span><br />
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The following evening, October 18, 2018, the German and American Artists Group opened its first fall show at the historic <a href="https://www.stuttgart.de/item/show/305802/1/dept/109178?" target="_blank">town hall</a> in Bad Cannstatt at 6 pm. Twenty-eight artists are showing their fine art on three floors. The new commander of the US Army in Stuttgart - who has family roots at Lake Constance - gave the opening speech.<br />
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As guests enjoyed the buffet, fellow artist Michael Nothdurft exhibited his prowess on the classical guitar.<br />
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These art works were on display through October 29.<br />
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On October 24, 2018, the same group hung a different set of works at the <a href="https://daz.org/kulturprogramm/veranstaltungen/" target="_blank">Deutsch-Amerikanisches Zentrum</a> for a three-week long show!<br />
<a href="https://brian-cann.format.com/home" target="_blank">Brian Cann</a> showed seven photos from his new series "Nudes in landscapes," and I showed a bit of my "Hot pepper" series, so it was quite a sexy show!<br />
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In addition, <a href="http://www.aylishkerrigan.eu/" target="_blank">Aylish Kerrigan</a> sang two dramatic songs and the buffet was a work of art itself. Friends came and were introduced to the other artists. That's how a nice network is created.<br />
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<br />Jim Martinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14583963002037127112noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3671675.post-71921166552351782622018-07-07T09:37:00.002+02:002018-07-07T09:37:46.802+02:00Ups and downs of the Wasenfest<br />
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Living in the proximity of the Cannstatter Wasen since 2002, I've heard and seen a lot of the high-life there, some from my window but most from the pavement on and surrounding the good old festival grounds. I've written about it a <a href="https://jimmartinphotoblog.blogspot.com/2015/09/wasenfest-2015.html" target="_blank">number </a>of <a href="https://jimmartinphotoblog.blogspot.com/2014/05/volksfest-2014.html" target="_blank">times</a>, as a search for "<a href="https://jimmartinphotoblog.blogspot.com/2013/05/das-fruhlingsfest-war-da.html" target="_blank">Wasen</a>" on this blog will <a href="https://jimmartinphotoblog.blogspot.com/2012/05/art-of-fireworks.html" target="_blank">show</a>.<br />
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The <a href="https://www.cannstatter-volksfest.de/de/landing-page/" target="_blank">Wasenfest </a>and <a href="https://www.stuttgarter-fruehlingsfest.de/de/home/" target="_blank">Frühlingsfest </a>(Sept.-Oct. and April-May every year) are among the largest folk festivals in the world. Over 4 million guests enjoyed the beer and rides during the three-week fest last fall and, on account of the perfect weather in early 2018, 1.6 million visitors made it out to the spring fest.<br />
My friends' and acquaintances' opinions are split on this issue. Some wouldn't miss it for the world; they seek their fortune there and their children look forward to riding the Ferris wheel and eating cotton candy with friends twice a year.<br />
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Others look forward to getting sloshed with their colleagues in the huge beer tents; for 16 year-olds it's a right of passage to fill up with a couple of liters of beer with your classmates and then try to hold it in on the most extreme rides. Judging from the ground in front of the roller coasters, many don't succeed.<br />
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Still other friends find it too loud and too full of drunken nuts, especially in the autumn. Tourists arrive in their smelly "Oktoberfest 20XX" T-shirts when that fest is over and keep on drinking in Stuttgart. The subways are full of traditionally garbed twentysomethings and smell of alcohol six weeks a year.<br />
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My photographer friends go there, as I do, to shoot the action and, after dark, the lights. Lights, camera, action!<br />
For years now, I've shot the standard motifs and come to know the faces of the people working there. I sometimes talk with the workers when I'm walking around before it gets busy. They are often Romanians, as is the man below, so we talk about the delicious food in his home country.<br />
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But another aspect of the whole business has come to fascinate me. They begin building the "tents" - 5,000-square-meter buildings - several weeks in advance and it takes them just as long to deconstruct. Behind all the shine is a life on the road for the workers and owners of the rides. The buildings, the rails, the haunted house - they all have to fit on trucks and are moved to the next fest until it is time to return to Bad Cannstatt. And every day before the visitors arrive, they wash their stands and make them as attractive as possible.<br />
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This year when the festivities were over, I wandered across the grounds and got some shots of the take-down. Behind one of the largest buildings is a room where the waiters can rest.<br />
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Inside one of the beer tents.<br />
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They need a lot of equipment to move a roller coaster.<br />
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Water is not the most important liquid at the fairgrounds, but it is important!<br />
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The great thing about having a new camera is that it gives you new impulses and a renewed interest in capturing images. The mighty resolution and astonishing crispness of the Sony A7iii and the 24-105 lens have drawn me into the countryside lately. Without an idea of what I was going to photograph, I simply followed my lens and pressed the button. This is the first nature series I shot.<br />
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The sky was overcast but it was dry and bright. In order to catch the detail of the underside of the leaves, I overexposed by +1.7. I love the element of purity coupled with the spring buds, and yet spider webs can be found creeping all over the leaves and branches.<br />
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The images above live from the negative space surrounding the branches. Then I saw layers in the pictures, which add depth to them.<br />
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It's amazing how relaxing these images are for me to look at. After all those years shooting in the city and the evenings at events, being out in nature and looking heavenward is teaching me to relax and enjoy everything around me.<br />
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<br />Jim Martinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14583963002037127112noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3671675.post-53002303347766336082018-05-06T16:24:00.001+02:002018-05-06T16:24:44.301+02:00My settings for the Sony A7M3<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Recently my friend <a href="http://www.jpalik.com/PhotographyByJamesPalik/" target="_blank">Jim Palik</a> moved from Canon to Sony after over 40 years with the big gun. At 75, he says, you start to think about how much weight you are carrying around and the Sony mirrorless camera is much lighter than the 5D Mark II. So we went down to his favorite camera store and he bought the A7M3, a Sigma adapter for his Canon lenses, a Sony 64 GB SDXC <a href="https://www.foto-erhardt.de/speicher/sd-karten/sony-sf64m-64gb-sdxc-karte-uhs-ii-class10-260mb-100mb-sekunde.html?gclid=Cj0KCQjw_ODWBRCTARIsAE2_EvVW5iKYSk-sWw3hHb_4_qMNwAxWnb869j5OmWWrKhQrOcAZy0rUtWgaAvbVEALw_wcB" target="_blank">memory card</a> and an extra battery. Now he is ready to get out and play!<br />
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But first I promised to tell you readers (and Jim) what settings I've decided to use for my camera - the menus inside and the customizable buttons and dials on the body.<br />
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First of all, I've never noticed that the camera added movement to the picture when it was taken on a tripod with Steady Shot on. Therefore, I'd recommend simply leaving on the Steady Shot. If you are using a lens with stabilization in it, you can easily turn that off if you like, but the chances that I would forget to turn it back on are so great that I would prefer to just leave it on.<br />
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For the first time, I've chosen to change two focusing settings with this new Sony camera. The focus peaking feature has been highly praised over the years and I've usually had it set to High and turned the color to Red. However, that was using the AF-S focusing mode. With this camera I've begun using the DMF function and have turned off the (distracting) red focus peaking. The camera focuses and then moves to manual focus mode so that you can check and perfect the focus point if necessary.<br />
Why did I do this? In the past it was somewhat bothersome to do this because when I adjust the focus manually, I have the camera zoom in on the subject so that I can see it better. However, the zoom area is not always where I want to focus, so I had to fiddle around with the toggle switch and by then the camera had either zoomed back out or the subject had moved. But with the new touch screen, it is easier to move the focus area to the desired spot, even while you are looking through the viewfinder.<br />
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However, when I am shooting sports or some other active subject, I move to AF-C and can easily focus-follow the moving person or animal with a quick click of the button inside the big control wheel. I have set C1 to Focus Mode to make this change easily.<br />
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Speaking of zooming, at the baseball <a href="https://jimmartinphotoblog.blogspot.de/2018/04/shooting-sports-with-a7m3.html" target="_blank">game </a>last week I often opted to shoot in the APS-C mode from the center ("sweet spot") of the sensor, resulting in a 10MP image which is basically a digital zoom. The advantages here were three-fold: I could crop the picture in-camera, the images wouldn't take up as much space on my hard-drives and the buffer didn't fill up as quickly. I have the AEL button on the back (top-right) of the camera set to one-click zoom because in the menu (Camera 1, first page) I have set APS-C/Super 35mm to "Auto" and "Manual: On". The AEL butt on is then set to "Full Frm Sel."<br />
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So where is my AEL button? That is on the front under C2. I wanted to be able to zoom and click the shutter at nearly the same time, so I set the zoom button to the back. But for AEL, I can have that up front. I prefer AEL toggle so that my other fingers are free to make other adjustments after I've made that all-important exposure adjustment.<br />
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I usually shoot in Wide Focus Mode, making adjustments later manually. Since I change this setting relatively rarely, I have it on the C3 button, which requires a bit more fumbling about to find and change. Zone focusing is a good choice when simple compositions such as landscapes are in front of your lens. Simply jog the Multi-Select Button left or right, up or down to change the zone. The same works for the Flexible Spot (mine is set to "Medium") or the new expandable flexible spot.<br />
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When I want to shoot in Manual Focus mode only, I click on the AF-ON button on the back, which is pre-programmed to turn the automatic focus on and off anyway. I'm used to having this function there, so I don't have to think about it any more.<br />
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The trash can/C4 button is also customizable. I want to take advantage of the new touch screen for focusing. There are times, however, when I don't want to have it on. So I simply press C4 and it turns off.<br />
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The next thing I have programmed is the Multi-selector, which I press to set the Eye focus. I haven't used it as much as I had originally hoped to, but when I do more portraits, I'm sure I'll be turning it on more frequently.<br />
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Finally, the control wheel is set like this for me:<br />
Left is Drive and Right is ISO. Why override the icons painted on the camera body here if there is no good reason to? I don't have to change ISO with this camera very often; it is usually set to Automatic 100-8000 because I've found everything within this range to be good. I might raise the minimum ISO to 200 or 400, but that's just out of habit. Having the Auto ISO Shutter Speed minimum set to Fast or Faster does the same thing.<br />
Pressing the bottom of the control wheel changes my silent shutter function. Read all about the pros and cons of that <a href="https://jimmartinphotoblog.blogspot.de/2018/04/the-silent-shutter-of-sony-a7m3.html" target="_blank">here</a>. That post also explains when I want to turn it off (or back on). I've recently realized, however, that when using the LA-EA4 adapter with the A7iii, the set-up makes a click when you take a picture. The shutter is no longer silent.<br />
The top of the control wheel cannot be changed. It always changes what the display looks like: graphic display, all info or none, level, histogram, blank (off - such as for night shooting). These settings can be changed on the second Camera menu on page 6 (DISP Button). Set the display and viewfinder to show different things if you so wish.<br />
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My Function Menu looks like this:<br />
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Auto ASP-C (in case I end up accidentally zooming too often, I can easily turn off the function)<br />
ISO Automatic Shutter Speed (usually set to FAST)<br />
Focus Area<br />
Metering Mode (usually matrix)<br />
Picture Effect (rarely used, but it is otherwise hard to find and turn on; only relevant when shooting JPEGs only)<br />
Live View Display (important to turn off when using a flash)<br />
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DRO (usually AUTO, but unnecessary when shooting RAW)<br />
Priority Set in AWB (Standard; read more about this setting improvement <a href="https://jimmartinphotoblog.blogspot.de/2018/04/getting-accurate-exposures-with-sony.html" target="_blank">here</a>)<br />
White Balance (AWB, though I sometimes change it to Flash when shooting primarily with a flash)<br />
Picture Quality (RAW)<br />
Creative Style (Standard tends to be the best, but I think you get a bit more light if you set it to Light in darker situations)<br />
Grid Line (usually on Thirds, but turning it off can give you a feeling of freedom with your picture composition)<br />
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Furthermore, I stay in airplane mode unless I want to use my phone to transfer the GPS coordinates to the metadata in the pictures I'm shooting. I have tried this and it worked perfectly. Why don't I do it all the time? It drains both batteries (phone and camera) if on all the time.<br />
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<br />Jim Martinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14583963002037127112noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3671675.post-22161411606920663572018-04-15T21:46:00.000+02:002018-04-15T21:46:12.986+02:00Shooting sports with the A7M3<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I've already talked about using the silent shutter for concerts and the caution one must exercise with moving objects or while panning. Here is another good example of when to be careful when choosing the silent shutter.<br />
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Yesterday I was standing in the visiting team's bullpen shooting pictures into the glorious afternoon light. I had a great view of the right-handed batters and the infield. I didn't want the players to be distracted by my shooting, so I went silent most of the time.<br />
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As you can see in the two photos above, I was panning with the runner, which resulted in everything behind him being slanted in the direction the lens was panning, if the person or object was either not moving, moving slowly or not at all. The first picture has lots of vertical lines which call attention to themselves in a case like this. The second one isn't so bad.<br />
The one below, in contrast, was also taken with the silent electronic shutter, but the ball is moving so slowly that it still appears round and the fielder in red has normal proportions. Using the silent shutter still has two main advantages: it draws less attention to your camera and yourself at a game like this and it doesn't wear down your shutter mechanism.<br />
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The light dwindled as the second game continued. I started shooting at 4 pm at around 800 ISO so that I could get some fast shutter speeds (between 1/500 and 1/2,000). I was using the Sony G f4.5-5.6/70-300 at around 200mm most of the time, but this is a lens I like to used stopped down a bit, so I needed the extra ISO. No problem for this camera.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The Hornet's catcher gets hit by a deflected pitch in the right wrist. He moved out to left field to give his injury time to heal.</td></tr>
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I took the first half of the pictures in JPEG and, as a test, switched to RAW at the end. I much preferred having the information available in the RAW files when doing the little bit of post-processing which was necessary. The details came out much better in the RAW files, which is why I usually shoot RAW.<br />
Sometimes I switched to APS-C mode for a 1.5x magnification with the touch of a button (more on my preferred settings in the next blog post). I did this mainly because I knew I would neither need nor want huge files; 10MP would be enough. In addition, the files can be saved to the memory card much more quickly this way, not that I had a problem with buffering - I simply didn't take that many in one burst.<br />
I also took the first JPEGs with High ISO Noise Reduction set to "Low" and then the others at "Normal", but didn't notice any difference between the two. Most of the best pictures were taken at around 1/1,000 sec and 1,000 ISO. The aperture stayed at around 5.6-6.3 most of the time, though I did pump it up to 7.1 when I didn't need the extra speed.<br />
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It was nice working with the long lens again. Shooting at 1/1,000 - 1/2,000 sec., I had no problem with camera shake, even though I was effectively shooting without a tripod and at 300-450mm much of the time.<br />
The last thing I played with during the game was the video function, thinking I'd take some frame captures of the action. It just so happens that I got some footage of some of the most exciting parts of the game. Below, you see the opposing pitcher getting hit by the ball. Then he took off for first base but stopped when he saw the ball being thrown home to tag out a runner. The catcher missed the throw but then got the second runner out. A real bit of excitement in what many Germans consider an incomprehensible and boring game! I thought the whole thing was thrilling. There were a lot of hits, good pitching and even an incident of "catcher interference", which I had never heard of!<br />
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Below: A slide into home plate captured on video, made into a print with Lightroom. The camera also has a function for doing this. Here is the difference in quality between the two processes:<br />
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<br />Jim Martinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14583963002037127112noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3671675.post-32118458976636286912018-04-13T09:00:00.000+02:002018-04-13T09:00:05.097+02:00Getting accurate exposures with the Sony A7M3<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">1/1600 sec. at f7.1 and 100 ISO - Easter Sunday sky</td></tr>
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Coming from the A700, A77 and A7, I've noticed loads of improvements in the Sony mirrorless segment since October 2011 and December 2013 with this newest camera, the A7M3.<br />
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Today I want to touch on three points regarding picture quality. One is especially important if you want to shoot JPEGs. There have been improvements in the white balance menu and settings.<br />
I nearly always have my white balance set to "Automatic" (AWB) because when shooting RAW you usually change the colors a bit while post-processing anyway. And yet Sony realized that shooting inside as much as you would with such a high-ISO monster, you might want to tell the camera's computer exactly what kind of automatic output you prefer. So they have come up with a way to prioritize the tone when shooting under certain lighting conditions. You can have the traditional AWB working; you can prioritize the ambient lighting (creating a warmer color cast); or you can set it to "white", resulting in a cooler tone. I think this is a great tool!<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">1/30 sec at f6.3 and 4000 ISO - the Freiburger Münster</td></tr>
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Furthermore, there are 16 different white balance pre-sets, all of which you can tweak to your heart's content - more red, more green, blue or yellow. When shooting JPEGs, set your white balance to the room's light temperature by pointing the camera at a white piece of paper that is lit with the same ambient lighting as your motif. While your camera is set to the "Custom Setup" function (the last one in the WB menu), take a shot with the center circle pointed at the white paper. Then assign that specific WB to one of the three custom WB settings and you are good to go - until you move into another room or someone turns off the lights and decides candlelight is more romantic!<br />
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Second, there are two settings that help you nail the right exposure on the motif in your picture. The first one detects the brightness on faces in your shot when your metering mode is set to "Multi-segment", which is the setting you'll normally want to use. That setting together with the spot metering coordination seem to be very helpful tools when shooting events with tricky lighting situations (bright lights in the picture, backlighting, etc.).<br />
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Spot metering is the way digital photographers measure the amount of light needed for a perfect exposure on the chosen motif. No longer do we have to run up to the model or mountain top and hold up a lighting meter to get a good reading of the exposure! This camera can pick a spot and determine how much light is needed for a normal exposure. With the new A7M3 you can coordinate the spot metering point with the focus area even when it is not in the middle of the focus area.<br />
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Below is an example of a situation in which I wish I had still been shooting either with both RAW + JPEG or in the spot-metering mode. My cards were filling up, though, and I was taking fast sequences of shots of these birds, so I switched to JPEG only. Unfortunately, the beautiful dark feathers of this hawk were no match for the bright background, which the camera also figured into the "Multi-segment" metering equation.<br />
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As with the A7, I've had situations where the A7M3 took an absolutely wrong reading of the light and overexposed the scene by a whole stop or two. I never had that with the earlier cameras. However, the electronic viewfinder lets you know immediately that the exposure is wrong. My experience shows that this usually happens after you have just turned on the camera and want to take a picture right away.<br />
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So you can set both the exposure and focus areas for the shot you are about to take. Speaking of the focus area, you can set the camera to prioritize focusing on faces when in the wide or zone focus area settings. That's often a good idea when you are shooting people in landscapes, but look what happens when you aren't!<br />
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Here is, of course, what I really wanted to focus on:<br />
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Finally, for those of you who don't want to guess which exposure might be best in the end, you can set the drive to "Bracket". Now this is nothing new except that Sony has now expanded your bracketing capabilities from three or five images to nine! Together with the 14-bit uncompressed RAW files, this ability to capture a nine-image series of varying exposures will enable you to put together some incredible landscapes! On the other hand, I have seen few situations where I've needed the bracketing. A RAW file is so flexible that you can usually brighten the shadows and tame the highlights to have as good a result as a three-shot, four-stop bracket could give you.<br />
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<br />Jim Martinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14583963002037127112noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3671675.post-60331165368189375702018-04-12T15:50:00.002+02:002018-04-12T15:50:41.651+02:00Improvements in Lightroom<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">1/320 sec. at f5 and 2500 ISO - developed in Lightroom Classic from the Sony ARW file</td></tr>
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Just in time for working with the new Sony A7M3, Adobe has updated its Lightroom software, not only to include RAW (Sony's ARW) profiles for that new camera but also to add several new features and a couple of useful tweaks to the interface.<br />
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After waiting for three weeks for Adobe to come up with a RAW converter for the new camera, I was very pleased to see the results of batch processing in the case of this theater production. The lighting was uneven, concentrating on the center of the stage and falling off quickly towards the edges. I took care to expose for neither the brightest nor the darkest faces. Still, there were big differences in the luminosity in the faces, as you can see from these two photos below.<br />
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All in all, this auto tone is a good place to start. Sometimes it'll add clarity to the photo as well, which can add noise, as does the boost to the shadows, so keep your eyes on those sliders.<br />
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Now with the newest version of Lightroom, you have the choice to create a common look among all the pictures in a series such as the 400 pictures I took of this performance. If you don't have a set aesthetic with you like to bring to your pictures, you can try one of a number of color or black-and-white presets. Of course, presets have been around a long time, but now you can hover the mouse over thumbnails in the right-hand panel (F8) to see what the image will look like after you apply the preset.<br />
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Your camera already has several color presets for jpegs (the bottom three thumbnails above), but Adobe has added new ones, including Vintage, Modern and Artistic. Different strokes for different folks - but also for different sets of photos. There are also 26 B&W presets which basically increase or decrease a certain native color one at a time or in conjunction with another one.<br />
If you know what you are doing, you can create your own presets (color, B&W or otherwise) to increase the speed of your workflow. I use ones I've created for bringing out detail in a blown-out sky, for increasing the detail in a scene, for adding some light to people's faces and for popping a landscape. Plus I have my "Highlights" slider set at -15 because I notice I often want to retrieve some detail from the brightest areas of the photo.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">1/60 at f4 and 8000 ISO - developed in LR from the Sony ARW file</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This was developed from the in-camera jpeg. It was difficult to achieve a natural looking skin tone because the jpeg (perhaps on account of the high ISO) offered only patchy reds and yellows on her skin.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">1/320 sec at f5 and 2500 ISO - here the RAW file has a lot of detail and little noise</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The jpeg doesn't have quite the smooth gradations in the colors of the face and it loses some detail on account of the in-camera "Low" noise reduction.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This version was processed in Sony's Image Edge Editor, which created yet again different skin tones.</td></tr>
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Another thing that was supposedly improved in this version of Lightroom is the face recognition. I say "supposedly" because, first of all, it seems to have lost all the data I had painstakingly stored in the catalog and, secondly, because <a href="http://acmiles.blogspot.de/" target="_blank">Alane </a>looks nothing like a head of salad (see below). Yes, the program may find more faces than it use to, but what good is it if it can't match the faces? I don't use this feature much anyway.<br />
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<br />Jim Martinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14583963002037127112noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3671675.post-86849617688259218092018-04-06T14:30:00.003+02:002018-04-07T21:16:54.008+02:00Battery life of the Sony A7M3<b>My experience after three weeks with the camera</b><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Battery for the A7M3, which lasts seemingly forever!</td></tr>
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I'll get right down to one of the biggest improvements in the newest Sony cameras: the battery life has more than doubled. The NP-FZ100, as you may assume from its predecessor's name (NP-FW50), is larger and much stronger than what we had in the earlier models. The Alpha series before the A7 had the big, strong NP-FM500H, which lasted a couple of days in the A700 and nearly a day in the A77, Live View draining the battery more than on the A700.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Battery for the first A7 cameras, which lasts a couple of hours.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Battery for the A100-A77, which lasts a couple of days.</td></tr>
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I have three of the smaller batteries for my A7 and usually had to change them after an hour of shooting when the thing went down to around 17%. I never bought the external charger, figuring it was easier to just have a few spares in my pockets.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The relative sizes of the Sony batteries tell you a lot about how long they last.</td></tr>
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Last night I started shooting a theater production at 95% on my A7M3. After three hours and nearly 500 shots it was still at over 40%.<br />
When I bought the camera on March 12, I had been fretting that I'd be powerless until replacement batteries become available at the end of April. But so far, so good.<br />
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I must add one caveat, though. It takes a long time to fully charge the battery, so plan on recharging over night. If you have to shoot in the afternoon and then again in the evening, a two-hour charge will put you back up into the safe zone so you should get through the evening ok!<br />
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