Picture of the Week #10

Panasonic LUMIX GX8 + Olympus M.Zuiko 60mm f2.8 Macro, ISO 200, 1/60 s, f/11, two Speedlites and a desk lamp for lighting This week's picture is again from the macro world. A melting ice cube with a refraction of a gerbera in the background. The tones from yellow, orange, and vivid red in their softness contrast with the internal structure of the ice cube. At

By |2018-11-26T01:26:05+01:00November 25th, 2018|Categories: Picture of the Week|Tags: , , |

Picture of the Week #9

Panasonic LUMIX GX8 + Olympus M.Zuiko 12-40mm f2.8/Pro @40mm, ISO 200, 1/400 s, f/8 This week's picture shows a spiderweb ornamented with dew droplets on a misty November morning. It is also the first picture with my new (used) Olympus M.Zuiko 12-40mm f2.8/Pro lens, that I publish. So far I am very happy with the build quality, image quality, and the lightning-fast autofocus.

By |2018-11-20T21:39:26+01:00November 18th, 2018|Categories: Picture of the Week|Tags: , |

Picture of the Week #7

Panasonic LUMIX GX8 +LUMIX G VARIO 14-140 mm @ 140 mm, ISO 1000, 1/320 s, f/7.1 This week's picture shows a vineyard with a shed in the evening light. Autumn started its game to stir in some red leaves creating a strong color contrast. The regular lines of the grapevines are only broken by a shed, which is placed at the upper-right right intersection according

By |2018-11-05T23:45:27+01:00November 4th, 2018|Categories: Picture of the Week|Tags: , , , , |

Picture of the Week #6

Panasonic LUMIX GX8 + Olympus M.Zuiko 60mm f2.8 Macro, ISO 200, 1/60 s, f/16, two Speedlites and a desk lamp for lighting This week's picture is of a small sunflower refracted in three water droplets sitting on a gerbera petal. The droplets act as lenses and produce a picture. Note that the refraction in the droplets is upside down and also left-right. This picture was

By |2018-10-28T22:30:20+01:00October 28th, 2018|Categories: Picture of the Week|Tags: , , |

Picture of the Week #5

Panasonic LUMIX GX8 + Olympus M.Zuiko 60mm f2.8 Macro, ISO 1250, 1/125 s, f/7.1 This week's picture shows a crab spider on a leaf. Crab spiders or Thomisidae are a very common family of spiders with over 2100 species. The sample here is a small Xysticus species. Crab spiders are distinguished by their large and strong front four legs which are used to catch prey.

By |2018-10-21T23:12:45+02:00October 21st, 2018|Categories: Picture of the Week|Tags: , , |

Picture of the Week #4

The picture of the week #4 is celebrating the colors of autumn. I chose a leaf in the transition from green to red. The colors and the structure of the leaf really pop when lit from behind. By rotating the leaf approximately 20 degrees from being perpendicular to the light, the stems in the leaf get accentuated by their shadows. This makes the picture look

By |2018-10-14T01:14:24+02:00October 14th, 2018|Categories: Picture of the Week|Tags: , , |

Picture of the Week #3

Panasonic LUMIX GX8 + Olympus M.Zuiko 60mm f2.8 Macro, ISO 200, 6s, f/16 This week's picture is a close-up of a walnut and its reflection in black plexiglass. It is the product of some experiments with light. The quality of the light falling on the subject very much influences the look of the picture. Essentially, the size, position, and temperature of the light source(s) determine the

By |2018-10-10T23:14:59+02:00October 7th, 2018|Categories: Picture of the Week|Tags: , , , |
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