Gabi wrote to me in January asking if we could take a few photos together. However, Gabi doesn't live in Hamburg at all. So we had to schedule the photo shoot at a time when FC St. Pauli was playing in such a way that, for once, there was a little time for pictures around a match. Gabi is a big fan of FC St. Pauli and travels to many games. The away games are often closer to home than the home games. Crazy world.
So Gabi postponed her return trip for me by a day and we met in dry weather with a very cold Hamburg wind on a fairly early Sunday morning Bochum game. "I'm looking forward to your blog post," Gabi said to me over coffee before taking the photos, "because then I can show off that you photographed me." Apart from the fact that this view of my work is a very nice but completely exaggerated compliment, it of course only increased the pressure to produce a few decent pictures. 🙂
Dear Gabi, it was an honor to travel around the cold corners with you. And I'm very happy that you like the pictures so much that I can show them here.
The last picture is just an excerpt from an experiment that I have wanted to implement for a long time. It is namely a so-called Brenizer-Pano: an image that is created from several shots taken together. This has the interesting effect of being able to take wide-angle images despite only having a 50 focal length. Together with the open aperture of 0,95 of mine Noctilux, this creates an image with a particularly small focus area. My fear that the Nocti's quite large vignetting when the aperture is open would make composing the images difficult or look unsightly has been resolved by moving a corresponding slider in the lens corrections Lightroom scattered.
I already had the complete picture with me Instagram shown, but the effect and quality don't come out so well.
Ultimately, there was too much road in the picture for me, so I cut it differently later. Thanks to the incredibly large number of megapixels, such cropping is not a problem. You can still wallpaper the living room with the above excerpt.
By the way, there is a small tool for such Brenizer panos Image look calculated in focal length and aperture.
Well, I can definitely understand the "showing off" thing!! I do it too... 😉 Nice photos again!!
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... and never forget the f... bird 😉 I really like that, with the seagulls 🙂 Especially because of the red pönkts in there, which draw the eye so wonderfully and back and forth and back again... 😉
yeah – I thought it was great too. Especially because the birds played along so well...
...what should I write? The best thing about these pictures is that they are so "me" without me thinking: oh dear, how stupid does that look? Stefan, you manage to make people want to "undress" in front of you (even if the clothes stay on :) It is unusual and also exhausting but incredibly invigorating and inspiring to show yourself without the embarrassment that usually creeps into your face. (...and the other thing was just the wind that puffed up the jacket :)
Thank you for your great words!
Great and very natural pictures, Stefan. You can't get more praise than Gabi herself, congratulations! LG, Connie
Thank you!