8/30/2010
316: WALK IN ONE'S SLEEP
I took my camera to the opening party of Concord Audio and shot some footage of a friend spinning. So nothing planned, just shot three to four clips and lighting was quite terrible. Actually it was almost dark. So please don't mind the noise and don't bother watching it in fullscreen ;-)
Now I had some spare time and I edited it to a song by another friend of mine. Also check out his label MONDMANNMUSIC.com
Camera: Nikon D5000
Lens: Nikon 35mm 1.8 DX
Song: Axtruemental "Walk in one's sleep"
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8/29/2010
315: DVL EPISODE 04
Just a rerun of the last DVL episode with Volkan Baydar. Please spread the word.
The next episode will be with Ole of the Assoto Sounds Team. It will air in the next two weeks.
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8/28/2010
314: SURYA'S DAD
This is Surya's dad. Check out his Restaurant Bistro Tati in the Bellealliancestreet in Hamburg.
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8/27/2010
313: LITTLE HELPER
8/26/2010
312: MY 2ND PARENTS
A couple of months ago my host parents from USA visited me here in Hamburg. I did a high school year in Oklahoma in 1998. As a little advice: Visit a foreign country either during school or right after graduation. Go for it...
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8/25/2010
311: FLY FLY
Sorry, that there weren't any shots the last couple of days. Going through a shot dry spell I guess. Been doing so much editing lately that I didn't shoot much.
Djawid and I going for a ride...
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8/22/2010
8/21/2010
309: CAROLYN
8/20/2010
308: RUGGED
Not a portrait today, just a maybe boring plant shot. But somehow I'm kinda drawn to this kind of plant. Maybe it's the ruggedness and the ability to grow in such a tough place all alone. Sounds depressive, but it's not. Just admire the strength...
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8/19/2010
307: ARASH (ASSOTO SOUNDS)
And of course Arash will be in the DVL Episode after the one with Ole.
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8/18/2010
306: OLE (ASSOTO SOUNDS)
The next DVL Episode will be with Ole of the Assoto Sounds Team. Coming soon...
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8/17/2010
305: VOLKAN
You've seen the Dream Vision Life Episode with Volkan Baydar (Here is the link, if you haven't seen it already). This is the headshot that I took during that interview.
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8/16/2010
304: TECHTALK - BACKUP WORKFLOW
As a Filmeditor and Photographer it's inevitable that hard drive space is reaching it's limits pretty fast. I fill up the gigabytes pretty quick. So what do I use and what's my storage workflow?
Disclaimer: You've probably read a bunch of blogpost like this, therefore there a thousands of approaches to this topic. And this is why this is "just my approach", it has flaws and isn't the best, just mine ;-)
Click on the link to read the rest of the blog post...
Let's start with the hardware. I use Lacie Firewire drives and a Drobo 2nd Generation with Western Digital Black Caviar 1 TB drives. I have Lacie D2s, Porsche drives and the rugged. Despite some remarks on the net, that they aren't reliable, I have to say that I just had one crash. And I blame myself for that: That drive was almost seven years old and was more or less just lying around as a backup. I didn't let it spin regularly as I should have I believe.
The rugged drives are of course my travel drives, the Lacie D2 drives are usually used to edit on, but with my current setup not anymore (more on that later), the Porsche USB drives are backup drives, and the Drobo is actually one of my main working drives.
Allright now to the workflow. As I said, the Drobo became my main drive. The MacPro has two internal drives, while one is the system drive the other serves as a scratch drive for editing. On the Drobo I put all the Raw Files, Video Files, final Renders / VideoFiles and more. They all go into a folderstructure based on Photo or Video / Project-type / Date / Client and Projectname. For instance:
Photo/Beauty/2010/100806_Name_Project
Within that folder there are again three folders: RAW-Unedited, SLX-Edit and Final-Tiffs.
Afterwards I backup everything to one of the Lacie drives. There is a dedicated drive for a different backup purpose, i.e. photo backup, video backup, data backup etc.
For the backups I use a programm called Synk. I really like that programm because it is quite customizable. I never tried Timemachine, because it somehow felt too much like a all-in-one solution without the possibility to adjust certain processes.
Well at the end I have all my data on the Drobo raid and a backup on the Lacie Harddrives, so far I am safe...but with one heavy flaw: They are all in one place. That data isn't secure to a fire or theft. But for that I do have another backup at a secure location.
As you see I am quite cautious with my backup workflow. Especially since I just heard a story where a electric blackout in an apartment caused a short circuit and made a backup completely unusable. I'm just too scared about my data. So keep multiple backups and backup often.
But I am quite curious: How are your backup strategies? Or did you already happen to have a serious hard drive crash? Write me a comment below...
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8/10/2010
303: DREAM VISION LIFE Episode 04
It took me a little while, longer than I wanted, but finally here's the next episode of my Dream Vision Life Project.
This time I interviewed Volkan Baydar, a Singer and Songwriter. He is probably mostly known for his Band Orange Blue. He is a great person and he gave some really good insights. Enjoy...
Please feel free to post a comment or send me a mail. Tell me what you think about this project. And don't hesitate to post the videos or a link on your Facebook, blog or whatever.
P.S.: For those who don't know the drill. After a DVL Episode I tend to not post a new shot for a couple of days in order to promote the project on top of the blog.
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8/09/2010
DVL Leema
Sorry, I'm stuck again in a shot free phase. Right now I am editing episode four of the DVL project. It will be online in the next few days. Furthermore I am writing some more tech blog posts, so get ready for that.
Here is just a rerun of the last DVL episode...enjoy.
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Here is just a rerun of the last DVL episode...enjoy.
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8/08/2010
8/06/2010
301: KATIE
Helped my good friend Katie with some headshots, and you know I always want some fun shots. Although I would love if someone would actually use these kind of shots in their resume or job application.
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8/05/2010
8/04/2010
8/03/2010
298: PINK
Please excuse the missing shot yesterday. It was Monday I guess...
Helped out the make up artist Janine Bossmann with some shots for her portfolio. She brought two models and she was looking for a colorfull kinda look. The next two shots will be from this shooting as well.
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8/01/2010
297: FUJI S5 PRO review...
Ok two days ago I gave some insights on the Nikon D5000. So now let's continue with a little insight on the Fuji S5 pro.
Disclaimer: This isn't a scientific test or a "real" review, just my views on this camera.
First and foremost: A Fuji? Thought you use Nikon? Well, the Fuji S5 pro is based on the Nikon D200. It shares the same body and therefore the same lens mount, but this is where the similarities end. Fuji designed a completely different sensor. On this sensor basicly each pixel consist of two photocells: One for really bright and one for darker exposure (that's probably a real simple explanation). This leads to the very good dynamic range and color rendition. The camera is "only" 6 megapixel, but due to it's double construction and interpolation it is featured as a 12 megapixel camera.
In my experience so far this interpolation isn't bad, especially for people photography. The dynamic range and the color rendition is something that I really like with this camera. For instance, this picture was completely overexposed. I was able to recover all the detail and still make it a good picture (click "continue to read" to see the before picture). Unfortunately the file size is despite it's 12 or rather 6 megapixels quite big. 25 mb if you capture RAW files with full dynamic range, and that leads to the S5 pro's "speed".
The camera is really really slow. It takes a long time to clear the buffer and to write to the card. At first I was really annoyed by this, but over the time I got used to it and it helped me to shoot less and more thoughtful, instead of shooting away and ending up with thousands of pictures that I do not need anyway.
Sometimes you read on the web that the camera isn't "sharp". This is due to the antialiasing process of the camera. It seems quite strong, but since this camera is targeted for people photographers I believe this is actually a good thing. You don't need ultra sharp skin, you don't wanna see every pore or zit. I used to pixel peep and check for sharpness or some other geeky thing, BUT I lost track of the picture. I guess now I do prefer an unsharp but good picture over a sharp picture with nothing in it.
Here the unedited picture. That's my brother by the way.
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