Is Time Blending the same as Compositing
April 12th, 2019 | Landscape Photography, Post Processing
A recent article I wrote over at CaptureLandscapes about how I used image averaging and time blending to create my photo Desert Nights stirred some discussion. Particularly the time blending technique was topic of the comments I received. An opinion was that time blending is nothing other than compositing. But I think there’s an important[…]
Photographing Morocco – Casablanca and Fes
April 4th, 2019 | Travel, Travel Photography
In the final part of my Photographing Morocco series I show you Casablanca and Fes. Casablanca was our first stop after Essaouira – just a layover on our way to Fes. And I have to be honest here: Casablanca is not the most beautiful city. For Moroccan standards it’s a bit boring, without the charm[…]
Photographing Morocco – Desert to the Coast
March 27th, 2019 | Landscape Photography, Travel Photography
After two wonderful days in the desert we continued our tour with Wild Morocco and drove through the vast Iriqui Lake, which could easily have been a setting for Mad Max Fury Road. Then we went past an impressive, jagged mountain range until after nearly two hours of off-road driving we went back into civilization.[…]
Editing Night Photos
March 23rd, 2019 | Post Processing
I just released my newest Start2Finish post processing tutorial. This time I show you my complete workflow for editing night images. The aim here is to create moody photos that look like night but still show enough details in the landscape to intrigue the viewer. To achieve this I had to make a few changes[…]
Photographing Morocco – Erg Chigaga
March 10th, 2019 | Behind the Shot, Landscape Photography
For a long time it has been a dream of mine to visit and photograph the desert. While we travelled through Peru a few years ago we already went to a desert landscape near Ica. But despite the enormous dunes, this didn’t feel like a real desert. There was too much tourism and noise there.[…]
Winter Wonderland
January 15th, 2019 | Behind the Shot, Landscape Photography
In recent weeks we had lots of snow here in Germany. A lot more than in the years past. So I decided to follow along with a plan I have had for some time now: Photographing the winterly landscapes on top of the Große Arber mountain. I had already scouted the area a few weeks[…]