ZeWormes

Hey there, I am experimenting with HDR images again, lately. I find them most fascinating. But up until this week I haven't been able to create any HDR pictures that would satisfy me. That changed when I found Luminance HDR 2.1.0 a free, open soure software for HDR editing. The results are quite amazing, I think: :thumb271005236::thumb271003358::thumb270753567::thumb270819712: The developers of Luminance HDR really made some improvements to their software. Prior to the 2.x version it was considerably harder to achieve a good result. That changed definitely. And as I said: it's open source, so it's free (free as in beer AND free as in fre

The Chaos Communication Camp in Finowfurt near Berlin (Germany, Europe, Earth, Milky Way, Universe) is one of the most impressive places I have ever seen. At night it looks like a giant disco where light and color is everywhere. Lasers, LEDs, luminous balloons, towers made of shiny boxes. On Twitter the camp was called the "burning man of the hackers" and I have to agree completely. Certainly it is fairly difficult to capture this spectacle with a camera. Nevertheless people try, of course. Here are a few impressions taken by other artists and myself. http://zewormes.deviantart.com/art/Hackers-and-Rocket-Science-252091519 http://zewo

So lately there is a wish in me in going back to good old film photography instead of digital photography. It bothers me that I don't take much time to think about the picture I'm going to take. Since using film should force me to spend a little more time thinking and since the quality of pictures taken on film is really impressive I decided to get myself a new (well actually old) SLR. I'm currently using a Nikon D80 which I'm very happy with. Therefore I decided to stick to Nikon. Film SLRs are definitely cheaper than digital ones. So at first I was looking at Nikons professional F-Series. But those cameras actually still can do all the wor