I strongly believe that these two were the number one Halloween characters this year, at least I had the impression there were Jokers and Sarah Palins all over the place :-)
Sweeney Todd
The first of some more new Halloween pictures from New York.
The lighting setup at the parade was worse than in the previous years, but my current gear is by far better than what I had before, so I was still on the winning side. Not speaking of the creative people who are simply astonishing year after year. I guess my processing workflow improved a little, too.
Website Changes
If you look carefully, you will notice a little change on this page. I got rid of the guestbook, which seemed a bit lost and redundant. I simply replaced it with a shop section. I agreed on contracts with Seen.by and CCPrint a couple of weeks ago. CCPrint produces and exhibits in Frankfurt, Germany. Seen.by collaborates with Sander in Cologne. My experience so far is that taking pictures is one thing, but printing is a whole different story. So I'm very happy to have these capable partners now. All the proofs I have seen so far look just brilliant. If you happen to be interested in one of my pictures...it won't get better than this.
A Scary Halloween...
...is what I'm wishing you.
Hopefully more frightening than this picture here.
Youtube Slideshow
After I saw my work on a slideshow on youtube, I had the glorious idea to make one myself :-)
I thought that the colorful cityscape stuff works best when put together to something that has energy. As music I chose a song by Chemical Brothers called "All Rights Reversed". I simply went through some CDs while driving home from work and tried to picture how the images would go with the music. When All Rights Reversed was playing, I already had all kinds of ideas for panning and zooming. Next was the quest for a good software. I tried two or three until I tried a program called Magix Xtreme PhotoStory. The free trial can basically do everything the full version can do.
Towards the end of my editing I did quite some fine tuning, but after uploading the video to Youtube, I noticed that in the first couple of scenes the music is not 100% synchronized. That's bothering me a little, but I'll leave it like that for now.
I believe that if you like my pictures, you will like this video. I recommend you to turn the volume up and set to full screen. By default, Youtube shows a highly down-sampled version, but I noticed that when you go on the Youtube page, there is also a link to a version of higher quality.
They Arrived
