Aug 21th, 2011

Today, flohagemann.com got a fresh new facelift. I have created a new header, navigation and background. Moreover have a added a little info box to the welcome text guiding you to recent postings. For some reason, the lightbox script used for my galleries is not working with the new code. I haven't figured out the problem so far, but I am already working on flash-based photo galleries using SimpleViewer. Moreover, I am editing the "processing" section. So, check back soon!

Jul 6th, 2011

Last week I have taken two days off and visited one of my best friends who lives in Paris right now. Of course you won't ever go to Paris without taking your camera with you, right? So won't I... especially because it had been my first time at Paris.

May 22th, 2011

This morning, I came back from a new trip to the Isle of Mallorca (Spain). My camera is loaded with lots of new photographs and I have therefore created a new album in the photography section. Up to now, I could only run through a few shots. More pictures will follow within the next days. So, check back later!

May 16th, 2011

You may have noticed the new button in the navigation above. I have added a new section to this website dealing with post-processing of photographs. Since editing images is a necessary and amazingly interesting element of digital photography in my opinion, I plan to show different pictures before and after processing. Moreover, I describe all adjustments made to achieve the final result. I hope you like it!

Apr 10th, 2011

I have created a new gallery including my first macro experiments. Two weeks ago I was given a set of close-up lenses as a present. These lenses are mounted in front of your lens just like a filter. The results are pretty nice I think and it is way cheaper than buying a true macro lens. Perfectly suitable for getting started.

Apr 3rd, 2011

The former table based layout of this website was not technically up-to-date anymore. Therefore, I rebuild this website using CSS and divs only. From now on, the code of this website is a 100% table free. What's it good for? Well, if you don't go forward, you go backwards – profound, isn't is? :) If you don't have any clue what I am talking about, don't worry. I am not sure either.

Mar 9th, 2011

Since I got my new camera I planned to take night shots. Fortunately, I am living close to Frankfurt on the Main right now where you can find Germany's only skyscraper skyline. On my way back home on sunday I therefore made a spontaneous side-trip. I left the highway and just headed towards the city center. Although I did not drive to the city of Frankfurt before I easily found a nice spot on the Main at about 9 in the evening. The sky was pitch-black and cloudless. You had a really clear view to the street lights and some of the buildings. I finally spent about an hour and a half taking shots with different settings until I was almost frozen to death :) I will definitely repeat this trip soon and I will search for a spot where you have an even better view on the skyline. Check out my new gallery for some more shots of the skyline.

Feb 25th, 2011

This morning I had nothing better to do than shooting photographs :) The sun was shining for a couple of hours and I drove to a small nature park, only 10 minutes from where I am living at right now. In the past, I did not use a tripod often just to be able to change perspective more easily and so on. Today I planned to use it the entire time and although everything took a little bit longer it was definitely worth while. From now on, I will definitely take it along much more often. Unfortunately, I am not able to upload any pictures to my flickr account for some reason. Regardless of whether using the browser, Flickr Uploadr or Lightroom... it may be due to flickr's weekend traffic or my lame connection.

Since the flickr upload is still not working I have created a new album.

Feb 20th, 2011

This weekend I spent some time on creating a new logo. What do you think of it? In the next days I will continue refining the overall layout of this website.

Jan 16th, 2011

Back in November 2010 I have sold my Olympus E-410 Double Zoom Kit and invested in new equipment. The camera of my choice is Nikon's brand new D7000 which is the direct follower of the popular D90. At the suggestion of my local dealer I have combined the D7000 body with the Sigma 18-125mm F3,8-5,6 DC OS HSM. Compared to the Nikkor 18-105mm the Sigma has a better overall glass quality, comes with a metal bayonet and provides a bigger focal length at the same time. Find out more about the technical details of the D7000 at Nikon's official website and read more about the Sigma 18-125mm at Sigma's official website.

So far, I can say that the quality of pictures is remarkable. For example, have a look at the cropped high-res picture below. The bird sat on the branch just for a moment and I took this picture straight from the hip focusing the apple (focal length: 65mm). Notably, the autofocus works incredibly fast and precisely. In my opinion the quality of details such as the bird's feathers is awesome. Notice the original (uncropped) shot in the left corner (about 16.2 mpx, high-res size: 4928x3264px).

I will hopefully be able to upload new pictures soon.

Nov 4th, 2010

After dealing with photography for a little while I have the feeling that pictures become much more interesting to me when having some background information on how pictures were taken and processed or what else was going on locally. Just move your mouse over a thumbnail or open the picture in the light box to get more information and insights on the specific shot. See my picture galleries here.

Nov 1st, 2010

I have added more shots to the galleries Nature, Urban and Undefined.

Oct 29th, 2010

I am delighted to present you the brand new version of flohagemann.com. Once again I changed the overall design and structure of this website. This time, I created a simple html based layout without using any flash elements so far. With this website I would like to focus on digital photography and post-processing. So, don't forget to check out my picture galleries. I will upload further shots within the next days. Unfortunately, cross-browser compatibility is still a big problem in webdesign. I therefore recommend to use Mozilla Firefox in order to view this website correctly.
Cheers!

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