Chateau Püchau, March 2010

Another hard and clear winter day around the village

Winter wonderland around the village

Snow, snow, snow ... maybe it's enough. We got a lot here - approximately 30-40 cm. Dear God... that's Brandenburg here... and not the Alps!

Tilt-Shift Instructions for GIMP

Found this very helpful instruction of Bart Busschots to simulate tilt shift pictures by using GIMP:

http://www.bartbusschots.ie/blog/?p=774

Found a similar description in German on Fothema.de:

http://www.fothema.de/2008/07/09/tiltshift-mit-gimp/

Tilt shift experiments

I found some hints in the net how it's possible to simulate tilt shift lenses. Made some tries with Gimp.

Happy New Year! Another Baltic Sea winter day

Happy New Year! Had today another walk along the Baltic Sea beach near by Rostock. Not so stormy as the last days but wet, snowy and cold enough.

Baltic Sea winter days

I had today a long walk on the beach of the Baltic Sea. Very impressed colors but hard stormy and cold.

Exposure Blend, HDR Tool for Gimp

Found it during my researches for useful free HDR / DRI tools. Exposure Blend is a plug in script for Gimp to make HDR images easy. The plug-in delivers different filter methods and an simple but easy to use align tool.

The plug-in supports only 3 images of a bracketing exposure series - but this should be enough in some cases.

http://tir.astro.utoledo.edu/jdsmith/code/exposure_blend.php

Thunderbolt, Neu Hardenberg

unsharp memory lights

Original was taken at 07/06/2003