In the event of technical problems, a program line selects the images of the day. To do this, she selects from a catalog of images that, in the case of the images of the day, begins in 2014. From Saturday to Tuesday, the algorithm revealed images that would otherwise have remained hidden in the depths of the c’t photography gallery.
The start on Saturday was the atmospherically illuminated monument in the form of a historic miner’s lamp in the Ruhr area, which Ralf Markert captured in a classic central perspective. And the photo from Sunday was also his: Here he was at the World Body Painting Festival in Pörtschach in 2013 and photographed a work that looks like a comic drawing at first and second glance.
Monday’s Picture of the Day featured a portrait of a tiger by JohnnyB. Tuesday also belonged to an animal, but this time a far more harmless one – a butterfly that gallery photographer “Ausscheider” photographed in a butterfly house in Alsace.
Back to the present
Our journey into the past came to an end on Wednesday, even if the long-term recording of a ship on the Rhine by Klaus-Peter Kubik gives the impression that the structure of space and time has not yet been fully restored. The photographer writes to us about his photo: “The photo SpeedBoat I was taken in Königswinter am Rhein, when the water level of the Rhine meant that the cribbs that protrude into the river were slightly flooded. I then had the camera hanging down attached to the tripod in order to be able to take a picture as close to the ground as possible. The photograph was taken with an Olympus OM-D E-M1 with a 12-60 lens and screwed-on ND 1.8 gray filter with an exposure time of 5 seconds. This led to the smoothing of the water surface and the dynamic movement effect of the passing ship. The RAW file was developed with Capture One Pro, with color adjustments done in Lightroom.”
Christian Nagel’s impressive photo of the moon also takes a look into the past, this time on an astronomical scale and in the form of the lunar craters captured in pin-sharp detail. This is how the picture came about: “While I was still waiting for a dark sky during the preparations for my astrophotography session in the evening, I used the moon to roughly focus the telescope and took a few pictures. I then decided to record a moon series even under dark skies. After the image processing, I found that the image quality was still quite usable even in the 100% view, so I decided on a crop to give the details of the moon shot a little more effect in the gallery. The image shows a stacking of the best 50 images from a series of 200 images that I took with an astro camera (ATR3CMOS26000KPA) on an 8″ RC telescope with a focal length of about 1090mm.”
The end of the week was the recording of a stairwell, which Karsten Gieselmann skilfully staged as usual. He writes: “The stairwell in a building in downtown Munich has an interesting and unusual geometry. By choosing a suitable perspective, an abstract, graphic composition is possible. In the original, the color of the motif is a ‘grey mouse’. In order to increase the overall effect and tension of the picture, I added a blue tint with a yellow in the stairwell in the post-processing.” By the way: In the current issue of c’t photography you will find an article about his working method and how he chooses his motifs finds.
You can find an overview of all the pictures of the week in our photo gallery:
Saturday: Glow….
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