Licht~Bild's photostream  

Photography has been magic for me since I started to think. Actually it was in my early childhood that my father took me to the darkroom and showed my how the image appears in the developper bath.

Seeing is an activity of the mind. With photography I can give this mental process a material shape. Through my image collection I hope to explore the "gestalt" of my visual mind. Therefore photography is an act of communication. Like any other form of communication it is inherently and inevitably a way of self-expression. By accepting this inherent relationship, I try to pursue photography as a form of art.

Well, just like many others, I guess. But this is what fascinates and motivates me to keep learning in this art form. With every single shot. Still a long way ahead, before others can see my fascination in my shots. Never mind.

Now, after some years without taking pictures, I come back to digital image taking, initially with a Canon Powershot S45, now with a Canon Ixus 75 and the Nikon D3. In particular working with the Nikon is big fun, but also very much computer-oriented.

Something that I did not miss in the darkroom age. Nevertheless, digital makes image processing very simple and thus gives a much wider freedom of expression in the photographic sense. I have never mastered the color process as much as I do on the computer.



Gear list:

Nikon D3
Kirk BL-D3
Markins Q3
Manfrotto 055PROB mod.
Metz 58-AF1 N
Nikon Speedlight SB-28

Zeiss Distagon T* 2.8/25 ZF
Sigma AF 28mm f/1.8 EX DG
Tamron AF 28-75mm F/2.8 XR Di LD Aspherical (IF)
Ai Nikkor 35mm f/1.4S
AF Nikkor 35mm f/2D
AF Nikkor 50mm f/1.4D
Ai Nikkor 85mm f/1.4S
Tamron AF 90mm f/2.8 Di SP macro
Ai Nikkor 135mm f/2.8
Nikkor 135mm f/2K
Sigma AF 150mm f/2.8 APO EX HSM macro DG D

Software:

Nikon Capture NX2
Nikon ViewNX
Nikon Transfer
Adobe Lightroom 2
Gimp, Hugin, Irfanview, a.o.