2015-05-09 Weather: Thunderstorm at Sunset

If you also love to take pictures of thunderstorms witth lightnings and dramatic clouds, then you know that the best storms are those shot in front of or next to the setting sun. Today i was lucky to capture some images of a thunderstorm at sunset using Live Composite to collect lightnings without overexposing the image.

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2015-02-26 Travel: Morocco - Casablanca and Marrakesh

Date: Feb. 25, 2015, 3rd day of our cruise on the Norwegian Spirit
Country: Morroco
Locations: Casablanca, Marrakesh

We had booked a guided tour from Casablanca harbour to Marrakesh and back before we started our cruise because we did not want to miss Marrakesh. In the end we spent 6 hours in the bus and 6 hours visiting Marrakesh, which was rather exhausting and due to ours being a large group, i did not have enough time to take good photos. Plus my new travel cam, an Olympus E-PL-7 went into electronic frenzy and was not working half of the time. But Tom and me got a first impression and will probably visit again.

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Gear: How to configure AF on demand and other AEL/AFL related Behaviour on Olympus mFT Cameras like the OM-D E-M1 I

The following article also applies to most other OM-D and Pen models but with less Fn buttons to choose as alternate AEL/AFL button. The OM-D E-M1 II and PEN-F have updated menus but in the end configuration is similar.

Many photographers prefer to decouple exposure meturing from AF but struggle how to permanently set up this behaviour on their E-M1. The reason is that the E-M1 like all other Olympus cameras simply offers different AEL/AFL modes for S-AF, C-AF and MF, but doesn't call the relevant ones AF-on. As a consequence, if you search the manual for AF-on or AF on demand, you don't find anything although the feature is available.

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2015-01-25 People: Bad Guy Good Girls

Studio session with:KC, Rassamee and Böhser Onkel

Topics: Strange kind of Kormorant, Steampunk Ladiy, Moonchild, Warriors of the Wasteland (inspired by the upcoming Mad Max Movie and House of 1000 Corpses

Please don't open / scroll down further if you feel offended by blood, scars, horror, erotic photography and/or naked bodies or if you are under 16 years of age!

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