Region Rhein-Neckar (BW)

A beautiful evening in Heidelberg. Here I captured both sunset and twilight in one photo by using time blending. So I actually took a photo just before the sun dipped behind the hills in the background and then another photos around 40 minutes later with the city and the castle lit up.

Both were combined in photosshop, as you can see in my latest Youtube Tutorial.

View of old town from Hortus Palatinus, Heidelberg Schloss, Heidelberg, Baden-Württemberg, Germany

View of old town from the Great Terrace, Heidelberg Schloss, Heidelberg, Baden-Württemberg, Germany

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Panorama View of Heidelberg Schloss, Heidelberg, Baden-Württemberg, Germany

Heiliggeistkirche, Heidelberg, Baden-Württemberg, Germany

The evening before I took the Kraichgau photo I photographed this scene in Heidelberg. Beautiful view as usual. I waited just for the lights to go on to snap the last shot.

In total this photo is combined out of 5 exposures I took while my camera was mounted on the tripod. This was needed to get good detail and even light in the whole scene.

Wanna see how I put those exposures together, then watch my exposure blending timelapse, which I recorded for this shot.

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THIS was the best sunset I saw over heidelberg since I'm trying to shoot this scene! Last week I was at the same place and well there was a sunset but the WOW was missing. Yesterday evening my jaw was hanging open for more than one hour and I couldn't stop taking pictures. Here's the last one. It was just awesome, the colors changing and changing and finally I had the perfect harmony between the cities red rooftops and the sky.

You might not see it but it's a panorama from 3 shots, bracketing 3 exp for each to do a dri and get the dynamic range which was needed here. I was very carefull to compose the scene with every important building having it's place in the frame.

Hope this shot does evoke some similar feelings as I had them when seeing this sky :-)

Details: f/11 | 11mm | 3exp bracketing + DRI -> pano from 3 vertical shots (Nodal Ninja 5L used) Processing: enfuse GUI for DRI , Hugin for Pano stitching

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finally I got my new wide angle lense. Tokina 11-16 . Well have to say it is quite sharp even at the edges. Still have to experiment a bit but I already start to love this lense. Only the cromatic aberation is quite high but in a way you can easily fix in camera raw!

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Every year, around the first of May the Mannheimer Waldpark, a large forest park near the Rhine, becomes almost...

A beautiful sunset in Heidelberg photographed in October when the weather was still nice ;-)

When I look out of the window now I don't like what I see. Hopefully winter arrives with some snow soon so I have some now subjects to shoot.

For now I'm browsing through some shots I have taken this year and process them. This one was shot using a lee 0.6 soft and hard GND and I also did several exposures.

I blended those to get better detail throughout the image. For those interested here's a video describing the technique I use: landscapephotographymagazine.com/2011/blending-multiple-e...

I know I already posted this but it never hurts to post again ;-)

have a nice evening or day, depending where you're located.

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A golden autumn glow on the castle of Heidelberg just before the sun set behind the hills.

(wikipedia) Heidelberg Castle is a ruin in Germany and landmark of Heidelberg. The castle ruins are among the most important Renaissance structures north of the Alps. The castle has only been partially rebuilt since its demolition in the 17C and 18C. It is located 80 metres (260 ft) up the northern part of the Königstuhl hillside, and thereby dominates the view of the old downtown. The earliest castle structure was built before 1214 and later expanded into two castles circa 1294; however, in 1537, a lightning-bolt destroyed the upper castle. The present structures had been expanded by 1650, before damage by later wars and fires. In 1764, another lightning-bolt caused a fire which destroyed some rebuilt sections.

View on Schlangenweg, Philosophers' Way, Heidelberg, Baden-Württemberg, Germany

Took this photo two days ago right after sundown when the lights on the bridge were just switched on. I waited for an hour doing some other shots because I wanted the reflections of the bridge lamps.

... when nearly everything fits.

When I was driving to Heidelberg yesterday evening I noticed a nice tree some 100 meters to the left of the autobahn, standing lonely on a hill. I saw it just a few seconds and thought this would be a nice tree to photograph in the morning.

Since I'm always in search for nice settings I imediatly looked through google maps to find this tree when I arrived in Heidelberg 30 minutes later. Seems I got a quite good orientation because the tree I looked up in google maps yesterday and went to early this morning was exactly the one I saw from the highway.

But what you see above is not this mentioned tree. On the way there I spotet an even better piece of landscape. In the distance the fog was slowly rising off the ground, there was hoarfrost on the grass in the foreground and the sun just started lighting the scene. I shot this facing away from the sun since I liked the way it was warming up the tree.

Ok so what about the other tree I initially went to photograph. Turned out this tree needs some time till it's ripe to be photographed right. I did some shots and will maybe post some later but there was a field surrounding the tree which was quite barren and brown and wasn't what I had in mind for the shot. So I will wait, give whatever will grow on this field some time and come back there to a later time. (in a perfect world it will be a field of sunflowers eventually but I think here I'm demanding to much ;-) )

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A few weeks ago I was back at my favourite location in northern Kraichgau. I know those fields well and was shooting them a lot over the last years. But I can't remember having seen them in such great condition. They looked great and had lush green and yellow colors. I seemed I had chosen just the right weekend to return.