Thursday, December 27, 2007

the X-Mas report

Stereo reflection - X-Mas Orbs ...just came back home.
I spent the last 5 days at the house in the mountains.
X-Mas was a lot of fun. The whole family was there to cellebrate.
On the 25th Michael and his girlfriend Venassa were also there to take a ride with the "Nocky Flitzer".
I took a lot of pictures so if you want to know how cool it was, just take a look at them here.

Friday, December 21, 2007

Plans for X-MAS (Info)

Reflecting Tree
Like every year I will spend the X-MAS holidays in the mountains with my family. (I am really looking forward to the dinner! ....mmmh jummy.....) I will return home on the 27th - or maybe a day later or earlier. Of course I will take a lot of pictures and of course I will upload them to flickr as soon as possible.
I have a lot to do during my X-MAS holidays. I plan to turn the chaos-room - I call it like that, because it is the only room that isn't finished right now - into a office to work at home.

Ok, well now I just got one last thing to say...

I wish everybody nice holidays, a nice X-MAS evening, and a happy new year!

gl hf salendron

Thursday, December 20, 2007

A little secret about myself: I did it my way...

Frank ok... I think it is time to tell you the truth.

I am a big fan of Metallica, Queens of the Stone Age, Slipknot, System of a down, Muse, Soil, Disturbed, Clawfinger and so on...


..., but I am also a Frank Sinatra fan!

uhh...

I own a T-Shirt with this picture on the front and I own a Frank Sinatra Best-Of CD and a Rat Pack Best-Of CD.

AND I LIKE IT!

Ok, now you know the dark truth about me...

*gg*
salendron

Monday, December 17, 2007

A new challenge!




I think this will be fun.


Robocode. I think I am not really able to exactly describe what it is, so let's see what WIKIPEDIA says -> ROBOCODE


Everything I could say is. It is so cool and so much fun! Please give it a try. I will be worth it! I promise.


I am developing some Robots myself, it is pretty easy for beginners to create something that works. There are a lot of samplebots and documentation.


http://www.robocode.de/ has a really great beginnersguide.


Give it a try, because I need opponents! *gg*


Tuesday, December 11, 2007

nearly xmas / hey the colors aren't destroyed / I don't fell like this is too much naked skin

X-Mas Mood Xmas is coming closer and somehow I am really getting into some kind of xmas-mood. Strange feeling.
I will spend Xmas at the house in the mountains with my family, (I am really looking forward to the dinner) but I think I won't stay in the mountains until new year, so I have to plan something for celebrating new year somewhere else.
Last friday I went to the x-mas party of the company I work for. It was a lot of fun. Great food, beer and great ambiance.

My new Flash On saturday I bought myself a Flash (with some of the money my parents gave me for x-mas).
I always was a bit afraid of flashes, because the build-in flash of my camera always destroyed all the colors in the picture and made it look sterile, but with this flash I have so much more posibilities and if I do it right my pictures turn out really cool. (in my oppion, of course)

So i had to test the flash on saturday evening. I wanted to take some shots of the tatoo on my girlfriend's back.

A friend said that these pictures should be zensored. Zensored? Why?
Maybe he is not the only one that thinks so, but I think that it is a beatiful back. Not more not less. The Eye

When I made the shots she wasn't really nude, just the upper part of her body was.
The photos show her always from behind (because that's were the tatoo is).

What do you think? Is this too much? Does the photo show to much skin?

Use the comment function and tell me what you think.

Monday, November 26, 2007

Leaving Home - Part 4 - Finally

There's no place like 127.0.0.1 ... it is done.
This weekend wasn't really recreative. So much work.
Moving is really exhausting, but at the moment everything seems to be great.
I moved to my new home this weekend and I love it. It is so great to have a place to call my own.
I want to thank everyone that helped me a lot for everything they did.
And of course I want to thank my girlfriend for making this place a great place to live.
Everyone who want's to see more can either take a look to here (more photos will follow soon) or just visit me at my new home!

Wednesday, November 21, 2007

Leaving Home - Part 3 - It's getting serious

Splashy Orange Uhhh...
Stress.

I got 2 extra-holydays for moving to the new flat. That's pretty cool, but that means that I have a lot to do to benefit from these 2 days.

My room needs to be empty - except of the furniture - until tomorrow evening.
The pc room will be a lot of work. Don't know where to start.
Since monday I pack things to my car to take them to the flat on my way home from work, than I go home and pack the next things to take them to the flat on the next day.

Puuh... A lot of work.

to be continued....

Monday, November 19, 2007

Leaving Home - Part 2

HDR: Kitchen Yesterday I started packing. Six big boxes so far.
Just a few minutes ago I was told that I will get my keys today at 17:00. That means that from now on I will take a few things to the flat everyday after work.
That means the stress has begun.
I have to pack everyday to take some more to the flat everyday and I have to get everything - except of the furniture - to the flat until friday afternoon.

A lot to do I think!
to be continued....

Sunday, November 18, 2007

Leaving home

Panorama: My Room 360
That's how it looks right now. It is 9:00 AM - sunday morning. It is the last sunday, which I will spent here. Next sunday I will allready wake up in my own little (71qm) flat. MY OWN.
This week will be very stressful I think.

Here is my TODO-List:
  • Getting all my stuff into packing cases. (It is a lot of stuff)
  • Getting all my paintings and pictures into a safe wrapping.
  • Getting my keys.
  • Transport everything into the flat.
  • Getting the new furniture.
  • and then start to build all the furniture together and get all the stuff back in place.

I think this will be a lot of hard work.
But I think, in the end it will all be worth it.

Monday, November 12, 2007

Unfair

First snow in Fresach So what have we learned?
World is unfair. We learned that it is completly senseless to work hard, try to learn a lot, try to make everything right, because someone showed us that doing nothing, behaving like a stupid spoiled child is absolutly enough to get whatever you want!
I feel like everything I did, does not mean anything!
I could not be proud of myself, if a stupid idiot is allowed to do whatever he want's and I have to work hard to get I want!

Why?
Tell me!
NOW!

Monday, October 29, 2007

Hi... I wasn't writing for quiet a long time, but in fact there's a lot tell.

Photowalk
There was another Photowalk some time ago. It was really fun. Great colors. Great people and a lot of great pictures.

You can read about it here -> http://www.photowalk.at/
The photos are available here -> Photowalk Group Pool


This weekend I decided to get my self into the mountains (Turracherhöhe). Snow! A lot!
Panorama: First Snow It was really wired to drive back home on sunday - to drive back into autumn.

Thursday, October 11, 2007

Back to school - the last time

The creatures of autumn I quit school 3 years ago, but because I am an apprentice for 3 years now I had to go to school 9 weeks per year.
On monday I have to go to school again. It will be the last 4.5 weeks going to this school. Normally I hated to go there - It is boring - ,but this time I think it is something like some time to breath again. Work was very hard during the last weeks. I think school will be a great alternation.
Don't get me wrong, I really love my Job, but I had a lot of stress during the last weeks.
I have a little private project going on and I hope to have more time for it in the next weeks than I have now.
School is easy so it won't be very hard for me to get the marks I want.

Maybe I will like school for the first time in my life, allthough it will be the last time to go there.

Tuesday, October 09, 2007

About Halo3 and god, lonlyness and the my search for people that help me try something stupid

The creatures of autumn Let's start with Halo3 and God.

As I read the news today - I only read them online - I found an article about the usage of Halo3 as a tool to get younger people into church. This happens in america, really!
-> http://derstandard.at/?url=/?id=3065770
How crazy is that? Do they say something like: "Come on kids, let's pray and then we'll kill some Aliens!"

Something is wrong with this world.

yes something is wrong. Also with my world. I feel a little bit like left behind on a lonely island. All the people that were allways there for me to talk, to go for a beer, to hang around are now gone! I don't blaim them to do something wrong - hell, no! - It's their life! They had to do so and it is like it is. I know there is no better way, but I feel lonely. I am left behind. Maybe it's my own fault.
ICQ helps, but it's not the same. I am very looking forward to the day I will meet them again. I hope they want to meet me too.

People. that's a word. I am searching for some people for trying something wired. I am not god. I can'T do it alone. No way. I have made a little FAQ about it.

You can find it here-> http://www.the-engine.at/ppi.htm

Maybe someone can help me. I hope so.

I am hoping for a lot of things right now.

salendron

Monday, October 08, 2007

Boxing and the creatures in the garden

TrainingI think that hurts.
This weekend I visited the Boxportverein Millstätter See. It was great to watch their training even if the light was really bad so the photos did not turn out very good.
I hope to have the chance to take some more photos of them under a bit better conditions.

The creatures of autumnI also build some chestnut creatures with my girlfirend and placed them in the garden to take some pictures of them.
I know that I am childish, but it was fun - really.

Wednesday, October 03, 2007

The Honk and the only real Dude

Ok. I think I have to explain.
First of all everything started as I called somebody a HONK. Just in this moment I realized that I don't really know what a HONK is.
So I asked the god of senseless information (the internet) whata HONK is.
And it shown an image. This one. A hairy brown ball with big green eyes.
So this is a Honk. Cool. or maybe not... ...who cares...


So. Now I have to tell you who the real dude is. Him->

Thanks for reading.

Tuesday, October 02, 2007

It is hard to be the Masterchief....

Red is going doneYesterday I started to play Halo3 multiplayer on XBOX LIVE. That's fun. Really.
The coolest thing is that you can watch all your games again. But not just from your standard view. You can move the camera freely around the level during the replay and watch it from every angel you want. You also can follow other players or just watch cool things like these things you see on the screenshots I took yesterday.
Taking screenshots is very easy and comfortable just watch the replay -> stop it at any time you want -> place your camera there where you want it to be and take the screenshot.
But how can I export it to my PC? easy...
Just save it and go to your bungie service record on bungie.net. There you find all your gamestats, screenshots and much more about all you have done in Halo3.I think I am dead
I think that's a cool feature.

My BUNGIE SERVICE RECORD can be found here. I also added a link in the sidebar that will get you to my service record.

So if you want to meet me at XBOX LIVE just search for my gamertag (salendron) and send me a some lines.

hf gl salendron

Wednesday, September 26, 2007

Black eight - Black car

The Black EightYesterday evening was very cool. I finally got my new car. (pictures of it will be online soon)
I love it and I really enjoy driving it.

After a little test drive with a friend we drove to town to play billard with some othe friends. (of course I took some cool billard pictures) It wasn't easy to take pictures there, because the light was really bad and I don't wanted to use the flash. (Flash kills colors!) So finally Igot 8 more or less good pictures - really nothing special, just some friends having fun playing billard. I like such evenings.

Tuesday, September 25, 2007

break on through to the other side....

Moon like a fireball I really like the Doors.

A lot of things are going to happen in the next few days.

Let's start with my new car. Tomorrow in the evening I will have a new car! Yay!

Cool.

Next thing.

HALO 3
I am just a few days away of "finishing the fight". Here are some cool things about Halo 3.

Let's BELIVE and FINISH THE FIGHT!

Monday, September 24, 2007

Catching Light - Catching Emotion

Anger I am very surprised. I decided to take some portrait images to learn something more about taking this kind of photos. Of course I don't want to take self portraits so I need people that want to be the faces on this photos.
So I wrote a SMS to some friends. I expected either no answer or denial.
BUT right now I have 8 people - men and women - that want to help me.
Wow. My personal target is to have 10 pictures of 10 different people in the end. Of course I need a lot more of every person, because I am not very experienced and I noticed that I need some time during taking photos of someone until I find out what the photo I want should look like.

Sorry, but I am an absolute beginner.

At the moment I took 2 of this 10 photos I want.

Happiness I think they turned out pretty good - I think.

I hope new ones will follow soon, but this depends on when the other people that want to help have time for me.
Finally these 10 photos will be printed as a QOOP Mini Photobook. Mini means 3.75'' x 2.5'' => 9.5cm x 6.4cm. I think this is a habile, cool and unusual size for a photobook - that's why I like it.
Everyone who wants to have one after all 10 pictures were taken should tell me and I order one for him. (costs about 5 euros)

Now I also want to thank these people that are making this possible.

First the ones that already did a great job: Both of you were fantastic motives and it was a lot of fun taking these pictures. Thanks a lot for supporting my experiments.

Now the ones that will follow: Thanks for be willing to do this. I hope it will be as much fun as it was with the others.

At the moment I need another to persons that want to join this experiment. If you are interessted in doing this just leave a comment, mail me or if you have my telephon number just give me a call.

Thanks to all of you!

Sunday, September 23, 2007

The process of learning


Humans as they are 1
Originally uploaded by salendron
It is an experiment.
I am no professional - Absolutly not!
I am just learning.

1 of 10 is done. 9 more are needed. I hope the other ones will turn out as good as the first one.
I try to capture live. Feelings. Difficult for someone who has so little experience like me.

That that's I am doing it. To learn something.

Let's see if I will learn enough to create something special.

Thursday, September 20, 2007

difficult to write what I am thinking


My first Moo MiniCards
Originally uploaded by salendron
some days ago I wrote something like this-> "...about the same thing, but one of these two things isn't interessting at all, because my little world isn't affected by it and I don't care about it."

These lines are the reason why something happend, that I was trying to avoid as much as I can.

I did not wanted to say, that I don't care about the people, which are meant with this. I just wanted to say that I am not interesseted in this situation, because I should not affect this.

I have made a lot of failures in the last years and I want to avoid them to happen again, so I decided to keep my self out of this.
I feel very sorry for saying this like I did in these lines. That was another failure.

I think I had to say this in another way.
Don't think I am not interesseted in you. I just don't want to destroy something again. I am affraid of doing this again so I decided to do nothing and just write a little line about this where I say that I am not interessted in this, so everybody knows that I won't affect this.

I hope now everybody knows that I don't wanted to hurt someone. In fact I wanted to do exactly the opposite.

Wednesday, September 19, 2007

Ahoi! Arrr!

Avast! It's Talk-like-a-Pirate-Day today!
So all you bilge rats and beautys out there.. ..TALK LIKE A PIRATE!
Why? BECAUSE IT'S FUN, ARRRR!
Wanna know about the history of this really special day? take a look at this -> WIKIPADEDIA/International Talk Like a Pirate Day

You want t' know more about it?
Arrr, take a look at these websites!
So what be you goin' t' do now?
Yes! Talk like a Pirate!

E'en some popular websites like Flickr celebrate this day Aye! As you can see when you take a look at the flickr logo today, arrr!


So post some comments and show me your pirate talkin' skills!

Monday, September 17, 2007

No at all.


Mural (black-and-white shot)
Originally uploaded by salendron
Time. So fast.
You can't get of train at full speed.

Hours like seconds. Years like minutes.
18.. 19... 20....

STOP

Realize.

In the brightest hour of my darkest day, I realized what is wrong with me.
Can't get out of my memories. Have to realize that something new is just starting here and now!
I am happy to share this time with people I call friends and a girl, that is waiting with me for the day, when we are on our own. Our life our home. Our world. Our plans.
It is time to let past go.

Something new! Just some seconds away. *gg*
I want everyone that wants me to be part of his life and who wants to be part of mine to let me know. I won't be officious. No matter what happens you are welcome. All of you.

I really did nothing wrong this time. No. Not today.

Misunderstood?


Donut Room
Originally uploaded by salendron
I don't know how it happen. I really don't know.
I thought I did nothing wrong. I never told anybody that someone is disturbing my life. In fact, I thought I was disturbing others.
I apologise.
I think I have made a lot of mistakes throughout the last years and I feel very sorry for the things I did.

I thought it would be the best to say nothing. To let others do what they want without telling them what I think about it. I just want old friendships to grow again, but I do not know if these people want that to happen.

So i decided to be quiet and wait. I am not angry about anything. There is nobody and nothing that makes me angry.

I just want past to be past and today be today. I want everybody to be happy with their lifes as they are.

Please don't think I am angry. I am not. I just want that everybody knows that I am not the one that wants to change things that are not about me anymore.

Please let me know if you want me to be a friend again. No matter how long it takes.

Friday, September 14, 2007

The countdown to the countdown


Ant (black-and-white shot)
Originally uploaded by salendron
It's to late - it's to fake, but I've got nothing to loose.

six.... five...
One chance to stay alive...

four... three...
...but I can hardly breath.

two... one...

...

let's go.

I see changes in my live every second. One second things seem to be so far a way. Another second it is to close to realize.
I am happy. I hope I did not do something wrong. I hope my plans and wishes for my life work like I want them to. So many decissions. So little time. Changes - great chances - are just a heartbeat away. Have to think fast - act right - get out of my memories.

Tomorrow will be what tomorrow will be. No illusions. Goodby reality.

Thursday, September 13, 2007

Nothing to say


Panorama: Stadtpark Spittal
Originally uploaded by salendron
What it is? - Something good - Something great.
Why? - Nobody cares about that.

I am not able to do something - to change something. It is not necessary. I works - I think.

"sometimes you find out something about yourself, that you did not know." - he said - he's right.

It's right.

Everything chances. - But it is getting better. I am sure.

Wednesday, September 12, 2007

Alive


Felt my blood floating through my body - faster and faster.
Felt the sweat on my fingers - cold.
Heard them screaming - loud.

Gears of War is really the best multiplayer game ever!

Yersterday my XBOX 360 finally came back from getting repaired. I played PGR3 for about an hour, but then I decided to play Gears of War.

It seems like I have forgotten how great this game is.

So I went to the toilet (to play it safe) - took off my shoes - plugged the headset into the controller - activated the 5.1 sound system and joined a multiplayer game.

4 versus 4

After some time of real great multiplayer action I noticed that my puls was really high and my fingers were covered with cold sweat. I also noticed that I have played for 4 and a half hours - it felt like I have just joined this game.

It was a very funny feeling to know that a game - a great game - one of the greatest games ever - could make me fell like this. It was a hard day at work and I was very tired and cut up when I came home this evening, but after these hours of playing this I felt happy, balanced and a bit hungry.

I am not addicted to computer games - absolutly not - I am not even very good at playing video games, I just play about 5 to 8 hours per week. I wouldn't even have the time to play more, because I have to go to work and my girlfriend wouldn't be very happy, if I would be playing video games all the time, but sometimes we play together and that is one thing I really like about her. She has no problem with killing virtual monster in a video game with me.

Today I won't be able to play gears of war, because I will drive to my girlfriend in the evening. I miss her a lot so I am really looking forward to see her again in a few hours.

Sry virtual monsters, I have to kill you tomorrow, because today I have more important things to do....

Monday, September 10, 2007

Back 2 life


Star-Tracks 2
Originally uploaded by salendron
A good friend told me this weekend that I should write again about me, my life and my own wired world.

I think, I really should do so.

Let's start with: ME

I am really happy right now. Ok it is monday, but so many good things happend in the last 72 hours. (breath in and stay calm - I am no idiot my friend) My MOO cards finally arrived and also my XBOX 360 is back (now breath out - everythings ok). I also visited the Harley Davidson Bikeweek. Really cool. Pictures can be seen in my Flickr web-album.


Next Topic: my life

My life is as usual... ...ok not everything is as usual there are two things, which aren't as usual. (breath in again - it's getting dangerous)
These two things are - nearly - about the same thing, but one of these two things isn't interessting at all, because my little world isn't affected by it and I don't care about it. (Can you feel the tension?)
The other thing is really cool. I like how it seems to turn out. I hope it turns out good and stays good. (Was this careful enough?)


And at last: my wired world
(uhh... A lot to tell - scary isn't it?) I allready told you that there is one thing happening, which is really cool and I like how it works and how it seems to turn out. I want to tell you that I have nothing to with this - no influence - simply nothing, but it all happens so close to my world, that I can't ignore it. So don't be scared. Be happy my friend.

Thursday, September 06, 2007

RainbowSnake

RainbowSnake Test 1Python is a programming language that really blows my mind.

Wikipedia says:
Python is a multi-paradigm programming language (functional, object oriented and imperative) which has a fully dynamic type system and uses automatic memory management.

I say:
Python is just great.

Some time ago I began to play arround with the Python Image Libary (PIL). I found out how to manipulate every single pixels color, brightness, contrast and so on. I also made some experiments with merging pictures (of the same thing but with different exposures) into one picture to gain more details, but this pictures weren't really outstanding beautiful ( in fact they all looked pretty boring, because my method caused them loosing contrast).

At the moment I am playing arround with colors. I use kind of color-patterns (in fact I use different relations between red, green and blue) and manipulate every single pixels color by recalculating its color in relation to the other colors of this pixel.
The results can be seen on the picture in the top left corner of this post. (I did NOT use any photo manipulating software to create these pictures. I just used my own little python programms. I just used GIMP to put all 12 photos onto on big picture.)
I created 3 different styles so far, but I am not really satisfied at the moment.
The next step will be to use 3 different pictures with different exposure of the same thing, merge them into one boring picture and apply styles that keep the details and bring back the colors to the picture.

A lot of work I think. A lot of things to learn about color managment and a lot of fun.

to be continued...

Monday, September 03, 2007

letter to reality - One


Dom Maria Saal
Originally uploaded by salendron
Dear reality!

I changed the title of this blog. Know its title is 'LETTERS TO REALITY'. I think that's better than just salendron.

I have also changed the design, because I think if I change the title, I also have to change the look.

But now let me tell you a bit about my holydays.
First of all: It was great!

My holydays started with the photowalk - I allready wrote about it.
The first week I spent with doing nearly nothing. Just hanging around, sleeping meeting some friends. I just had a good time.
the second week was nearly the same. Just great.

Of course I always had my camera with me to take pictures of different kind of things. (you can take a look at them here)

I know that this is a very short letter after so long time of writing nothing, but at the moment I really haven't got a lot to tell.

salendron.

Thursday, August 23, 2007

Streetlights


Streetlights
Originally uploaded by salendron
This week was fun. First I was at a photowalk in Klagenfurt. It was very interessting and I had a real good time.
The results of this night can be found here (mine) and here (the phtowalk group).

I also took a lot some pictures.
For example: HDR: Herzogstuhl or Apocalyptic Ackern.

This weekend I will visit the Altstadtzauber in Klagenfurt.
holidays are great.

Thursday, August 16, 2007

(hard)Core


Fragments

echo "init...."
call init -debuglevel=9

...

FUNCTION init:

echo "This is where it starts... ...this it where it will end!"

/FUNCTION

Sry for that. Just thinking about doing something creative. Again. But, something different. Can't tell you much about it. Just want you to know that I am working on something. Why? Because I have to programm something. Or otherwise I get bored.

Just one thing I can tell you. The programm I am writting is called CORE.

Tuesday, August 14, 2007

where art begins


Ruine (black-and-white shot)
Originally uploaded by salendron
..I don't know. I think it's a secret.

I don't claim myself to be an artist - absolutly not, but I found some things I like to call art. Things that people made just for fun. So where does art begin?

Why are some things just normal things and others ones are art?

Is it all about a kind of a messege that is build into something?

Hm...

Art is something that makes you feel something - I think. - but who cares what I think.

twenty-three point 5

Just a moment away, feels like eternity.

Feels like 9 AM on the 24th of December. So close to christmas, but it feels like time is running backwards.

There is so much to do before it's christmas.
Have to go, have to return. Have to meet someone, have to leave. Have to be creative, have to be rational.

Don't think about it.

Monday, August 13, 2007

Underwear is not allowed

It was a great weekend. I spent a lot of time at the Highland Games in Klagenfurt. I took a lot of photos of all the contests and of the event it self.

It was a lot of fun. The team of my sisters husband took the 15th place. (A great achievement, because they got 15th of 70 teams)

My homepage get's closer to its final version. The photo gallery now has an art gallery with a lot of pictures and now it is possible to enlarge the pictures to see the original size.

If you want to see the photos of this weekend, just visit http://flickr.com/photos/salendron

Friday, August 10, 2007

cooking, colored foil, flashlights, skirts, trees, beer and all the rest!

42

This picture shows you the answer to your question. (Your question was: "What does this wired title mean?" If this was not your question, 42 still stays the answer - to live,the universe and everything else)

Back to what I wanted to say.
It is really hard to find recipes on the internet. It is nearly impossible to find recipes for things that are just tasty. You find a lot of anti-fat recipes or wired african-banana-fish recipes, but nothing that is easy to cook and TASTY!

I have to buy colored foil and flashlights today. I just have to do some more light-painting (I do not know if this words exists)

My brother-in-law will wear a skirt for the next 3 days. No, not what you think. He is member of a Highland-Games-Team. I hope the weather get's a little better because all of the contests (throwing trees, fast-beer-drinking, egg-throwing, etc...) are outdoor contests.

Ice cream in the morning is odd, but tasty.

Thursday, August 09, 2007

The legends get older


Light: Ghosts
Originally uploaded by salendron
...but I stay the same

For those who understand

Thousands of stories have been told, about that time. Long ago. Seems to be lost for ever.

I think it is lost for real.
What ever happens tomorrow - I am ready.
I hope you know, that I won't forget, but it is time to let new times come.

The legends get older... ...but I stay the same.

Painting with light


Light: Shapes
Originally uploaded by salendron
Yesterday night michael and me tried to do some experiments with light.

Our Equipment:
  • Canon EOS 400D
  • Canon EF-S18-55 Lens
  • Tripod
  • 4 Flashlights

None of these photos was manipulated on the PC.
We really made them looking like this just by using a high exposure time.

We waited until it was getting dark outside and then we just set up the camera on the tripod and started to take pictures with a high exposure time (10sec,15sec,30sec) while we were trying to draw some shapes.

Our first pictures weren't really what we wanted (blured,wired).
After some time we figured out how to draw without getting just blured heaps of light.

We spent hours on trying to draw different things. We drew basic shapes, PacMan like ghosts, little creatures on the playground, glowing houses and we made ourselves glow.

I think you have to see it to understand what I mean.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/salendron/

This was my first experiment. I haven't planed anything. I think I can do a lot better, if I do this with a bit more organization and planning.

And of course I will try this again.

Tuesday, August 07, 2007

small changes


Huge chair
Originally uploaded by salendron
I started to change a few things on my Homepage. My first change was to clean up the forum and to apply a new theme.

The next step is to rebuild the photo gallery. In the future there will be two parts. Phots and Art.

The art part - what a funny word - will contain huge versions pictures I have stored on FLICKr. - just the best ones of course.

The photo part will contain photos of events, parties or something like this.

The photo gallery should be finished until monday the 13th.

Then there is just one thing missing. The new Index. I have a wired idea, I hope you will like it.

and suddenly there was a Peacock

Strange.. isn't it?

I just wanted to take a panorama, but then there was suddenly a peacock running around in the europa park.

Normally they are inside a cage, but this one escaped - I don't know how.

So I was able to take some real cool pictures of it while it was posing for me and all the other people standing around. It seemed like it enjoyed beeing in middle of all these people and all these cameras.

Strange animal.
Strange evening.

Monday, August 06, 2007

something new


It's time for something new. In fact a lot.
I plan to do some radical chances.

That means that:
  1. I plan to create an alternative to the forum that makes more sense than a classic forum.
  2. I am building a new (AJAX/PHP) photo gallery with a better and easier to use GUI
  3. I plant to create a new Index (Just something that looks cooler and that has some cool features...)