In case of technical problems, a program line selects the images of the day. To do this, he 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 otherwise might have remained hidden in the depths of c’t’s photo gallery.
Early 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 Sunday’s photo of him was also of him: 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. On Tuesday it also belonged to an animal, but this time much more harmless: a butterfly that the photographer from the “Ausscheider” gallery photographed in a butterfly house in Alsace.
Back to the present
Our journey into the past ended on Wednesday, even if Klaus-Peter Kubik’s long-term recording of a ship on the Rhine gives the impression that the structure of space and time has not yet been completely restored. The photographer writes about his photo: “The photo SpeedBoat I was taken in Königswinter am Rhein, when the water level of the Rhine meant that the cribs protruding into the river were slightly flooded. I then had the camera hang on the tripod in order to be able to take a picture as close to the ground as possible.The picture was taken with an Olympus OM-D E-M1 with a 12-60 lens and a screwed-in 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 in Capture One Pro, with color adjustments made in Lightroom.”
Christian Nagel’s impressive photo of the moon also gives a glimpse into the past, this time on an astronomical scale and in the form of lunar craters captured in pin-sharp detail. Here’s how the photo came about: “While I was still waiting for a dark sky in preparation for my evening astrophotography session, I used the moon to roughly focus the telescope and snapped a few photos. So I decided to record a series on the moon even under dark skies. After processing the image, I found that the image quality was still quite usable even in 100% view, so I decided to crop to give a little more effect to the details of the moon shot in the gallery. The image shows an overlay of the best 50 images from a series of 200 images 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 a stairwell recording, which Karsten Gieselmann skilfully staged as usual. He writes: “The stairwell in a building in central Munich has an interesting and unusual geometry. By choosing a suitable perspective, an abstract and graphic composition is possible. In the original, the pattern color is a “mouse gray”. To add to the overall effect and tension of the image, I added a blue tint with a yellow in the stairwell during 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 the motifs he finds.
You can find an overview of all photos of the week in our photo gallery:
Saturday: glow….
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