http://www.florian-knorn.com This blog now shows some bits and pics from my photography Fri, 05 Mar 2010 17:00:40 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en => St. Mary Square in Ireland Here’s another première — and the reason why it’s been so quiet here, lately: Panoramics. Having played around with panoramic photography for quite a while I never got it quite right. I mean, I’ve had a panoramic tripod head for a good while now, but using it together with a wide angle [...]]]> http://www.florian-knorn.com/2010/03/panoramics.html A small permière — here’s my first “analog” image on this blog. Yes, “analog” as in taken with an old analog camera on black & white film (Ilford XP2 Super). Nothing too special, just a nice, moody photo I took down in the snooker hall of the college. I recently started taking film photos again for [...]]]> http://www.florian-knorn.com/2010/02/snooker.html I can’t help taking photos from our balcony. There’re just too many interesting scenes your get throughout the day and the night. This one here was taken one foggy evening with the moon up in the sky. Unfortunately, the moon always feels larger in real life than it turns out on your photos. Unless you use [...]]]> http://www.florian-knorn.com/2010/01/blue-moon.html There are several interesting times througout the day to take photos. For instance, I recently talked about the Golden Hour. Today, I’d like to talk about the last moments of the dusk. Famous buildings and structures are typically lit with Sodium vapour or Halogen lamps which produce an orangy / yellowy type of light. Now what’s [...]]]> http://www.florian-knorn.com/2010/01/almost-night-shots.html Hands down, the best camera is the one you’ve got in your pocket, always at the ready. I must have said that before somewhere, but there’s no better camera than the one you happen to have with you when you need it. The photo here was taken late at night when I was returning from Dublin. [...]]]> http://www.florian-knorn.com/2010/01/always-at-the-ready.html Reminiscent of the Sugar loaf picture from a while back, here’s another high-key type of photo. Now when you shoot weddings with brides in white dresses and kids playing around, high-key may feel cheesy and cliché, but every now and then you may get some real gems. High-key in photography usually refers to subjects and [...]]]> http://www.florian-knorn.com/2010/01/high-key.html While cyclone “Daisy” has large parts of Europe in its icy grip, Ireland is going “tits up” (as a dear friend from Manchester would phrase it) with even the University postponing exams (can you believe it!!), myself and many other people thought — hey, this is a great photo opportunity. Let’s take some photos while [...]]]> http://www.florian-knorn.com/2010/01/daisy.html Here’s another shot of my favourite daughter, taken at the end of last year. Her eye colour, which started off as very undefined, dark grey, is now beautifully converging to an amazing blue. I wonder who she got the genes from for that… In terms of photography, I photographed her sitting / laying in her favourite [...]]]> http://www.florian-knorn.com/2010/01/of-eyes-and-windows.html [irrelevant]I’ve spent some time over the Christmas holidays revamping this blog (mostly under the hood though). Just quickly: For a while now I’ve been using a wordpress plugin called Yet another photoblog together with some custom code to automatically generate in a non-messy way the EXIF table you see at the end of each post [...]]]> http://www.florian-knorn.com/2010/01/another-sunset.html Here’s a somewhat “street photography” style shot. I took it about two months ago, when I was spending the better part of the day with Steffi and Sophie at Holles Street Maternity hospital in Dublin. One afternoon I went for a short walk to catch some fresh air, and thankfully took my camera with me. [...]]]> http://www.florian-knorn.com/2009/12/on-the-phone.html How many subjects can you have in a photo? Well, it depends on how you group them, I suppose. Here you could say: “The two cats are the subject”, or you could say: “The cats are the two subjects” … Well, whichever way you look at it, placing two subjects diagonally opposite in a frame creates [...]]]> http://www.florian-knorn.com/2009/12/bipolar.html Who’d have thought it. Back in February this year I jumped at the opportunity to take a few pictures of the beautiful NUIM South Campus clad in white. You see, it doesn’t snow a lot in Ireland, and the snow usually just stays for a couple of hours, so I had to move fast. I grabbed [...]]]> http://www.florian-knorn.com/2009/12/christmas-card.html Well FINALLY. Let me repeat this. Well FINALLY. Adobe got their heads out of their butts and FINALLY revised their RAW conversion engine from the ground up to FINALLY provide some decent raw conversion results, especially for images taken with Sony D-SLRs. What’s a RAW? Just quickly, it’s basically just the very raw, unaltered data captured [...]]]> http://www.florian-knorn.com/2009/11/lr2-vs-lr3b.html Ireland’s a generally rainy place, we all know this. But every now and then — even in autumn — you get a few hours of sunshine (if you’re lucky). And so, yesterday, we went for a stroll (the three of us now) around Maynooth to profit from this short window of good weather (which, in the end, only [...]]]> http://www.florian-knorn.com/2009/11/autumn-again.html Whoooh… this one’s to toying around and experimentation…. It’s been a while since I played around with the idea of building a pinhole camera. The cheapest way to do this (if you happen to have a D-SLR) is to just buy a cheapo body cap for the camera (that’s a plastic cap that you can cover [...]]]> http://www.florian-knorn.com/2009/10/pinhole-experiments.html Oh, and then it happened. My daughter was born just a tad early… While I have very little time for hardly anything, I don’t want to let this blog rot away, so I’d like to share some of the experiences I made with this captivating little human :-) First of all: It’s always a good idea to [...]]]> http://www.florian-knorn.com/2009/10/sophie.html Everyone is trying to be different, in order to make a difference. As I’ve pointed out many times, in order to stand out, you should try to take photos from a different angle or view point. Here’s a classical one: the rear-view. Instead of photographing the action, from the back, over people’s heads — photograph the [...]]]> http://www.florian-knorn.com/2009/10/turn-around.html And now for a more abstract shot again, which I took about a year and a half ago. As you probably already guessed, it shows a spider web covered with ice crystals. Nature at its best produces these typically in the winter time, combining thick fog with freezing temperatures. Technically it was quite hard to shoot, as [...]]]> http://www.florian-knorn.com/2009/10/ice-crystals.html Back from our little honeymoon, here’s a new post with a fresh picture from València (Spain). I took this photo on the social “outing” from the POSTA ‘09 conference, where we visited the Ciutat de les Arts i les Ciències (City of Arts and Sciences), an area right in the city where different buildings, such as [...]]]> http://www.florian-knorn.com/2009/09/golden-hour.html And off I go again to Spain. Seems like I just left Barcelona yesterday ;-) This time I’m off to a conference in València (POSTA ‘09), and right after that Steffi and I will have a small “Ersatz”-honeymoon since our original plans to go to Hawaii had to change… We’ll have a small roadtrip around the [...]]]> http://www.florian-knorn.com/2009/08/back-to-spain.html Most filters (in front of lenses) that people try to sell you don’t make sense in digital photography. In particular UV filters, sky light filters or protective filters — the first two are irrelevant, and you usually protect your lens much better by using a lens hood. All that these “useless” filters do is degrade image [...]]]> http://www.florian-knorn.com/2009/08/polarise-it.html Not that this is the greatest photo ever shot (of course I don’t mean the two ladies on it, but in general), there still must be something about this shot that people want to use it… Now there’s two kinds of people: those that want to use it and pay for it, and those that [...]]]> http://www.florian-knorn.com/2009/08/steal-this-photo.html Sorry there hasn’t been any post in such a long time, but I was busy getting maried… (that, plus pre- and post-paring it). Anyway, let’s get back to discussing photos. This one here I took a couple of weeks back when I was wandering around campus to take some pictures for an assignment I got. I [...]]]> http://www.florian-knorn.com/2009/08/light-shadow.html After the rather extensive last post, here’s a slightly shorter one. At least with a shorter morale: “Be ready”. Well, to be ready to photograph any interesting things you might come accross in your daily routine, you’ll need a camera to capture it. Unless you have a semi-decent camera in your cellphone / mobile / handy, [...]]]> http://www.florian-knorn.com/2009/07/be-ready.html Here’s some really basic (and quite important) info that’ll help you take better pictures, trust me. It’s a long post, but worth your while reading it (at least I hope). Ever wondered what the little +/- button (or menu entry) on your camera does? It when you access it your camera will usually display a scale [...]]]> http://www.florian-knorn.com/2009/07/exposure-compensation.html Here’s another practical tip for you all. When you take photos of a child, get all the way down to their eye level! This will give you some amazing perspectives plus you’ll have a fun time dodging greasy, gooey fingers that are trying to touch the magically attractive front element of your lens :-) I’m sure [...]]]> http://www.florian-knorn.com/2009/07/photos-of-children.html And here’s to fine wine. This is anotherone of the shots I had submitted to the “More Than Words” photo competition. This was one of the first photos taken with my (at the time) new macro lens, a 100mm ƒ/2.8 lens, that I had just gotten a few weeks earlier. It shows one of the [...]]]> http://www.florian-knorn.com/2009/07/fine-wine.html Here’s some more about your everyday, cheapo point-and-shoot camera, rather than expensive D-SLRs: Macro shots. With their short focal lenghts and their small sensors (and the resulting rather large depth-of-field, that is the “depth” of the in-focus parts of the image) they’re really good for taking close-up shots. Most of those little buggers have a dedicated [...]]]> http://www.florian-knorn.com/2009/07/cheap-macro.html Any kind of reflection usually makes pictures more interesting. But flipping a picture upside down may also be a good attention-grabber. First of all, it takes time for your brain to process the image, figure out what’s going on and why things are slightly odd, why we are not fully at ease when looking at [...]]]> http://www.florian-knorn.com/2009/07/upside-down.html You know what happened a couple of nights ago? A really nice constellation of Moon and chapel of Saint Patrick’s College could be seen right from our balcony, including a nice cloud which added to the mood. Unforunately I left my own camera over in the office that day, so I had to dig out [...]]]> http://www.florian-knorn.com/2009/07/night-photos.html … but the photographer, that makes the photos. Many people think you need great gear to take great photos. Or shall I say, they equate a “big” (and hence automatically “good”) camera with shooting only “good” photos. While there is some truth in this, there are also a few misconceptions. First of all, think of a [...]]]> http://www.florian-knorn.com/2009/06/its-not-the-camera.html Reminiscent of the other post of a cross-processed “nautical detail”, here’s another one. I took it just last Friday when we had a friend of Steffi’s visiting us (Lenko), who’s currently on a Europe-Africa-Tour (he otherwise lives in Canada). We did a little day tour around County Wicklow, which is just south of Dublin. That included [...]]]> http://www.florian-knorn.com/2009/06/cross-processing.html Planned months in ahead to ensure that everybody would be there, today was the day for the group picture of my colleagues from the Systems Biology group here at the Hamilton. Of course, not everyone was there, but that missing person will be edited into the picture (if all goes well) at the top right. As [...]]]> http://www.florian-knorn.com/2009/06/systems-biologists.html On a recent trip back home I’ve spent a few hours digging through my boxes in the cellar, which hold loads of old stuff, memories, dust-catchers, etc. One of the things I brought back was a few DVDs with some older photos (i.e. pre-2007), so that I could put them on my photo hard-disk (as [...]]]> http://www.florian-knorn.com/2009/06/silhouette-chouette.html So you’ve got all those pretty pictures from your past vacations, your last hike, that picnic with your beloved one in a park or that snap of some dark, dirty, gritty side street of Dublin. What do you do with it? Well, you leave it to catch digital dust on your hard drive. Or, if [...]]]> http://www.florian-knorn.com/2009/06/hang-your-pictures.html Here’s the last photo (in this series at least) from our recent Barcelona trip. I took it under one of the viaducts in the Park Güell. This park has also been designed by Antoni Gaudí (the masterminds behind the Sagrada Familia) and it features the famous, colourful serpentine benches you may have seen in L’Auberge [...]]]> http://www.florian-knorn.com/2009/06/barcelona-park-guell.html No visit to Barcelona is complete without a visit to the Temple Expiatori de la Sagrada Família. Love it or hate it, but hands down: this is one of the most impressive buildings on this planet! They’ve been building over 100 years on it now — apparently it’s just over 50% done now. Should take another 20 to [...]]]> http://www.florian-knorn.com/2009/06/barcelona-sagrada-familia.html And again more than a handful of days between posts ;-) But: There’s 2 excuses for it (see PS below). Anyway, I should get back to posting more regularly now (I hope). So last week-end, Steffi surprised me by taking me on a small trip to Barcelona (probably as “revenge” for the Aran-Islands-Trip…). It’s amazing [...]]]> http://www.florian-knorn.com/2009/05/barcelona-barra-gotic.html Here’s another photo from our South-East-Asia trip. The gist of today’s post: Ask first before you take a photo. While sometimes it is not possible — or desirable — to ask a person for permission before taking their photo (e.g. when the person is too far away, or when you’re going for candids, meaning you want to [...]]]> http://www.florian-knorn.com/2009/05/ask-first.html Last bank holiday weekend, Steffi and I went to Stockholm, for a change. With the cheap RyanAir flights nowadays a quick weekend away to some random European city is easily done, and a great way to get a small time-out from the everyday life of Maynooth. What a wonderful city. We really, really enjoyed our time [...]]]> http://www.florian-knorn.com/2009/05/stockholm.html How often do you hear somebody talking about “photoshopping” an image? It often seems that in this case, people either don’t really know what you can do with Photoshop, or what it is usually used for. Well, in any case, a fun way of using Photoshop (and GIMP and the other programs) is colour matching. This [...]]]> http://www.florian-knorn.com/2009/05/colour-matching.html Let’s play some catch-up. About a month or so ago, a friend of mine and Steffi’s (Nancy) came over from Austria to visit us and Maynooth again (she was here on Erasmus last year). We all agreed that we wanted to use the Easter days off to see the a bit more of Ireland and since [...]]]> http://www.florian-knorn.com/2009/05/swan-lake.html Sorry it took me so long to post something new. But we’re all super busy these days, aren’t we? I’m particularly excited about today’s photo; let me tell you why. When I was singing with the NUI Maynooth Gospel Choir(and a bunch of other choirs as well as Irish stars) was singing at a fundraising Gala [...]]]> http://www.florian-knorn.com/2009/05/spontaneous-panoramas.html Having gotten to some beautiful location, do you also sometimes wish that — especially when travelling — you were the only person there? How many times do we try to take photos with as little other people on it as possible? Maybe what is happening is that (subconsciously) we believe that the picture will be more [...]]]> http://www.florian-knorn.com/2009/04/tourists-are-your-friend.html It’s time again, I need a new passport and thus some up-to-date photos of myself. Possessing all that photographic gear, why not try to make them myself? Last time I paid 11 EUR for them and the main street photographer just used a trusty old Canon 350D with a cheapish Sigma 18-200mm lens (from what [...]]]> http://www.florian-knorn.com/2009/04/mugshot.html My attempt at using my camera to be funny… When I was coming back from Germany two weeks ago I had to spend a few hours in Frankfurt to catch my flight back to Dublin. When I opened my notebook, first thing I did was to turn off the WiFi (called “AirPort” on a Mac) in [...]]]> http://www.florian-knorn.com/2009/04/turn-airport-off.html I made this shot pretty much exactly a year ago, coming back from church where they had the place decorated with these lovely colourful egg-candles. At the end of the day, there were a few left for the taking, so I took these two in order to re-create the flickr logo with those egg shaped [...]]]> http://www.florian-knorn.com/2009/04/happy-easter.html Another submission for the photo competition. This one was for the category “The Epitome of Maynooth”. Last year, the Tradition Music Society played every other Wednesday evening in the “Brady’s”, one of the nicer and probably the most “original” pubs of Maynooth (maybe “authentic” is a better word). Unfortunately, these gigs have gotten fewer and fewer, [...]]]> http://www.florian-knorn.com/2009/04/trad-craic-in-the-bradys.html As promised, here is one of my other submissions for the photo competition. This was put in for the “Dublin/Ireland” category. It shows the river Sneem down in County Kerry and I shot it last year on my second trip around the Ring of Kerry. Apart from the heavy cross-processing effect and the strong vignette (both to [...]]]> http://www.florian-knorn.com/2009/04/green-day.html A few weeks back, the International Office here at the university ran a photo competition entitled “More Than Words“, to which I submitted a few photos for the different categories. Two weeks ago, the submissions were then exhibited over in the library, so Steffi and I went over and had a look. Apart from a [...]]]> http://www.florian-knorn.com/2009/04/photo-competition.html Before heading off to Germany for a week (I’m going to Elgersburg, near Ilmenau), let me post an image that I took last year, also in Germany. A bunch of friends from uni got together and we went on a small canoe tour on the river Havel, photos here. While readying our canoe on the pontoon [...]]]> http://www.florian-knorn.com/2009/03/blaaaa.html Let me tell you a little story: The story behind my latest photographic “creation”. I was pondering for two weeks about another photo-assignment, this time on the topic hart (as in, the German word for “hard”). After a while I came up with Hässlich Aber Richtig Teuer, which means “ugly, but really expensive”. I was thus [...]]]> http://www.florian-knorn.com/2009/03/i-heart-you.html Today’s photo has been taken at a Poetry Slam in Stuttgart, just over a year ago. I was visiting Steffi (who was doing her internship at the time) and we had decided to go to one of the slams in the Rosenau which that hosts them regularly. I took a few pictures at the event, [...]]]> http://www.florian-knorn.com/2009/03/unexpected-stock.html Last Sunday a bunch of colleagues and Steff&I went on a little hike to the “Great Sugar Loaf“. It is (by orders of magnitude) less impressive than the real deal, but it makes for a very nice hike (provided it’s a nice day ;-)). After a bit of random walking and not really finding where the [...]]]> http://www.florian-knorn.com/2009/03/sugar-loaf.html Here’s one of my earlier photos, after I had gotten my first DSLR. I shot this photo (secretly) in one of my favourite pubs in Dublin, the JJ Smyth’s. Its upstairs part is fairly famous, being one of the main Jazz locations in the city; there are small gigs almost every day, and every now an [...]]]> http://www.florian-knorn.com/2009/03/old-folks.html The previous post inspired me to write about this picture here. (Eggs => breakfast => “Your Morning”, an assignment given pretty much exactly a year ago by the Digital Photography School Blog.) It was shot, again, for an assigment. At the time I was still living in my dull student flat on campus, and my mornings [...]]]> http://www.florian-knorn.com/2009/03/your-morning.html Reminiscent of my strobist ambitions a while back here’s a photo I shot recently for the HappyShooting assigment “weich“. The idea was to show a boiled egg dropping onto the ground and shedding its skin. So I boiled an egg, peeled it very carefully, arranged the skin and dropped the egg onto it. The overall set-up [...]]]> http://www.florian-knorn.com/2009/03/eggspert.html Happy St. Patrick’s Day everyone! If Google has a special logo for today, I should also make a special entry. For that reason, the rest of this post will be in green! Having been to the Dublin St. Patrick’s parade twice (2007, 2008) I wasn’t too keen on going into town again this year. The problem [...]]]> http://www.florian-knorn.com/2009/03/st-patricks-day.html Having taken the promotional shots for “Remembering Rose”, I also went to one of the performances to take some photos of the “action”. In one word: Awesome. A really great play / script / performance altogether. I really hope this play has a “future” beyond three performances here in Maynooth. But I heard that they will [...]]]> http://www.florian-knorn.com/2009/03/event-photos.html http://www.florian-knorn.com/2009/03/remembering-rose.html While this photo is not the most spectacular shot in the world, it documents something rather funny. One for the “Boing Boing” category, so to speak. For some reason, the folks over at the Kinlay House Hostel in Cork thought that the emergency exit signs don’t need to be too large, and don’t have to be [...]]]> http://www.florian-knorn.com/2009/03/for-dwarfs.html http://www.florian-knorn.com/2009/03/fading-paint.html http://www.florian-knorn.com/2009/02/big-brother.html I’m… dreaming of a whiiiiite… Christmassss… Well, I was but no, not in Irland. Instead, we were finally blessed with a few centimetres of snow a couple of weeks back (but which only hung around for a few hours) — and I used this opportunity to shoot a couple of pictures around the beautiful old campus. Unfortunately [...]]]> http://www.florian-knorn.com/2009/02/snowy-campus.html On Steffi’s 25th birthday I surprised her by taking her not into the office (like every morning), but rather to the Aran Islands. This is a wonderful place in the west of Ireland that I had visited about a year and a half ago and always wanted to come back to. As we were outside the [...]]]> http://www.florian-knorn.com/2009/02/aran-islands-2.html http://www.florian-knorn.com/2009/02/journalism.html Andrea, a colleague of mine from work, needed some photos for her vita. Since I just got my brand new Elinchrom D-Lite 2 To Go kit, this was a great opportunity to give “studio photography” a shot. The D-Lite kit is a set of studio flashes with some useful accessories aimed at amateurs that would like [...]]]> http://www.florian-knorn.com/2009/01/portrait-session.html Are you ready for a change? Yes, we can! Ok, leaving shapes now. This was a photo out of a series that I shot last year for the front cover of the “Spoke”, the student magazine here. And, guess what, one photo actually made it :-) This one here, however, was obviously not meant for that [...]]]> http://www.florian-knorn.com/2009/01/flower-power.html Next one up. This time, it’s the window shades of our guest room. Oh boy, what did I do with this image? Well, first of all I cranked up most of the sliders I could find in LightRoom, I boosted the saturation and sharpened the hell out of things. That’s how I got this very strong [...]]]> http://www.florian-knorn.com/2009/01/we-all-love-windows.html Please don’t try to find any pattern in my posting. After that rather serious post yesterday here’s something more photographic, or shall I say “abstract”. If you haven’t peeked yet, what do you think it is …? Exactly, it’s a lamp just outside our apartment (there is a few of those lighting the path). Today I thought: [...]]]> http://www.florian-knorn.com/2009/01/shape.html This is one of the tougher pictures to digest from our recent South-East-Asia trip. Normally I ask people before I take a photograph of them. That can be by actually talking to them if possible, or just by gesticulation, pointing at the camera and smiling with a question mark in my face. In this situation here [...]]]> http://www.florian-knorn.com/2009/01/the-streets-of-hanoi.html Here in Ireland so-called “Pantomimes” seem to be a bit of a Christmas tradition. In any case, the Drama and Musical Society of the small little town next to Maynooth appears to be quite famous in the country, having won several prices for their stage productions. And rightfully so, I must say — I was [...]]]> http://www.florian-knorn.com/2009/01/robin-hood.html Normally there are always cars parked in front of the old Maynooth Castle ruins, but on St. Steven’s Day (Dec 25th) the town was as empty as I’ve ever seen it, and no cars spoiled a shot that I wanted to take since a long time. Apart from messing with the colours, there are two [...]]]> http://www.florian-knorn.com/2009/01/tilt-it-baby.html Happy New Year everyone, sorry this new post took so long. This one was taken on the famed “Bamboo Train”. It’s a Cambodian invention (one of the kids told me proudly) and consists basically of three parts: A motor, a very light bamboo flat bed, and a pair of axles. This modular built allows it [...]]]> http://www.florian-knorn.com/2009/01/flying-on-the-bamboo-train.html Ever been stuck along the lines of “Oh, I’ve taken all the photos I can think of, what else can I do?! There’s nothing left to photograph!” ? Well, a good way out of that misery — and generally a great way to fuel your creativity — is to participate in photography assignments / contest. [...]]]> http://www.florian-knorn.com/2008/12/flash-tossing.html Last night was the Christmas Party of the place I work, the Hamilton Institute. We all took the train into town, went to the Porterhouse, and pretty much just got p***ed. As it was a foreseeable time of happiness and merriness, I decided to bring my camera and snap some shots of the people I work [...]]]> http://www.florian-knorn.com/2008/12/available-light.html Steffi and I were doing a three day boat tour in the famous Halong Bay and, when you’re at at see, one of the best things are the sunrises (and sunsets). We had missed the sunset the previous day so I definitely wanted to see the sunrise… Since for the most parts of our trip we [...]]]> http://www.florian-knorn.com/2008/12/sunrise-over-halong-bay.html Alright, alright, it’s taken a long time, I know. And I’m sorry! Really! The reason why I took so long to update this blog is that I had so much other stuff to do (seriously) that I only managed to finish post-processing the photos from our big trip today, almost 3 weeks after we got [...]]]> http://www.florian-knorn.com/2008/12/chaos-in-laos.html http://www.florian-knorn.com/2008/10/holidays.html Even though the last few days it was absolutely p***ing down, this morning we were blessed with just pure sunshine. Fortunately I still had my camera in my backpack so I just spent 20 minutes outside the office taking autumn pictures. The colours of the trees and leafs are even more extreme than last week, and [...]]]> http://www.florian-knorn.com/2008/10/autumn-leafs-ii.html Same lens, completely different situation. This time, it’s all about event photography. Last year the Gospel Choir (which I’m part of) had a gig with two impersonators (Elvis, and Tina Turner). During the bits where we sang with them (photos here) I got the chance to take some photos myself of those two professionals doing their [...]]]> http://www.florian-knorn.com/2008/10/its-elvis.html Just as a big Californian company is releasing new products as we speak, let’s go back again to a purely “photographic” entry. This shot was a bit of an experiment… Inspired by this post in the amazing Digital Photography School blog, I wanted to take a photo involving water drops. For the set-up of the shot, [...]]]> http://www.florian-knorn.com/2008/10/drops-on-apple.html Last night, someone privately pointed out to me that it seems that the stuff I’m posting here I just make up as I go along. That is correct. And that some things I say are hardly relevant to the photo presented. That is correct too. Anyways, this photo is another “fresh” one, I took it last Sunday when [...]]]> http://www.florian-knorn.com/2008/10/mean-machine.html Last semester, when I still lived on campus, one of my lovely flatmates (Nancy from Austria) often had another friend of hers / mine over, Vazul (Austrian too). Just day I had read about “Jowlers“, check out the link, so I asked Vazul if he’d be in for trying it out. Unfortunately, in the end it [...]]]> http://www.florian-knorn.com/2008/10/vazul.html I just noticed that until now I’ve posted anything but portraits. So let’s change that. Today’s picture is one I took in July this year, when Steffi and I spent a wonderful afternoon in Dublin. The weather was great, so we went for a stroll around the city and passed through St. Patrick’s Garden, which is [...]]]> http://www.florian-knorn.com/2008/10/ol-man-in-dublin.html I don’t really know what you’re interested in, beloved reader, but I assume you would also like to see the odd “fresh” picture, not from my “back catalogue”. Well, here’s one I took just this morning. At the breakfast table I let my mind wander. Eventually, it wandered by the fact that I hadn’t used my [...]]]> http://www.florian-knorn.com/2008/10/autumn-leafs.html An another one from the contrast department. At the time I was on my way into town to meet someone, and didn’t plan on taking my camera along, but then I thought, what the heck, take it anyway. I was still kind of new to Dublin, and being the anxious German I am I hoped off [...]]]> http://www.florian-knorn.com/2008/10/yellow-balloon-on-blue-door.html Ok, back to the “Arts”. Here’s a photo I took on my trip to Scotland with Steffi, just this August. I saw this little girl in a bright white dress jumping around in the Harbour of a little town called Portree on the Isle of Skye. She already kind of “popped” out of the darkish murk [...]]]> http://www.florian-knorn.com/2008/10/dark-dark-dark.html Let’s squeeze some pretty irrelevant news in here for a second: There’s a new kid on the block, or rather a new lens in my collection :-) The lawn mower is of no particular importance, except it was one of the very first shots I took with the new lens. It’s a brilliant new telephoto lens with [...]]]> http://www.florian-knorn.com/2008/09/new-lens.html Let’s stay in the “Shape” category. Here’s one of my all-time favourites. Brazília, the capital of Brazil, is a unique city, with a unique (hi)story and unique architecture. Some parts of it just look like taken straight from some 70s sience fiction movie (check out some more photos here), created by the master architect Oscar Niemeyer. [...]]]> http://www.florian-knorn.com/2008/09/7.html Let’s leave weirdness behind and move on to shape. Here’s a photo that I took on my trip to London last year in the entrance of the Monument of the Great Fire of London (bit of a lengthy name, that). As with most stair cases, it’s fun to shoot straight up when you’re at the bottom [...]]]> http://www.florian-knorn.com/2008/09/spirality.html Here’s another one, probably one of my weirdest photos, mood-wise. I took it on campus, some winter morning when there was that proper Irish Fog in the air. Clearly, the photo is heavily post-processed, but only in a global way — so no local manipulations, just mucking around with brightness, contrast and tone curve. I have [...]]]> http://www.florian-knorn.com/2008/09/spoooooooky.html Couldn’t find Xzibit anywhere to comment on this one, so I have to do it myself ;-) This April I went to Phoenix, Arizona, to give a (small) talk at the INFOCOM 2008 conference. As the dollar still had a terrific value compared to the Euro, it was pretty much compulsory to buy some stuff while [...]]]> http://www.florian-knorn.com/2008/09/pimp-my-ride.html This is a very “fresh” photo, just out of Steffi’s camera (a trusty old Nikon Coolpix 5700, but it does shoot RAW). We went over to the Post Primary School again to help paint, clean, transform and prepare the old gymnasium in it for use as a meeting place of the Maynooth Community Church. As it [...]]]> http://www.florian-knorn.com/2008/09/interesting-roofing.html Next up, another shot from one of the International Students’ Society trips (actually my first). We went down to Killarney to drive around the Ring of Kerry, a famous and most beautiful region / landscape in the south west of Ireland. More photos from the trip can be seen here. At the time I was still [...]]]> http://www.florian-knorn.com/2008/09/guitar-hero.html And on we go to another picture. This one was taken on a different continent, and in a different world… Last year, Steffi and I went on a big rount-trip through Brazil. The other photos from the trip can be seen here, and I will surely post some more photos from the trip here too. Anyway, on [...]]]> http://www.florian-knorn.com/2008/09/salvador-kid.html So here we go with the first photo in my re-baptised (photo)blog, chosen for no particular reason to be the first other than pure randomness. I took it last year in November in Cork when we went down there with the International Students’ Society. The two kewl looking girls are actually two French Erasmus students that [...]]]> http://www.florian-knorn.com/2008/09/late-at-night-in-cork.html http://www.florian-knorn.com/2008/09/floz-blog-photo-blog.html http://www.florian-knorn.com/2008/01/a700-interval-timer-for-time-lapse.html http://www.florian-knorn.com/2007/11/gospel-workshop-konzert.html