digital photography

A few years ago after the analog photography changed more and more to digital photography, I still belonged to the somewhat "old fashioned" photographers , who did hard with this new technology. I had still the good old training behind me with photos on negatives then to make photographic prints on paper size in the darkroom, retouching and even negative retouching, color filter, and all photographic and editing techniques used in photography were customary. The move to digital photography started during my work in the University Hospital as a photographer. Suddenly there was a computer and i didnt really knew how to work with it. How many hours I've spent only to learn from my mistakes and step by step I started "learning by doing". Also the normal use of the PC was new for me. After several attempts I recorded successes and slowly I started the new way of photography to learn and appreciate.

Als vor einigen Jahren die analoge Fotografie mehr und mehr zur digitalen Fotografie wechselte,gehörte ich noch zu den etwas "altmodischen" Fotografen, welche sich schwertaten mit dieser neuen Technik. Hatte ich doch noch die gute alte Ausbildung hinter mir mit Fotos auf Negativen anfertigen,in der Dunkelkammer Fotoabzüge auf Papier vergrößern,Retusche und sogar Negativretusche,Farben filtern und sämtlichen fotografischen und Nachbearbeitungstechniken,welche in der Fotografie üblich waren. Der Schritt zur digitalen Fotografie begann bei der Arbeit im Universitätsklinikum als Fotografin.Plötzlich stand dort ein Computer mit dem ich garnicht so recht etwas anzufangen wußte und es hieß nur:now work with it! Wieviele Stunden ich damit verbracht habe nur aus Fehlern zu lernen und Schritt für Schritt die Fotobearbeitung auszuprobieren! Auch der ganz normale Umgang mit dem PC war neu für mich. Nach etlichen Fehlversuchen konnte ich dann aber ab und zu Erfolge verzeichen und langsam fing ich an die neue Art der Fotografie kennen und schätzen zu lernen.

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With glass you can play and let your imagination flow.A blue moon glowing in the night. Something unknown, shining in a strange, soft light. Like a big soap- bubble or something out of the ocean. Sometimes it looks hard and rough and sometimes as smooth as a mirror - like the ocean without wind - very calm, soft and quiet.
A wave in the sand, water on the beach,or simply glass with a coloured background. For sure is: it looks beautiful to give special highlights to a material like glass - no matter which light or lamps you use or which background. It looks amazing to look through the material and to see many things behind - like landscapes we create by our own minds....

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Glass - a simple material can look precious and expensive. Sometimes it reminds of jewellery - reflections like a wonderful opal though its only the reflection of the sky or the sun. For me it has the same beauty like a diamond if the light let it shine in a perfect way....the most expensive things must not be always the most beautiful ones.

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What is this...a blue wave maybe,it reminds of crystal clear water like the agean sea or a sunrise over the pacific ocean.The surface looks like the calm sea in the evening, when sailing boats go back to their harbour and silence spreads its wings over the landscape. The water reflects the colours of the sky and invites to take a bath after a warm and nice summer day....

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A hard material can look soft and smooth. Like water and even like a whole landscape - the sea, sand, sky and a far away horizon. All illuminated by the moon - or sunlight. It depends on the colours and the light I use. Sometimes its nice to make the photos and to see the real results later on the computer and before only at the display of the camera. Its often a surprise how it looks and what imaginations i have when I see this material in such different positions and illuminations.

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Glass and colour.
Reflections of light, new views of different things, illumination, ideas of the blue sea, burning fire, crystal clear views, waves of light and colour. All this and more fascinates me and thats why i love this theme in all its endless variations. It inspires phantasy, it can relax your eyes and mind and even the smallest thing can turn into a phantastic and giant impression.

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Something unknown - or not? The colour of the skin shows it is human - or maybe it isnt. Dont trust your eyes always...
Sunlight gives different colours. Brown, yellow, even gold appears on the skin when the sun shines on it. And the light discovers or hides - it depends how strong it is and from which direction the object is illuminated.