Vienna

In Vienna, every January the area around the town hall turns into an ice skating arena. This year there was even an ice floor with an observation deck to drive up. I positioned myself to capture part of the action and momentum. I did the photo with manual focusing, which worked out pretty well.

Post processed with: Photoshop 2019

• Camera: ILCE-7RM2
• Aperture: ƒ/6.3
• Shutter speed: 1/10s
• Focal length: 21mm
• ISO: 500

Is someone waiting for here? Anyway, she’s in a hurry, unlike me. I was relaxed, I had half an hour, waiting for my wife. So I was able to photograph the stressful people on the streets.

Post processed with: Lightroom, Photoshop 2019

• Camera: Pixel 2 XL
• Aperture: ƒ/1.8
• Shutter speed: 1/50s
• Focal length: 4.459mm
• ISO: 55

On a Sunday afternoon, many Viennese go to the local mountains. A winter hike in cold, dry weather gives you fresh air for a clear mind and gets your circulation going. Take a camera with you, and then you will succeed with some snapshots.

Post processed with: Photoshop 2019

• Camera: LEICA X VARIO (Typ 107)
• Aperture: ƒ/10
• Shutter speed: 1/125s
• Focal length: 27.6mm
• ISO: 200

I was sitting in the Liliput-Bahn, a narrow gauge railway with neat wagons and a little steam locomotive. It is a sightseeing train for tourists in the Donaupark. Since I was waiting for my wife, I drove around and was shooting photos — an excellent opportunity to be inconspicuous.

Post processed with: Aurora 2019, Photoshop 2019

• Camera: ILCE-7R
• Aperture: ƒ/4
• Shutter speed: 1/2000s
• Focal length: 70mm
• ISO: 200

Mumok is a museum with experimental art and modern design located at the Ringstraße in Vienna. Often I like the interior architecture more von the exhibits. To catch the whole scene and bring the dimension I used a wide angle lens.          

Post processed with: Aurora 2019, Photoshop 2019

• Camera: ILCE-7S
• Aperture: ƒ/2.8
• Shutter speed: 1/60s
• Focal length: 14mm
• ISO: 2500

On the way home from the Software developers “We are developers – AI” conference I passed the Burgtheater an the “Wiener Christkindlmarkt”, Viennese Christmas-market. It was gloomy already. A good opportunity to try Google Pixels Night Sight feature. You have to activate it in the camera view. You’ll see a button “more” in the right corner. Photos with Night Sight require, that you have to hold your smartphone steady for some seconds and you can see a progress-wheel which shoots and calculates your picture. I think even many DSLRs have a hard time, to bring similar results hand-held.

Post processed with: Aurora, Photoshop

• Camera: Pixel 2 XL
• Aperture: ƒ/1.8
• Shutter speed: 1/100s
• Focal length: 4.459mm
• ISO: 68

The Gloriette is a unique building with galleries on both sides and a little hall in the middle. It lies on a hill, on the opposite side of Schönbrunn Palace. The freshly renovated building is a touristic hot spot. I shot the photo from a not common angle. Therefore it shows a different perspective compared to the hundreds of already existing pictures from the Internet. 

Post processed with: Aurora, Photoshop

• Camera: LEICA X VARIO (Typ 107)
• Aperture: ƒ/9
• Shutter speed: 1/500s
• Focal length: 26.3mm
• ISO: 100

The Vienna Secession is a building for art exhibitions. In the cellar are wall-paintings from Gustav Klimt, after the entrance area in the ground floor, you can see that checkered room styling, with black, muscular man dolls. 

Post processed with: Aurora, Photoshop

• Camera: ILCE-7S
• Aperture: ƒ/4
• Shutter speed: 1/200s
• Focal length: 14mm
• ISO: 1250

My wife should have come at 4 pm in the Löwelstrasse, Vienna, to pick me up for a ride to Gloggnitz. At 4 pm the phone rang, and she told me, that she is still at home, but is leaving soon and will be half an hour late. Instead of getting angry 🙂 , I took my Google Pixel 2 phone and walked in the nearby streets and in the Volksgarten to take some photos. I was lucky, because, in winter time, 4 pm is a good time for photo shooting, with the sinking sun and therefore more beautiful colors.

Post processed with: Aurora, Photoshop

• Camera: Pixel 2 XL
• Aperture: ƒ/1.8
• Shutter speed: 1/100s
• Focal length: 4.459mm
• ISO: 86

I was wandering back to a tram to get back to my car which was parking outside the city center.  On the way, I tried the new Google-Pixel Nightsight photo feature. A remarkable achievement programmed by the Google developers makes shooting night scenes easy with first-class results. It came handy that the first Christmas decors were out on the streets, so it was easy to find a motive. 

Post processed with: Aurora, Photoshop

• Camera: Pixel 2 XL
• Aperture: ƒ/1.8
• Shutter speed: 1/50s
• Focal length: 4.459mm
• ISO: 64