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2017-08-27 SHOOTING RANGE AT THE PRATER

Going through amusement park The Prater in the night gives you all these fancy colors of the attractions, like that shooting gallery shown in the photo. Though you can only shoot with air rifles, onto targets like paper flowers or balloons, it’s great fun. If you can increase your strikes, you get rewarded with teddies or plushies. Many younger guys use this, to shoot a presence for their girlfriends.

As an alternative, you could choose the safest of all shooters, can knock down. You shoot with soft balls, made of old socks and stockings. It’s the same procedure; the more cans you can strike, the bigger the teddy you will get.

The third variation is shooting with darts on balloons; again a teddy is waiting. 🙂

Post processed with: Photomatix, Color Efex Pro, Photoshop

Camera: ILCE-7RM2
Aperture: ƒ/1.4
Shutter speed: 1/640s
Focal length: 35mm
ISO: 640

By heyyouphoto|2017-08-22T20:44:12+01:00August 27th, 2017|Vienna|0 Comments

2017-08-26 BALCONIES OF LUCCA

I was sitting in a street cafe and explored the surroundings with my camera. I had the Sony Zeiss 24-70 F4 with me, so I was a bit limited with the telephoto. For this shot, I had to use my full 70 mm focal length. I like the old balconies with the gray louvered blinds, combined with the color of the house. In Italy often the simple things get interesting. After the shooting session, I took a double espresso with whipped cream and a cold San Bernardino mineral water with a lemon slice.

I was lucky that my wife and I rented a bike, with this we could speed up exploring the city and taking even more photos. 🙂

Post processed with: Photoshop

Camera: ILCE-7RM2
Aperture: ƒ/8
Shutter speed: 1/500s
Focal length: 70mm
ISO: 320

By heyyouphoto|2017-08-22T19:56:35+01:00August 26th, 2017|Italy|0 Comments

2017-08-25 AQUARIUM

More and more cities have it, the Aquarium. Often I think there is a competition which one is the most spectacular, that’s marketing. 🙂 This one in San Francisco is top, modern, fresh interiors and impressive aquariums in different variations like tunnels and big walls, some so big that I saw divers inside repairing the venting and feeding sharks. Photos handheld only with higher ISOs, it’s pretty dark in most places inside. You get a full ocean discovery tour and extensive description and documentation of under sea flora and fauna. Also a great place for kids, there were some school classes with dozens of pupils running and shouting. 🙂

Post processed with: Luminar, Photoshop

Camera: ILCE-7S
Aperture: ƒ/2.8
Shutter speed: 1/1600s
Focal length: 14mm
ISO: 10000

By heyyouphoto|2017-08-25T20:40:55+01:00August 25th, 2017|USA|0 Comments

2017-08-24 THE BOOK KIOSK IN LUCCA

Italy is one of the countries left, where book kiosks still exist. You get all kind of books, old and new, some second-hand, they offer maps in different sizes and notebooks with artfully decorated binders and pictures. Some also have a broad portfolio of magazines and journals. They have their smell of the different papers. Those stores with the architecture around lets you think, you be in a world hundred years ago.

Post processed with: Luminar, Photoshop

Camera: ILCE-7RM2
Aperture: ƒ/7.1
Shutter speed: 1/15s
Focal length: 51mm
ISO: 100

By heyyouphoto|2017-08-22T19:07:16+01:00August 24th, 2017|Italy|0 Comments

2017-08-23 THOUGH THE STARS ARE OUT, NOT ONE OF US KNOWS THE WAY

“Though the stars are out, not one of us knows the way,” IMBECILE song text by Mike Batt. The “Hohe Wand” / high wall, a mountain near Vienna was the place for star photography last Friday. Our group of 7 photographers started at about 9 pm, and we did shooting until 11:30 pm. I had a head lamp with me; it was dark. And it’s also live saving 🙂 because near the sky walk; there are slopes which are straight as a pole with 100 meters / 330 ft height and no fence or sign ➡ which warns you. In the night, you have to be careful there. 😐

I placed my A7S with the Samyang 14mm F2.8 on my Sony VCT-300 tripod and prepared for shooting. Higher ISO about 2500 to 3600 are a must, shutter speed at about 12 to 15 seconds and manual focusing, which works fine even with the stars if you use Sony focus peaking. So I got beautiful shots of the milky way. 🙂

Post processed with: Luminar, Color Efex Pro, Photoshop

Camera: ILCE-7S
Aperture: ƒ/2.8
Shutter speed: 20s
Focal length: 14mm
ISO: 2500

By heyyouphoto|2017-08-22T19:08:29+01:00August 23rd, 2017|Austria|0 Comments

2017-08-22 HONG KONG FROM VICTORIA PEAK

There are two classical Hong Kong motives; one is the skyline shot from the Ferry Haven, often with a red junk on the sea, the other the skyline from Victoria Peak, both in the day- and night shot variations. What to do? Indeed, I shot them too, the classical skyline photos.The light was OK, some smog in the background, I used HDR to make it more pop. 🙂 However, Hong Kong is a metropolis and joy for every photographer.

Post processed with: Photomatix, Photoshop

Camera: ILCE-7R
Aperture: ƒ/7.1
Shutter speed: 1/400s
Focal length: 24mm
ISO: 100

By heyyouphoto|2017-08-20T19:10:10+01:00August 22nd, 2017|Hong Kong|0 Comments

2017-08-21 CORRIDOR AFTER CRYSTAL WORLDS EXIT

By leaving the exit door of the Swarovski Crystal Worlds exhibition, you go through that corridor which shows glass and crystal exhibits like full frame woman clothing, animal sculptures like bulls or parrots, art antiques – all made of crystal. They are in boxes, lined with red velvet and lighted with LED lamps. The price tag is a bit from the higher side, so we stayed with a brio which had a crystal on its end, which we bought at the exhibition store. 🙂

Post processed with: Photoshop

Camera: ILCE-7S
Aperture: ƒ/2.8
Shutter speed: 1/60s
Focal length: 24mm
ISO: 6400

By heyyouphoto|2017-08-20T18:51:15+01:00August 21st, 2017|Tyrol|0 Comments

2017-08-20 HARBOR OF LA SPEZIA

La Spezia is the entry door to Cinque Terre, in the city, there are brown direction signs which navigate you to the curvy, uphill street to Riomaggiore. Driving up the serpentines, I got great views of the harbor of La Spezia. I searched for a parking place, which I found at a private property on the opposite side of the street. After going out of my car, there was a dog which was barking like crazy; luckily it was behind a fence. 🙂 I crossed the street and was near a steep slope, where I had only 1 m / 3 ft for standing while shooting my photos.

Post processed with: Aurora, Analog Efex Pro, Photoshop

Camera: ILCE-7RM2
Aperture: ƒ/4
Shutter speed: 1/80s
Focal length: 48mm
ISO: 800

By heyyouphoto|2017-08-20T10:07:12+01:00August 20th, 2017|Italy|0 Comments

2017-08-19 SUMMER OF LOVE WAS HERE AGAIN

Where else, if not in San Francisco? Haight street is the synonym for the Hippie-times, and this was the stage for the Summer of Love 50th Anniversary. Hundreds of market stalls and kiosks lined the street where you got (bio)food, colored clothes and hats, weed utensils and hippie souvenirs. Musicians were playing on the streets and balconies, a high street fest. It must have been great times back then. 🙂

Post processed with: Photoshop

Camera: ILCE-7RM2
Aperture: ƒ/4.5
Shutter speed: 1/1000s
Focal length: 53mm
ISO: 320

By heyyouphoto|2017-08-19T10:45:36+01:00August 19th, 2017|USA|0 Comments

2017-08-18 LAKE NEUSIEDL IN THE EVENING

Lake Neusiedl lies between SW Hungary and south-east Austria. This steppe lake is only 1.5 meters / 5 ft deep, has gray and muddy water. If you are standing in the water, your feet sink into the mud until half of your calves get covered. On the borders, the reed is growing. It’s a great area for kite-surfers because it’s flat with no waves usually. If a bigger storm is brewing, it’s better to get out of the water fast, if the wind kicks in, you will soon have huge waves which act like an undertow in conjunction with the shallow water.

Post processed with: Aurora, Photoshop

Camera: ILCE-7RM2
Aperture: ƒ/5
Shutter speed: 1/2000s
Focal length: 55mm
ISO: 100

By heyyouphoto|2017-08-17T19:30:44+01:00August 18th, 2017|Austria|0 Comments

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