Foggy Stuttgart

Talking about landscape photos, whenever browsing through my pictures, this particular scene always pops out somehow. I took it in 2005 in Stuttgart near the university campus on a foggy evening during a nice sunset. The cool color toning contrasts nicely with the orange sky and gives it a moody atmosphere. A longer lens at 70mm (or rather 112mm on 20D body with 1.6 crop factor) allowed me to pick up the interesting part of the scene without any disturbing elements. I wish I had with me a tripod that time but still the result looked very fine in my eyes. Camera spec: Canon 20D with Canon 70-200 F4 USM at 70mm, F4 @ 1/800, ISO 800.

A Break Dancer

A few years ago I was visiting Stuttgart and met a bunch of very skilled break dancers performing on the street. I asked for their email and send them a few pictures I took during their performance. We exchanged a few emails and quickly agreed on a small photo session in a nearby park. This picture was one of the best thanks to the diagonal composition and the fact that all leading lines point towards the dancers face (the leg, the ground line of the right hand-side buidling, the join line between the left and right hand-side bulding). The colours were slightly enhanced in Lightroom. The photo is natural light only with a little bit on-camera flash as fill-in. Camera spec: Canon 20D with Canon 28-105 3.5-4.5 at 30mm, F8 @ 1/125, ISO 200.