Review – www.Sailpower.de

27. March 2023

Is AI or Deep Learning killing the job-market for creatives?

Short version: kind of! – I believe partly YES! With the appearance of ChatGPT, Midjourney (using discord). DALL-E-2 and Stable Diffusion (open source) Deep Learning (DL) (some are AI) concepts seem to take over some of the markets for creatives (other models are clearly specialized on specific markets: BioBERT, camemBERT, BioNeMo – https://hbr.org/2022/11/how-generative-ai-is-changing-creative-work ). Btw this collection will be quickly...

AI/Review/Workflow

5. June 2020

Wide – Wider – Irix11?

Wide and wider – there is always the search for the best wide angle lens. This topic is as old as my full photography career – and I believe others are also again and again looking for the perfect wide angle. I started at the end of the 80s with a low budget 24mm Sigma lens for my Contax film...

Lens Tests/Near Infrared/Review

25. April 2020

Grading Images – Capture One, Lightroom Classic and what Wacom has all to do with it …

Corona Contemplations In winter I usually try to find some time to concentrate on some creative unpaid projects that I started in summer capturing images but where I didnt manage to get the post processing and image grading or stitching or overlays done at all. So I usually have some raw jewels sitting in my archive that I have to...

Review/Workflow

22. March 2020

The 2020 (Out)Break

2020: as far as I can remember there hasnt been such a situation of overall societal and economic shutdown. Tschernobyl comes to mind or the 9-11 terror attack – maybe the Tsunami/Fukushima disaster in Japan or the financial crisis in 2008 but this time with the Corona outbreak its a global disaster with more secondary effects on all dimensions of...

Review

29. December 2019

L-Plates – the power of precision

There are lots of different L-Plate manufacturers out there but only few create L-Plates designed for specific cameras/lenses. The real advantage of having L-Plates that were designed to work for a specific piece of gear is that these plates just can be seated on the body/lens as if they where designed by the lens/camera-body manufacturer. In fact the lens plate...

Lens Tests/Nikon/Review

27. December 2019

Yacht & Regatta Fotografie

by S. Hese 28.12.2019 Textfassung des Vortrages vom 2.2.2019 beim Wintertreffen des FKY in Hamburg Die Regatta- und Yachtfotografie stellt sicher einen Spezialbereich der Fotografie dar, vielleicht angesiedelt in einem Schnittmengenbereich der Sport- und Naturfotografie. Die große Herausforderung stellt dabei die Abhängigkeit von den Wetter- bzw. Licht- und Windbedingungen dar. Kaum eine Sportart ist derartig abhängig von den externen Bedingungen....

Fotografie/Klassische Yachten/Regatta Fotografie/Review

30. April 2019

Capture One 12 vers Lightroom 6 & Classic

Capture One 12 vers. Lightroom 6 & Classic: The big non-destructive RAW editor competition: Capture One 12 vers LR Classic. The debate is hot and ongoing – especially since Adobe went subscription only with LR. Being a LR guy I tested Capure One now for a while and found it to be much faster (than LR) and much better...

Fotografie/Review/Workflow

31. December 2018

Happy New Year!

All the best for 2019! – lets hope that the Brits come back into the EU and that overall the gods are more peaceful. Contemplating about this otherwise wonderful year ’18 and planning for the 19 with friends and family in the country side (Strelitzer Land). Shot from last night – one of the few starry nights here. 2018 was...

Night Photography/Review

31. December 2018

Tilt and shift photography – visual creativity unleashed

Tilt and Shift Photography – Visual Creativity Unleashed Since winter is the time for some contemplation – and since I thought a lot about these PC/TS lenses: here a short report about my work and ideas with this lens concept. If you are constantly searching for new ways to visualize – than the Tilt/Shift lenses (or “Perspective Control” – PC...

Lens Tests/Nikon/Review/Workflow

24. October 2018

Danish Open – Freestyle & Nikon D850 Firmware 1.03

Tested the new Nikon D850 firmware 1.03 shooting the Danish Open 2018 – Freestyle Windsurfing competition, an event at Klitmöller/Denmark. Pretty good occasion to check if the system freezes I had all these last months are now history for this camera with the new firmware. My main annoyance with this (apart from this problem) great DSLR. And yes: I had...

Regatta Fotografie/Review/Wellenfotografie/Workflow

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