Sailing Photography by Sören Hese
The higher resolution version of the Schlachtensee Pano shot / panorama from early February. This was a magic week. Temperatures and light were just perfect and the ice was incredible untouched. This pano is from the P3A. For those not familiar with the Berlin south west. The Schlachtensee region is known in Berlin as the area where the people who...
Spend the last weekend at the International Swim Meeting 2017 – shooting a swim event. Pretty complex conditions but some nice shots are now online here: http://soeren.zenfolio.com/ism17 The challenge clearly is A. to get the timing right (varies with the different swim styles/techniques), B. to be at the right position for the different styles, and C. get all the participants covered...
Did some more tests with the Phantom 4 Pro: The into the sun shots just capture a lot of flare and the sun star is very much Samyang 14mm like. This is an issue and it reduces the image acuity for 3D point cloud modeling for object measurements as well as for the landscape panorama approach. The against the light...
Have done some tests with the new Phantom 4 Pro that I am using in 2017 for some research projects on photogrammetric point cloud mapping. This is a remarkable step forward in terms of image quality. The Phantom 4 Pro just creates much better image detail and acuity and resolution/sharpness is on a much higher level compared to the Phantom...
Some thoughts I wrote down originally for the KLASSIKER Journal (4.2016) of the FKY. “Gedankensplitter zur Yachtfotografie. Die Visualisierung dieses Spannungsbogens von Wind, Wetter, Wasser, Yachten und dem puren Segelsport ist an Vieldimensionalität kaum zu überbieten. Kaum ein Sport ist so stark abhängig vom Wetter, vom Wind, von den äußeren hochvariablen Bedingungen. In der Wandelbarkeit des Wetters und damit...
The mother of all lenses: the Nikkor AFS 400mm f2.8G VR ED This is one of the lenses that most serious sports photogs have in use regularly. Its THE bread&butter lens of the soccer/football/car racing and swimming/athletics sports photographers. This is a really heavy lens (4.62 kg) and even if you come from a 300mm f2.8 lens design, the size...
READ MORE 400mm at its best – shooting the background-blur-king
Multicopter Photography and Photogrammetry Late this year I bought a Phantom 3A (Advanced). The prices went down and these platforms are so affordable now that it makes sense to test it out. The main applications for my work are multifolded: Special shootings for paying clients, regatta event shots from above, very early morning misty landscape stills and large scale or...
Winter break for the Yacht/Regatta racing event photo shootings. Good to reorganize, sending some stuff for repair and to rethink about some approaches. I will also give some other sports a try this winter – some other water related sports … :) Have been also looking into micro multicopter based photogrammetry with the Phantom lately – so there will...
Nachgereicht: da ja die Regatta um den Kaiserpokal (BYC) und der Seglerhauspreis (VSaW) zeitgleich stattfanden war etwas schwierig beide Events abzudecken. Den Seglerhauspreis konnte ich daher kaum ernsthaft fotografieren. Einige Bilder zumindest der 29er sind aber jetzt online hier zu sehen: http://soeren.zenfolio.com/shp16 Unglücklicherweise hat es massiv geregnet zu dem Zeitpunkt als ich beim 29er Feld war. Der Sonntagmorgen brachte allerdings...
Some shots from the Soling German Open 2016 in Berlin are online now here: http://soeren.zenfolio.com/solingstar16 I am trying to finish the events galleries that somehow got lost in busy September. Next will be the “Seglerhauspreis” – that was partly drowned in rain. mtk, Sören