Schloga sunset

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From the archive. It’s a 43 sec. long exposure of Karlsruhes castle. The lake is part of a park called “Schlossgarten” (which means “castle garden”). Karlsruhers just say “Schloga”.

Tags: Karlsruhe, lake, reflection

This entry was posted on Thursday, August 9th, 2007 at 8:26 pm

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Sumit

Just trying to understand, what was the reason for keeping such a long exposure and small aperture? Did it result in some special effect?
Would the photo have turned out different had you increased the aperture to say f1.8 and decreased the shutter speed?
Amazing photo; I love the stillness of the water and the reflection.
Warm Regards,
Sumit
http://pabst-photo.com Matthias Pabst

Hi Sumit,
it was a bit windy and the water wasn’t very calm. I used a ND filter for the long exposure to get a really silk and smooth water surface.
I think F13 is also a good aperture for photos with such a depth (even w/o using a filter).
Thanks!
Best regards,
Matthias
http://sumit.pixyblog.com/ Sumit

Hey Matthias,
Many thanks for this information. I will certainly try out the settings you have mentioned. Hopefully, my images will come out as beautiful as yours.
Another question… almost all your images have a very beautiful color and look almost HDR like. But I suspect that these are single shot exposures that you have done. Is there any trick to getting these beautiful colors and tonal range?
Warm Regards,
Sumit
http://pabst-photo.com Matthias Pabst

Hi Sumit,
well, you’re right. A lot of my images are processed as HDR images (usually from 3 different exposures) but that’s just a small part of the whole processing. I do a lot more with layers, masks, gradients, curves, tones, dodge & burn etc. There’s no trick. Ok, a small hint: produce low contrast HDR images.
Best regards,
Matthias
http://10fathoms.org/vu Andrei

Very beautiful. I’m going to Karlsruhe in September, will definitely have to bring the camera.
http://www.kpimages.net/ Kim

What a serene and peaceful place – gorgeous shot!
http://www.vanrenselaar.eu/photolog matthijs

beautiful shot. the long exposure made the lake so tranquil.. Very nice!