Vancouver weather can be nice and sunny in February!

I took this image while walking around in Gastown with some fellow Photographers. What was supposed to be a ’snapshot’ turned into something more once I looked at it back home. It may still not be a perfect image, but it shows an important visual exercise that [...]

I have been teaching up a storm lately….
Our first daughter is ’scheduled’ to arrive today. My wife Xenija has been felling great throughout her entire pregnancy, and we know they say that German’s are known for their punctionality. So we may indeed have our baby today.
I have been trying to free up some time in [...]

Another great and inspirational 4 Day Workshop!
VPW just hosted its first Black and White Long Exposure Workshop for 2009. This time, students came in from Mexico, the US, Norway and Finland (not to forget our local Vancouver participants).
This workshop is by far VPW’s most international offering when it comes to its participants. In addition to [...]

Hello everyone,
first of, my apologies for the long silence since the last post. This year has been ‘ueber’ event filled, lots of changes and exciting news for both my personal life and VPW also. Naturally, I have been taking photos along the way, so here’s my attempt to do some catching up on this blog.
This [...]

And another HDR image shot in Vancouver’s Gastown:

Another great subject for HDR treatment. I composed this image standing above the train tracks, which gives a great long leading line to strengthen the composition. I used Photomatix and Photoshop, but did not spent much time in post production. Most adjustments were global, the only local change [...]

This is the first of two HDR images I shot and worked on during VPW’s  Intermediate Digital SLR Intensive Weekend Workshop.

I spotted this yellow car and knew the HDR technique would work with this subject. I took three bracketed shots (that’s all it took) and used Photomatix to assemble the HDR image. Photoshop was used [...]

Hello everyone,
VPW hosted its first ever Intermediate Digital Photography SLR Intensive Weekend Workshop on January 31st + February 1st, 2009. 
It was a weekend filled with photography. We walked around Gastown on Saturday, shooting HDR, panoramas and practicing tons of other camera and creative techniques. Sunday, we reviewed the results before shooting some more, this time [...]