Autor: Ulrich Linder

room with a view, originally uploaded by u.linder.

this one was voted as the first ever winner of the pick of the week in a flickr photo group called kris kros contacts. i was very supprised winning this contest because of so many brilliant conternders! none the less i am very happy about it 😉

i took this picture inside one of these special places i mentioned. to be honest this one was done more or less by accident, so i am sorry, but there is no interesting story behind this pic.

i shot a lot of rooms, and then i thought, „ok, lets try something with the autotimer“. i only shot one pic with the autotimer, this one you see here. back home i looked at all my pics and i thought „oh, not that bad“…
ok, it was a little overexposed. i played around with the raw-file and then i thought: „this could be cool“.
i changed the exposure compensation, added a lot of shadow contrast and suddenly the reflection in the window appeared… in photoshop i dublicated the layer, added a black radial gradient overlay in between both layers to darken the bright window. for the upper layer i used the unsharp mask and changed the layer opacity till I thought it’s ok. i used a filter called melanchytron to get this melancholic look and finally i desaturated it a lot.
that’s it!

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camera: canon eos 350d digital
exposure: 0.125 sec (1/8)
aperture: f/10
focal length: 18 mm
iso speed: 100

please wash your hands before sit down for lunch!!, originally uploaded by u.linder.

this is my favorit shot from the series done during the tour with mace2000. i love the colors and the light gradient on the flagstones. sure there was a little assit from ps and gimp but the main postproduction work was adding a lot of contrast and desaturating a little bit.

i do not want to bore someone to death with the whole series here, but if you are interested you can take a look at my flickr account to see the whole series from these special places.

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camera: canon eos 350d digital
exposure: 8 sec (8)
aperture: f/10
focal length: 20 mm
iso speed: 100

be aware of the staircase!, originally uploaded by u.linder.

this is one of my favorite pics out of the series done during the tour with mace2000. i can not really explain why but i still love this! 🙂

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camera: canon 350d digital
exposure: 6 sec (6)
aperture: f/10
focal length: 18mm
iso speed: 100

come in, door is open!, originally uploaded by u.linder.

this was also done during a tour with mace2000 to thhe hornisgrinde.

here i used some layering techniques and effects to get a more strange look and feel. main effects are unsharp mask and artificial highlighting with overlay layers.

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camera: canon eos 350d digital
exposure: 1.3 sec (13/10)
aperture: f/10
focal Length: 18 mm
iso speed: 100

what’s for eats?, originally uploaded by u.linder.

i thought i have to come along with a second pic today. i do not want that anybody gets bored 😉
this is also done on the tour i mentioned here.
this was inside an old, abandoned and decayed house. these houses were used by the french army from 1945 to 1996.
it’s a really great and creepy place!!

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camera: canon 350d digital
exposure: 3.2 sec (16/5)
aperture: f/10
focal length: 18mm
iso speed: 100