Neolithic Revisited
Explored January 15, 2025
An oldie from 2018, showing the Haus der Kulturen der Welt (HKW), and taken with my then-still new Lumix LX100. It's one of those images I have done something processing-wise on and off, now and then, whenever I stumbled upon it while browsing my older images in LR. So I spontaneously decided to finish the processing today and upload it so I won't forget about the image again for another year.
With this particular POV, directly from the front, I found black and white oddly satisfying although the blue hour colours are lost. But why 16:9? The Lumix LX100 has this convenient little switch on the lens for quickly changing between formats (4:3, 3:2, 1:1), and this function is too inviting, not to use it occasionally.
Back then, I hadn't yet learned how to use the Lumix properly, so I was basically only pressing the shutter button after composing an image. Functions like bracketing and such I learned much later when I was more confident with the camera's controls and menu. And so, from a technical point of view, there are many flaws here like the blown highlights and other things I'd do differently today.
The pond's surface hadn't been completely still because the resident ducks kept landing on it, doing their evening routine, and splashing around. There also was some fluffy stuff from the trees on the water, and LE didn't make either look nicer.
The light/aperture stars along the pond are from the lens. The fixed Summilux lens renders beautiful stars, so I'm happy I got that right. But the lights on the HKW's roof were rendered as light blobs, so Luminar's "Magic Light" came to the rescue again ;)
Happy Week, dear Flickr friends!
Neolithic Revisited
Explored January 15, 2025
An oldie from 2018, showing the Haus der Kulturen der Welt (HKW), and taken with my then-still new Lumix LX100. It's one of those images I have done something processing-wise on and off, now and then, whenever I stumbled upon it while browsing my older images in LR. So I spontaneously decided to finish the processing today and upload it so I won't forget about the image again for another year.
With this particular POV, directly from the front, I found black and white oddly satisfying although the blue hour colours are lost. But why 16:9? The Lumix LX100 has this convenient little switch on the lens for quickly changing between formats (4:3, 3:2, 1:1), and this function is too inviting, not to use it occasionally.
Back then, I hadn't yet learned how to use the Lumix properly, so I was basically only pressing the shutter button after composing an image. Functions like bracketing and such I learned much later when I was more confident with the camera's controls and menu. And so, from a technical point of view, there are many flaws here like the blown highlights and other things I'd do differently today.
The pond's surface hadn't been completely still because the resident ducks kept landing on it, doing their evening routine, and splashing around. There also was some fluffy stuff from the trees on the water, and LE didn't make either look nicer.
The light/aperture stars along the pond are from the lens. The fixed Summilux lens renders beautiful stars, so I'm happy I got that right. But the lights on the HKW's roof were rendered as light blobs, so Luminar's "Magic Light" came to the rescue again ;)
Happy Week, dear Flickr friends!