It’s the best time to start to “make”.
Have you ever wondered what the difference is between a “good” photograph and a “bad one”?
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Zurich
There are 9 posts tagged Zurich (this is page 1 of 1).
Monochromes after work
Photoessay. Zurich, Switzerland. December 7, 2019.
After saying goodbye to my students to the weekend yesterday evening I spent another hour to make use of the interesting perspective from my classroom on the 4th floor to the building site right opposite and to the surroundings. But the best view was bottom up, imo.
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Photowalk. Niederweningen and Zurich. Switzerland.
November 30, 2019.
How often have I been rushed from meeting to meeting, flying over the streets of Zurich and was missing many inspiring moments?
Yesterday I had a day off and I took my time to stroll through the streets of Zurich.
As a compensation – at least some kind of.
Eek, smoker ahead! Some take cover, others snap out their camera and shoot.
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My last week was crazy stuffed with work, unbelievable short bedtimes in impersonal and desolate sterile hotel rooms – I was more than busy with my customers. Nevertheless it was a good week with some very quiet moments before and after the coaching.
As always I had my camera with me.
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Photoessay. September 14th 2019. Niederweningen and Zurich, Switzerland.
Quiet moments alone on the train, long before the morning rush hour.
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Reach more by doing less
Valuable creative breathers
A few years ago I spent every minute on my job; I was working hard and hardly ever had a break or allowed myself to have a breather – there was no time for any sort of timeout.
Always running, having my Laptop, Tablet and Smartphone with me helped me to keep organized and to work for my customers whenever and wherever I was – this is mobile computing at its best and highly efficient! – and all around the clock. If there was some time between two coaching units or two meetings – well, I knew what to do. It was the time when I founded my company, and in the startup time I created a solid base for it’s future development.
As my company grew rapidly over the last few years I learned to be even more productive – but not in the traditional sense by producing more, organizing better or working even harder, but by doing less – and taking frequent creative breathers.
Let me explain.
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Slow down and take 2. At least.
I’d like to tell you the stories of four of my favourite images; all of them were captured after a day of quite hard work, after gently slowing down. Finally and in the end I got more and more creative. All have one in common: I always had to take two. At least two. Two photographs? No. So, two of what?
Black shadows or shadow details?
Some photographic thoughts about contrasts, highlights and shadows.
Many modern contemporary fine art street photographs and cityscape photographs are characterized by strong contrasts between the deepest shadows and the brightest highlights – which makes them very attractive in common. Pure black shadows and pure white highlights predominate – in between there is only a small range of greytones; contrasts are high.