apnoe base jump

this film is just amazing. i got goosebumps when he jumped. great piece of work by both the diver and the cameraperson.

eva on white

i was playing around with some lighting setups and eva got to model again. i was trying to recreate the sort of look that zack arias wrote about in this tutorial: White Seamless Tutorial.

i basically just put a flash behind eva, blasting at the white wall and a flash in a reflective umbrella in front. so not quite zack’s setup, but the closest i could approximate in our living room. i didn’t quite get the lighting ratios right, so i had to add a touch of fill slider in lightroom, next time i’ll know better… but see for yourself:

Eva on white

as you can see on some pics, i had banding/sync issues with the cactus triggers. i’m going to have to see if that can be corrected.

Benni’s birthday

Birthday boy

Benni invited us round to his place last night to celebrate him turning older than he’s ever been before. here’s some pictures of the evening:

Benni's Birthday, 12/3/10

Benni turns 23. :)

flash gallery

alternatively, here’s a flash gallery:

Bunch of tulips

Bunch of tulips, originally uploaded by tiamak.

quick update: eva and i have moved and are more or less finished with the move. flo & ursi came for dinner last night and brought some flowers with them. i love the way the colours just pop against the black background of our *massive* windows.

more tulip pictures on my flickr page.

taking a break

taking a break, originally uploaded by tiamak.

what a weekend. police band concert on friday evening, playing and emceeing is very hard work. went down really well and was an enjoyable evening.

skiing on saturday at the stubaier gletscher (pictures to follow). “junge solisten am podium” by the innStrumenti chamber orchestra was the evening’s entertainment on saturday.

sunday was a lazy day, spent most of the afternoon playing around with the latest, greatest version of lilypond. the evening was spent at a concert by the kammerchor walther von der vogelweide, conducted by claudio büchler, also the conductor of the uni orchestra.

this was quickly done in the improvised kitchen studio before dinner:

fruit and veg, originally uploaded by tiamak.

the tomatoes and the garlic in the basket have been surprising me every day with the simple colours, so i decided to knock together a quick studio in the kitchen. a large cardboard back-wall made from a weetabix box, lit by an overpowered sb-900, another sb-900 with a dome diffuser off to the right, kindly held by eva. not perfect, but not too shabby for a job knocked together in 3 minutes…

the picture at the top was taken during a short break from transcribing music. the sun hit the glasses just right on my laptop case, and luckily i had my camera sat next to me.