Thanksgiving

Seeing as it is Thanksgiving in America today I thought it would be appropriate to put up my photos of my experience of Thanksgiving in Germany two years ago. While studying in Darmstadt a lot of international erasmus students were staying in the student apartments in Karlshof. Seeing as there was three Americans staying there too they decided to have thanksgiving. Everyone of the international students brought some dish to the party, preferably something native to their country. Frank the American was the driving force behind the whole thing. Given that Thanksgiving isn't a festival celebrated in Germany, no turkey could be found. A goose was the only thing he could find but as he (and his Spanish helper) had never cooked goose before, it kinda collapsed and ended in a mess. But fun was had never the less and I'm sure for Frank and the other Americans it was a Thanksgiving that they will always remember. 

Frank, The man of the night.

Alex

Borja

Cathriona & Sarah

Keeping warm 

Gauthier

The ladies love Mathias

Sarah

What a feast

Fail Goose

Tilt Shift

Tilt Shift Photography is method of photography used for selective focus of an image and is often used for miniature faking, ie an photo of a life-size location  manipulated to give the illusion of a miniature scale model. Special tilt shift lenses can be used to take the photos or the image can be manipulated in photoshop. The latter is what I used for these photos. I found an action for photoshop that I used on my original photographs to create these images. The main features of miniature faking are shallow depth of field, and high saturation of the colours the mimic the bright paint used on models. Here is a selection of my photos that I edited. The change of perspective is really interesting and can really give life to photo.

 Berlin

 Berlin

 Marburg

 Oberwaldhaus, Darmstadt

Ring Strand, East Cork

More Black and White Prints

I didn't get a chance to scan the photos I developed last week so here is this and last weeks prints.

The last one is out of focus but that was the cameras focus not the printing being out of focus. The black and white really reinforces the dilapidation and oldness of the subjects which I like.