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Sceneries, Giethoorn
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Welcome to Photo Castle.

This site has albums on a variety of topics from insects, sceneries, portraits to technique issues like using flash; light & colour etc..

I used to photograph with the analogue Canon AE1 Programm in combination with a 135mm 2.8 lens.
Switching to digital, back in 2007, I started off with the Canon 400D in combination with a Tamron 90mm 2.8 Macro 1:1 lens resulting in albums like Sierra Leone, Paris, Austria and a Selection out of all photograph's made with this camera.
I realized that Digital Photography was not ready yet for ordinary people like me.

In 2009 I acquired the Canon 50D camera; a Canon 28mm 1.8 lens and a Canon 85mm 1.8 lens. It was an improvement indeed, but really not what I expected to get for such a price. The album a Selection 50D's shows.

Finally I took the jump and bought the Full Frame Canon 5D Mark II. Finally I was there. This camera gives what you should get from a digital camera. The camera is used for weddings and also does filming remarkable better then the camcorders. So now it comes to lenses and my own skills.
Two albums as example are Light & Color and Beautiful Scotland.

Most albums contains EXIF information and please feel free to give critical comments for me to improve.
The photographs above are taken with a Canon 180mm 3.5L Macro USM attached to the Canon 5D Mark II.

Other lenses used are the Tamron 90mm 2.8 Macro, the Canon 85mm 1.8 USM and the Canon 28mm 1.8. As you see I use mainly Prime lenses. You simply get better glas then using your money on zoomlenses.
Recently, I exchanged the fantastic Canon 180mm for a Zeiss Wide angle lens, 18mm/3.5 T* and have to say that sharpness, color, light, gets addictive. Once you tasted a Zeiss, you don't want to get to use the regular lenses anymore.

Aim

Besides hardware you will meet 1. just albums with photo's in there respective setting and 2. examples of techniques used, like flash and so on.

Please feel free to leave a comment in the guestbook and to be critical, so others and I may learn from you.
When Albums are added, or updated it will show at their respective subpages with a note like

Updated June 5 2010

The following updates are recently published / updated:


PageSubjectDate / Time
ICharles Dickens festijn DeventerDecember 17 2011
IRaw Tobermory photo'sOktober 30 2011
IZeiss: LuxembourgJune 12 2011
IZeiss: PeopleJune 12 2011
ICanon 135mm 2.0LMay 6 2011
IZeiss 18/3.5 T* on WaterApril 28 2011
IZeiss 18/3.5 T* NaturalApril 22 2011
IZeiss 18/3.5 T* Zwolle/HattemApril 20 2011
IBallonvaart vanuit ZwolleApril 22 2011
IHubble OrkestarMarch 12 2011
IKanovarenSeptember 30 2010
IScotland PostersSeptember 30 2010
IScotlandAugust 21 2010
I5D Mark II MixJune 23 2010
IVSeriesJuly 27 2010
IIn a BalloonJuly 16 2010
IBalloon FlightsJune 26 2010
ILight and ColorJune 21 2010
IAntwerpJune 19 2010
IAirport WeezeJune 19 2010
VGiethoornJune 12 2010
IMacro IJune 6 2010
Welcome
I Canon 5D Mark II
II Canon 50D
III Canon 400D
IV Canon AE1 Programm
V Series
VI Black & White
VII Using Flash
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