textures

i started shooting textures which can be used for photographs, graphics or anything else you can imagine. the textures are shot with my nikon d80 in full size so most of the pix have a size of 3872×2592 (sometimes i crop the pic a bit to remove unwanted parts, then the size is a bit smaller).
i created a gallery that i will update every once and a while. feel free to download the textures and use them for your artwork, but please add a note that leads back to me if you publish your work somehow. i'd also be pleased if you show me the work you used the textures for! now have fun!

download textures

vienna through the eyes of hdr

you can view bigger versions of the pictures if you click them and then click "all sizes"

i tried hdr...

a few days ago i discovered stuckincustoms the #1 travel photography blog. the owner of this page/blog creates fantastic hdr pictures and also has tutorials on how to do hdr photography, how to work with textures and a nice article about how to make good photographs on his page.
especially his attitude towards making photographs made me try hdr. after i had done some test photos out of my window i discovered that i had some suitable material (photographs with the same object but different exposure time) from my trip to switzerland.



so i got myself photomatix, a very nice software to create hdr photos, and gave it a try. and i am pretty satisfied with the result.



i just have to get my fathers tripod to be able to do more of those...

switzerland

more photos from my trip to switzerland here