Photography

  1. No comments Jan 23, 2010 Concerning Berlin — The Book Posted in Photography

    You have already read the blog post. You have already seen some photos. Since I spent quite some time waiting for test renderings to finish I picked up a project I had been working on quite a while now. A photo book.

    Update: There’s now a much more affordable eBook version available.

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  2. No comments Aug 22, 2009 Concerning Berlin Posted in Dear Diary, Essays, Photography

    Berlin was calling. I had to go. Like the years before. When you’ve been to Berlin once before (and ain’t not sick of it already), you just have to return. Every summer this city calls me by a feeling or just by plain Austrian fatigue. Then I book a flight, make no plans and off I go.

    This is a short photo-blog-post of my impressions.

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  3. No comments May 08, 2009 FMX 09, Day Three Posted in Animation, CGI & Rendering, Compositing, Games, Lectures, People, Photography, Random Thoughts, Rants, Reports, Retro, Technology, Video

    7:30 am and somebody walks downstairs. Good morning to me. My program for today was mostly about tracking and motion capturing and heavy duty compositing. You might have guessed: It was the day of Benjamin Button.

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  4. 1 comment Feb 15, 2009 The Light of Winter Posted in Photography, Reports
    see it at flickr

    Stereotypic Winter Photo,
    originally uploaded by Phil Strahl.

    Usually I don’t like the winter. It’s cold outside, I am cold, I can’t wear my favorite clothing (hawaii-shirts and flip-flops), I have to dig out the car whenever I want to drive it, then it’s cold in the car and the snow-clots on my trouser legs melt and run into my socks while driving and then I’m cold again.
    Still, when I think I can’t take it anymore, it snows again. Heavy flakes tumble in the air before resting on the ground, little by little covering up all the unpleasant details and the dirt, muffle harsh sounds and immerse the open land in innocence and tranquility — right before my window. In these moments of joy and inner peace I linger at the window, sipping my coffee. And then it strikes me: “I gotta take some photos!”

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  5. No comments Mar 15, 2008 To flickr or not to flickr? Posted in Dear Diary, Photography
    Glances

    Glances,
    originally uploaded by Phil Strahl.

    This is just a little test to see how my sytlesheet is working for flickr blog-posts. I am not sure whether I want to say good-bye to the great NextGEN Gallery plug-in for WordPress I have been using all those years now. Should I really switch to flickr? What do you think?

    And by the way: You just witness a major design-wise relaunch of the Promenade Blog, after the years I got a little bored with the standard visual appearance of this WordPress blog, so I stared in August 2007 a major redesign. But today I finally finished it in a couple of hours for the next couple of years. Although everything seems okay on first glance, there might happen some strange layouts on some pages — to be resolved soon.

  6. No comments Sep 05, 2007 “Having guts always works out for me” Posted in Photography, Reports

    John Bellinger

    Are you looking for something about Stefan Sagmeister’s work? You might want to read this post! Cheers!

    This quote originally comes from Stefan Sagmeister’s little story he told the listeners in his lecture in Salzburg this March and is more or less the motto of my business trip to Salzburg, where I was photographing for the Salzburg Seminar, as you already know. And it was great! Meeting so many very interesting, very nice and very important personalities definitely is as enriching as it is exciting. And it was a good way to brush up my English because of the high intellectual level of the discussions and lectures I had to photograph. Below is a selection of the best photographs just for you. I will release some of them into public domain later on because Wikipedia is missing many of the speakers’ photographs.

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  7. No comments Sep 02, 2007 The Seminar Posted in Photography, Reports

    Sorry folks, the final Zodiac handprint will be delayed a few days as it seems because I got a photographing job on short notice in Salzburg. I got a call from Ben Glahn who is Program Director of the Salzburg Seminar to photograph two days of the event. I am not only interested in taking photos but on the insight I get when listening to the big shots who will be there talking about this seminar’s subject of Balancing Security, Democracy, and Human Rights in an Age of Terrorism.


    I had to promise Lisa to bring her an autograph of her idol Sandra Day O’Connor when I have the opportunity to. I just hope I won’t chicken out…

    I better get some sleep because my train will leave in 3 hours… phew. See you in Salzburg!

  8. No comments Aug 23, 2007 Ich bin ein Berliner Posted in Photography, Reports

    Haven’t blogged in frickin’ ages! Currently I am in Berlin, photographing for Dropping Knowledge together with Lisa. A lot has happened. I will post an update, some photos and stuff as soon as I have the time to. Doesn’t sound promising, huh? Eventually I really do it.

  9. No comments Jun 21, 2007 Campus at Night Posted in Photography, Reports, Tutorial

    20070621_lens_thumb.pngSome of you might have seen me two days ago roaming around the endless corridors of the campus: Black shirt, shorts, worn flip-flops and a large black camera on a tripod on my shoulder. But why would I take pictures of the boring campus in medium format? Well… why not?

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  10. No comments Jun 19, 2007 Impressionist Photos Posted in Photography, Reports

    Impressionist PhotosLast week Lisa and I needed a break. The more pressure you get, the more the walls feel like closing in on you around here. Probably also a side effect of my totally crammed little dorm room here. So I grabbed my Sony Alpha 100 and we sat into the car and went north and up on some winding little roads into the depth of the Salzburgian hinterlands. And I like taking photographs during driving.
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