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	<title>Floz' Photo Blog</title>
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	<description>This blog now shows some bits and pics from my photography</description>
	<pubDate>Mon, 24 Nov 2008 10:16:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Holidays</title>
		<link>http://blog.florian-knorn.com/2008/10/holidays.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 18 Oct 2008 18:06:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Florian</dc:creator>
		
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Ok, there&#8217;s not too much depth to this. I guess, only the German speaking readers will get this ;-)
Steffi and I are going on our &#8222;big holidays&#8220; for this year, this time it&#8217;s Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia. If everything goes well, we should be back mid-November.
In the meantime, enjoy yourselves and be good,
Florian
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<p class="block">Ok, there&#8217;s not too much depth to this. I guess, only the German speaking readers will get this ;-)</p>
<p>Steffi and I are going on our &#8222;big holidays&#8220; for this year, this time it&#8217;s Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia. If everything goes well, we should be back mid-November.</p>
<p>In the meantime, enjoy yourselves and be good,</p>
<p>Florian</p>
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		<title>Autumn Leaves II</title>
		<link>http://blog.florian-knorn.com/2008/10/autumn-leaves-ii.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Oct 2008 08:26:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Florian</dc:creator>
		
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Even though the last few days it was absolutely p***ing down, this morning we were blessed with just pure sunshine. Fortunately I still had my camera in my backpack so I just spent 20 minutes outside the office taking autumn pictures.
The colours of the trees and leafs are even more extreme than last week, and [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<span class="right" style="width: 510px; height: 340px;"><a href="/uploaded_images/autumn_leafs_ii_large.jpg" rel="lightbox" title="Autumn Leafs II, Maynooth, 2008"><img src="/uploaded_images/autumn_leafs_ii.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a><img src="/uploaded_images/reflect.php?img=autumn_leafs_ii.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></span>
<p class="block">Even though the last few days it was absolutely p***ing down, this morning we were blessed with just pure sunshine. Fortunately I still had my camera in my backpack so I just spent 20 minutes outside the office taking autumn pictures.</p>
<p>The colours of the trees and leafs are even more extreme than last week, and together with the blue sky (as I said, a rarity around here) and my friend the polarising filter I just went mad on the hunt for interesting angles with exploding colours and contrasts.</p>
<p>I&#8216;ll hopefully get around posting some of the other pictures I took this morning on my <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/el_floz">flickr account</a>. I&#8216;ll let you know. Now back to work.</p>
<p><b>Update:</b> More autumn-y photos <a href="http://flickr.com/photos/el_floz/sets/72157608099469376/">now here</a>.</p>
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<td><b>Focal length:&nbsp;</b></td>
<td>16mm (24mm)</td>
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<td><b>Aperture:</b></td>
<td>ƒ/8.0</td>
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<td><b>Exposure:</b></td>
<td>1/50 s</td>
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<td><b>ISO:</b></td>
<td>200</td>
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<td><b>Lens:</b></td>
<td>Carl Zeiss 16-80</td>
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<td><b>Location:&nbsp;</b></td>
<td><a href="http://maps.google.com/maps?q=53%C2%B023%2701%22N,+6%C2%B035%2750%22W">Maynooth, Ireland</a></td>
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		<title>It&#8217;s Elvis!</title>
		<link>http://blog.florian-knorn.com/2008/10/its-elvis.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Oct 2008 18:49:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Florian</dc:creator>
		
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Same lens, completely different situation.
This time, it&#8217;s all about event photography. Last year the Gospel Choir (which I&#8216;m part of) had a gig with two impersonators (Elvis, and Tina Turner). During the bits where we sang with them (photos here) I got the chance to take some photos myself of those two professionals doing their [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<span class="right" style="width: 510px; height: 340px;"><a href="/uploaded_images/elvis_is_alive_large.jpg" rel="lightbox" title="Portrait of Elvis (impresonated), Maynooth, 2008"><img src="/uploaded_images/elvis_is_alive.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a><img src="/uploaded_images/reflect.php?img=elvis_is_alive.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></span>
<p class="block">Same lens, completely different situation.</p>
<p>This time, it&#8217;s all about event photography. Last year the <a href="http://www.maynoothgospel.com">Gospel Choir</a> (which I&#8216;m part of) had a gig with two impersonators (<a href="http://www.itselvis.com/index.php">Elvis</a>, and Tina Turner). During the bits where we sang with them (<a href="http://flickr.com/photos/el_floz/sets/72157603953056668/">photos here</a>) I got the chance to take some photos myself of those two professionals doing their job — great singing, and dancing, and looking like the original.</p>
<p>Being part of the &#8222;crew&#8220; I could pretty much go anywhere I wanted during the show, which also means backstage. That&#8217;s how I got this nice angle. Obviously I had to shoot wide open with a fairly high ISO to avoid too much motion blur in those lighting conditions. Again, the burst trick really helped to get some crisp shots. Another benefit of this technique is that you usually get a lot of funny faces when someone is singing (or talking for that matter), so getting several shots in a row allows you to select the nicer ones ;-)</p>
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<td><b>Focal length:&nbsp;</b></td>
<td>90mm (135mm)</td>
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<td><b>Aperture:</b></td>
<td>ƒ/4.0</td>
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<td><b>Exposure:</b></td>
<td>1/60 s</td>
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<td><b>ISO:</b></td>
<td>1600</td>
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<td><b>Lens:</b></td>
<td>Minolta 70-210/4</td>
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<td><b>Location:&nbsp;</b></td>
<td><a href="http://maps.google.com/maps?q=53.3832,-6.6038">Maynooth, Ireland</a></td>
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		<title>Drops on Apple</title>
		<link>http://blog.florian-knorn.com/2008/10/drops-on-apple.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Oct 2008 17:54:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Florian</dc:creator>
		
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Just as a big Californian company is releasing new products as we speak, let&#8217;s go back again to a purely &#8222;photographic&#8220; entry.
This shot was a bit of an experiment&#8230; Inspired by this post in the amazing Digital Photography School blog, I wanted to take a photo involving water drops. For the set-up of the shot, [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<span class="left" style="width: 240px; height: 360px;"><a href="/uploaded_images/drops_on_apple_large.jpg" rel="lightbox" title="Drops on Apple, Maynooth, Ireland, 2008"><img src="/uploaded_images/drops_on_apple.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a><img src="/uploaded_images/reflect.php?img=drops_on_apple.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></span>
<p class="block">Just as a big Californian company is releasing new products as we speak, let&#8217;s go back again to a purely &#8222;photographic&#8220; entry.</p>
<p>This shot was a bit of an experiment&hellip; Inspired by <a href="http://digital-photography-school.com/blog/how-to-photography-water-drops/">this post</a> in the amazing <a href="http://digital-photography-school.com/blog/">Digital Photography School</a> blog, I wanted to take a photo involving water drops. For the set-up of the shot, check out <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/el_floz/2215614773/in/set-72157594517335152/">this &#8222;making of&#8220; photo</a>.</p>
<p>The apple was placed on a glass in a sink where I &#8222;fine tuned&#8220; the tap so that only a small volleys of drops would come out every now and then. If you look at the aperture and the exposure time, you&#8216;ll see that the ambient light couldn&#8216;t possibly influence the shot. That&#8217;s why the background appears completely black. The reason for these extreme settings was to achieve exactly that, to freeze the motion as good as possible and to have a large enough depth of field in this rather macro-y situation.</p>
<p>Lighting. As you can see in <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/el_floz/2216406896/in/set-72157594517335152/">this shot</a>, the only light here was coming from an external flash (triggered wirelessly), a mirror (to bounce some of the light back) as well as two improvised reflectors. After fiddling with the exposure parameters and arranging the reflectors, I took about 20 shots trying to get the timing right with the drops randomly coming out of the tap (which is harder than you&#8216;d think). In the end, I was really happy with the outcome, I got pretty much exactly what I wanted.</p>
<p>PS: Thanks to Kfir (my office-mate) for borrowing me an apple — I&#8216;m allergic to them, so I returned it after the shot :-)</p>
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<td><b>Focal length:&nbsp;</b></td>
<td>210mm (315mm)</td>
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<td><b>Aperture:</b></td>
<td>ƒ/22.0</td>
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<td><b>Exposure:</b></td>
<td>1/8000 s + flash</td>
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<td><b>ISO:</b></td>
<td>250</td>
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<td><b>Lens:</b></td>
<td>Minolta 70-210/4</td>
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<td><b>Location:&nbsp;</b></td>
<td><a href="http://maps.google.com/maps?q=53%C2%B023%2706%22N,+6%C2%B035%2758%22W">Maynooth, Ireland</a></td>
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		<title>Mean Machine</title>
		<link>http://blog.florian-knorn.com/2008/10/mean-machine.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Oct 2008 21:55:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Florian</dc:creator>
		
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Last night, someone privately pointed out to me that it seems that I&#8216;m just making things up as I go along, when I post something here.
That is correct.
And that some things I say are hardly relevant to the photo presented.
That is correct too. 
Anyways, this photo is another &#8222;fresh&#8220; one, I took it last Sunday [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<span class="right" style="width: 240px; height: 360px;"><a href="/uploaded_images/mean_machine_large.jpg" rel="lightbox" title="Mean Machine, Maynooth, Ireland, 2008"><img src="/uploaded_images/mean_machine.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a><img src="/uploaded_images/reflect.php?img=mean_machine.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></span>
<p class="block">Last night, someone privately pointed out to me that it seems that I&#8216;m just making things up as I go along, when I post something here.</p>
<p>That is correct.</p>
<p>And that some things I say are hardly relevant to the photo presented.</p>
<p>That is correct too. </p>
<p><i>Anyways</i>, this photo is another &#8222;fresh&#8220; one, I took it last Sunday when we (<a href="http://www.nuimvc.com">NUIM Volleyball Club</a>) had our first two games here in Maynooth, as part of the <i>Men&#8217;s National League 2nd Division</i>.</p>
<p>We got our arses beaten all over the place (<a href="http://www.volleyballireland.com/competitions/National_League/Division_2_Men.asp">here</a>&#8217;s an account of our heroism), losing both games. However, it was great fun nevertheless, and we&#8216;re just in there for the craic and the training effect (we don&#8216;t have a coach, and are just barely enough players to form a team!). No one had any ambitions of winning anything, so there were no tears shed.</p>
<p>Also, no one got hurt, which is surprising, because one of the teams was made up entirely of &#8222;killing machines&#8220;. Take this guy in the photo, who regularly spiked super-sonic balls <i>over</i> people trying to block him (he was a giant). During those balls he regularly deformed the space-time-continuum, as can be witnessed in the shot&hellip; More photos from the event <a href="http://www.fkfoto.com/vb_2nd_dev" title="Photos from 2nd Division Volleyball in Maynooth">here</a>.</p>
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<td><b>Focal length:&nbsp;</b></td>
<td>70mm (105mm)</td>
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<td><b>Aperture:</b></td>
<td>ƒ/2.8</td>
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<td><b>Exposure:</b></td>
<td>1/320 s</td>
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<td><b>ISO:</b></td>
<td>1250</td>
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<td><b>Lens:</b></td>
<td>Sony 70-200/2.8 G</td>
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<td><b>Location:&nbsp;</b></td>
<td><a href="http://maps.google.com/maps?q=53%C2%B023%2703%22N,+6%C2%B036%2711%22W">Maynooth, Ireland</a></td>
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		<title>Vazul</title>
		<link>http://blog.florian-knorn.com/2008/10/vazul.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 11 Oct 2008 17:19:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Florian</dc:creator>
		
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Last semester, when I still lived on campus, one of my lovely flatmates (Nancy from Austria) often had another friend of hers / mine over, Vazul (Austrian too). Just day I had read about &#8222;Jowlers&#8220;, check out the link, so I asked Vazul if he&#8216;d be in for trying it out.
Unfortunately, in the end it [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<span class="right" style="width: 510px; height: 340px;"><a href="/uploaded_images/vazul_large.jpg" rel="lightbox" title="Portrait of Vazul, Maynooth, 2008"><img src="/uploaded_images/vazul.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a><img src="/uploaded_images/reflect.php?img=vazul.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></span>
<p class="block">Last semester, when I still lived on campus, one of my lovely flatmates (Nancy from Austria) often had another friend of hers / mine over, Vazul (Austrian too). Just day I had read about &#8222;<a href="http://www.jowlers.com/">Jowlers</a>&#8220;, check out the link, so I asked Vazul if he&#8216;d be in for trying it out.</p>
<p>Unfortunately, in the end it didn&#8216;t work out as desired (at least the shots didn&#8216;t really look cool). However, in the process of setting up / configuring the gear I got this interesting shot :-)</p>
<p>To get this look (which pretty much invited itself by the chemical green paint of our creepy kitchen, as well as Vazul&#8217;s tough-boy expression), I desaturated the reds and the yellows (while boosting the oranges a bit) and drastically reduced the brightness values of these colours, all in LightRoom. This is how you can get some nice, strong, rough texture out of the skin (do the opposite if you want to make it look more smooth). To increase the effect, I applied some hard core sharpening to the final image.</p>
<p>Some say, Vazul never looked so &#8222;manly&#8220;&hellip; all I know is that I just love this shot. So Kudos and thanks to Vazul (wherever you are now)!</p>
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<td><b>Focal length:&nbsp;</b></td>
<td>100mm (150mm)</td>
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<td><b>Aperture:</b></td>
<td>ƒ/4.0</td>
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<td><b>Exposure:</b></td>
<td>1/200 s + flash</td>
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<td><b>ISO:</b></td>
<td>200</td>
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<td><b>Lens:</b></td>
<td>Minolta 100/2.8 Macro</td>
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<td><b>Location:&nbsp;</b></td>
<td><a href="http://maps.google.com/maps?q=53%C2%B023%2706%22N,+6%C2%B035%2758%22W">Maynooth, Ireland</a></td>
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		<title>Ol&#8216; man in Dublin</title>
		<link>http://blog.florian-knorn.com/2008/10/ol-man-in-dublin.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Oct 2008 18:26:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Florian</dc:creator>
		
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I just noticed that until now I&#8216;ve posted anything but portraits. So let&#8217;s change that.
Today&#8217;s picture is one I took in July this year, when Steffi and I spent a wonderful afternoon in Dublin. The weather was great, so we went for a stroll around the city and passed through St. Patrick&#8217;s Garden, which is [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<span class="left" style="width: 240px; height: 336px;"><a href="/uploaded_images/dublin_man_large.jpg" rel="lightbox" title="Old man in St. Patrick's Park, Dublin, Ireland, 2008"><img src="/uploaded_images/dublin_man.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a><img src="/uploaded_images/reflect.php?img=dublin_man.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></span>
<p class="block">I just noticed that until now I&#8216;ve posted anything but portraits. So let&#8217;s change that.</p>
<p>Today&#8217;s picture is one I took in July this year, when Steffi and I spent a wonderful afternoon in Dublin. The weather was great, so we went for a stroll around the city and passed through St. Patrick&#8217;s Garden, which is right next to the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St_Patrick%27s_Cathedral,_Dublin">St. Patrick&#8217;s Cathedral</a>, the biggest church in Ireland.</p>
<p>In the park, there was that old man just enjoying himself, his newspaper, the beautiful weather (rare enough), his grandchildren speeding about the park, or probably a mix of all that. He looked so happy and relaxed that I worked up the courage to go over and ask him politely if he&#8216;d mind if I photographed him. He smiled, said he did not at all and wondered where / how best to look. I told him &ldquo;just as you did before, as if I wasn&#8216;t here&rdquo;. And so he looked back to his grandchildren&hellip;</p>
<p>The post-processing of this picture involved a lot of cleaning up of the ground underneath the bench (mostly using the clone-stamp tool) and of course the b/w conversion (giving more weight to the red channel, as it had most of the contrast). Some careful sharpening and a bit of black clipping (to further boost contrast) gave the final image.</p>
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<td><b>Focal length:&nbsp;</b></td>
<td>85mm (127mm)</td>
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<td><b>Aperture:</b></td>
<td>ƒ/1.4</td>
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<td>1/8000 s</td>
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<td>200</td>
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<td>Minolta 85/1.4</td>
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<td><a href="http://maps.google.com/maps?q=53.340387,-6.27145">Dublin, Ireland</a></td>
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		<title>Autumn Leaves</title>
		<link>http://blog.florian-knorn.com/2008/10/autumn-leaves.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Oct 2008 17:44:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Florian</dc:creator>
		
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I don&#8216;t really know what you&#8216;re interested in, beloved reader, but I assume you would also like to see the odd &#8222;fresh&#8220; picture, not from my &#8222;back catalogue&#8220;.
Well, here&#8217;s one I took just this morning. At the breakfast table I let my mind wander. Eventually, it wandered by the fact that I hadn&#8216;t used my [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<span class="right" style="width: 240px; height: 360px;"><a href="/uploaded_images/autumn_leafs_large.jpg" rel="lightbox" title="Autumn Leafs, Maynooth, Ireland, 2008"><img src="/uploaded_images/autumn_leafs.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a><img src="/uploaded_images/reflect.php?img=autumn_leafs.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></span>
<p class="block">I don&#8216;t really know what you&#8216;re interested in, beloved reader, but I assume you would also like to see the odd &#8222;fresh&#8220; picture, not from my &#8222;back catalogue&#8220;.</p>
<p>Well, here&#8217;s one I took just this morning. At the breakfast table I let my mind wander. Eventually, it wandered by the fact that I hadn&#8216;t used my macro lens in a good while. So I decided to throw it onto the camera leave it on for the rest of the day.</p>
<p>Some people like Autumn (others don&#8216;t, and yet others have no other choice but to like it, since they live in it 365 days a year). Anyway, I shot a bunch of photos today, involving sunlit spider webs, the cucumber a colleague of mine had for lunch, and a dead tree trunk. But in the end, this lovely coloured leaf made it up here, with its beautiful, well, leaf texture, morning dew, spider web leftovers and even some hair on it (???). Check out the <a href="/uploaded_images/autumn_leafs_large.jpg" rel="lightbox" title="Autumn Leafs, Maynooth, Ireland, 2008">larger view</a> of it.</p>
<p>This is the best (as in sharpest) shot of the 10 I took in burst mode, as I was shaking (it&#8217;s not too warm here at the moment) and, moreover, the leaf was dancing in the wind. So here&#8217;s another good (and old) tip: If your photo risks blurring (especially due to camera shake), set your camera to burst mode and shoot a whole bunch of pictures, then there&#8217;s bound to be one which is significantly sharper then the others. This one you&#8216;ll keep ;-)</p>
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<td><b>Focal length:&nbsp;</b></td>
<td>100mm (150mm)</td>
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<td><b>Aperture:</b></td>
<td>ƒ/8.0</td>
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<td><b>Exposure:</b></td>
<td>1/60 s</td>
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</td>
<td>
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<td><b>ISO:</b></td>
<td>200</td>
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<td><b>Lens:</b></td>
<td>Minolta 100/2.8 Macro</td>
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<td><b>Location:&nbsp;</b></td>
<td><a href="http://maps.google.com/maps?q=53%C2%B023%2704%22N,+6%C2%B035%2753%22W&#038;z=14">Maynooth, Ireland</a></td>
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		<title>Yellow Balloon on Blue Door</title>
		<link>http://blog.florian-knorn.com/2008/10/yellow-balloon-on-blue-door.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Oct 2008 22:04:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Florian</dc:creator>
		
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An another one from the contrast department.
At the time I was on my way into town to meet someone, and didn&#8216;t plan on taking my camera along, but then I thought, what the heck, take it anyway. I was still kind of new to Dublin, and being the anxious German I am I hoped off [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<span class="right" style="width: 510px; height: 340px;"><a href="/uploaded_images/balloon_large.jpg" rel="lightbox" title="Yellow Balloon on Blue Door (obviously...), Dublin, 2007"><img src="/uploaded_images/balloon.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a><img src="/uploaded_images/reflect.php?img=balloon.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></span>
<p class="block">An another one from the contrast department.</p>
<p>At the time I was on my way into town to meet someone, and didn&#8216;t plan on taking my camera along, but then I thought, what the heck, take it anyway. I was still kind of new to Dublin, and being the anxious German I am I hoped off the bus about 3 stops too early. Since I had plenty of time (again being a good German&hellip;) / to &#8222;punish&#8220; myself / to better get to know the city I decided to walk the rest of the way — and was promptly rewarded: For no apparent reason, there was a screaming yellow balloon tied to a screaming blue door, which gave, thanks to the sun, a beautiful strong contrast.</p>
<p>Apart from that there is not much to say I guess, except I was glad that I did take my camera. So here&#8217;s the lesson to be learnt: Always have your camera with you, and hop off the bus waaaaaay too early ;-)</p>
<p>PS: I got my first photo-blog-comment today, yaaay! Thanks Clara!</p>
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<td><b>Focal length:&nbsp;</b></td>
<td>60mm (90mm)</td>
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<td><b>Aperture:</b></td>
<td>ƒ/9.0</td>
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<td><b>Exposure:</b></td>
<td>1/160 s</td>
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</td>
<td>
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<td><b>ISO:</b></td>
<td>100</td>
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<td><b>Lens:</b></td>
<td>Sony 18-70</td>
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<td><b>Location:&nbsp;</b></td>
<td><a href="http://maps.google.com/maps?q=53%C2%B020%2745%22N,+6%C2%B016%2713%22W">Dublin, Ireland</a></td>
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</td>
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		<title>Dark, dark, dark</title>
		<link>http://blog.florian-knorn.com/2008/10/dark-dark-dark.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Oct 2008 13:21:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Florian</dc:creator>
		
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Ok, back to the &#8222;Arts&#8220;. Here&#8217;s a photo I took on my trip to Scotland with Steffi, just this August. I saw this little girl in a bright white dress jumping around in the Harbour of a little town called Portree on the Isle of Skye.
She already kind of &#8222;popped&#8220; out of the darkish murk [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<span class="right" style="width: 510px; height: 340px;"><a href="/uploaded_images/dark_dark_dark_large.jpg" rel="lightbox" title="Some girl in the Portree Harbour, Scotland, 2008"><img src="/uploaded_images/dark_dark_dark.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a><img src="/uploaded_images/reflect.php?img=dark_dark_dark.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></span>
<p class="block">Ok, back to the &#8222;Arts&#8220;. Here&#8217;s a photo I took on my trip to <a href="http://www.fkfoto.com/scotland">Scotland</a> with Steffi, just this August. I saw this little girl in a bright white dress jumping around in the Harbour of a little town called Portree on the Isle of Skye.</p>
<p>She already kind of &#8222;popped&#8220; out of the darkish murk left behind by the sea, but playing a bit with the grey scale conversion module in LightRoom I manage to make her stand out even more. Eventually I decided this wasn&#8216;t enough, and went on a dodging and burning rampage, until it ended up as presented here :-)</p>
<p>This is a photo for the darker souls among us. Uahahahahaha&hellip;</p>
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<colgroup><col width="50%"/><col width="50%"/></colgroup>
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<td><b>Focal length:&nbsp;</b></td>
<td>80mm (120mm)</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><b>Aperture:</b></td>
<td>ƒ/8.0</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><b>Exposure:</b></td>
<td>1/160 s</td>
</tr>
</table>
</td>
<td>
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<td><b>ISO:</b></td>
<td>200</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><b>Lens:</b></td>
<td>Carl Zeiss 16-80</td>
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<td><b>Location:&nbsp;</b></td>
<td><a href="http://maps.google.com/maps?q=57.41186000,-6.19201833&#038;z=14">Portree, Scotland</a></td>
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</td>
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		<title>New lens</title>
		<link>http://blog.florian-knorn.com/2008/09/new-lens.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Sep 2008 14:35:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Florian</dc:creator>
		
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Let&#8217;s squeeze some pretty irrelevant news in here for a second: There&#8217;s a new kid on the block, or rather a new lens in my collection :-)
The lawn mower is of no particular importance, except it was one of the very first shots I took with the new lens.
It&#8217;s a brilliant new telephoto lens with [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<span class="right" style="width: 510px; height: 340px;"><a href="/uploaded_images/new_kid_large.jpg" rel="lightbox" title="Random Lawn Mower, Maynooth, Ireland, 2008"><img src="/uploaded_images/new_kid.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a><img src="/uploaded_images/reflect.php?img=new_kid.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></span>
<p class="block">Let&#8217;s squeeze some pretty irrelevant news in here for a second: There&#8217;s a new kid on the block, or rather a <a href="http://www.dyxum.com/lenses/detail.asp?IDLens=439">new lens</a> in my collection :-)</p>
<p>The lawn mower is of no particular importance, except it was one of the very first shots I took with the new lens.</p>
<p>It&#8217;s a brilliant new telephoto lens with a focal length range from 70 to 300mm, at apertures of F/4.5-5.6, so it&#8217;s a fairly compact. It&#8216;ll replace my lovely old <a href="http://www.dyxum.com/lenses/detail.asp?IDLens=48">beercan</a> (a classic 70-210mm F/4 Minolta lens) which was nice in that it is an extremely compact lens for its focal length and constant aperture, but it suffered terrible longitudinal chromatic aberrations and was rather soft wide open, meaning I had to stop it down to at least F/5.6 anyway.</p>
<p>The new lens in turn shows virtually no chromatic aberrations whatsoever, and is fully usable wide open. Also, it has an ultrasonic focussing mechanism which makes its focus fast, accurate and perfectly quiet. Also, the lens is not much larger nor heavier than the beercan, but has a larger focal length range. I think that&#8217;s a fair trade :-)</p>
<p>PS: <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/el_floz/2889695208/sizes/l/">Here</a>&#8217;s a comparison shot of the lenses, showing the difference in image quality. At F/5.6, the Sony was wide open, whereas the beercan was stopped down one stop.</p>
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<table>
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<td><b>Focal length:&nbsp;</b></td>
<td>180mm (270mm)</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><b>Aperture:</b></td>
<td>ƒ/5.6</td>
</tr>
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<td><b>Exposure:</b></td>
<td>1/125 s</td>
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<td>
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<td><b>ISO:</b></td>
<td>100</td>
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<td><b>Lens:</b></td>
<td>Sony 70-300 G</td>
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<td><b>Location:&nbsp;</b></td>
<td><a href="http://maps.google.com/maps?q=53%C2%B023%2704%22N,+6%C2%B035%2750.3%22W&#038;z=14">Maynooth, Ireland</a></td>
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</td>
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		<title>7</title>
		<link>http://blog.florian-knorn.com/2008/09/7.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Sep 2008 17:54:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Florian</dc:creator>
		
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Let&#8217;s stay in the &#8222;Shape&#8220; category. Here&#8217;s one of my all-time favourites.
Brazília, the capital of Brazil, is a unique city, with a unique (hi)story and unique architecture. Some parts of it just look like taken straight from some 70s sience fiction movie (check out some more photos here), created by the master architect Oscar Niemeyer. [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<span class="right" style="width: 240px; height: 360px;"><a href="/uploaded_images/7_large.jpg" rel="lightbox" title="&ldquo;7&rdquo;, or Museu Nacional da República, Brazilia, Brazil, 2007"><img src="/uploaded_images/7.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a><img src="/uploaded_images/reflect.php?img=7.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></span>
<p class="block">Let&#8217;s stay in the &#8222;Shape&#8220; category. Here&#8217;s one of my all-time favourites.</p>
<p><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brazilia">Brazília</a>, the capital of Brazil, is a unique city, with a unique (hi)story and unique architecture. Some parts of it just look like taken straight from some 70s sience fiction movie (check out some more photos <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/el_floz/sets/72157602122851683/">here</a>), created by the master architect Oscar Niemeyer. For photography, perfectly white, space age looking buildings and deep blue sky (if you use a polariser) just work together.</p>
<p>This photo here was taken in the entrance of the <i>Museu Nacional da República</i> (National museum), which <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/el_floz/1424610618/in/set-72157602122851683/">looks like</a> a big huge white ball buried in the ground with just the top bit sticking out. I was looking for an interesting angle, with few, clear lines and strong contrast. I first composed the picture so that I wouldn&#8216;t have the lamp in bit, but then decided that including the lamp would give it a tad more balance and something concrete to look at, apart from the shape created by the wall.</p>
<p>However, the more I look at it now I thing it might have been better to leave the lamp out&hellip; that would simplify, purify things even more. Ah well, too bad.</p>
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<colgroup><col width="50%"/><col width="50%"/></colgroup>
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<td><b>Focal length:&nbsp;</b></td>
<td>26mm (39mm)</td>
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<td><b>Aperture:</b></td>
<td>ƒ/9.0</td>
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<td><b>Exposure:</b></td>
<td>1/80 s</td>
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<td>
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<td><b>ISO:</b></td>
<td>100</td>
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<td><b>Lens:</b></td>
<td>Tamron 18-250</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><b>Location:&nbsp;</b></td>
<td><a href="http://maps.google.com/maps?q=15%C2%B047%2750.3%22S,+47%C2%B052%2742.4%22W">Brazília, Brazil</a></td>
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</table>
</td>
</tr>
</table>
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		<title>Spirality</title>
		<link>http://blog.florian-knorn.com/2008/09/spirality.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Sep 2008 17:15:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Florian</dc:creator>
		
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Let&#8217;s leave weirdness behind and move on to shape. Here&#8217;s a photo that I took on my trip to London last year in the entrance of the Monument of the Great Fire of London (bit of a lengthy name, that).
As with most stair cases, it&#8217;s fun to shoot straight up when you&#8216;re at the bottom [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<span class="left" style="width: 300px; height: 300px;"><a href="/uploaded_images/spiral_large.jpg" rel="lightbox" title="Staircase of The Monument, London, UK, 2007"><img src="/uploaded_images/spiral.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a><img src="/uploaded_images/reflect.php?img=spiral.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></span>
<p class="block">Let&#8217;s leave <i>weirdness</i> behind and move on to <i>shape</i>. Here&#8217;s a photo that I took on my trip to London last year in the entrance of the <i><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monument_to_the_Great_Fire_of_London">Monument of the Great Fire of London</a></i> (bit of a lengthy name, that).</p>
<p>As with most stair cases, it&#8217;s fun to shoot straight up when you&#8216;re at the bottom of them. So out I took my bean-bag, put the camera on it and shot straight up. This was actually on top of the little booth where you pay the admission, so the dude inside it gave me an annoyed look when he got up to see where the noise above his head came from ;-)</p>
<p>Luckily enough the first shot was good enough — well exposed and, by total chance, perfectly aimed. So the rest was just a bit of cropping, B/W conversion (with emphasis on the greens, giving most contrast in the picture) and sharpening.</p>
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<colgroup><col width="50%"/><col width="50%"/></colgroup>
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<td><b>Focal length:&nbsp;</b></td>
<td>18mm (27mm)</td>
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<tr>
<td><b>Aperture:</b></td>
<td>ƒ/7.1</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><b>Exposure:</b></td>
<td>1 s</td>
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</td>
<td>
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<td><b>ISO:</b></td>
<td>100</td>
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<td><b>Lens:</b></td>
<td>Sony 18-70</td>
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<td><b>Location:&nbsp;</b></td>
<td><a href="http://maps.google.com/maps?q=51%C2%B030%2736.3%22N,+0%C2%B05%279.6%22W">London, UK</a></td>
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</table>
</td>
</tr>
</table>
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		<title>Spoooooooky</title>
		<link>http://blog.florian-knorn.com/2008/09/spoooooooky.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Sep 2008 17:51:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Florian</dc:creator>
		
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Here&#8217;s another one, probably one of my weirdest photos, mood-wise. I took it on campus, some winter morning when there was that proper Irish Fog in the air.
Clearly, the photo is heavily post-processed, but only in a global way — so no local manipulations, just mucking around with brightness, contrast and tone curve. I have [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<span class="right" style="width: 510px; height: 340px;"><a href="/uploaded_images/spooky_large.jpg" rel="lightbox" title="Weird morning mood, Maynooth, Ireland, 2008"><img src="/uploaded_images/spooky.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a><img src="/uploaded_images/reflect.php?img=spooky.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></span>
<p class="block">Here&#8217;s another one, probably one of my weirdest photos, mood-wise. I took it on campus, some winter morning when there was that proper Irish Fog in the air.</p>
<p>Clearly, the photo is heavily post-processed, but only in a global way — so no local manipulations, just mucking around with brightness, contrast and tone curve. I have to admit that I didn&#8216;t &#8222;see&#8220; the picture like that when I pressed the shutter release. The original image itself is fairly &#8222;boring&#8220; due to all the fog and low contrast, or let&#8217;s say &#8222;straight forward&#8220;. But it was really through playing with pretty much all the sliders in LightRoom 1.3 at the time that the picture came out that way.</p>
<p>The big white disk (which many people think is the moon, but it is actually the sun) came from controlled blowing out of the highlights. In the original image the blown out area is just a few dozen pixels wide, as I intentionally underexposed the picture when I took it, not to loose any information. But then pumping up those highlights again made the sun transform almost into a supernova which adds this extra bit of weirdness to the image. </p>
<p>I might come back to that picture one day and fiddle with it a bit more. Probably remove those posts in the foreground, and maybe the lamp. I&#8216;d probably brighten the picture up a bit too, but I&#8216;ll leave it as it is for the time being :-)</p>
<p>PS: I posted the LightRoom settings for this picture <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/el_floz/2258142655/in/set-72157600139820305/">here</a>.</p>
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<td><b>Focal length:&nbsp;</b></td>
<td>30mm (45mm)</td>
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<td><b>Aperture:</b></td>
<td>ƒ/5.0</td>
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<td><b>Exposure:</b></td>
<td>1/500 s</td>
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<td><b>ISO:</b></td>
<td>200</td>
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<td><b>Lens:</b></td>
<td>Carl Zeiss 16-80</td>
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<td><b>Location:&nbsp;</b></td>
<td><a href="http://maps.google.com/maps?q=53%C2%B023%2705%22N,+6%C2%B035%2754%22W&#038;z=14">Maynooth, Ireland</a></td>
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</td>
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</table>
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		<title>Pimp My Ride</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Sep 2008 13:52:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Florian</dc:creator>
		
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Couldn&#8216;t find Xzibit anywhere to comment on this one, so I have to do it myself ;-)
This April I went to Phoenix, Arizona, to give a (small) talk at the INFOCOM 2008 conference. As the dollar still had a terrific value compared to the Euro, it was pretty much compulsory to buy some stuff while [...]]]></description>
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<p class="block">Couldn&#8216;t find <i>Xzibit</i> anywhere to comment on this one, so I have to do it myself ;-)</p>
<p>This April I went to Phoenix, Arizona, to give a (small) talk at the <a href="http://www.comsoc.org/confs/infocom/2008/">INFOCOM 2008</a> conference. As the dollar still had a terrific value compared to the Euro, it was pretty much compulsory to buy some stuff while over there. So one night I went on a small shopping tour, and it was at the car park of some big electronics store that I saw this car. Out I took my camera and bean bag, and popped a polarizing filter on the lens. Yes, this did make sense: The sun had just sat in a perfect angle to my position, that&#8217;s how I got this magnificent dark blue sky (I took another shot where it was much more prominent, but the was car less &#8222;pimpy&#8220;, so I chose this one to post here).</p>
<p>Although I was using a bean bag, I increased the ISO and shot wide open as I didn&#8216;t want to spend too much time crawling in front of some car whose owner I didn&#8216;t want to meet&hellip; it&#8217;s still unbelievable how much detail I got out of the shot, again considering it was taken at the shortest end of the lens, with minimum aperture. You just gotta admire the work Carl Zeiss and friends are doing! </p>
<p>Anyway, I was being a bit lazy in terms of post-processing and just used an (absolutely amazing!) LightRoom preset called <a href="http://www.lightroomkillertips.com/2008/presets-the-surreal-edgy-look/">Surreal Edgy Look</a>, created by Matt Kloskowski (thanks!). It just worked out-of-the-box.</p>
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<colgroup><col width="50%"/><col width="50%"/></colgroup>
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<td><b>Focal length:&nbsp;</b></td>
<td>16mm (24mm)</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><b>Aperture:</b></td>
<td>ƒ/3.5</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><b>Exposure:</b></td>
<td>1 s</td>
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</td>
<td>
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<td><b>ISO:</b></td>
<td>400</td>
</tr>
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<td><b>Lens:</b></td>
<td>Carl Zeiss 16-80</td>
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<td><b>Location:&nbsp;</b></td>
<td><a href="http://maps.google.com/maps?q=33.37949000,-111.97169000">Phoenix (AZ), USA</a></td>
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</td>
</tr>
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		<title>Interesting roofing</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Sep 2008 15:01:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Florian</dc:creator>
		
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This is a very &#8222;fresh&#8220; photo, just out of Steffi&#8217;s camera (a trusty old Nikon Coolpix 5700, but it does shoot RAW). We went over to the Post Primary School again to help paint, clean, transform and prepare the old gymnasium in it for use as a meeting place of the Maynooth Community Church.
As it [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<span class="right" style="width: 510px; height: 340px;"><a href="/uploaded_images/gymn_roof_large.jpg" rel="lightbox" title="Roof of the Post Primary School of Maynooth, Ireland, 2008"><img src="/uploaded_images/gymn_roof.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a><img src="/uploaded_images/reflect.php?img=gymn_roof.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></span>
<p class="block">This is a very &#8222;fresh&#8220; photo, just out of <a href="http://www.steffi-klinge.de">Steffi</a>&#8217;s camera (a trusty old <a href="http://www.steves-digicams.com/2002_reviews/nikon5700.html">Nikon Coolpix 5700</a>, but it does shoot RAW). We went over to the Post Primary School again to help paint, clean, transform and prepare the old gymnasium in it for use as a meeting place of the <a href="http://www.maynoothcc.org">Maynooth Community Church</a>.</p>
<p>As it was a sunny day today (for a change) the sun was shining beautifully through the windows in the roof, creating those interesting shadows with the support beams. So I grabbed a ladder went to one side of the hall and took a photo from as high up as possible to get this perspective shot, somewhat compressing the view with a tad of zoom.</p>
<p>Since the small camera has not the best optics, I corrected some of its defects (chromatic aberrations and barrel distortion) in Photoshop, with the really useful <i>Lens Correction</i> tool (it&#8217;s hidden in Filters -> Distort). A bit of messing around with the tone curve as well as the saturation of some of the colours plus the usual vignette (thanks <a href="http://www.johnarnoldphotography.co.uk/">John</a> for addicting me to them through your wonderful <a href="http://www.photowalkthrough.com/">PhotoWalkthrough</a> podcast&hellip;) and I got this picture.</p>
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<td><b>Focal length:&nbsp;</b></td>
<td>13.7mm (53mm)</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><b>Aperture:</b></td>
<td>ƒ/7.7</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><b>Exposure:</b></td>
<td>1/570 s</td>
</tr>
</table>
</td>
<td>
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<td><b>ISO:</b></td>
<td>100</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><b>Lens:</b></td>
<td>Nikon Coolpix 5700</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><b>Location:&nbsp;</b></td>
<td><a href="http://maps.google.com/maps?q=53%C2%B023%2704%22N,+6%C2%B035%2747%22W&#038;z=14">Maynooth, Ireland</a></td>
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</td>
</tr>
</table>
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		<title>Guitar Hero</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Sep 2008 18:11:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Florian</dc:creator>
		
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Next up, another shot from one of the International Students&#8216; Society trips (actually my first). We went down to Killarney to drive around the Ring of Kerry, a famous and most beautiful region / landscape in the south west of Ireland. More photos from the trip can be seen here.
At the time I was still [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<span class="right" style="width: 510px; height: 341px;"><a href="/uploaded_images/guitar_hero_large.jpg" rel="lightbox" title="Guitarist from the Band &ldquo;Fred&rdquo;, in Killarney, Ireland, 2007"><img src="/uploaded_images/guitar_hero.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a><img src="/uploaded_images/reflect.php?img=guitar_hero.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></span>
<p class="block">Next up, another shot from one of the International Students&#8216; Society trips (actually my first). We went down to Killarney to drive around the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ring_of_Kerry">Ring of Kerry</a>, a famous and most beautiful region / landscape in the south west of Ireland. More photos from the trip can be seen <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/el_floz/sets/72157594570935461/">here</a>.</p>
<p>At the time I was still pretty new to D-SLR photography and the Sony Alpha 100. I also just got my external flash gun, so I was experimenting as much as I could. Considering how complicated getting a good exposure with flash and ambient lighting is to a newbie like me, you can imagine how happy I was when this photo just came out as beautiful and perfectly exposed as it is!</p>
<p>The photo shows the guitarist of the band &#8222;<a href="http://www.fredtheband.com/">Fred</a>&#8220; ripping an awesome solo, literally on the dance floor. Turning the photo upside down just gave it the extra bit of, well, weirdness :-)</p>
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<td><b>Focal length:&nbsp;</b></td>
<td>50mm (75mm)</td>
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<td><b>Aperture:</b></td>
<td>ƒ/1.7</td>
</tr>
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<td><b>Exposure:</b></td>
<td>1/40 s</td>
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</td>
<td>
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<td><b>ISO:</b></td>
<td>200</td>
</tr>
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<td><b>Lens:</b></td>
<td>Minolta 50/1.4</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><b>Location:&nbsp;</b></td>
<td><a href="http://maps.google.com/maps?q=52%C2%B03%2729%22N,+9%C2%B030%2739%22W&#038;z=14">Killarney, Ireland</a></td>
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</td>
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		<title>Salvador Kid</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Sep 2008 18:11:13 +0000</pubDate>
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And on we go to another picture. This one was taken on a different continent, and in a different world&#8230;
Last year, Steffi and I went on a big rount-trip through Brazil. The other photos from the trip can be seen here, and I will surely post some more photos from the trip here too.
Anyway, on [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<span class="right" style="width: 240px; height: 360px;"><a href="/uploaded_images/salvador_kid_large.jpg" rel="lightbox" title="School kid chilling out, Salvador do Bahia, Brazil, 2007"><img src="/uploaded_images/salvador_kid.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a><img src="/uploaded_images/reflect.php?img=salvador_kid.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></span>
<p class="block">And on we go to another picture. This one was taken on a different continent, and in a different world&hellip;</p>
<p>Last year, Steffi and I went on a big rount-trip through Brazil. The other photos from the trip can be seen <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/el_floz/collections/72157602122279111/">here</a>, and I will surely post some more photos from the trip here too.</p>
<p>Anyway, on our trip we also made a stop in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salvador,_Brazil">Salvador</a>. Its historical centre has been declared a world heritage site, and <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/el_floz/1424547546/in/set-72157602113934140/">rightly so</a>. Strolling through the city, we walked up one street, and there I saw some kids kicking a ball back and forth just in front of these massive steps leading up to a church (you can&#8216;t see the boys in this picture, they&#8216;re just outside to the left and right of the frame). Since they didn&#8216;t seem to mind me pointing my camera at them, I took a few pictures up the stairs and they kept playing. In <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/el_floz/1424550878/in/set-72157602113934140/">one of the shots</a> the ball just bounced off the fence and came flying past me. For a while I preferred that shot, as it was on of those lucky snaps.</p>
<p>Unfortunately it doesn&#8216;t work too well from an aesthetic point of view, the eye pretty much just gets lost. I hope this is not the case in the shot presented here, where the kid that&#8217;s just chillin&#8216; out is much more prominent and has some of the lines pointing straight at it. A bit of split toning again and some dodging and burning, et voilà.</p>
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<td><b>Focal length:&nbsp;</b></td>
<td>18mm (27mm)</td>
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<td><b>Aperture:</b></td>
<td>ƒ/9.0</td>
</tr>
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<td><b>Exposure:</b></td>
<td>1/80 s</td>
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</td>
<td>
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<td><b>ISO:</b></td>
<td>100</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><b>Lens:</b></td>
<td>Tamron 18-250</td>
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<td><b>Location:&nbsp;</b></td>
<td><a href="http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&#038;hl=en&#038;geocode=&#038;q=12%C2%B058%2711.9%22S,+38%C2%B030%2728.4%22W&#038;ie=UTF8&#038;ll=-12.969969,-38.50789&#038;spn=0.003272,0.005686&#038;t=h&#038;z=18&#038;iwloc=addr">Salvador do Bahia, Brazil</a></td>
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		<title>Late at night in Cork</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Sep 2008 19:58:08 +0000</pubDate>
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So here we go with the first photo in my re-baptised (photo)blog, chosen for no particular reason to be the first other than pure randomness.
I took it last year in November in Cork when we went down there with the International Students&#8216; Society. The two kewl looking girls are actually two French Erasmus students that [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<span class="right" style="width: 510px; height: 287px;"><a href="/uploaded_images/cork_erasmus_large.jpg" rel="lightbox" title="Two French Girls late at night in Cork, Ireland, 2007"><img src="/uploaded_images/cork_erasmus.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a><img src="/uploaded_images/reflect.php?img=cork_erasmus.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></span>
<p class="block">So here we go with the first photo in my re-baptised (photo)blog, chosen for no particular reason to be the first other than pure randomness.</p>
<p>I took it last year in November in Cork when we went down there with the <a href="http://www.maynoothinternationals.com">International Students&#8216; Society</a>. The two kewl looking girls are actually two French Erasmus students that came along, and they were just having a cigarette outside the hostel when I was returning from a little pub crawl. Seeing this streetphotography-ish scene, I asked them if they&#8216;d mind if I took a photo — which they did not — and so I pulled out my bean-bag, put the camera on it without much framing, set the aperture to ƒ/4, upped the ISO a bit, enabled the self-timer and kindly asked the girls to freeze for the half second long exposure (just like in the old, <i>old</i> times&hellip;). </p>
<p>The photo came out surprisingly good, well exposed, nicely focussed and sharp — the girls really did freeze well :-) Given the rushed nature of the shot (didn&#8216;t want to bother them too much) and the amount of alcohol I had in my blood I really like the result. Post-processing basically just involved the somewhat aggressive B/W conversion and the &#8222;chemical&#8220; split toning (blueish highlights, greenish shadows) plus some vignetting, all done in Lightroom.</p>
<p>PS: When you click on the picture you get to see a bigger version of it!</p>
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<td><b>Focal length:&nbsp;</b></td>
<td>24mm (36mm)</td>
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<td><b>Aperture:</b></td>
<td>ƒ/4.0</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><b>Exposure:</b></td>
<td>1/2 s</td>
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<td><b>ISO:</b></td>
<td>800</td>
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<td><b>Lens:</b></td>
<td>Sigma 24-70/2.8</td>
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<td><b>Location:&nbsp;</b></td>
<td><a href="http://maps.google.com/maps?q=51%C2%B054%2711%22N,+8%C2%B028%2727%22W">Cork, Ireland</a></td>
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		<title>Floz&#8216; Blog &gt; Photo Blog</title>
		<link>http://blog.florian-knorn.com/2008/09/floz-blog-photo-blog.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Sep 2008 19:57:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Florian</dc:creator>
		
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So many people (ok, 1 or 2) have asked me to revive this blog. I just haven&#8216;t found the time or the energy to get back to posting regularly again, and of course — the longer you wait, the harder it gets. Interestingly enough though, I started this blog by posting daily for a good [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<span class="right" style="width: 224px; height: 224px;"><img src="/uploaded_images/photo_geek.jpg" border="0" alt="" /><img src="/uploaded_images/reflect.php?img=photo_geek.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></span>
<p class="block">So many people (ok, 1 or 2) have asked me to revive this blog. I just haven&#8216;t found the time or the energy to get back to posting regularly again, and of course — the longer you wait, the harder it gets. Interestingly enough though, I started this blog by posting <i>daily</i> for a good while (back in 2006). Posting frequency has decreased since then significantly, with the last post before this being about 8 months old (!).</p>
<p>Anyway, I&#8216;ve thought about doing this for a while now (it all started with <a href="http://digital-photography-school.com/blog/blog-power-why-you-should-consider-setting-up-a-photoblog/">this article</a> at this wonderful website / blog) and so I&#8216;m just going to give it at shot. I&#8216;ll start (read: this blog into) a <b>photoblog</b>. What exactly this means, I don&#8216;t know yet. But I think it&#8216;ll be something along the lines of: I pick a photo from my archives or a recent one and talk about it. Be it the story behind it, what&#8217;s so special about it (technically, emotionally, artistically, or whatnot) or what went through my head when I was taking it. Not sure how often I&#8216;ll manage to post something, but I hope more frequently then once every 8 months ;-)</p>
<p><i>Oh, I&#8216;ll stop writing silly one-liners at the end of my posts [I&#8216;m running out of them].</i></p>
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		<title>A700 Interval Timer for Time Lapse</title>
		<link>http://blog.florian-knorn.com/2008/01/a700-interval-timer-for-time-lapse.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Jan 2008 12:22:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Florian</dc:creator>
		
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As a follow-up to my attempts described here &#8212; that is use the Sony Remote Camera Control (on a Mac) to take n pictures at specified intervals &#8212; I finally came up with a (free) solution!
The problem was that the app seems to be so badly programmed (for instance, there is the issue with the [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<span class="left" style="width: 224px; height: 150px;"><img src="/uploaded_images/a700_timer.jpg" border="0" alt="" /><img src="/uploaded_images/reflect.php?img=a700_timer.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></span>
<p class="block">As a follow-up to my attempts described <a href="http://www.dyxum.com/dforum/forum_posts.asp?TID=26002&#038;PID=270873#270873">here</a> &mdash; that is use the Sony <i>Remote Camera Control</i> (on a Mac) to take <i>n</i> pictures at specified intervals &mdash; I finally came up with a (free) solution!</p>
<p>The problem was that the app seems to be so badly programmed (for instance, there is the <a href="http://photo.net/bboard/q-and-a-fetch-msg?msg_id=00NXAB">issue with the graphics</a>) that it’s neither Applescript-able nor UI-scriptable. It doesn‘t even have a single keyboard shortcut — why at least can‘t I take a picture with the space key?? Anyway, so I had to resort to the Automator with its new &#8222;Watch me do&#8220; functionality (plus a little bit of Applescript), and it finally works! Here is how you can profit from it too:</p>
<ol>
<li>Download <a href="http://blog.florian-knorn.com/uploaded_images/RCC_timer.zip">this archive</a></li>
<li>Put the two files into &#8222;/Applications/Sony Image Data Suite&#8220;</li>
<li>Connect your Alpha 700 (in Remote Connection mode) and start the &#8222;Remote Camera Control&#8220; App</li>
<li>Make all your photographic settings and adjustments</li>
<li>Open &#8222;Interval Timer&#8220;</li>
<li>Run the script</li>
</ol>
<p>Of course you&#8216;re welcome to modify things, this is just a very elementary, quick &amp; dirty approach. If you have any suggestions for this, please <a href="http://www.florian-knorn.com/index.php?nav=contact&#038;language=en">let me know</a>.</p>
<p>UPDATE: Used this technique today (1 pic every 10s, 600 in total). Check it out <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3PsZYpKn5cI">on youtube</a>.</p>
<p><i>I was so drunk, I couldn&#8216;t even pee attention.</i></p>
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		<title>Gospel Workshop / Konzert</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Nov 2007 00:36:49 +0000</pubDate>
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Letztes Wochenende war ich in Limerick, im südlichen Westen von Irland. Dort fanden zwei Sachen statt: Ein Gospel -Workshop, und ein Konzert &#8212; von niemand geringerem als dem Harlem Gospel Choir!!!
Der Workshop war ganz nett, aber hat mir persönlich nicht wirklich viel gebracht. Es gab irgendwie nichts zu lernen / mit nach Hause nehmen. Bei [...]]]></description>
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<p class="block">Letztes Wochenende war ich in <a href="http://maps.google.de/maps?f=q&#038;hl=de&#038;geocode=&#038;time=&#038;date=&#038;ttype=&#038;q=limerick,+irland&#038;ie=UTF8&#038;ll=53.166534,-8.580322&#038;spn=4.209002,12.041016&#038;z=7&#038;iwloc=addr&#038;om=1">Limerick</a>, im südlichen Westen von Irland. Dort fanden zwei Sachen statt: Ein Gospel -Workshop, und ein Konzert &mdash; von niemand geringerem als dem <a href="http://www.harlemgospelchoir.com/"><i>Harlem Gospel Choir</i></a>!!!</p>
<p>Der Workshop war ganz nett, aber hat mir persönlich nicht wirklich viel gebracht. Es gab irgendwie nichts zu lernen / mit nach Hause nehmen. Bei dem Konzert war das allerdings was ganz anderes. Ich hatte zwar erwartet, dass es bestimmt schon cool wird, aber dass es dann sooo genial war hätte ich mir nie träumen lassen. Dass die Mitglieder in dem Chor die Oberhammerstimmen haben war ja abzusehen, aber die <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/el_floz/2066916262/in/set-72157603307567832/">Energie</a> und Dynamik, die sie an den Tag gelegt haben, das war einfach unglaublich&#8230;</p>
<p>Das beste war aber: Da wir ein paar ausgewählte von uns &#8222;<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/el_floz/2066910738/in/set-72157603307567832/">Vorband</a>&#8220; waren, wurden wir dann auch zu den letzten 5 Songs mit ihnen auf die Bühne gebeten und durften somit &#8222;Oh Happy Day&#8220;, &#8222;Isn&#8216;t She Lovely&#8220;, &#8222;Celebration&#8220;, &#8222;We Are The World&#8220; sowie &#8222;Amen&#8220; mit ihnen zusammen singen! Hammer, was für eine Erfahrung. Das ist bestimmt, wie mit Boris Becker mal ein paar Sätze Tennis zu spielen!</p>
<p>Danach ging&#8217;s dann mit den ganzen Chorleuten (fast alles Iren) in der Hotelbar zur Sache, wo wir bis in die Morgenstunden <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/el_floz/2066956762/in/set-72157603307567832/">gezecht</a> und <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/el_floz/2066142209/in/set-72157603307567832/">gefeiert</a> haben&#8230;</p>
<p><i>Marriage is a relationship in which one person is always right and the other is the husband!</i></p>
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		<title>Skype recording on a Mac</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Nov 2007 20:20:39 +0000</pubDate>
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As described in ample detail (but in German) over at the podster.de forums, here is a little diagram illustrating how to record a skype (gizmo, ichat, sightspeed, etc.) call and your own voice with Garageband, only using free software tools. This is not as straightforward as I thought, and to the best of my knowledge [...]]]></description>
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<p class="block">As described in ample detail (but in German) <a href="http://www.podster.de/forum/viewtopic.php?pid=14912#p14912">over at the podster.de forums</a>, here is a <a href="/uploaded_images/mac_double_ender_howto.pdf">little diagram</a> illustrating how to record a skype (gizmo, ichat, sightspeed, etc.) call <i>and</i> your own voice with Garageband, only using free software tools. This is not as straightforward as I thought, and to the best of my knowledge this is the only solution at the moment that won&#8216;t cost you any money.</p>
<p>The idea is to use <a href="http://www.cycling74.com/downloads/soundflower">Soundflower</a>, which creates a virtual 16 channel audio device. In there you stick (1) the audio from your VOIP application (say into channel 1 &amp; 2) by using <i>Soundflower (16ch)</i> as audio output device as well as (2) your own microphone (say into channel 3 &amp; 4) via the tool &#8222;<a href="http://www.rogueamoeba.com/freebies/download/LineIn.dmg">LineIn</a>&#8220;. You have to do it this way since Garageband only allows the selection of a single input device&#8230;</p>
<p>In order to hear your partner on the other end of the line you use &#8222;Soundflowerbed&#8220; (which comes with Soundflower) to tap into the virtual audio device. That&#8217;s it, simple as that :-)</p>
<p>A big thank you to the creators of &#8222;Soundflower&#8220; and &#8222;LineIn&#8220; for making these useful tools, and for making those tools donationware.</p>
<p><i>Ladies first. Pretty ladies sooner.</i></p>
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		<title>Neues Alpha-Männchen</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Nov 2007 10:02:58 +0000</pubDate>
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Sorry, der Titel ist zwar geklaut, aber witzig ;-)
Nach ziemlich genau einem Jahr mit DSLR (digitaler Spiegelreflexkamera) hat es mich zu sehr in den Fingern gejuckt, auf das neuste Modell von Sony umzusteigen, die Alpha 700. Die &#8222;alte&#8220; hat zwar vollkommen ausgereicht, aber wenn man sich mal in was hineingesteigert hat, ist es schwer, wieder [...]]]></description>
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<p class="block">Sorry, der Titel ist zwar geklaut, aber witzig ;-)</p>
<p>Nach ziemlich genau einem Jahr mit DSLR (digitaler Spiegelreflexkamera) hat es mich zu sehr in den Fingern gejuckt, auf das neuste Modell von Sony umzusteigen, die <a href="http://www.sony.de/staticcontent/flashprojects/dime/alpha_microsite_a700_september/index.html">Alpha 700</a>. Die &#8222;alte&#8220; hat zwar vollkommen ausgereicht, aber wenn man sich mal in was hineingesteigert hat, ist es schwer, wieder herauszukommen&#8230;</p>
<p>Jetzt habe ich die Kamera schon gut 2 Wochen und bin voll und ganz damit zufrieden! Zwei größere &#8222;Events&#8220; habe ich damit schon dokumentiert &mdash; zum Einen den Trip der <a href="http://www.maynoothinternationals.com"><i>International Society</i></a> nach Cork (<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/el_floz/sets/72157603131141720/">link</a>) sowie die kleine (große) Snooker&ndash;Show letzte Woche (<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/el_floz/sets/72157603177591724/">link</a>). Besonders chique Bilder sind meiner Meinung nach diese hier: <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/el_floz/2025831456/in/set-72157603177591724/">1</a>, <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/el_floz/1996465909/in/set-72157603131141720/">2</a>, <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/el_floz/1997387140/in/set-72157603131141720/">3</a>, <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/el_floz/1996661315/in/set-72157603131141720/">4</a>.</p>
<p><i>Experience helps, but somehow you never have it until just after you need it.</i></p>
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		<title>Leopard unter der Haube</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Nov 2007 09:00:01 +0000</pubDate>
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Eigentlich sollte es ja Apple&#8217;s Antwort auf Windows Vista ja schon im &#8222;Frühjahr&#8220; 2007 geben.
Dass die Jungs aus Californien die Definition von &#8222;Frühling&#8220; bis ins extreme dehnen werden (sprich Juni) war vielen schnell klar, da es selbst im &#8222;echten&#8220; Frühling diesen¡ Jahres noch viel zu viele Probleme mit dem neuen Betriebssystem gab. Dann wurde, ich [...]]]></description>
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<p class="block">Eigentlich sollte es ja Apple&#8217;s Antwort auf <i>Windows Vista</i> ja schon im &#8222;Frühjahr&#8220; 2007 geben.</p>
<p>Dass die Jungs aus Californien die Definition von &#8222;Frühling&#8220; bis ins extreme dehnen werden (sprich Juni) war vielen schnell klar, da es selbst im &#8222;echten&#8220; Frühling diesen¡ Jahres noch viel zu viele Probleme mit dem neuen Betriebssystem gab. Dann wurde, ich glaub irgendwann mitte April, verkündet, dass man mit OS&nbsp;X&nbsp;10.5 deshalb nicht rechtzeitig fertig werden würde, da man temporär so viele Entwickler in die iPhone Abteilung versetzt habe, damit wenigstens dies planmäßig auf den Markt gebracht werden könne&#8230; Leopard gäbe es dann erst im Oktober.</p>
<p>Naja, jedenfalls war es dann letzten Freitag soweit, und die Mac-Gemeinde bekam endlich, worauf sie gewartet hatte. Aus meiner Sicht ein geniales, evolutionäres (nicht revolutionäres) Update zu einem ohnehin schon klasse Betriebssystem. Ich persönlich hatte mich am meisten auf <a href="http://www.apple.com/de/macosx/features/timemachine.html">Time Machine</a> und <a href="http://www.apple.com/de/macosx/features/spaces.html">Spaces</a> gefreut. <a href="http://www.apple.com/de/macosx/features/quicklook.html">Quicklook</a> auch tatsächlich zu nutzen muss man sich erstmal angewöhnen. Schneller ist es aber merklich (da sich sehr viel vor allem unter der Haube getan hat &mdash; was viele Leute übersehen).</p>
<p><i>I&#8216;m a psychic amnesiac. I know in advance what I&#8216;ll forget.</i></p>
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		<title>Toilettenpapier</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Oct 2007 08:21:22 +0000</pubDate>
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Uiuiui, eigentlich wollte ich doch öfter schreiben. Naja, die Vorhaben. Anfang der Woche hatte man mich auf diesen interessanten Artikel in der TimesOnline hingewiesen&#8230;
Als ob die Engländer keine anderen Sorgen hätten (oder die Deutschen) wird hier untersucht, wieviel Klopapier die Bundeswehr verbraucht hat. Die Zahlen sind allerdings bestechend: 800 Millionen Klopapierrollen pro Jahr &#8212; das [...]]]></description>
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<p class="block">Uiuiui, eigentlich wollte ich doch öfter schreiben. Naja, die Vorhaben. Anfang der Woche hatte man mich auf diesen <a href="http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/europe/article2767051.ece">interessanten Artikel</a> in der TimesOnline hingewiesen&#8230;</p>
<p>Als ob die Engländer keine anderen Sorgen hätten (oder die Deutschen) wird hier untersucht, wieviel Klopapier die Bundeswehr verbraucht hat. Die Zahlen sind allerdings bestechend: 800 Millionen Klopapierrollen pro Jahr &mdash; das sind gut 10 Rollen pro Soldat pro Tag.</p>
<p>Die Statistik stimmte so ganz allerdings nicht, da es sich um 800 Millionen <i>Blatt</i> Klopapier hielt (wer zählt denn sowas so genau?!). Ob es sich jedoch um 1-, 2-, 3- oder 4-lagiges Papier handelt steht jedoch nicht fest.</p>
<p>Och nee, jetzt schreibe auch ich was darüber, dabei haben wir doch alle Besseres zu tun&#8230;</p>
<p><i>Anything is possible &mdash; unless it&#8217;s not.</i></p>
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		<title>Out of cheese</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Oct 2007 14:34:18 +0000</pubDate>
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Hachja, was gibt es besseres als das Wochenende mit einem richtig feinen &#8222;Office Prank&#8220; (Büro Streich) zu beginnen?
Plötzlich brach großes Gelächter bei uns im Druckerraum aus. Irgendjemand hatte die Statusanzeige der Drucker manipuliert (normalerweise steht da nur ganz langweilig &#8222;Ready&#8220;&#8230;), so dass bei einem Drucker &#8222;Out of cheese&#8220;, bei dem direkt daneben &#8222;Also out of [...]]]></description>
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<p class="block">Hachja, was gibt es besseres als das Wochenende mit einem richtig feinen &#8222;Office Prank&#8220; (Büro Streich) zu beginnen?</p>
<p>Plötzlich brach großes Gelächter bei uns im Druckerraum aus. Irgendjemand hatte die Statusanzeige der Drucker manipuliert (normalerweise steht da nur ganz langweilig &#8222;Ready&#8220;&#8230;), so dass bei einem Drucker &#8222;Out of cheese&#8220;, bei dem direkt daneben &#8222;Also out of cheese&#8220; und bei dem im Büro der Sektretärin &#8222;Out of Chedar&#8220; auf dem Display stand . . .</p>
<p>Nach kurzer Recherche habe ich gesehen, dass es vor kurzem auf <a href="http://www.boingboing.net/2007/10/17/howto-change-the-pri.html">BoingBiong Gadgets</a> einen Artikel gab, der widerum auf <a href="http://kovaya.com/miscellany/2007/10/insert-coin.html">diesen</a> Blogeintrag verwieß, wo man ein kleines <a href="http://kovaya.com/perl/show.cgi?program=hpsetdisp.pl">Perl-Script</a> findet, was genau das macht: Die Statusanzeige eines Netzwerkdruckers beliebig ändern. Ganz einfach, ohne Passwort, ohne alles.</p>
<p>Inzwischen steht &#8222;Insert coin&#8220; (Münze einwerfen) auf dem einen Drucker, &#8222;Ready (I think)&#8220; auf dem anderen. Mal sehen, wo das noch hinführt . . .</p>
<p><i>Don’t feel bad. A lot of people have no talent.</i></p>
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		<title>Der Hollywood-Schrei</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Oct 2007 07:29:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hatte eben einen lustigen Artikel über den wohl berühmtesten bzw. meistverwendetsten Schrei in Hollywood gelesen.
Er wurde 1951 für einen Indianerefilm aufgenommen und seitdem in mindestens 112 Produktionen verwende, unter anderem den &#8222;Indianer Jones&#8220;, &#8222;Star Wars&#8220; oder &#8222;Batman&#8220; Filmen, sowie vielen Disney Animationsfilmen (Aladdin bis hin zu Madagascar)&#8230;
Wie der Schrei klingt? Einen kleinen Zusammenschnitt findet man [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p class="block">Hatte eben einen <a href="http://www.abcnews.go.com/WN/Story?id=3728693&#038;page=1">lustigen Artikel</a> über den wohl berühmtesten bzw. meistverwendetsten Schrei in Hollywood gelesen.</p>
<p>Er wurde 1951 für einen Indianerefilm aufgenommen und seitdem in mindestens 112 Produktionen verwende, unter anderem den &#8222;Indianer Jones&#8220;, &#8222;Star Wars&#8220; oder &#8222;Batman&#8220; Filmen, sowie vielen Disney Animationsfilmen (Aladdin bis hin zu Madagascar)&#8230;</p>
<p>Wie der Schrei klingt? Einen kleinen Zusammenschnitt findet man <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cdbYsoEasio">auf YouTube</a>.</p>
<p><i>Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools talk because they have to say something.</i></p>
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		<title>Freundlichstes Land</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Oct 2007 08:54:01 +0000</pubDate>
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Ach ja, Irland ist wirklich nicht so schlimm, wie sich immer alle (vor allem die Iren) beschweren :-)
Heute Morgen wurde stolz auf RTÉ (quasi der Irischen ARD) verkündet, dass Irland in der neusten Ausgabe des Lonely Planet Bluelist Buchs auf Platz 1 der freundlichsten Länder der Welt gewählt wurde (vor Ländern wie Malawi, den USA, [...]]]></description>
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<p class="block">Ach ja, Irland ist wirklich nicht so schlimm, wie sich immer alle (vor allem die Iren) beschweren :-)</p>
<p>Heute Morgen wurde stolz auf RTÉ (quasi der Irischen ARD) verkündet, dass Irland in der neusten Ausgabe des <i>Lonely Planet Bluelist</i> Buchs auf Platz 1 der freundlichsten Länder der Welt gewählt wurde (vor Ländern wie Malawi, den USA, Vietnam, Thailand, Türkei, Schottland und Samoa)!</p>
<p>Bob&#8217;s Kommentar eben (mein Betreuer): &#8222;Clearly, those people that voted have never been here, right?&#8220; (Offensichtlich waren die Leute, die da gewählt haben, noch nie hier gewesen).</p>
<p>Also ich finde die Iren sind definitv extrem herzlich, offen und gastfreundlich Fremden gegenüber. Dass das Land es allerdings auf den ersten Platz geschafft hat hat mich aber auch etwas überrascht&#8230;</p>
<p><i>Those who can’t laugh at themselves leave the job to others.</i></p>
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		<title>Das neue Semester</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Oct 2007 22:45:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Heute gibt&#8217;s mal kein Bild, so, ätsch. Ich hab schon so lange nicht mehr geschrieben, das muss sich endlich mal wieder ändern.
Das Semester ging ja mit 7-Meilen-Stiefeln los, und dieses Jahr engagiere ich mich aktiv in 3 Vereinen / Clubs: Dem Gospelchor, dem Volleyballclub und der International Society.
Bei letzteren beiden bin ich Vize-Präsident und helfe [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Heute gibt&#8217;s mal kein Bild, so, ätsch. Ich hab schon so lange nicht mehr geschrieben, das muss sich endlich mal wieder ändern.</p>
<p>Das Semester ging ja mit 7-Meilen-Stiefeln los, und dieses Jahr engagiere ich mich aktiv in 3 Vereinen / Clubs: Dem <a href="http://www.minds.nuim.ie/~gospel">Gospelchor</a>, dem <a href="http://www.nuimvc.com">Volleyballclub</a> und der <a href="http://www.maynoothinternationals.com">International Society</a>.</p>
<p>Bei letzteren beiden bin ich Vize-Präsident und helfe und organisiere aktiv mit, beim ersteren bin ich &#8222;Kreativ-Typ&#8220;, d.h. kümmere mich um dies und das (Photos, Aufnahmen, etc.). Bei allen dreien hab ich aber die Webseiten gemacht :-)</p>
<p>Darüber hinaus bin ich noch in folgende Clubs / Vereine eingetreten: Cricket, Reiten, Jazz, Snooker, Freestyle und Outdoor Pursuits. Mir sollte also alles andere als langweilig werden! Die einzigen, die hier aber regelmäßig was machen, sind die ersten beiden. Die anderen sind quasi &#8222;dann wann man will / Zeit hat&#8220;.</p>
<p><i>The passage of time depends on what side of the bathroom door you&#8216;re on.</i></p>
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		<title>Zurück</title>
		<link>http://blog.florian-knorn.com/2007/09/zuruck.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 23 Sep 2007 13:03:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Florian</dc:creator>
		
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Soooo, nachdem ich nun fast eine Woche wieder zurück bin, hab ich es (neben den anderen 10&#8242;000 Sachen) endlich geschafft, die Photos fertig zu sortieren, entwickeln, beschreiben und auf flickr hochzuladen.
Insgesamt habe ich gut 3&#8242;000 Bilder genipst (also etwa 100 pro Tag), bin diese aber teils vor Ort, teils am Abend gnadenlos durchgegangen und radikalen [...]]]></description>
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<p class="block">Soooo, nachdem ich nun fast eine Woche wieder zurück bin, hab ich es (neben den anderen 10&#8242;000 Sachen) endlich geschafft, die Photos fertig zu sortieren, entwickeln, beschreiben und <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/el_floz/collections/72157602122279111">auf flickr hochzuladen</a>.</p>
<p>Insgesamt habe ich gut 3&#8242;000 Bilder genipst (also etwa 100 pro Tag), bin diese aber teils vor Ort, teils am Abend gnadenlos durchgegangen und radikalen Kahlschlag betrieben. Somit habe ich etwa 600 Bilder zurück gebracht, die ich nun auf 256 Bilder entgültig reduziert habe. Ich denke, für 28 Tage in einer völlig fremden Kultur und Region ist das gar nicht mal schlecht.</p>
<p>Das Ergebnis sind hoffentlich wunderschöne und interessante Bilder, in die Verschiedenen Stationen unserer Reise unterteilt und alle sorgfältig beschrieben sind und die eine oder andere Anekdote erzählen. Viel Spaß beim Durchschauen! Für die ganz eiligen: <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/el_floz/sets/72157602123117871/show/">meine Top 12</a>.</p>
<p><i>Regular naps prevent old age… especially if you take them while driving.</i></p>
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		<title>Brasilien / Urlaub</title>
		<link>http://blog.florian-knorn.com/2007/08/rio.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 19 Aug 2007 21:18:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Florian</dc:creator>
		
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Lebenszeichen: Bin gut in Brasilien und Rio angekommen, hat alles wie am Schn&#252;rchen geklappt :-)
Und&#8230; es ist soooooooooooo sch&#246;n hier &#8230;.
Bis bald, jetzt ist wirklich Urlaub,
Flo 8D
PS: Logbuch.

19.&#8212;22.8.: Rio de Janeiro
23.&#8212;24.8.: Ouro Preto
25.8.&#8212;29.8.: Caraíva
30.8.&#8212;31.8.: Praia do Forte
1.9.&#8212;2.9.: Olinda
3.9.&#8212;4.9.: Brasília
5.9.&#8212;8.9.: Pantanal
9.9.&#8212;11.9.: Foz do Iguaçu
12.9.&#8212;15.9.: Florianópolis
16.9.: São Paolo
17.9.: Maynooth :(

I&#8216;m desperately trying to figure out why kamikaze [...]]]></description>
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<p class="block">Lebenszeichen: Bin gut in Brasilien und Rio angekommen, hat alles wie am Schn&uuml;rchen geklappt :-)</p>
<p>Und&#8230; es ist soooooooooooo sch&ouml;n hier &#8230;.</p>
<p>Bis bald, jetzt ist wirklich Urlaub,</p>
<p>Flo 8D</p>
<p>PS: Logbuch.</p>
<ul>
<li><strong>19.&mdash;22.8.:</strong> <a href="http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&amp;ll=-22.949744,-43.182508&amp;t=k&amp;z=17">Rio de Janeiro</a></li>
<li><strong>23.&mdash;24.8.:</strong> <a href="http://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en-GB&#038;q=Ouro+Pr%C3%AAto+-+MG,+Brasil&#038;ie=UTF8&#038;cd=1&#038;geocode=0,-20.295994,-43.483235&#038;t=h&#038;om=1&#038;ll=-20.383547,-43.50786&#038;spn=0.002861,0.003648&#038;z=18&#038;iwloc=addr">Ouro Preto</a></li>
<li><strong>25.8.&mdash;29.8.:</strong> <a href="http://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en-GB&#038;q=Ouro+Pr%C3%AAto+-+MG,+Brasil&#038;ie=UTF8;cd=1&#038;geocode=0,-20.295994,-43.483235&#038;t=h&#038;om=1&#038;ll=-20.383547,-43.50786&#038;spn=0.002861,0.003648&#038;z=18&#038;iwloc=addr">Caraíva</a></li>
<li><strong>30.8.&mdash;31.8.:</strong> <a href="http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&#038;hl=en-GB&#038;geocode=&#038;q=&#038;ie=UTF8&#038;t=k&#038;om=1&#038;ll=-12.577759,-38.008543&#038;spn=0.004199,0.003224&#038;z=18">Praia do Forte</a></li>
<li><strong>1.9.&mdash;2.9.:</strong> <a href="http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&#038;hl=en-GB&#038;geocode=&#038;q=&#038;ie=UTF8&#038;ll=-8.015121,-34.846594&#038;spn=0.003049,0.005407&#038;t=k&#038;z=18&#038;om=1">Olinda</a></li>
<li><strong>3.9.&mdash;4.9.:</strong> <a href="http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&#038;hl=en-GB&#038;geocode=&#038;q=brasilia+&#038;ie=UTF8&#038;ll=-15.768956,-47.911125&#038;spn=0.002963,0.005407&#038;t=k&#038;z=18&#038;om=1">Brasília</a></li>
<li><strong>5.9.&mdash;8.9.:</strong> <a href="http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&#038;hl=en-GB&#038;geocode=&#038;q=campo+grande&#038;sll=-15.768956,-47.911125&#038;sspn=0.002963,0.003648&#038;ie=UTF8&#038;ll=-19.481239,-57.017155&#038;spn=0.046446,0.086517&#038;t=k&#038;z=14&#038;om=1">Pantanal</a></li>
<li><strong>9.9.&mdash;11.9.:</strong> <a href="http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&#038;hl=en-GB&#038;geocode=&#038;q=foz+do+igua%C3%A7u&#038;sll=-19.481239,-57.017155&#038;sspn=0.092893,0.11673&#038;ie=UTF8&#038;ll=-25.599367,-54.525409&#038;spn=0.002777,0.005407&#038;t=k&#038;z=18&#038;om=1">Foz do Iguaçu</a></li>
<li><strong>12.9.&mdash;15.9.:</strong> <a href="http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&#038;hl=en-GB&#038;geocode=&#038;q=florianopolis&#038;ie=UTF8&#038;ll=-27.6082,-48.520362&#038;spn=0.002729,0.005407&#038;t=k&#038;z=18&#038;om=1">Florianópolis</a></li>
<li><strong>16.9.:</strong> <a href="http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&#038;hl=en-GB&#038;geocode=&#038;q=&#038;ie=UTF8&#038;t=k&#038;om=1&#038;ll=-23.425193,-46.481888&#038;spn=0.015358,0.012896&#038;z=16">São Paolo</a></li>
<li><strong>17.9.:</strong> <a href="http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&#038;hl=en-GB&#038;geocode=&#038;q=&#038;ie=UTF8&#038;t=k&#038;om=1&#038;ll=53.384467,-6.598492&#038;spn=0.039931,0.051584&#038;z=14">Maynooth</a> :(</li>
</ul>
<p><i>I&#8216;m desperately trying to figure out why kamikaze pilots wore helmets.</i></p>
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		<title>Podpourri #31</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Aug 2007 20:34:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Florian</dc:creator>
		
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<p class=;block">Hachja, nicht nur das Privatleben ist durch die Arbeit und den <a href="http://www.podcastkrimi.de">Podcastkrimi</a> auf Eis gelegt, sondern auch (kurzzeitig) das (die, der?) <a href="http://podcast.knorn.org">Podpourri</a>.</p>
<p>Warum das so ist erkläre ich in der <a href="http://podcast.knorn.org/20070815_-_More_procrastination__4m17s_e.mp3">heutigen Folge</a>. Allerdings, konnte diese dahingehend von dem anderen Projekt profitieren, dass sie noch einmal eine neue Dimension von Soundqualität bieten kann :-)</p>
<p>Also, hört einfach mal kurz rein, mit knapp über vier Minuten ist <object type="application/x-shockwave-flash" data="http://podcast.knorn.org/emff.swf?src=http://podcast.knorn.org/20070815_-_More_procrastination__4m17s_e.mp3" height="34" width="110" style="float: right; margin-left: 10px;"><param name="movie" value="emff.swf?src=http://podcast.knorn.org/20070815_-_More_procrastination__4m17s_e.mp3" /><param name="quality" value="high" /><param name="bgcolor" value="#000000" /></object> sie auch nicht die längste Episode. Viel Spaß dabei und verzeiht mir die notwendige Pause, Euer Flo :-)</p>
<p><i>Laziness is nothing more than the habit of resting before you get tired.</i></p>
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		<title>Mal wieder die 42</title>
		<link>http://blog.florian-knorn.com/2007/08/mal-wieder-die-42.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Aug 2007 19:54:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Florian</dc:creator>
		
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Mal wieder ein kleines, lustiges (bzw. eher &#8222;geekiges&#8220;) Lebenszeichen von mir&#8230;
Bei all der Arbeit im Moment, kam ich über ein unheimlich gut und ziemlich &#8222;anders&#8220; geschriebenes Paper von David MacKay, mit dem Titel Gaussian Processes &#8212; A Replacement for Supervised Neural Networks?. Lustig, da man Formulierungen wie &#8222;Throwing mathematical precision to the winds, a Gaussian [...]]]></description>
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<p class="block">Mal wieder ein kleines, lustiges (bzw. eher &#8222;geekiges&#8220;) Lebenszeichen von mir&#8230;</p>
<p>Bei all der Arbeit im Moment, kam ich über ein unheimlich gut und ziemlich &#8222;anders&#8220; geschriebenes Paper von <a href="http://www.inference.phy.cam.ac.uk/mackay/">David MacKay</a>, mit dem Titel <a href="http://www.inference.phy.cam.ac.uk/mackay/gp.pdf"><i>Gaussian Processes &mdash; A Replacement for Supervised Neural Networks?</i></a>. Lustig, da man Formulierungen wie &#8222;Throwing mathematical precision to the winds, a Gaussian process can be described as [&hellip;]&#8220; oder &#8222;A page of algebra, which is left as an excercise for the enthusiastic reader, shows that [&hellip;]&#8220; verwendet.</p>
<p>Jedenfalls war die für meine Anwendung wohl wichtigste Formel das Papers die mit der Nummer 42&#8230;</p>
<p>Zufall?</p>
<p><i>Beat the eggs&mdash; what did they do to deserve that?</i></p>
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		<title>Google auch gedopet?</title>
		<link>http://blog.florian-knorn.com/2007/07/google-auch-gedopet.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Jul 2007 18:18:55 +0000</pubDate>
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Herrschaftszeiten, das gibt&#8217;s ja nicht!!! Nicht nur die Tour de France scheint komplett gedopet zu sein, nein, Google scheint auch übernatürliche Kräfte zu haben!
Keine halbe Stunde, nachdem ich den Blogeintrag über die ISSPR07 Sommerschule geschrieben hatte, war er bereits von Google indiziert und als Suchergebnis bereitgestellt worden! Ich hatte spaßenshalber mal nach &#8222;ISSPR07&#8243; gesucht und [...]]]></description>
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<p class="block">Herrschaftszeiten, das gibt&#8217;s ja nicht!!! Nicht nur die <i>Tour de France</i> <a href="http://www.ftd.de/sport/radsport/news/232366.html?mode=standard">scheint komplett gedopet zu sein</a>, nein, Google scheint auch übernatürliche Kräfte zu haben!</p>
<p>Keine halbe Stunde, nachdem ich den <a href="/2007/07/isspr07.html">Blogeintrag über die ISSPR07 Sommerschule</a> geschrieben hatte, war er bereits von Google indiziert und als Suchergebnis bereitgestellt worden! Ich hatte spaßenshalber mal nach <a href="http://www.google.com/search?q=isspr07">&#8222;ISSPR07&#8243; gesucht</a> und was kommt raus? <a href="/uploaded_images/google_gedopet_screenshot.png">Das hier</a>!</p>
<p>Ebenfalls beeindruckend: Meine <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/el_floz/sets/72157601018501651/">flickr Bilder</a> sowie <a href="/2007/07/isspr07.html">der Blogeintrag</a> scheinen mehr Gewicht als die offizielle Homepage der Sommerschule selbst zu haben!</p>
<p>Mal sehen, wie lange das so bleibt&#8230;</p>
<p><i>Canibal &mdash; somebody who&#8217;s fed up with people.</i></p>
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		<title>ISSPR07</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Jul 2007 16:57:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Florian</dc:creator>
		
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Der eine oder andere mag es vielleicht gewusst haben &#8212; ich war ja letzte Woche auf der ISSPR07, der &#8222;5th Internation Summer School on Pattern Recognition&#8220; in Plymouth (UK).
Sommerschulen dieser Art bestehen meistens darin, dass man in einer (manchmal auch 2) Wochen geballt in ein bestimmtes Thema eingeführt wird, und zwar von möglichst namhaften Forschen [...]]]></description>
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<p class="block">Der eine oder andere mag es vielleicht gewusst haben &mdash; ich war ja letzte Woche auf der <a href="http://www.paaonline.net/isspr/">ISSPR07</a>, der &#8222;5th Internation Summer School on Pattern Recognition&#8220; in Plymouth (UK).</p>
<p>Sommerschulen dieser Art bestehen meistens darin, dass man in einer (manchmal auch 2) Wochen geballt in ein bestimmtes Thema eingeführt wird, und zwar von möglichst <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/el_floz/903386187/in/set-72157601018501651/">namhaften Forschen aus dem Gebiet</a>.</p>
<p>Wir waren im Studentenwohnheim der <a href="http://www.plymouth.ac.uk/">Universität</a> untergebracht und hatten <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/el_floz/903720524/in/set-72157601018501651/">Vollpension</a> (inkl. Warteschlange). Zum Glück, denn jeden Tag hatte man in der Regel sechs bis acht (Zeit)Stunden <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/el_floz/902863743/in/set-72157601018501651/">Vorlesungen</a>. Das hat ziemlich geschlaucht, und konnte nur durch gutes <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/el_floz/902867263/in/set-72157601018501651/">Englisches Bier</a> kompensiert werden. [Kuriosum: in dem Pub dort gab&#8217;s sogar <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/el_floz/903723648/in/set-72157601018501651/">Wein aus dem Zapfhahn</a>!]</p>
<p>Am Mittwoch Nachmittag gab&#8217;s dann zur Abwechselung mal einen <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/el_floz/940540612/in/set-72157601018501651/">Stadtrundgang</a> mit Besuch im <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/el_floz/939757449/in/set-72157601018501651/">Aquarium</a> und einer kleinen <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/el_floz/939811725/in/set-72157601018501651/">Bootsfahrt</a> (alles per Google Earth <a href="/uploaded_images/ISSPR07_Plymouth_Walk.kmz">nachzuvollziehen</a>).</p>
<p><i>Are Cheerios donut seeds?</i></p>
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		<title>Gut versichert ist besser als . . .</title>
		<link>http://blog.florian-knorn.com/2007/07/gut-versichert-ist-besser-als.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Jul 2007 19:00:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Florian</dc:creator>
		
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Vor allem mit Hinblick auf meine Tour durch Brasilien zusammen mit Steffi habe ich mich vor einer Weile nach einer passenden Versicherung für meine Kameraausrüstung umgeschaut. Letztendlich habe ich mich dann für die Foto&#8211;ASSekuranz der Herren Pergande &#38; Pöthe entschlossen. Die hat immerhin ein &#8222;Ass&#8220; im Titel :-)
Einige Photos der Ausrüstung und ein paar Antragblätter [...]]]></description>
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<p class="block">Vor allem mit Hinblick auf meine Tour durch Brasilien zusammen mit <a href="http://www.steffi-klinge.de">Steffi</a> habe ich mich vor einer Weile nach einer passenden Versicherung für meine Kameraausrüstung umgeschaut. Letztendlich habe ich mich dann für die <a href="http://www.pundpgmbh.de/foto-assekuranz.html">Foto&ndash;ASSekuranz</a> der Herren <a href="http://www.pundpgmbh.de">Pergande &amp; Pöthe</a> entschlossen. Die hat immerhin ein &#8222;Ass&#8220; im Titel :-)</p>
<p>Einige Photos der Ausrüstung und ein paar Antragblätter später ist es endlich soweit: Ab morgen ist alles (bis auf mein Minolta AF 24/2.8 und die zusätzlichen Billig&ndash;Akkus aus China) gegen so ziemlich alles (außer Doofheit) versichert.</p>
<p>Ich fand das Angebot ganz ok. Es ist eines der günstigsten und wurde an vielen Stellen / Foren empfohlen. Natürlich hoffe ich, dass nichts passiert, aber es ist immer gut, im Falle eines Falles dann doch (hoffentlich gut) abgesichert zu sein . . .</p>
<p><i>It takes a big man to cry, but it takes a bigger man to laugh at that man.</i></p>
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		<title>Feuer Marsch (II)</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Jul 2007 23:21:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Florian</dc:creator>
		
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Der Campus hier ist ja für seine krassen Sonnenuntergänge / Farbenspiele des Himmels schon berühmt.
Als es gestern mal wieder quietsch pink durch die Vorhänge schien hab ich&#8217;s  dann doch nicht mehr ausgehalten und bin mit der Kamera los um noch ein paar Bilder zu knipsen, diesmal allerdings einen Polfilter vor der Linse, damit die [...]]]></description>
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<p class="block">Der Campus hier ist ja für seine krassen Sonnenuntergänge / Farbenspiele des Himmels <a href="/2007/02/feuer-marsch.html">schon berühmt</a>.</p>
<p>Als es gestern mal wieder quietsch pink durch die Vorhänge schien hab ich&#8217;s  dann doch nicht mehr ausgehalten und bin mit der Kamera los um noch ein paar Bilder zu knipsen, diesmal allerdings einen Polfilter vor der Linse, damit die angeleuchteten Wolken sich noch mehr und krasser von dem diesigen Hintergrund&ndash;Himmel abheben.</p>
<p>Ganz interessant ist, denke ich, <a href="http://flickr.com/photos/el_floz/803132198/in/set-72157594517335152/">dieses Photo hier</a> geworden. Achtet mal darauf, wie Euer Auge über das Bild streift, d.h. welchen Weg es nimmt&#8230; Ich fang irgendwie immer unten rechts an fahr dann ein &#8222;z&#8220; rückwärts ab. Ihr auch? Das Gebäude rechts im Bild ist übrigens wieder mein geliebtes <a href="http://www.hamilton.ie">Hamilton Institute</a> ;-)</p>
<p>PS: Ich blogge in letzter Zeit so wenig, da ich immer noch jede freie Minute dem <a href="http://www.podcastkrimi.de">Podcastkrimi</a> widme&#8230; Aber es geht sehr gut voran :-)</p>
<p><i>When I&#8216;m feeling down, I like to whistle. It makes the neighbor&#8217;s dog run to the end of his chain and gag himself.</i></p>
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		<title>Irischer Gesang</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Jul 2007 16:15:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Florian</dc:creator>
		
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Letzten Freitag bin ich mit einer Freundin mal wieder nach Dublin rein, denn ein Fünkchen Kultur hatte gerufen: Eine Ablussausstellung der Werke von Photographie&#8211;Bachelor Studenten des Dublin Institute of Technology. Einiges davon war wirklich gut, interessant und neu, anderes leider nur so &#8222;naja, nicht schlecht&#8220;.
Danach waren wir dann fix was essen um endlich unseren Durst [...]]]></description>
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<p class="block">Letzten Freitag bin ich mit einer Freundin mal wieder nach Dublin rein, denn ein Fünkchen Kultur hatte gerufen: Eine <a href="http://galleryofphotography.ie/exhibitions/dit2007.html">Ablussausstellung</a> der Werke von Photographie&ndash;Bachelor Studenten des <a href="http://www.dit.ie/">Dublin Institute of Technology</a>. Einiges davon war wirklich gut, interessant und neu, anderes leider nur so &#8222;naja, nicht schlecht&#8220;.</p>
<p>Danach waren wir dann fix was essen um endlich unseren Durst in einem netten Pub am Rande der Innenstadt (<i><a href="http://www.citikey.com/business/11001238?category=10007&#038;city=Dublin&#038;current=39&#038;total=627">Tom Maye&#8217;s</a></i>) zu genießen, weit genug von den Touristen weg.</p>
<p>Als so ab ca. 9 Uhr immer mehr Leute in der Tür zu den &#8222;Ladies&#8220; verschwanden und nicht mehr wiederkamen war mir das dann doch etwas komisch. Ich fragte den Barkeeper, was es damit auf sich hätte, woraufhin der lachte und meinte, dass es durch die Tür nicht nur zu den Damentoiletten, sondern auch &#8222;upstairs&#8220; ginge.</p>
<p>Es gab nämlich, was ich dann erst herausfand, noch eine zweite Pubetage. Dort trifft sich immer freitags <i><a href="http://www.goilin.com/index.php">An Góilín</a></i>, ein Gesangsverein für traditionelle irische Lieder zum Singen. Alles Solo und ohne Begleitung, einfach so. Das war mal was! Alte Opis, die mit unerwartet schöner, getragener Stimme alte Geschichten&ndash;Lieder zum Besten gaben, ein absolutes Erlebnis. Also ich weiß schon, was ich nächsten Freitag wieder mache :-)</p>
<p><i>Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time.</i></p>
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		<title>Protrait Session</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Jun 2007 22:39:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Florian</dc:creator>
		
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Har har, langsam spricht&#8217;s sich rum, dass ich gerne photographiere&#8230;
Nachdem ich vor 2 Wochen schon die Sytembiologie Gruppe hier am Hamilton Institut abgelichtet habe (damit sie mal ein paar ordentliche Bilder für ihre Webseite haben, wann auch immer sie diese einbinden werden&#8230;), hat mich heute der gute Ben gefragt, ob ich von ihm nicht auch [...]]]></description>
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<p class="block">Har har, langsam spricht&#8217;s sich rum, dass ich gerne photographiere&#8230;</p>
<p>Nachdem ich vor 2 Wochen schon die <a href="http://www.hamilton.ie/systemsbiology/">Sytembiologie Gruppe</a> hier am <a href="http://www.hamilton.ie">Hamilton Institut</a> abgelichtet habe (damit sie mal ein paar ordentliche Bilder für ihre Webseite haben, wann auch immer sie diese einbinden werden&#8230;), hat mich heute <a href="http://www.hamilton.ie/compphysiol/cms/krippendorff/rubrik/3/3145.benfillippo_krippendorff.htm">der gute Ben</a> gefragt, ob ich von ihm nicht auch mal ein aktuelles, webseitentaugliches Bild schießen könnte.</p>
<p>Gerne doch! So wurde kurzerhand ein leeres Büro zum Studio umfunktioniert (naja, er hat sich vor eine grüne Tafel gesetzt, das war&#8217;s&#8230;) und schon hab ich mit meinem geliebten 50mm F/1.4 Objektiv und meinem externen Blitz drauflosgeknips :-) Hat zwar eine Weile gedauert, bis die Bilder &#8222;natürlicher&#8220; wurden, aber das ist ja meistens so.</p>
<p>Nachdem wir dann die zwei schönsten Bilder ausgesucht haben, habe ich noch ein bissl mit dem <a href="http://blog.florian-knorn.com/2007/06/raubkopieren-doch-einfacher.html">Kollegen Photoshop</a> dran rumgedoktort und heraus kam <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/el_floz/649686477/">dieses chique Bild hier</a>. Nett, oder?</p>
<p><i>When you know what you don&#8216;t know, you are near to understanding</i></p>
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		<title>Große Persönlichkeiten</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Jun 2007 18:05:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Florian</dc:creator>
		
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Heute war ein wichtiger Tag für&#8217;s Hamilton Institute, da sie für einen weiteren extrem wichtigen Förderungsantrag evaluiert wurden. (Wie das ausging, weiß man erst in ein paar Wochen.)
Im Zuge dessen war auch Prof. Raisch (&#8222;Jörg&#8220;) zu Besuch, mein &#8222;Mentor&#8220; aus Magdeburg/Berlin und jetziger &#8222;Doktor (Halb)vater&#8220;. Prof. Shorten (&#8222;Bob&#8220;) und Prof. Middleton (&#8222;Rick&#8220;) waren ja eh [...]]]></description>
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<p class="block">Heute war ein wichtiger Tag für&#8217;s <a href="http://www.hamilton.ie">Hamilton Institute</a>, da sie für einen weiteren extrem wichtigen Förderungsantrag evaluiert wurden. (Wie das ausging, weiß man erst in ein paar Wochen.)</p>
<p>Im Zuge dessen war auch <a href="www.control.tu-berlin.de/User:Joerg_Raisch">Prof. Raisch</a> (&#8222;Jörg&#8220;) zu Besuch, mein &#8222;Mentor&#8220; aus Magdeburg/Berlin und jetziger &#8222;Doktor (Halb)vater&#8220;. <a href="http://www.hamilton.ie/bob/">Prof. Shorten</a> (&#8222;Bob&#8220;) und <a href="http://www.eng.newcastle.edu.au/%7erhm783/middleton.html">Prof. Middleton</a> (&#8222;Rick&#8220;) waren ja eh schon hier.</p>
<p>Was ist jetzt so besonders? Nun, diese Herren sich nicht nur unheimlich renommierte internationale Wissenschaftler und beeindruckende Persönlichkeiten, sondern auch die drei (aus akademischer Sicht) wichtigsten Menschen in meinem Leben &mdash; Jörg war fünf Jahre lang der wichtigste Professor für mich in Magdeburg<sup>1</sup> und ist jetzt, zusammen mit Bob, einer meiner beiden Doktorväter. Bob hatte mich damals bei meiner Studienarbeit betreut und mich in vielen Aspekten des Lebens und meiner Zukunftsplanung sehr weise beraten. Rick hatte mir die wunderschöne und wichtige Zeit in Australien ermöglicht und meine Diplomarbeit betreut.</p>
<p>Dass ich diese drei Herren jemals zusammen auf ein Photo mit mir bekommen würde hätte ich mir nie Träumen lassen&#8230;!</p>
<p><i>Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.</i></p>
<div style="width: 30%; border: 0; border-bottom: 1px solid #333; height: 0;"> </div><ol class="footnotes"><li id="footnote_0_231" class="footnote">Er war der &#8222;Ziehvater&#8220; meines Studiengangs . . .</li></ol>]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Big Bowle</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Jun 2007 10:09:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Florian</dc:creator>
		
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Seit langem gab&#8217;s hier in Maynooth letzten Freitag endlich mal wieder &#8218;ne &#8222;rightige&#8220; Party. Bich hatte Geburtstag, und das musste gefeiert werden :-)
Als Geburtstagsgeschenk von mir gab&#8217;s einen tuffig rosanen Eimer voller Bowle. Die kam super gut an, sowas kannten die Leute hier gar nicht so recht (zumindest nicht so lecker ;-)).
Ansonsten habe ich am [...]]]></description>
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<p class="block">Seit langem gab&#8217;s hier in Maynooth letzten Freitag endlich mal wieder &#8218;ne &bdquo;rightige&ldquo; Party. <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/el_floz/564962212/in/set-72157600391137102/">Bich</a> hatte Geburtstag, und das <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/el_floz/sets/72157600391137102/with/564953824/">musste gefeiert</a> werden :-)</p>
<p>Als Geburtstagsgeschenk von mir gab&#8217;s einen tuffig rosanen <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/el_floz/564953824/in/set-72157600391137102/">Eimer voller Bowle</a>. Die kam super gut an, sowas kannten die Leute hier gar nicht so recht (zumindest nicht so lecker ;-)).</p>
<p>Ansonsten habe ich am Wochenende mit Steffi schon einiges für <a href="http://www.podcastkrimi.de/">unseren Podcastkrimi</a> aufgenommen. Jeden Abend sitze ich jetzt da und schneide und <a href="http://www.podcastkrimi.de/2007/06/cutting-edge.html">bastele an den Aufnahmen</a>. Somit bin ich im Moment ziemlich ausgelastet, was außer&ndash;doktorarbeitliches angeht . . .</p>
<p><i>Oh, and you&#8216;re Mr. Dejavu? I think I&#8216;ve seen you before&mdash;</i></p>
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		<title>Raubkopieren doch einfacher?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Jun 2007 21:10:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Florian</dc:creator>
		
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Man wird es nicht für möglich halten &#8212; ich bin endlich im Besitz einer legalen Photoshop CS3 (Studenten Lizenz, Macintosh). Warum bin ich so glücklich? Nun, das ganze hat jetzt quasi 2 Monate gedauert, seit ich amazon.de das Geld überwiesen hab, und mich viele Nerven gekostet.
Der Urgedanke war, dass ich mir die Vorgängerversion (CS2) kaufe [...]]]></description>
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<p class="block">Man wird es nicht für möglich halten &mdash; ich bin endlich im Besitz einer legalen <a href="http://www.adobe.com/de/products/photoshop/photoshop/">Photoshop CS3</a> (Studenten Lizenz, Macintosh). Warum bin ich so glücklich? Nun, das ganze hat jetzt quasi 2 Monate gedauert, seit ich amazon.de das Geld überwiesen hab, und mich viele Nerven gekostet.</p>
<p>Der Urgedanke war, dass ich mir die Vorgängerversion (CS2) kaufe (ca. 50 EUR gespart) und dann das <a href="http://www.adobe.com/de/support/service/postann.html">kostenlose Upgrade&ndash;Angebot</a> von Adobe nutzen um so an die neuste Version (CS3) zu bekommen.</p>
<p>Wenn&#8217;s Euch interessiert &mdash; hier die Chronik des Verpeilens (Adobe&ndash;Seitig). Wer&#8217;s am Ende nachvollziehen kann bekommt ein Bienchen.</p>
<p><u>16.4.</u>: Kauf von PS CS2 EDU MAC.<br />
<u>24.4.</u>: Lierferung.<br />
<u>25.4.</u>: Beantragung eines Lizenzschlüssel (man muss per Imma&ndash;Bescheinigung seinen Studentenstatus beweisen).<br />
<u>26.4.</u>: Lizenzschlüssel bekommen.</p>
<p>Soweit so gut. Da ich aber sowieso vor hatte, gleich weiter zu Upgraden habe ich natürlich CS2 nicht installiert (außerdem ist die eh nicht zu meinem Intel&ndash;Prozessor kompatibel&#8230;). Somit habe ich auch nicht jenen Lizenzschlüssel ausprobiert.</p>
<p>Was ich somit nicht wissen konnte (wie sich aber später herausstellte): Adobe hatte mir einen PS CS2 EDU <i>WIN</i> Schlüssel geschickt&#8230;</p>
<p><u>26.4.</u>: Antragstellung (anhand Kaufbeleg [wo auch noch einmal steht, dass ursprünglich eine MAC Version gekauft hab] und jenem Lizenzschlüssel) auf die kostenlose Upgradeversion PS CS3 UPGR MAC.<br />
<u>31.5.</u>: (Knapp 5 Wochen später!) endlich Paket von Adobe. Inhalt: PS CS3 UPGR <i>WIN</i>.<br />
<u>31.5.</u>: Anruf bei Adobe: Ihr habt da was vercheckt &mdash; Ich hab &#8218;nen MAC. Lange Diskussion (wo man <i>mir</i> den Fehler in die Schuhe schieben wollte (!) und somit die einzige Lösung <i>meines</i> Problems wäre, dass ich noch einmal 150€ ausgebe für eine neue Version&#8230;).</p>
<p>Also hab ich Terz gemacht und verlangt, jemand <i>in charge</i> zu sprechen. Derjenige erkannte gottseidank, dass es <i>Adobe&#8217;s</i> Fehler war, und veranlasste den Versand von PS CS3 UPGR <i>MAC</i>. Die Windows Version soll in der Zwischenzeit von UPS wieder abgeholt werden.</p>
<p><u>12.6.</u>: Lieferung PS CS3 UPGR MAC.</p>
<p>Endlich konnte ich das Ding installieren!!! Doch dann: Während der Installation muss man natürlich seine Upgrade&ndash;Berechtigung nachweisen. Dies geschieht anhand des Linzenzschlüssels der Vorgängerversion. Dieser war aber für die <i>WIN</i> Studentenversion&#8230;</p>
<p>Also, erneuter Anruf bei meinen Freunden bei Adobe. Die Dame heute war allerdings sehr viel netter und hat den Fall sofort an die entspr. Abteilung weitergeleitet, welche mir dann 2 Stunden später einen PS CS2 EDU <i>MAC</i> Lizenzschlüssel zugemailt hat, mit dem ich dann <i>endlich</i> die Installation abschließen konnte &mdash; und, man glaub&#8217;s kaum, es läuft!!!</p>
<p>Und die Moral von der Geschicht: Hätte ich mir einfach eine gehackte Version besorgt hätte ich schon 2 Monate eher und nach deutlich weniger Haareraufen Photoshoppen können&#8230; Aber: Das wär ja zu einfach (und leicht illegal ;-)).</p>
<p><i>A conclusion is the place where you got tired of thinking.</i></p>
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		<title>T.a.T.o.r.T. Webseite</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 10 Jun 2007 21:16:00 +0000</pubDate>
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So, zwei Tage Bastelei sind vorbei, und ich habe eine neue Webseite fertig: www.podcastkrimi.de, die Seite zum T.a.T.o.r.T.. Wer mehr über dieses Projekt von Steffi und mir wissen möchte schaue sich einfach die Seite an ;-)
Ein bisschen Technisches: Die Seite basiert wie dieser Blog auf der neusten Version von Wordpress, der wohl mit verbreitetsten Blog&#8211;Software [...]]]></description>
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<p class="block">So, zwei Tage Bastelei sind vorbei, und ich habe eine neue Webseite fertig: <a href="http://www.podcastkrimi.de">www.podcastkrimi.de</a>, die Seite zum <a href="http://www.podcastkrimi.de/ueber">T.a.T.o.r.T.</a>. Wer mehr über dieses Projekt von <a href="http://www.steffi-klinge.de">Steffi</a> und mir wissen möchte schaue sich einfach die Seite an ;-)</p>
<p>Ein bisschen Technisches: Die Seite basiert wie dieser Blog auf der neusten Version von <a href="http://www.wordpress.org">Wordpress</a>, der wohl mit verbreitetsten Blog&ndash;Software (d.h. die Software, die auf den Webserver gespielt wird und dann den Blog bereitstellt). Dazu hab ich noch das <a href="http://www.mightyseek.com/podpress/">PodPress Plugin</a> installiert, welches sich um die Podcastseite des Blogs kümmern wird. Das ist so ziemlich die Standard&ndash;Herangehensweise wenn man Blog und Podcast&#038;feed selber erstellen will (und keine fertigen Produkte, wie z.B. <a href="http://www.podspot.de">Podspot</a>, verwenden oder dafür zahlen möchte).</p>
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