If you want to give editing this raw file a try you should head over to the PlayRAW thread on pixls.us. While there you might also consider joining the great community.

I just got myself a Samyang 14mm lens, more precisely the Samyang 14mm f/2.8 AE ED AS IF UMC, branded as Walimex Pro, but that is basically just a sticker, the lens is the same. In its latest incarnation with AE, so there is no more manual aperture …

When programming I write small programs all the time. Sometimes as a test bed when looking for a bug, sometimes to help understand a library, sometimes as a tool to do things for me. They are relatively small in general, a single file, few hundred lines of code max. And …

After struggling with dull family kitchen knifes for too long I decided that I needed my private one. After some research I chose a Japanese knife with western handle, a Kagayaki CarboNext Gyuto from JCK with a blade length of 240 mm. You can see more in this flickr album …

Who doesn’t like some fluffy snow in the blue evening light?

More impressions from the photo walk Pat David did at Libre Graphics Meeting 2014 in Leipzig – you might notice that I prefer shooting people over buildings.

Faking the looks of a miniature shot with its shallow depth of field is quite easy in raster image editors like GIMP, but sometimes you might want to do that step directly inside of darktable. While that is not as flexible and fast for single images when you have a …

I wished cell phones had decent cameras …

More pictures from the trip to Aachen.