Sean Duggan Blog

Sailboat

Sailboat; Meersburg, Germany

Bound for Switzerland

Bound for Switzerland, Lake of Constance, Germany [Canon 10D]
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Passing Ferry

Passing Ferry, Lake of Constance, Germany [Canon 10D]
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Solitary Boat

Solitary Boat, Lake of Constance, Germany [Canon 10D]
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Flooded Canoe

Flooded Canoe, Unteruhldingen, Germany [Canon 10D]
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Palisade

Palisade, Unteruhldingen, Germany [Canon 10D]
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Taken at the prehistoric lake dwelling museum seen in yesterday's post.

Bronze-Age Lake Dwellings

Lake Dwelling Museum, Unteruhldingen, Germany [Canon 10D]
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This was taken at the same location as yesterday's post and shows a partial reconstruction of a bronze-age lake dwelling village on the shores of the Lake of Constance in southern Germany. There are over a hundred such archeological sites that have been identified along the shores off the lake and at Unteruhldingen they have recreated structures from several periods from the stone age to the bronze age. This is a composite image that was constructed from 5 separate photos. I uses the automated Photomerge feature in Photoshop to do most of the work supplimented with some manual work to fix some of the areas that Photomerge didn't get quite right (there's always a few).

The weather in southern Germany has been quite rainy for much of our stay (fortunately we are not in any of the areas that have experienced catastrophic flooding in recent days). Although the cloudy, rainy weather has been disappointing in terms of the usual summertime, vacation activities, it has created some interesting conditions for photography, as can be seen in the image above. I doubt that this scene would have looked as interesting to my eye had it been bright and sunny.

Lake Dwelling Walkway

Lake Dwelling Walkway [Canon 10D]

Departing Ferry

Departing Ferry, Lake of Constance, Germany [Canon 10D]
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This is a combination of two exposures, taken just seconds apart, as the ferry was pulling away from the lake shore. The camera was set to manual exposure and both shots have the same aperture and shutter speed settings to ensure they had the same exposure and would blend together easier. My lens was not capable of capturing the entire width of the scene, hence the quick, shoot-from-the-hip two exposure approach. Plus, by using two exposures and blending them together, I have effectively doubled my camera's megapixel resolution for this composition. The images were combined manually in Photoshop.

Fictional Harbor Entry

Lake Jetty at Night [Canon 10D,  2 minutes)
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This is an image mirror (i.e., a copy of the original photo has been flipped and combined with the original to give the appearence of two jetties) that I have slightly modified to take away the exact duplication on each side. I am posting this a few days early (on the 20th) and this was taken last night and the Photoshop work was done right after I had returned to our apartment. So, at this point it's just a rough draft, or, as I sometimes like to call these, a digital doodle. I'll revisit it later and see if it stans up to further scrutiny.