February 19, 2022 by frankrumpenhorst - 3 Comments

Esch – European Capital of Culture

Yesterday, I went to Esch-sur-Alzette, a city of 36.000 inhabitants in Luxembourg, that along with Kaunas and Novi Sad is one of the three Capitals of European Culture 2022. Sadly, it was a very gray and dull day. On the other hand, in a way it fit pretty well with this industrial steel and mining town that underwent a severe structural change in the past decades.

The images shown here were taken on Fuji Instax film with a Lomo camera.

Of course, I took lots of other images with my usual Sony equipment, too.

October 30, 2021 by frankrumpenhorst - 2 Comments

Shoppers

People walk along Frankfurt’s main shopping mile, the Zeil, Oct.30, 2021.

Sony A7r IV, Sigma 100-400 at 172 mm, iso100, f5.6, 1/8 sec.

January 26, 2021 by frankrumpenhorst - 0 comments

The Plant

Fuji X100F, Adobe neural filter-added colors to b-w photo.

November 15, 2020 by frankrumpenhorst - 4 Comments

Frankfurt in neural Colors

As the partial lockdown in Germany due to the coronavirus and the release of Photoshop’s new neural filter “colorize” almost coincided, I had time to try and see what the filter can do. Here is an example of a color photo of Frankfurt taken just after nightfall. The original is shown at right above, the de-colorized version below, done in Photoshop. The neural filter then created a new version of the b-w picture adding computer-generated colors. See for yourself and let me know what you think.