The World Through the Eyes of Jan Tielens

This weekend me had a great time (due to the fantastic weather) in the Wild- & Wandelpark Molenheide in Houthalen-Helchteren (Belgium).

Look at me and smile! (test picture for my new Sigma 18-50 f2.8 Macro HSM lens)

Ever since I got the Sigma 50-150mm f2.8, I wanted to try to take a picture of the moon. I thought taking pictures of the moon was easy, but it’s not. 🙂 The automatic modes won’t help you a lot since they tend to over expose the bright light of the moon, even when using spot metering. So I had to tweak the exposure (-3 EV) to get the shot above. It’s no full moon and it’s not yet perfect, but it’s a first try!

This week I’m in Aarhus, the second largest city of Denmark. I have a room on the fifth floor of the Scandic Hotel from which I witnessed a nice sunset this evening. The picture above is stitched together from two separate pictures with Autostitch (a free tool, although is extremely good in it’s job). I did very little post processing, the colors in real life were almost exactly as in the picture!

She is a fantastic model: she doesn’t complain, she doesn’t get bored, she doesn’t mind it at all when her daddy takes thousands of pictures of her. And, she is so beautiful.

I never knew bees could walk … 🙂 Photo taken with my new Sigma 50-150 f2.8 (not a macro lens at all, but the result is ok I think).