The Portal - Kreative Fotografie in Augsburg (Phatic Photography)

Smoke and Mirrors

Fashion Shooting in Winter Wonderland This weekend we did a fashion based beauty shooting in the beautiful forest near Stadtbergen. Our models had a lot of fun despite the cold and icy winds.To keep them warm we had hot fruit punch and warm blankets. Due to the unique setting in combination with the colourful smoke …

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Soft Focus

Enhance instantly the mood of your pictures adding a soft glowing atmosphere. Read more about which methods you can use to achieve the soft focus effect and get inspired by some examples … Usually soft focus is a lens flaw caused by spherical aberrations resulting in a rather blurry picture. But exactly this effect is …

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Playing with HDR

Certainly everyone has seen lots ‘HDR pictures’ in the last years, since they have become very popular. This short introduction is intended to give you a quick tutorial on how to make one yourself. ‘HDR’ stands for High Dynamic Range and refers to a larger range of luminance values between the brightest spot and the …

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How to do Spirography with Fire

In this short article we explain how we did “spirography with fire” and which utensils were needed for that fun experiment. It is pretty dangerous, so do not try this alone and be especially careful. Wear protective clothing and eye protection. What you do is your responsibility! This can only be done outdoors on non-flammable …