Luckily they seem to have fixed this in 2.1.3 as the ChangeLog states: fix a serious error in networking IO code.

So the solution is as easy as upgrading. I am running Ubuntu, but two months after netatalk-2.1.3 has been released, they don’t even have it in unstable. Lucky Gentoo users you! I needed to fix this very quickly as it started to disrupt my workflow. Sadly I currently don’t have the time to dig into the packaging system of Debian or Ubuntu, so I looked up Debian’s configure options and just compiled from source:

cp -a /etc/netatalk/ ~
aptitude purge netatalk
apt-get build-dep netatalk
wget http://sourceforge.net/projects/netatalk/files/netatalk/2.1.3/netatalk-2.1.3.tar.bz2/download
tar xjvf netatalk-2.1.3.tar.bz2
cd netatalk-2.1.3
./configure  --with-shadow --enable-fhs --enable-tcp-wrappers --enable-timelord --enable-overwrite --with-pkgconfdir=/etc/netatalk --enable-krb4-uam --enable-krbV-uam --with-cnid-dbd-txn --with-libgcrypt-dir --with-cracklib=/var/cache/cracklib/cracklib_dict --enable-debian --disable-srvloc --enable-zeroconf --with-ssl-dir --enable-pgp-uam --prefix=/usr/local/netatalk/
make
sudo make install
mv ~/netatalk /etc/
/etc/init.d/netatalk start

This saves a copy of your running netatalk configuration to your home directory, removes netatalk, downloads all necessary libraries to build netatalk, downloads netatalk from SourceForge, extracts it, configures it, builds it, installs it, restores the configuration and starts it as usual.

I am running netatalk 2.1.3 for a week now and the error seems to be gone

If you know how to easily create a Debian package, feel free to post in the comments.

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What has started as a 10 day road-trip from eastern Germany trough the Czech Republic, Austria and maybe Switzerland back to western Germany ended after just two days in Prague. On the first day we visited Karlovy Vary and drove to Prague on day two. But in Prague some ************* have smashed a windows and broke into our car and stole every single piece of clothing I own, my girlfriend’s laptop, my tripod, the car radio, ball pens, old shoes, some coverings, the drink holder…
We called the Czech police. They didn’t care, they didn’t come. They didn’t let us file a charge. 2500€ lost. No insurance will cover it. The car was that damaged, we had to abort the trip. Not that I wanted to continue, without any clothing.

I didn’t like the Czech people in the first place. They were rude, they all didn’t give a crap about anything. Several times my tripod has almost been knocked over. Every time we had a question the officials pretended they didn’t speak English or German or whatever.

I write this post just to put it all behind. Karlovy Vary and Prague are nice cities, I’ve been there the second time now (this time just to take photos), but they won’t see me again. Ever.

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Fuck you Prague, fuck you Czech! Fuck you all! I have never seen people being that unhelpful and disinterested.

My girlfriend and I went to Prague for a night and this morning we wanted to leave to Vienna, Austria. But no, we didn’t do that. The parking situation in Prague and the entire Czech Republic is horrible, so we parked in a side street a few hundred meters from our so called “Hotel” where we had to pay the parking meter every two hours. Not just that the Hotel (Old Time Hotel) was horrible (dirty, ants, …), between 01:00AM where we last checked our car and 09:00AM when we came back, one of the windows have been smashed and every single piece of clothing I own has been stolen. Everything. About 2000€ worth of clothing. Not to mention my girlfriends Laptop. And don’t tell me we should have taken it out! We put all visible things in the hotel and stored the rest in the trunk. You also wouldn’t have carried your stuff that far to the Hotel for just one night! I think they came for the radio – a cheapish built-in one that comes from the manufacturer. They have even taken the coverings in the car. WTF?! And the charging cable for the navigation system, that we had a hard time getting out of fucking Prague.

We must have been standing there for like 15minutes. I was yelling and smashing everything. There were several people around us, no one came. We called the police. And then we waited in the rain and waited and waited with all the stuff we had taken to the hotel room (4 additional bags!). No one came. No Police. No one came to help, no one cared. They all pretended they didn’t speak English or German.

Three hours later a policeman finally came, but pretended he doesn’t speak a fucking single word of English, or German, or even Polanski! In the end he sent us home, telling us we should file a charge at home. Great!

Back home I wanted to buy at least some underwear and clean shirts, when the car’s engine also broke. And it was raining cats & dogs…

Holiday canceled. Good night.

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Starting in Saxony, heading east towards Kalovy Vary, then Prague,  then southern to Vienna and finally trough the Alps as far as we get until I’ll be back in Frankfurt on August, 1.

That’s the plan at least Take care and enjoy the summer. I thin I’ll post from time to time.

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Last weekend my girlfriend and I spontaneously decided to visit Hamburg. We only did a quick research and then knew what we wanted to see: the Port of Hamburg, the old Elbe tunnel, the Warehouse District, the Fish auction hall, the old Town hall, the Jungfernstieg at the Binnenalster and the famous churches. Not to forget Reeperbahn! That’s the theorie…

I find cities look best when it’s lights are already turned on, so we wanted to see the most of the sights at night.

On the first evening we wanted to see the harbor. Our hotel was close to the Central Station so we decided to simply walk. Sadly Internet on my iPhone 3G was that slow in Hamburg, that I couldn’t see my map with the photo locations, so we had to walk on our own and find some sweet spots. At the beginning we walked totally wrong and ended up in the fruit district of the harbor. We then walked along the harbor trying to get to the right points. On our way we walked right in between HafenCity and Warehouse District so that we didn’t see both. We walked up to Landungsbrücken when it was already 12am, but I wanted to see at least the old Elbe Tunnel! So we walked trough and tried to find a nice spot at the other side of the harbor, but didn’t find anything. So we walked back, decided to take a drink and then took the train back to central station and our Hotel.

The next day our schedule was pretty tight, because we didn’t get the harbor shots… we started at 10am, went to central station to get a Hamburg CARD. With the Hamburg CARD you can use all public transportation (more on that later), and you get a discount on most tourism stuff.

Our first stop was the old Town Hall which is a nice walk along Hamburg’s shopping street. But I didn’t find the old Town Hall very special, at least not in bright daylight! We then headed over to the Binnenalster and Jungfernstieg, which also looked, well… let’s say nice during daytime.

The weekend was hot, very hot! After just 3 hours we already needed a break! So we wanted to take a train down to Landungsbrücken and make a harbor tour. But there were some heavy constructions going on, so we had to take several trains, which isn’t that easy if you don’t know the city… Finally at Landungsbrücken, we got a 2€ discount off thanks to our Hamburg CARD! Awesome…… The harbor tour was very nice and we got a good overview. But still not a single good shot!

And believe it or not due to the heat on the boat, the glue which sticks the rubber grip on my Nikon D90 melted!

Since we still had a lot of sights to see we hurried up a bit and walked to St. Michaelis church, spent a lot of time looking for a supermarket to buy some water, walked back trough Warehouse District (to really see it for the first time!) and then walked back to our Hotel to take a nap

We still wanted to see the harbor, the Warehouse District, the Fish auction hall and the Reeperbahn. We started again at 8pm to take some night shots. Mobile Internet still was horribly slow, so I still couldn’t load my map! We took the train to Landungsbrücken again, then walked up to the Fish auction hall, then headed further to Dockland. When we arrived at Dockland the light was just crappy so we waited some time and discovered one thing I find totally awesome about Hamburg: The Habor ferries! They have ferries all across the harbor, with stations that look exactly like Bus stops, just on the water. And it’s even included in the Hamburg CARD! We took one, drove to it’s last stop and then drove back. Totally awesome! Back at Dockland the light was better, although I now found it to be already too dark as the nice blue sky was almost gone. I took some shots until we wanted to go to Warehouse District. It was already 12pm and the Reeperbahn was much closer so we decided to visit that first. Which again wasn’t a very good idea. It was horribly crowded, but fun to watch. When we finally came to the Warehouse District the damn lights were already turned off and the entire scene just looked boring

We walked back to our Hotel and fell to bed at 3am…

The next morning we didn’t want to walk trough Hamburg again, so we decided to drive back and visited some friend we met last year on our Trip to Egypt… By the way: we walked about 35km that weekend!
If we had a better plan, I think our Hamburg experience would have been awesome! But even with our crappy plan the trip was great.

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In the last week I’ve been to Sanssoussi in Potsdam, Germany near Berlin and to the Saxon Switzerland near Dresden with my Girlfriend. The weather in Potsdam was great, but that attracted so many tourists, that it was almost impossible to get a good shot of the castle. In the Saxon Switzerland the weather was also great, but although we went there in the late afternoon the sky still was like f/64 whereas the canyon was like f/1.4.

Here are my favorite shots of this week, I couldn’t decided weather I like the color or the Black & White version.

What do you think?

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Welcome new readers

I don’t have much to say today, just a quick preview of some upcoming topics I have in mind:

• Night Photography
• Long Exposures
• Filters (especially the ones you can’t reproduce in the digital darkroom)
• Digital Life

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Wish me luck. The contest ends on August 15, 2010.

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I think he was referring to my post about too much polarization. In that post I said, that I always adjusted the angle of the polfilter  to get the strongest effect in the skies. By saying that I of course didn’t mean that you can only use a polfilter to darken the sky in landscape shots. To understand what you can use a polarizing filter for, you need to know that all a polarizing filter does is cutting reflections. The earth’s atmosphere is full of small particles which do all reflect the light of the sun. By cutting these reflections the sky gets darker because there are less reflections which would make the sky look brighter… But I’m still stuck to that polfilter = nicer sky thing.

I for example often use a polfilter when shooting trough windows, because things do reflect in windows and by using the polfilter I can cut these reflections.

Another example is shooting water. If you shoot water without a polfilter chances are good that all you see is the sky or whatever is above that water. But with a polfilter set to the right angle, you might be able to see down to the ground. Depending on the depth of the water of course.

But the reason I usually just keep the polfilter on all the time when shooting landscapes (even if there is not a single piece of sky in the shot) is because IT DOES CUT REFLECTIONS! It cuts reflections from the grass, making it more vibrant. It cuts reflections from leaves, making them more vibrant…

Just two other things you should keep in mind: A polfilter sucks light! Your shutter speed will be about one to two stops slower. Make sure you can hand hold that speed! And the other thing is don’t overdo it or you might get an over-saturated candy look… or as in my case an almost dark sky.

P.S. sorry for the lack of example pictures, but as I said I’m on a train

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• Tethering! I don’t really need Live View, but I at least want to be able to change basic settings like aperture, iso and shutter speed from Lightroom! I only use this feature when my camera is on a tripod, so I don’t want to run back and forth!
• Remote Tethering or whatever you call it… I want to be able to tether my Camera from my iPhone, just as with the OnOne solution, but from within Lightroom. Oh… don’t tell me it’s useless. Again… handy when on a tripod. Think about shooting still lives in the studio… no more running from the object to the laptop or even to the camera! Or Startrails in the cold, or, or, or…
• Publishing Service … O.K. Lightroom 3 now has Social Media, especially Flickr integration. Awesome! But why does this only work for images I upload trough this new feature? I want to be able to link my existing images back into Lightroom! Or did I miss something about that feature?
• Video, though not a killer feature for me some basic editing features would be nice. (Just as Aperture does)

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I am a big fan of the Joby Gorillapod SLR-Zoom and the world often really is my tripod, but I also love long-exposures and night photography, which isn’t really feasible without a real tripod. That’s why I wanted a tripod for my travels for a long time now, but never found one that is light, small, still sturdy but also affordable. Then I came across Induro…

Benro TravelAngel A-169

Uh? You said Induro, what’s Benro, you ask?

I did a lot of research on the Internet about several Induro tripods and it turned our that Induro tripods are just re-labeled Benro tripods and are then sold for a higher price, mostly to the US. In fact I haven’t even found any reseller for Induro here in Germany. Look at the Carbon series of Induro and Benro for example: Induro & Benro (click Select Products). The specs and the look are the same, just the names changed. And the price of course

Benro also has the Travel Angel series, which I found just awesome, because they are very small, but still sturdy. And with that I already start my review of the Benro A-169…

First of all the Benro is an aluminum tripod that comes in a nice bag:

And as I already said, the A-169 is very small when collapsed (just 38cm):

The lowest possible height is also just 38cm, but it won’t hold your heavy camera well at this position. Nevertheless all the connections and locks feel very sturdy (click to enlarge):

Then I went out to field test it (see result at the top)…

My heaviest Camera/Lens combination currently is the Nikon D90 with Nikon MB-D80 Battery Grip and my heaviest lens, the Nikon 70-300 VR attached, totaling at 1850g. The Tripod legs themselves can hold that load easily. You might need to attach your bag to the tripod in windy situations to get the sharpest result. The legs sometimes twist a little bit, but still it’s a stable tripod for it’s weight and size! Benro says it’s capable of up to 8kg of load. I was also evaluating the A-268, because it only has 4 leg sections (A-169 has 5), but the additional weight wasn’t worth it in my eyes. Also I am usually using Exposure delay mode and the self-timer to give the tripod time to stabilize. And don’t forget to turn VR off

I could only order mine in a set with one of the Benro ballheads. And from what I’ve heard in the forums, they aren’t the best ones, which is why I went with the cheap BH-0 head and the intention of upgrading to a better head later… And yes, the BH-0 head isn’t great. It’s almost impossible to do small adjustments, because you directly loose all directions! But it does at least have a bubble level and an attachment ring (for my BlackRapid RS-4).

It’s not Gitzo, but it’s worth it’s money! I think I’ll get some very sharp images from it as long as I remember that it can’t do wonders and keep some techniques in mind (exposure delay mode, self-timer, use bag for stabilization…)

Take care & enjoy the great weather.

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On my recent trips I mostly shot with my Hoya HD Polarizer on. I always adjusted the angle of the filter to get the strongest effect and it always looked good in the viewfinder! Just awesome blue skies. Sadly I couldn’t check the result on the display, because it was too bright outside. Back home I imported my shots to the computer just to see that many of the shots are unusable, because the sky is horribly dark. It looked different through the viewfinder, which is related to the much lower dynamic range of the digital sensor compared to the eyes. (+ The Photo is underxposed)

It’s simply a handling error on my side. The effect of a polarization filter depends on the atmosphere and the angle to the reflecting surface. In the above image the sky was very clear and it seems like I shot in about an 90° angle to the sun. A simple rotation to lessen the strength of the polfilter, and the sky would look much more natural.

So, always check your results! I think I’ll get a Hoodman Hoodloupe for my camera…

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I recently had many issues with Mac OS X 10.6′s Trash. The problem is that, when you Empty the Trash in Snow Leopard, Finder sometimes can’t erase all items because some of them are still in use. The funny part about this is, that most of the time, it’s the Finder itself that still uses the items! I haven’t found a solution so far, but there are at least two workarounds which don’t require logging out or even rebooting.

The first one is to force a relaunch of Finder via Apple -> Force Quit and then try it again.

If that doesn’t help it gets more complicated. You will need to open Terminal.app or any other terminal emulator.

Then type ps auxw | grep <yourfile>. The output will look something like:

$ ps auxw | grep Scan.pdf
Finder     169 chrisk   13r     REG       14,2       286 1417024 /Users/chrisk/.Trash/Scan.pdf/..namedfork/rsrc

This might look complicated, but it’s actually simple. The first column is the name of the application, which uses your file, the second column is the PID (process ID) of the application, third column shows the username and the last column simply shows the path to your file in the Trash folder.

Now use ‘kill’ and the applications PID to terminate it.

$ kill 169

You should be able to empty your trash again.

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The belt itself feels very sturdy, although I found it hard to adjust to my size. The RS-4 comes without any manual, but once I adjusted it to fit my body it feels OK so far. I’ll try it out during the next few weeks and will post my final thoughts here on the blog.

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In the end I didn’t buy anything for three simple reasons: (1) About 100€ for two good filters is just too much for those rare scenes I would really use them (at least in my eyes), (2) It’s pretty inconvenient to carry around when traveling light and (3) I would need an additional (and expensive) filter holder for long exposures.

My solution (to at least some degree) is to use the Graduated Filter tool in Lightroom. I used this technique a lot on my recent B&W Photos. The good thing is, that you have full control about the intensity, the height, the strength and the position of the effect.

I don’t know if that’s common practice, but at least I wasn’t aware of it and didn’t do it before. Matt Kloskowski at lightroomkillertips.com did a great video about it: link.

The downside is that this doesn’t help in extreme situations. Most people say you have about 1 f-stop backup if you’re shooting RAW. You can go lower, but you will loose quality. So in very extreme situations you will still need a dedicated Grad ND, or you can do HDR or exposure fusing. But for me this technique works well enough.

Below I attached a before and after (-2 Stops) screenshot of the Graduated Filter effect in Lightroom.

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In early April my girlfriend and I went (as my birthday present) to Rügen, a small Island in the Baltic Sea in the north-eastern part of Germany. Thank you! It was great, even if you didn’t expect it and we almost died . The weather wasn’t always great, but it was a lot of fun walking and shooting there together.

We arrived pretty late at about 5pm, but the ride was fun. My girlfriend had her first-time-ever on a car ferry. We checked-in and decided to visit a small town called Sellin which is famous for it’s pier later in the evening. It turned out that it wasn’t very easy to find this town. There were no signage and our navigation system didn’t know it either. But thanks to Google Maps we did find it tough.

On the second day we’ve been to the northernmost point in Germany called Kap Arkona and a very cute and old fishing village called ‘Vitt’.

The third day, which was also my birthday, the weather was much nicer and we decided to go walking. Our Hotel was very close to Jasmund National Park with it’s impressive chalk cliffs. Over a small stairway we wanted to go down to the ocean – not knowing what was going to happen. We walked and walked. Most people just turned around, but we didn’t really notice that at this time. We kept walking and walking. There should actually have been four stairways on our way, but they weren’t! It turned out that the hard winter here in Germany damaged big parts of the chalk cliffs and let avalanches of chalk and mud fall down into the ocean and the stairways with it. The nice thing about this is that the chalk colored the ocean almost turquoise and created a nice Caribbean feeling. On our way we climbed over many dried mudflows without any problem, but a few kilometers later there was one that must have been very new. I climbed at it, walked a few steps and then suddenly half of me was gone… caved into mud to my hip. I threw my camera over to my girlfriend which was still on secure ground and then somehow managed to pull myself out. Loaded with tens of kilos of mud I went into the ocean to get rid of at least some of it and then wanted to walk back the 10km to our car. But not my girlfriend. We saw a stairway at the other side of the bay, so she (much lighter that she is) somehow managed to find a way over the mud, whereas I just walked through the ocean… An hour later we were back up on the top of the cliffs. But we didn’t walk back to our car, no. We walked all the way to the Königsstuhl and then took a bus back to our car.

The last day we headed home and made a short stop in Stralsund.

Watch the Flickr Set or Flickr Slideshow

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I recently wanted a new Camerabag, because my old Lowepro Inverse 200 AW just got to heavy and wasn’t a good carry around bag. I wanted something that fits all my stuff when I’m on a train or plane. Well, I actually thought that bag has more space, but it hardly fits all my current gear.

So, what’s in the bag?

• Nikon D90 + Nikon MB-D80
• Nikon 50mm f/1.8
• Nikon 70-300 VR
• Tamron 17-50 f/2.8
• Nikon SB-600
• Nikon MB-18a
• Hoya HD Polarizer
• Lumiquest SoftBox III
• Joby GorillaPod SLR-Zoom
• 15″ MacBook Pro
• 120Gb Backup HDD
• Lee Sample Filter Pack
• Some cut gels (CTO, CTB, CTG)
• Eneloop AA Batteries
• Technoline BC700
• Hama Optic Paper
• Hama Dust-Ex
• Microfiber Cloth
• Ethanol
• Velcro Stripes
• Screwdrivers
• Some cables
• iPhone charger

It does fit, but I was actually looking to buy a macro and a wide-angle lens.

Edit: Forgot to mention the new bag is a Tamrac Aero Speed Pack 85.
Edit2: Just discovered that there are three more small pockets on the side access. Lol.

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All images shot with Nikon 70-300VR. Developed in Lightroom.

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I played with contrasts, clarity, color channels, added a graduated filter and so on to get this look. Here’s what it looked like out of the camera:

What do you think? Did I overdo it?

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Today I wanted to copy my images from the mobile HDD that I had to carry with me (because I didn’t have a Laptop with me, Thanks Dell!!!) to dump my images from the cards to it whenever possible. But… Click – Clack – Clack – Clack. DAMNIT! Headcrash!!!

Well, you can imagine that I was about to throw the HDD out of the window, but then decided to make a copy of it using ‘dd’ first. ‘dd’ went through the first 50GiB without any problems… but then the HDD started clicking again. I was able to recover some photos from the unfinished dump and there is still 4GiB of photos on one of my SD-Cards, so cross your fingers! Hope it’s just the video clips on another partition that I lost!!!

What does this tell us? Always have a backup!!!

On my past trips I always had one copy on my Laptop and then dumped the photos to an external HDD which I carried in another bag. But without a Laptop this wasn’t possible this time.

Here’s what worked best for me in the past:

• Import and copy your images to Lightroom as usual
• Close Lightroom, go to Finder/Explorer and copy your Picture & Library folder to an external HDD
• Store the external HDD somewhere safe
• Now you may format your memory cards

This way you always have two copies of your photos. I also usually formatted the external HDD every night before I copied my backup over. If you’re running Mac OS X you could also use TimeMachine to automate it.

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After 6 weeks without a Laptop I am finally mobile again. The new MacBook Pro has been delivered last Saturday and I am totally happy with it. I sold my Dell XPS M1530 because of it’s unreliability and the ignorance of Dell, and switched back to a Mac. Build quality is so much better, and let’s not talk about the Touchpad, I don’t think I’ll need my Bluetooth mouse any longer!

The new MBP with it’s Intel Core i5 also feels much faster than my one year old Mac Mini.  And the display seems to be more accurate than my old 22″ Samsung LCD, so until I get to replace that one I think I’ll edit my images on the laptop. (Display calibrator is next on my shopping list)

Take care. I’m now going to copy last months images from the mobile HDD.

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www.youtube.com/watch?v=lUlC79KBfmA

Is this real? I at least once thought that sheep must have fallen :O

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www.youtube.com/watch?v=zz0LWX9GJHg

www.youtube.com/watch?v=j6BKdHEPmFA

Stay tuned! April has been silent, I know. But my Birthday, travels and the fact that I’m without a Laptop since six weeks and my new MacBook Pro arrives next Monday the earliest (yeah ) made it quite hard to blog. I’ll post some articles and pictures in early May.

Take care and enjoy the great weather. Chris out.

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Last night we had a very clear sky over Frankfurt, Germany so I tried to take a picture of the moon for the first time just to notice that it needs a really long lens. I took this shot with the Nikon 70-300 VR ranked out to 300mm and still this is a 1:1 crop. Beacause the 70-300 VR tends to get a bit soft at the higher end I sharpened the image quite heavily. Maybe too much?

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So stay tuned. Subscribe to the new enhanced rss-feed and please click on my Ads! Chris out.

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• Use TinkerTool to tweak some hidden preferences
• iTerm is a better alternative to Terminal.app
• NTFS-3G if you have usb-sticks or external HDDs you want to share with Windows or Linux
• MacVim is my favorite editor for anything
• The Unarchiver is great for compressed stuff you downloaded
• VLC… forget QuickTime X, VLC does more things better
• Evernote takes your notes and synchronizes them
• Dropbox (link gives my account additional 250Mb) synchronizes your documents with multiple computers

I also enable SSH (System Preferences/Sharing), change the default icon size to 48×48 and install Xcode and MacPorts to get mtr (an interactive traceroute) and unrar (for things ‘The Unarchiver’ doesn’t take).

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www.youtube.com/watch?v=js7RzcdDcMs

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Take care.

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