A brief essay from our trip to Lake Constance in November 2011. Check out the juggler and the amazing sunset as we sailed back to Konstanz.

Camera: Nikon D700 + Nikkor 28-300 f/3.5-5.6 G fitted with a B+W Circular Polarizing Filter or B+W Neutral Density Filter.

Tripod: Manfrotto 745B + 701RC2 video head

Technique: Manual, ISO 200, 1/2 second exposure (“dragging the shutter”) with aperture set anywhere between f/5.6 and f/11. The images were shot at 1 second intervals.

Post Processing:
:: Image sets adjusted in Adobe Lightroom 3.5
:: Image sets imported into an Adobe Premiere Pro CS5 2K 24p project
:: Exported as 2048×1024 24p MP4 @ 45Mbps

Soundtrack: “Winter Dawn” by MachinimaSound.com licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.