Nerd Rage

This was the venue for this year’s ECOC con­fer­ence and the place I spent most of my time in the week in Vienna. It’s quite huge and mod­ern, but some­how the orga­niz­ers (again) man­aged to put the most inter­est­ing (and most attended) ses­sions into the small­est rooms. At least in Berlin they had a live video in an aux­il­iary room when­ever a ses­sion was too full. I did miss a cou­ple of talks that I would’ve liked to hear, because there was just no room. Pity, really.

The exhi­bi­tion was in a sep­a­rate build­ing (on the left), which was also some­thing new to me. But then again, I didn’t spend much time there, any­way…

Tech­ni­cal note: stitched from 6 por­trait shot (but cropped quite a bit) in reg­u­lar, low-memory mode. The stitch­ing was done from the RAW files in 16bit (as usual), but this time I added quite some fill light, since the scene was so high-contrast – so I guess this almost counts as an HDR.

Here’s another panorama of the Aus­tria Cen­ter Vienna, the venue of this year’s ECOC con­fer­ence. The shots for this image were taken from the top of the TV tower in the neigh­bor­ing Donau­park, on which I went up dur­ing one of the lunch breaks. Unfor­tu­nately, that day was crazy hazy, so every­thing fur­ther away than maybe half a kilo­me­ter only shows up as white noise. Since down­town was much far­ther away than that, the panora­mas in that direc­tion are not really that inter­est­ing…

Tech­ni­cal note: stitched from 3 por­trait shots, noth­ing fancy this time.

last posts in flickr:

• O’ahu, Hawai’i
• Maui, Hawai’i
• my favorite focal lengths
• Big Island, Hawai’i
• ECOC in Torino
• ¡Viva México!
• pictures from Paris
• YOTOT(MC) goes Hamburg
• Bob Dylan zu Besuch
• Pictures from Pisa