So it has been quite a while since my works actually received an update on here. Well, what can I say - my job made it hard to find spare time to spend on photography. Still I managed to take quite a few pics and train my use of the camera I bought, but I lacked the time to work on them for a nice and web-friendly retouche to post them up on DeviantArt.

As I just recently had the chance to do a shooting with more experienced and professional photographers, I will now post a few new pics once I finished the last picture enhancements - and I hope that some progress in my skill and handling of the camera is obvious

UPDATE:

So, the first few pictures of the shooting at palace Fantaisie are up and since I did not want to repeat myself in the commentary section all over and over again, I just wanted to drop this into the journal entry instead.
The pictures were taken with the permission for private use from the local Schlösserverwaltung, which is also the reason why I had to disable to option to actually download them for further use.
Also the pictures were provided as actually taken from the camera, to better judge the camera settings and result, elsewise it would be hard to distinguish between post-processing and actual photography. The only things done were reduction in size in combination with supersampling and rotation where needed.
Hope you all enjoy the results and once more thanks to the beautiful ~Stahlrose for providing us with so appealing motives and bearing the nuissance of 5 photographers jumping around her with a huge variety of clicking and beeping stuff that flashed occasionally.