So...
last flight you took a lot of photos
especially also from airports
and then what brilliant photos,
I've seen your book,
I love it,
that, it's for me,
it's now the level what I need,
what I want to grow to.
What are the plans for the next flight?
More photos?
Or is it still a secret?
It’s a secret,
no no..
it's…
just taking photos of pyramids?
he, he, he...
…because I was very bad at this,
but no, no they…
I don't have firm plans
but but you'll see,
we'll talk about your plans next
but, even the first time I didn't know if I was gonna like taking pictures,
if I was gonna have the time,
if I was gonna be any good,
so I just went
and then I realized I really liked it
and so I used my free time a lot for this
but the result is I had the feeling to spend six months in time with zero free time
because the days are long
and then in the evening I was adding all this extra burden on myself like,
oh you have to take pictures,
you have to work with them,
you have to find the best ones,
you have to put them on social media
and then oh, you have to film some sequences,
etc, etc...
and it never just never, never, never, never, stopped.
So the second time around again
I planned to maybe spend some time just in the Cupola,
just look at the Earth
which I never did,
I mean because every time I was seeing something beautiful it’s like oh,
I absolutely have to take a picture
so with all my camera settings,
what should I be doing
and it’s like when you travel and you see everything through your camera,
you have to take some time for you.
So I don't know what your plans are,
you’re going to tell us,
but I think maybe don't tell,
don't tell the people
but maybe I'll take less pictures
and I'll try to enjoy it more for me in a selfish way.
I think less pictures doesn't mean that you don't take pictures
because how many,
you took thousands of pictures,
so it's like you easily could have released like 10 books with it,
so it's like just,
like my plan is just to take the good pictures.
Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha.
Because initially, initially you'll see I mean it's,
there’s a learning curve
and space photography
can only be practiced in space.
I mean you can put yourself in similar conditions
but it's not quite the same.
Especially night pictures,
so there's a learning curve
and initially
you don't necessarily take the best pictures.
Initially you take kind of the more scenic pictures,
the curvature of the Earth,
things like this,
but those are the easy pictures,
you can take a camera snap it
and then you focus more and more,
you do night pictures,
you take the zoomed in photos
and those are more difficult to take
but surprisingly
people like the first type of picture more
because they give you a feeling of you're in space
whereas for the zoomed in pictures, people told me:
oh, I can have them on Google Maps and I was like yes,
because Google Maps is satellite pictures,
so it's the same except that you just learn…
yeah,
so do the first ones before,
My advice.
It's true.
And taking inside the module actually
I find it quite challenging
we had to photo class this week,
so either it's the person is nice,
in like in good color and light,
but everything around is either grey or the background is grey dark
or it's like illumination is quite a challenge
and even if you have the cupola with very bright reflections from the Earth below
so I think there's a, definitely a learning curve.
Yeah!
But it's good that you've already understood everything I guess,
because...
this is the most challenging thing,
you're gonna have Cupola extremely bright in the background
and all the inside of the Space Station is dark.
We have lights but still, it's not like daylight
so if you solve the light problem,
this is your challenge,
I task you to solve the light problem
and I know you will do.
Okay,
I think one of the challenges,
I would like to bring my small camera to the Station,
so if you guys like our nice video clip here
then please vote for us and support us to ESA saying like:
these guys need to bring a nice 360 camera.
Ha, ha.
Alright, welcome to the astronaut coffee break without coffee,
yeah,
it's not really a break
and yeah, follow Matthias’ adventures and I'll try,
I'll try to show up once in a while.
Follow our adventures, alright!
Ciao.