Here’s a photo I made of my good friend Rod Clemen, last week when we where in Germany. It was made in some forest on our way to the big limestone cliff on the northeast side of Rügen.
If you wanna have a look at Rod’s photo go to www.clemenfoto.dk - he mainly does concert photography.
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This is a view of the entrance/exit to the subway at Potsdamer Platz in Berlin, where I spendt a few days in the summer of 2006.
I just arrived with the subway at Potsdamer Platz, and walk out on the square, where I felt like I had arrived sometime in the future, I was looking around to finde a way to bring that feeling in to my photo, and ended up by the railing looking down at the subway enterence/exit.
I waited a while to get rid of most of the people, and then made my photo.
I have cloned away a few things in the picture, among them a fire extinguisher hanging on the wall right beside the two people, I also removed a person walking on the “lower deck”, those elements where rather disturbing and removing them added to the future feeling, I think.
I had been walking around Berlin, one evening – early night – to shoot some night photography, on my way back to the hotel, I came by a subway station with trains heading my direction, I was tired of all the walking, so I decided to take the train back, even though I would properly miss out on some great photo opportunities, but as it almost always turns out when you miss one opportunity you get another one, cause when I came up on the platform, I saw this homeless guy sleeping on a bench, even though the train come through the station and made a lot of noise.
I was very impressed, and I decided to make a photo of him.
This photo is made out of two exposures, I made two shoots with the same framing, one at a long exposure time with the train going by, in order to get the motion blur on the train, but that made the rest of the photo a bit blurry, so I decided to make another shoot with a shorter exposure time, to get the people and the homeless guy sharp and crisp, I then copied the train in to the “homeless guy” shoot, and ended up with the result you see here.
I also desaturated and added some contrast to the photo.
Well, this is my younger brother, father and mother on some camp ground somewhere in Germany sometime in the early 80′s.
It’s the earliest photo I can find, with me behind the trigger, and that makes it my very first photo in my book.
I only scaned in the paper photo in Photoshop no post processing at all on this one.
After three weeks in a mobile home with four friends through Eastern Europe, we ended up in Berlin on a Friday where we had to fly back to Denmark, Monday, so we had a weekend in the fantastic capital of Germany, that for my part was used to create a lot of photos.
What we have here is a reflection in the Sony Centre building at Postdammer platz, in the center of Berlin.
The image is converted to black and white in Photoshop, I did a bit of cloning on this photo, it had a lamppost and a tree that I diden’t like so they are cloned out. to get the photo more simple and not as messy as it was with those things in it.