Back to the Future

This is a view of the entrance/exit to the subway at Potsdamer Platz in Berlin, where I spent 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 find a way to bring that feeling in to my photo, and ended up by the railing looking down at the subway entrance/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.

Bo47 Berlin, Germany 0 2006, Architecture, Berlin, Europe, Future, Germany, Grey, Human, Humans, Nikon D70s, No Sale, Subway

Nov 8, 2010

Sleeping in 90dB

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.

Bo47 Berlin, Germany 0 2006, Berlin, Europe, Germany, Human, Humans, Movement, Nikon D70s, No Sale, Train

May 12, 2010

Reflections of a Cloud

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.