Zooooooom!
Explored June 2, 2023
The weekend train? Maybe it can speed things up a little ;)
Photographed back in August '21 at the then newly-opened U-Bahn (subway/underground) station Museumsinsel at Berlin's historical centre, the Mitte district. The station is near of the Humboldt Forum/Stadtschloss (the new City Palace) and the eponymus Museumsinsel (museum island). It opened on July 9 2021 after a ten-year construction time. The station was designed by Swiss architect Max Dudler who took inspiration from Karl Friedrich Schinkel's famous stage scenery for Mozart's Zauberflöte (The Magic Flute), specifically the set design for "The Arrival of the Queen of the Night" which Schinkel ( 13. März 1781, Neuruppin; † 9. Oktober 1841, Berlin) had designed for an 1815 production.
The main element of Schinkel's draft that Dudler had incorporated into the station's design was the deep blue, starry night sky. Dudler designed the station's ceiling as an aquamarine-coloured barrel vault decorated with 6,662 points of light over the underground tracks. Here's a link to an image of Schinkel's famous design:
CTRL+ en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Magic_Flute#/media/File:Mozart_....
I do not recall if I had used the Oly's in-camera "Live ND" filter to simulate the long exposure. I did not have a tripod with me, and actually, the station is dark enough to get a long exposure effect without the Live ND filter (but bright enough to get a sharp shot without a tripod), but I simply don't remember how I have shot this (except waiting for one of our typically yellow U-Bahns to arrive at or leave the station, of course). Luckily, the station had been almost empty at the time, so I did not have to bother much about removing people from the image. I simply cropped the image so that the father and his son who had waited there for their train disappeared from the image ;) I have another image where you can see the actual station that I will upload for Sliders Sunday.
Let's hop on the yellow train and ride towards the weekend at... well, not exactly warp speed, but fast enough :)
Zooooooom!
Explored June 2, 2023
The weekend train? Maybe it can speed things up a little ;)
Photographed back in August '21 at the then newly-opened U-Bahn (subway/underground) station Museumsinsel at Berlin's historical centre, the Mitte district. The station is near of the Humboldt Forum/Stadtschloss (the new City Palace) and the eponymus Museumsinsel (museum island). It opened on July 9 2021 after a ten-year construction time. The station was designed by Swiss architect Max Dudler who took inspiration from Karl Friedrich Schinkel's famous stage scenery for Mozart's Zauberflöte (The Magic Flute), specifically the set design for "The Arrival of the Queen of the Night" which Schinkel ( 13. März 1781, Neuruppin; † 9. Oktober 1841, Berlin) had designed for an 1815 production.
The main element of Schinkel's draft that Dudler had incorporated into the station's design was the deep blue, starry night sky. Dudler designed the station's ceiling as an aquamarine-coloured barrel vault decorated with 6,662 points of light over the underground tracks. Here's a link to an image of Schinkel's famous design:
CTRL+ en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Magic_Flute#/media/File:Mozart_....
I do not recall if I had used the Oly's in-camera "Live ND" filter to simulate the long exposure. I did not have a tripod with me, and actually, the station is dark enough to get a long exposure effect without the Live ND filter (but bright enough to get a sharp shot without a tripod), but I simply don't remember how I have shot this (except waiting for one of our typically yellow U-Bahns to arrive at or leave the station, of course). Luckily, the station had been almost empty at the time, so I did not have to bother much about removing people from the image. I simply cropped the image so that the father and his son who had waited there for their train disappeared from the image ;) I have another image where you can see the actual station that I will upload for Sliders Sunday.
Let's hop on the yellow train and ride towards the weekend at... well, not exactly warp speed, but fast enough :)