Captain on the Bridge
"The ICC Berlin – a spaceship for the future"
Another one from last September's open day at West Berlin's "spaceship", the now-closed former congress centre ICC. This huge light sculpture is the ICC's "heart", spanning several floors. It was created in 1979 by Frank Oehring and is called "The Brain". The Brain, while "just" a sculpture itself, is part of the ICC's control and guidance system and symbolizes the ICC's control centre. Oehring says, The Brain "is the symbol for this control centre, from which the entire building services are controlled. Connected to the light sculpture are electronic nerve cords that run through the entire building. The idea behind the light sculpture is that mental activity flows through the building, also symbolised in light."
This photo, which I took from the ICC's third floor, took me ages to process. Since the open day at the ICC was a one-of-a-kind event, the entire building was flooded with visitors, so I had to do a lot of people retouching because they were too distracting. I decided to leave a few of them in, though, to maintain a natural mood. I also used Luminar's "Magic Light" tool to repair the unattractive "light blobs" along the balustrade. The 7-14 mm lens is great but it sucks at light stars, and Magic Light helps to fix that by turning blobs into pleasing-looking light stars and so helps to smooth out one of the lens's biggest flaws.
Wishing you a happy weekend and see you on Sliders Sunday (which this image is for, too)!
Captain on the Bridge
"The ICC Berlin – a spaceship for the future"
Another one from last September's open day at West Berlin's "spaceship", the now-closed former congress centre ICC. This huge light sculpture is the ICC's "heart", spanning several floors. It was created in 1979 by Frank Oehring and is called "The Brain". The Brain, while "just" a sculpture itself, is part of the ICC's control and guidance system and symbolizes the ICC's control centre. Oehring says, The Brain "is the symbol for this control centre, from which the entire building services are controlled. Connected to the light sculpture are electronic nerve cords that run through the entire building. The idea behind the light sculpture is that mental activity flows through the building, also symbolised in light."
This photo, which I took from the ICC's third floor, took me ages to process. Since the open day at the ICC was a one-of-a-kind event, the entire building was flooded with visitors, so I had to do a lot of people retouching because they were too distracting. I decided to leave a few of them in, though, to maintain a natural mood. I also used Luminar's "Magic Light" tool to repair the unattractive "light blobs" along the balustrade. The 7-14 mm lens is great but it sucks at light stars, and Magic Light helps to fix that by turning blobs into pleasing-looking light stars and so helps to smooth out one of the lens's biggest flaws.
Wishing you a happy weekend and see you on Sliders Sunday (which this image is for, too)!