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Haus des Berliner Verlages (I)
The "Haus des Berliner Verlages" in Berlin, Germany. It's an office building where the "Berliner Zeitung" resides, located directly next to "Alexander Platz".
OK, here is the story regarding this photo (just to annoy :-). Actually, I wanted to shoot another location (the L40 in Berlin). But unfortunately I could not get the right perspective, or whatever. Be it like is is, the photos just did not look "right". So I walked back to Alexander Platz - quite disappointed. Then I saw this building. I drove by this building several times in the past, but somehow never looked at it as this day. It simple isn't a beautiful building. But at the time being, it looked nice. Don't know why - maybe because I had a vision of who it _should_ look like. I did stay there for a while, taking a series of photos. And this is one of them. Hope you like it.
Regarding post-processing: I straightened the perspective, converted to b/w (including some contrast adjustments) and gave it a slight blueish tone. Then I removed some contrast grain and sharpened for output. The post-processing was primarily done in Lightroom, contrast noise has been reduced with Nik Define, output sharpening with Gimp.
Metadata:
Camera: Canon EOS 450D
ISO 100
Focal length: 18mm (on APS-C)
Aperture: f/7,1
Shutter speed: 1/640 sec.
Haus des Berliner Verlages (I)
The "Haus des Berliner Verlages" in Berlin, Germany. It's an office building where the "Berliner Zeitung" resides, located directly next to "Alexander Platz".
OK, here is the story regarding this photo (just to annoy :-). Actually, I wanted to shoot another location (the L40 in Berlin). But unfortunately I could not get the right perspective, or whatever. Be it like is is, the photos just did not look "right". So I walked back to Alexander Platz - quite disappointed. Then I saw this building. I drove by this building several times in the past, but somehow never looked at it as this day. It simple isn't a beautiful building. But at the time being, it looked nice. Don't know why - maybe because I had a vision of who it _should_ look like. I did stay there for a while, taking a series of photos. And this is one of them. Hope you like it.
Regarding post-processing: I straightened the perspective, converted to b/w (including some contrast adjustments) and gave it a slight blueish tone. Then I removed some contrast grain and sharpened for output. The post-processing was primarily done in Lightroom, contrast noise has been reduced with Nik Define, output sharpening with Gimp.
Metadata:
Camera: Canon EOS 450D
ISO 100
Focal length: 18mm (on APS-C)
Aperture: f/7,1
Shutter speed: 1/640 sec.