Berlin "snapshot"

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From Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neue_Wache)
The Neue Wache was designed by the architect Karl Friedrich Schinkel in 1816 and is a leading example of German neoclassicism. Originally built as a guardhouse for the troops of the Crown Prince of Prussia, the building has been used as a war memorial since 1931. Been rededicated for a few times, since 1993, it serves as the "Central Memorial of the Federal Republic of Germany for the Victims of War and Tyranny." An enlarged version of Käthe Kollwitz's sculpture Mother with her Dead Son is directly under the oculus, and so is exposed to the rain, snow and cold of the Berlin climate, symbolising the suffering of civilians during World War II.

 

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Sculpture in front of the Konzerthaus and with the Deutscher Dom at the back. Added a warming filter in photoshop and then tried some layer blending effect.

 

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The Berliner Dom, fountain and the rainbow.

 

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Stairs:

Department store Quartier 206, look like giant ear and earrings.

Photoshopped in some green to be more eye catching (hopefully):

 

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now this is really lovely, if it was taken with the tilt corrected it will be even better :thumbsup:

The HDR for Nikolaiviertel is well done, and well composed, but the HDR for Rotes Rathaus (Red Town Hall) looks abit unnatural and flattened, sometimes a little shadow can be beautiful too. Some of the shots such as the first are a little soft on screen, which I thought can benefit from abit of sharpening

Enjoyed the series and the annotations! good read, post more!

Ryan

 

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now this is really lovely, if it was taken with the tilt corrected it will be even better :thumbsup:

The HDR for Nikolaiviertel is well done, and well composed, but the HDR for Rotes Rathaus (Red Town Hall) looks abit unnatural and flattened, sometimes a little shadow can be beautiful too. Some of the shots such as the first are a little soft on screen, which I thought can benefit from abit of sharpening

Enjoyed the series and the annotations! good read, post more!

Ryan

Thanks Ryan. For Red Town Hall, I know it is a bit too artificial looking, one of my most extreme HDR I think. Agree on the soft photos, I think I forgot to do sharpening. :embrass:

 

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Another stair, this time I put some cooling filter in PS, to get the color contrast

 

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While doing a last minute shopping at KaDeWe, Europe's largest shopping mall: