A photo from the great library “Philologische Bibliothek” in Berlin I shot in 2009. The library was built by architect Norman Foster.
It was not so easy to get the permission to publish photos from there, but finally I managed it.
I published a whole series from this great building, you can find the pictures here.
Some new shots from my trip to Paris. On my last day there I visited the Eiffel Tower very early in the morning. It was a very foggy february day, so no great view from the tower. But a very interesting and special possibility to make some photos, that are not looking like tourist shots. I could spend hours viewing Paris from above. You can find so many details everywhere. I hope I can share this feeling with this 6 photos.
If you want to visit the Eiffel Tour its a good idea to buy your ticket online previously, so you can avoid long waiting times.
Some Making-Of Shots:
This is an older shot from 2009. I visited Berlin in August 2009 for 5 days to shoot some architecture. I published already two photos (1, 2) from the Marie-Elisabeth-Lüders-Haus, but I stumbled about this one in my archives and wanted to process it. Its a more clean and straight photo of the building, and I suits more to my actual vision of architecture photography. I hope I will do some shots of this building in the future … I read about an expansion, that is currently being built and will be finished in 2014.
This photo shows everything, whats so fascinating about La Defense. Lights, fantastic architecture and different levels. The traffic level is under the ground and you only see this level from some spots. This spot is may be the most interesting. This place shows also the transition from the business district La Defense to the suburb Nanterre on the left side in the background. The contrast between architecture style and also color temperature is very interesting.
Some technical details:
Canon 5D Mark II – Canon EF 17-40 f/4 L USM
ISO 100 – f/11 – 25 sec.
To get such a wide angle of view I made six 17mm portrait shots and stitched them together.
To get to this point is very easy, its only a few minutes away from La Defense Metro and RER Station.
On the following photo you can see the stairs where I made the photo. GPS coordinates: Latitude 48.89078760061403 Longitude 2.234686464071274
