Berlin: SonyCenter, A Frog's View on... #3

Please also take a look at the rest of this series of 10 photos. Thanks

for your time. Comments most welcome.

I've already commented on #7, which was the first I looked at. Now, I've looked at the whole series, and it is wonderful. There is much to study in this series about forms, angles and composition, and I really like each image the best when it's the one I'm viewing at the moment! And if these images are a good representation of how a frog sees the world, I'd like to be one, at least for awhile! :-)

same place...

I'm glad you came to visit and present another view. No leaves on the tree, so you are visiting (living in) Berlin often? You managed to find a position that gives an impression the dark building being just transparent sheet of tinted glass. I couldn't afford time for daytime visit here, but wait untill my next visit... "Einmal Berlin, immer wieder Berlin!"

Thank you for your kind words. I did look at photos taken in Berlin here on PN before my trip amd made myself a challence to figure out alternative angles. I added the frog to the title because my camera had several times, like here, the low-low position with tripod legs spread out fully. While flocks of tourists with their P&S cameras were shooting standing, with their hands reached forward I did utlize the articulating display of my R1 and was thinking of owners of dSLRs who would have great problems right here. How come there are photographers claiming there is no need for an articulating display with LiveView on a serious camera?! Further, I would never ever accept a wide-angle lens less than 24mm (35mm equiv.). My experience so far helps me to estimate the potential shooting positions ahead and it's quite easy to frame the view with hand-held camera, but what a struggle to get the same precise position and angle when camera is mounted on tripod with ball head. Time consuming task, I'd say...

...seems to me the frog is a Berliner too! Markku, you keep outdoing yourself, with out loosing your style you provide us with new interesting sights, through the power of observation, pre-visualization and experimentation.

 

Thank you for your kind words and that you accepted my invitation. I have told this earlier: usually I hesitate to take a free ride by shooting world famous architecture/art, rather prefer to mundane. But here, as a tourist, I had to figure out whenever alternative camera positions were to find - quite a challenge among the plentiful of people strolling around. If only i Could have access to those buildings higher up from ground level.... (dreaming)... ;-)

Hallo Markku, Schönes Bild, aber Schade, ich wohne nicht in Berlin... herzlich rosa