It all started here:
This actually small atrium inside an office building has lots of technic-style silver faces and in the back three very futuristic looking elevators. Quite a few photographers loved to capture them, not only due to its organic looking shape of the elevators, also due to the colors of the elevator windows. Both gives the people some thinking about the existence of something unreal, something sci-fi. The picture above is just a panorama, put together of quite a few images to gain a very wide view. Here the focus is still on keeping the silver faces with its many details with some emphasizing of color in the middle with focus on the light reflex in the middle.
But in the end I was so attracted by that place, wishing to emphasize the elevators even more and moving the scenery from the real looking place to another scenery. So I came up with the following greenish images, actually the same but different ratios.
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In big as a background paper spread over my four monitors it was looking amazing to my eyes. But still here, due to the focus on technical and sci-fy, the colors scheme was chosen carefully and still keeping the metal-like style. There are no big light reflexes or such things. This came with my next creations of that series.
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So there you can see other color schemes and lots of lights reflexes, birds flying into the exit in the middle, pulsating laser-beams in the additional elevator tubes. Also here the amount of walls with elevators has increased, actually now there are four such elevator walls, but by looking deeply you see there is a second level of the elevators in the middle, so the actual building is way taller. The PS-Image undercame a big increase in size. The first image of that edit-level (the left greenish one) was nice but not what I intended to do. Its too saturated and to much. So I chosed a more grayish color scheme, a different more dynamic looking perspective and was quite happy with the result. But not really satisfied with the result, still to much color, not enough dynamic and the eyes were still wandering without an idea by looking at the images. The eyes shouldn't focus on colors, rather on the structures, the big space inside this building and the things happening there. So the many details were nice but needed to be reduced for a more structured way the people look at the image and exploring the space.
So keeping a little bit of the angle of view, some more desaturation, with color keys marking the level of stages the elevators can go (the orange-red parts) plus one normal and one version with even more dynamic and finally I had the images I wanted to archieve. I really liked the sun in the exit but here I had to remove it.
It's been a longer learning process for me, to arrange everything correctly. Also I've realized some obious and some smaller ideas putting more dynamic into the image. Finally said it was not done just by putting the eight different walls with the three elevators plus the additional elevator tubes plus the light reflexes together. It was more a matter of balancing the colors with the perspectives the positionings of the moving elevators and getting a feeling of the image.
So for me the two greenish looking images, almost at the beginning plus these two last image were what I wanted to archieve, giving me ideas and possibilities for future work.
In the meanwhile there are licenses sold but in the end it's all a personal thing creating something I like!
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on my journeys through Norway and Sweden I've stumbled on many fascinating churches. Here I list some of my pictures from the (for me) most amazing stave church I've found, the one in Borgund. Approximately every seven years the wooden churches are being covered with tar, over and over, to protect them against weather, insects and the time itself.
When I arrived at the place of the stave church of Borgund, the church was entirely black - making the impressive view even more captivating to me. Not far from the highway ways a long road passing by on weed ... and there ...
in the midde of the weed one could see that bizarre little piece of artwork, the stave church of Borgund. The scenery was surreal looking but even though sooo real. I've seen many strange buildings in the world but here in the middle of the weed along the small road this black architactural eyecandy was attracting visitors.
A really nice place to rest while travelling from one place in Norway to another.
One can say it's a small church, yes. All these stave churches are quite small, according to the type of architecture and thinking of the time they were built. The year the church was built is unsure, but the wood for the church was cropped in winter 1180/81 (according to Wikipedia). They found traces of an even older church underneath the basement. It was a time before the most known big cathedrals in Europe were the belief in many places changed from heathen to christianity.
One the first picture one can see one 'tiny' person to get a feeling about the size of the church. Standing inside it's looking very small, one would assume it's way bigger but the impressive attracting look is mainly the outer part, attracting many people long ago and nowadays.
]]>A while ago I've created my imagination series, a set of pictures regarding a staircase / stairwell with charming architecture. So let's pick it up and list some of them here into this blog.
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My first variation of this stair case. There were about 9 levels, more or less and this was shot from the bottom.
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Quite astonishing the way the different perspectives look like. I think the key is the curved and organic like structure that makes this building interesting.
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As you see there are different color-sets for some of the images. This is due the big impact possible while working on these stair-case images. Not all different variations are listed here. Here you can see all http://pkart.zenfolio.com/imagination .
Last but not least - yes, I couldn't resist - finally the heart-version. I was hasitating to publish but now it is ;)
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Feel free to comment or ask.
]]>on my journeys through Norway and Sweden I've stumbled on many fascinating churches. Mainly I'm talking about stave churches, made out of wood and very old. Most of the stave churches can be found in Norway. A few outside but these are very rare and almost only replica.
Quite often the bell tower was not part of the church itself due to stability reasons. Some of them are very interesting to look at. From time to time I'll do a post with new pictures of stave churches. On my last journey I've been almost two months there in the north, so there's a big bunch of pictures still need to be processed.
Let's start with the one in Heddal. Coming from Sweden with a stopp not far from the border in Notodden this church is a good starting point. Just a few km from Notodden this was my first stave church seen in real. I was really impressed by the astonishing architecture. In the end there are many pictures resulting of my two visits there.
I should mention that things from modern civilization are removed from my stave church pictures.
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To be continued ...
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One thing is sure, I'll come back when the stage has gone. Furthermore I need to check a different place for the shooting the pano.
AddOn: Yes, next time the statue in the middle of the picture will be straight in front of the building ;)
AddOn September, 21th 2014: Being very busy working and trying many other places for pictures I had no time going there again. Furthermore moving away from Berlin I likely won't go there again. But neithertheless I'm quite happy now about the stage on the right in the image, gives the scenery something special.
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