Uploads from Sprengben [why not get a friend], tagged blackandwhite

Reaching Down From Heaven

nobody@flickr.com (Sprengben [why not get a friend]) — Fri, 27 Apr 2012 01:02:22 -0700

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How are you my dear Flickr friends? I am happy to have the possibility to post a photo again. The month’s before I was really packed with a lot of work at my university.

Today I show you a black and white edition of the German “Bundestag” in Berlin. What you see here is something pretty amazing. This is the Air Condition system of the Bundestag. I guess a lot of you guys do not know that the roof of the Bundestag is opened to catch fresh Air for the “Plenarsaal”.

At least I didn’t know this before I visited the roof.

I had the Olympic thought to erase all the people who stood at the roof. This was possibly the worst idea I ever had :) but it makes the photo very clean.

If you look close you will possibly find some mistakes.
I am somehow running out of words. That’s why I shut up now!

Thanks for coming by my stream and showing love. I really appreciate!

Ben

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Color Key Week – Red Stairs

nobody@flickr.com (Sprengben [why not get a friend]) — Sat, 28 Aug 2010 06:09:09 -0700

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Whoa Color Key Week is arduous…

Today no techtalk and not even a good processed photo… I am sorry about this.
I wanted to cut out the rail but just image the work this would take! OMG :)

So then here you see the result. I personally like the red color. The photo would really be cool if the rail would be cut out perfectly.

If you want to particitpate in the Color Key Week tell me about your color key photos uploaded this week. I will comment and look at them!

Ben

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Color Key Week – Finest Scents of Singapore

nobody@flickr.com (Sprengben [why not get a friend]) — Fri, 27 Aug 2010 02:14:33 -0700

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I’m gonna do some techtalk on this one so this blog entry could be interesting for you.

First of all I need to apologize because this image isn’t really a color key image but well I think it fit’s quite well in the series because of the three significant colors used here. Red Yellow and Blue. It’s quite near to the RGB spectrum and maybe that’s why at least in my eyes the colors fuse perfectly.
Of what are you reminded when you see the image. Close your eyes and think about it for a while. For me it reminds me of the Novel “Das Parfum” by Patrick Süßkind. I’m not so sure if it is translated into English. In the Novel there is the main character- Grenouille. An absolutely strange guy. Dirty, no one likes him and he doesn’t like anyone, too. The only passion this guy has is to experiment with scents. In the story he develops the perfect perfume that charms everyone.
For me this picture on the one hand symbolizes purity and the lovely scent of perfume but on the other hand dirt that is covert by the beauty. Somehow a catching tension is achieved by the image.

So how have I done this?

First I went into this beautiful store at Arab Street Singapore. It’s a shop for parfume only and it’s very minimalistic. In a city like Singapore minimalistic is luxury and it is expensive because space is rare. Then I looked at the picture you can see underneath and thought man this in not how I imagined it when I was thinking of the store.
The picture is hazy and gray. Something must happen.

I decided to use a gradient filter starting with blue on the top and ending with yellow at the bottom. The best way is to see it at the left bottles and the wooden front. I allingned the effect, that the absconding lines are colored perfectly. Then I used a high pass filter to work out the popping wood structures. As the light comes from the bottom and illuminates the bottles in a nice way I choose to intensify this effect by adding the Orton glow effect to the image and multiplied it negatively with the layer in Photoshop. One has to be good in masking to do so because the Glow effect would destroy the structure in the wood and the writings on the bottle if you don’t take care. In the end I used a noise cancelling filter to get rid of noise coming from the highpass filter. I quickly added some contrast to boost the light from the bottom. That’s it.
Tell me how you like the result if you read this article. If you try to do a picture like this on your own let me see the result. I know everyone of you has really good skills so I can learn from you, too.

You can find the shop here: sifr.sg/

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Ben

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Color Key Week – The Eye Of The Tiger

nobody@flickr.com (Sprengben [why not get a friend]) — Wed, 25 Aug 2010 03:24:05 -0700

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Roooaaar! Run, be fast otherwise there might be a problem…

If this is what he thinks? I don’t know. The only thing I know is that the white Tiger as seen in the Singapore Zoo is majestic and royal.

Isn’t it interesting that an animal like the tiger can be so beautiful and fascinating whilst being one of the most dangerous animals on this planet? Nature always provides something unexpected. In case of a child it would surely want to cuddle with the Tiger because of it’s squashy coat. The first time he roars the child possibly would never trust a Tiger again…

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Ben

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Color Key Week – Zebras pleasure

nobody@flickr.com (Sprengben [why not get a friend]) — Mon, 23 Aug 2010 08:34:29 -0700

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Yummi! Look at this green, delicious, juicy grass. The Zebras look as if they really admire it.

Is it only me or do you feel the tension, too when looking at our Monochromate friends? To me Zebras are sooo fascinating. In case of an animal that is dirty in most of the cases the Zebras always symbolize purity to me.
:) I love this shot!

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So far have a good start in the loooong loooong loooonng week!
Ben
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