Exactly one year ago I was thinking about doing astrophotography in cityscapes. And exactly one year ago I photographed the Tempodrom in Berlin for the first time. It was a pretty hard challenge trying to shot stars in this light polluted environment. I also had to deal with a lot contrails of the plains flying by as well as with a sky which was not that clear I was hoping it would be. In additions I had no wide angle lens to frame the whole beauty of this building.
Now, one year later everything was literally under a good star. Equipped with much more experience and a super wide angle lens I was able to shot the image I was planning and hoping for. Patience and the ambitious to get the shot really paid off.
Wow is it really the sky above Berlin? Awesome work I really love the picture, but I got one question, is the vase distorted in the picture or is it really of that shape?
Thank you so much Andrea! I am glad you like it. The vase is in fact distorted because of the wide angle I had tilt it up a bit to frame more stars. I tried to fix that in post but that looked even stranger. So I decided to deal with that :-)
And yes it is really the sky. To my surprise the sky was pretty clear this time. I worked out the details in Lightroom then. :-)
without that vase is a 5 star to me
Wow Axel! I don´t know what to say. Thanky ou so much!
im not a fan of star trailing, but with that building looks like some alien stuff going on. Really amazing photo that has that vase in the worst spot ever