Star View – Berlin, Germany – Markus Studtmann
Star View – Berlin, Germany – Markus Studtmann
The frame can make the image. In this case the buildings create a perfect frame for the night sky. Now all we need is a shooting star or satellite to fly by for the perfect image. Oh well, that may take a lifetime, so this is pretty spectacular in its own right. To find out how Markus created it please read his story below and then visit his website at www.paintingwithlight.de portfolio on www.500px.com/ulfff .
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Enter Markus:
This image was taken at the ‘Hackesche Hoefe’ in Berlin. I like this location a lot, but most of the day and the evening it is way too crowded with people there to confidently set up a tripod in the middle of this tight space. Therefore I took this image at midnight. I set up my tripod in the middle of the patio with a Canon 5D and a 17mm Tilt-Shift lens on it. Then I figured out with a few test shot the best exposure (4 seconds) at an aperture of f8.0 and saved it in manual mode. To get a wider field of view, I took not only a straight image, but shifted the lens in 12 different directions and got as a result 13 images in raw-format. I converted these images without much processing in Adobe Lightroom in tiffs, imported and merged them in Photoshop and then tried to find the best crop. What followed was a two hour trial and error Adobe Photoshop session with a lot of minor corrections of curves, exposure, color, contrast, sharpness and local dodge and burn to get the look I had in mind. At this point, I had an almost black and boring sky, because ISO 100 + f8.0 + 4s exposure is not enough to reveal enough star lights. Therefore I blended a second image from the nightsky of vienna I took a few weeks ago over the original black sky and that’s it 
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What a creative mind at work here.
Yisraela
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Nice trick to learn…just disappointing are the 10 “star like” reflections from the lamps that fake blend with the real stars in the background. I would have removed them in PS.
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A great shot that really sparkles
And now I’ve got “Stars” from “Les Mis” playing through my head. This is a happy thing. (:
Very nice!
The first thought that popped into my was “tunnel vision” as the buildings direct one’s view straight to the focal point. Great shot!
An unexpected use of perspective and shapes makes this quite good.