clouds, gedächtniskirche, people, streets Taken with a Canon EOS 350D Digital + Tamron 17-50mm. * Exposure: 1/500s * Aperture: f/4.5 * ISO Speed: 100 * Exposure Bias: 0/2 EV * Flash: Flash did not fire * Exposure Program: Aperture priority * Focal Length: 17 mm The Kaiser-Wilhelm-Memorial-Church in Berlin. Further information can be found on Wikipedia. To get this look I processed the same image twice: one exposed for the sky, the other for the rest of the scene. Then I combined them using a mask. Composing it is a zen-like activity taking hours if you want to do it properly. Somehow I like this: it forces you to concentrate on the task at hands and it calms down a busy mind getting you focused. Perhaps it has to do with me being on holidays that I had chosen to use such a time-consuming technique. I can do it only once in a while unfortunately - because there are some huge rewards you get when using masks: first of all the total control of every aspect of your image. Second: you really "get in touch" with each element of your picture which can teach you a lot about arranging them in an aesthetically pleasing way so helping you to improve your composing skills next time you are out on the street. If you are interested, you can find the original images I worked with here.

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