Berlin the capital city of Germany, the location of DCU FotoSoc's trip for 2014. Being to Germany many times before i expected a smililar expreancy to what Munich and Nürburg had given me. But what I got was far different, and the only way in which i can describe it would be alternative. Berlin is famous for its street art scene, its modern architecture and night life. On the first day we took an alternative tour of berlin, seeing some of the local street art, along with heading off to a street art work shop where were created our own stencils.
That night we headed out on a pub crawl getting to see bars that we wouldn't get to see anywhere else, sadly I don't have any photos other then iPhone shots that real don't do any of the places justice that we visited.
Day 2 and myself and another photographer got up early grabbed a quick breakfast and hit the streets for some good streets shooting, trying to get no so touristy shots a tourists. The fun of jumping into tramlines to get shots and focusing on angles that aren't normally seen.
later that Day we all met up and head on a city tour of berlin, getting to see the berlin wall, checkpoint charlie and the jewish memorial and the brandenburg gate. For this part I'm going to let the photos do the talking as really its best i show you what we seen.
As a portrait photographer, naturally i snook in time to capture some portraits during the day. The crisp cold, fantastic blue sky and historic setting really lent themselves to some spectacular shots not only on this day but later ib the week when we visited another part of the berlin wall.
The highlight of trip happened the second night, with a crazy idea to go out shooting during the night at around 2am, what happened that night really made the trip. Myself and two other decided to walk from our hostel to the brandenburg gate in -3 deg. C which took nearly an hour due to the constant stopping and starting to take photos. The brandenburg gate is rarely deserted enough to capture a shot that shows the whole gate and down the street on the other side of it. Taking the perfect opportunity to grab the shot I snapped off about 5 frames hoping that that would be enough as we had to move quick in the cold. I then decided to snap a portrait using a composite method taking around 10 photos for one portrait, Here are the results which really blew me away when i seen them.
