Centre of Hamburg
Pic 1: The Hamburg Rathaus with a nice sunspot behind it. Another favourite photo, and just about what I was trying to do, although the building could have been darker still I think.
Pic 2: Taken from near Jungfernstieg and the Alster, a view of the Hamburg Fernsehturm, which I alway think looks like a squashed version of the Berlin TV tower. Thanks to Ms Jones, I managed to get some of the contours of the clouds by metring them first. I like the little details in traffic light silhouettes etc.
Pic 3: One that wasn’t what I wanted, as a contrast. St Petri Kirche on Mönckebergstraße, which I wanted to be in silhouette. More detail on the buildings is nice, but not planned!
Pic 4: Part of the Rathaus plus some crazy tree in the foreground.
It could be that it was just too bright to make it silhouetty enough to satisfy you… also, have a look at the negative for that picture: It could be that the lab tried to correct for the darkness by printing it so that you’d get detail. That’s a problem with metering things specifically and then not printing them yourself. The same is probably true of the St. Petri Kirche, but I seem to remember that we had difficulties metering that one because of how bright the light was on it. I do love the way the Rathaus picture came out though – pure silhouettes are nice, but I like that you can see the detail. It’s still dark, but you can see the detail. Anyway, when you eventually learn how to print, I can show you how to make that negative print exactly how you want it to look. xx
you spelled “center” wrong, dan.