Festival of Lights - Berlin

Believe it or not, this was "right first time", which was sort of lucky because be the time I got to the N I had to stop to think how to do the mirror image (painting the letters from "behind"). 

There was somebody behind my camera watching me as I was light-painting. When I was finished he was kind of curious to see the result so I let him have a look at the screen. And he smiled.

Festival of Lights - Gendarmenmarkt

By the time we took this one, my feet were already starting to complain (sort of chilly night!). I have the feeling it would have been better to do the photo with some light available, but you can not have it all.

Looking at it now, just wondering if from the composition point of view, it would have been better to keep walking a bit to get the concert hall properly into the photo. But then, without a wide lens sometimes there is so much you can do.

Festival of Lights - Kaisersaal

Las dos damas del fondo no dejaban de hacerse fotos en el espejo (con flash!) y con la cantidad de gente que había esa noche era imposible sacar una foto limpia. Por suerte, esto siempre está disponible así que ya volveré alguna otra vez.

Festival of Lights - Potsdamer Platz

Festival of Lights 2011

FoL (v)

El resto de las fotos están aquí. / Some other photos are here.

FoL (iv)

FoL (iii)

FoL (ii)

En realidad esta foto no tiene nada que ver con el Festival of Lights, excepto que ese día todo el mundo anda por la calle con el trípode a cuesas, y claro, ya que estás, pues aprovechas.

I wanted to take this one for a long time now. I have similar ones with day light, but not quite the same as at night.

Festival of Lights 2010

Last year I was in England during the Festival of Lights. This year I went out again to take some photos. I learned the lesson from previous times and got more layers of clothes than you can think of. I am not sure if I took the gloves off for the one above. Probably not.

Noche de los Trípodes 2008

Parece que fue ayer, y ya ha pasado un año. Y me alegra poder decir que he aprendido algo en este tiempo: me he acordado de ponerme dos pares de calcetines!

En fin, las fotos están aquí. A lo mejor la semana que viene hago otra escapada para hacer unas pocas fotos más.

Looks like it was yesterday, and the night of the tripods is back. I´m really glad to see that I actually learn something from year to year, so this time I remembered to put on two pair of socks! Warm feet give you the extra bit of patience to try and get a nicer shot rather than rushing the whole thing.

The photo gallery is here and I may do another photowalk during the week as there are loads of buildings left.

La noche de los trípodes...

En realidad se llama Festival of Light porque han iluminado muchos edificios en el centro de la ciudad. Pero había tropecientos mil fotógrafos con trípodes por todas partes (yo incluído), tomando fotos a diestro y siniestro.

Por lo pronto anoche aprendí que para hacer buenas fotos me hacen falta unos buenos guantes y unos calcetines gordos. Que frío que hacía...

Un set de Picasa con fotos se puede ver aquí. Me gustaría saber cual os gusta más.

It´s actually called Festival of Light because there are many buildings illuminated for a couple of weeks. But there were loads of photographers with tripods (me included), literally everywhere taking photos like mad.

I learned quite a few things yesterday night. The main one is that if I ever want to take good shots I urgently need gloves and thick socks. It was damn cold!

You can see a Picasa set with photos here. I´d like to know which one you like best.