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Allianz Arena

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This stadium is very nice. Great design and great architecture.
Shot taken in Munich, Germany.
Image size
1000x1500px 946.08 KB
Make
Canon
Model
Canon EOS 350D DIGITAL
Shutter Speed
1/400 second
Aperture
F/14.0
Focal Length
55 mm
ISO Speed
400
Date Taken
Oct 4, 2009, 2:45:23 PM
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:star::star::star::star-half::star-empty: Overall
:star::star::star::star-half::star-empty: Vision
:star::star::star::star-empty::star-empty: Originality
:star::star::star::star-half::star-empty: Technique
:star::star::star::star::star-empty: Impact

Stadiums always are good subjects to photography. The Allianz Arena is no exception.
What we have here is a detail of the stadium's "coating" a surface that is illuminated by color at night.
The contrast of the colors are nice and succesfull: The whites are lovely exposed, while the blue grad of the sky provides a nice and calm surround to them.
On a close examination, there are some issues. Sensor dust is evident in (few) spots, having a clean sensor is no big deal, and even if you do miss some spots, those are very easily fixed in post-processing.
I can only guess why such a small aperture was chosen, most likely to ensure that the entire coating will be in focus, but at 55mm even a smaller aperture would have sufficed. The problem is that to use such small F value and having the camera (most likely) hand-held a larger ISO value must be dialed in. That always produces some noise, which is unnecessary in this image. It looks like a sunny day, one stop down in F would give an ISO of 200 ensuring a cleaner image. The white airplane line in the sky could have also been avoided / fixed in post-processing. It's not a dealbreaker but I'd have the photo without it.

Overall, while the stadium has been photographed to pieces and this is a quite common view of it, it's a very pleasing picture to the eye. Composition works well following loosely the rule of the thirds.

Not very original, but a nice picture (and print) overall.