Many ED Bimmerfest members photograph their car in front of Neuschwanstein. Here are the directions to the photo spot - so you can spend your time touring the castles instead of boring your wife or significant other looking for the perfect photo spot.
Basically, driving down the main road, you will see some open farm fields off to the right. There is a "no traffic allowed" sign at the entrance to the street (Red circle with white center), but if you don't drive too far no one seems to mind. Park near the tree at the fork in the road (three hundred meters from the main road) and photograph your car with the castle in the background.
Late afternoon is probably the best time for a shot. A polarizer filter is a good idea to bring the colors out in your paint job. Try to a long lens to help magnify the castle, or less of a telephoto of you want to emphasize the car.
Taken on 10 November, 2015. It was an unusually warm beautiful November afternoon with full sun. Great weather but not so good for taking pictures at that spot at the time. Too bad I didn't have too much time finding another photo spot as I wanted to rush to Garmisch-Partenkirchen to go up to Zugspitz.
Taken on 10 November, 2015. It was an unusually warm beautiful November afternoon with full sun. Great weather but not so good for taking pictures at that spot at the time. Too bad I didn't have too much time finding another photo spot as I wanted to rush to Garmisch-Partenkirchen to go up to Zugspitz.
I didn't turn off the road to the official spot, because we were on at tight schedule on our way to the airport (it was raining the previous day when we toured the castles). Other than the rainy ending, it was a great two week trip (Bavaria, Prague, Krakow), and the most enjoyable 1,800 miles I've put on a car!
I know it's not a BMW, but I thought since I used this website a lot in planning my trip and since I used the official Bimmerfest photo spot, I might be able to post my picture too. If not, feel free to delete my post. Thanks for all of your help.
That is a great photo even if it does not feature a BMW. I have this theory that the tradition of photographing cars in view of the castle actually originated from that infamous car, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang being pictured on film as it flew over the Bimmerfest photo spot with the castle in the background.
Have an E36 and E90 M3 at home and was going to get the M2, but had a chance to do ED on this other car, which I couldn't pass up. I relied heavily on Bimmerpost for planning ED before I even ordered the car =P, so here's my photo from yesterday, at 6:30 pm. I kind of overshot the spot but someone was taking wedding photos at the tree so I had to turn off to the side. The plus side is I got both castles in the photo. Sorry for the non-bmw invasion but I think people will appreciate this.
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