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From: Austin, Texas USA
RE: Back into my photography (in reply to Escribano)
Beautiful shots, Simon. Perfect composition and colors.
Damn, I miss Italy! 3 1/2 years since our last visit. Maybe we'll make it this August to celebrate a friend's wedding in Friulia...if the virus permits.
RNJ
Lago di Como, photo by Larisa.
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RE: Back into my photography (in reply to Escribano)
I started shooting B&W in the pre digital days, pan-x I think, I think this helps a lot with composition, although with today’s digatal tools it’s easy enough to fix... but not really and it’s a trap of sorts.
What’s cool about digital is one my shoot a lot more to get that shot, bracketing costs nothing, and most digital cameras can be set up to take a handful of shots with various settings at the blink of an eye.
Later I was shooting skateboarding and that up shot was de rigor so I became used to use of the not typical angle regardless of the setting. It’s fun to incorporate into street photography. I’ve been using I little digital Licea fir a decade now and I had a look down viewfinder that I found to be vary intuitive, I lost it and haven’t been able to find one that I could afford...
HR
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I prefer my flamenco guitar spicy, doesn't have to be fast, should have some meat on the bones, can be raw or well done, as long as it doesn't sound like it's turning green on an elevator floor.
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From: Washington, DC
RE: Back into my photography (in reply to Escribano)
Beautiful shots, Simon. I love the way you captured the light.
Bill
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RE: Back into my photography (in reply to Escribano)
Nice work Escribano!
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RE: Back into my photography (in reply to Escribano)
I am envious too. My wife and I were giving serious consideration to moving there for an extended stay but alas the pandemic hit. Now am hoping to get there for a few months after spending the winter in Madeira. But that is two years from now so anything can happen.
Been to Italy quite few times but sorry to say the bulk of my photos are tourist shots. The shot I have posted is when I anchored in a bay for the night at the Isla De Vulcano in the Aeolian Islands as I was making my way to Sardinia.
Cheers
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RE: Back into my photography (in reply to Escribano)
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ORIGINAL: Escribano
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The tractor is a Lamborghini. This shot reminded me of YouTube videos of people starting the motors of vehicles that have been sitting in the woods for 70 years.
Great pics, Simon! Of course, there are a lot of good subjects for a photographer living in Italy.
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Probably clearance as it was inside the boundary fence but boundaries are circumspect here.
All safaris will be self-led. Hoping to pop down to Pisa this weekend.
That is what I thought.
Hopefully you can capture Pisano's pulpit in the Baptistry better than I ever was able to manage. Don't know if you have been but Lucca is an interesting town and I think the first Triumvirate was signed there if memory serves. It is remarkable the amount of significant historical sites located throughout Italy as well as the prehistorical ones too.
RE: Back into my photography (in reply to Escribano)
Vary nice!
Of course the guitar builder in me says, hmmm bet there is a rib and back set in there somewhere? Poplar?
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I prefer my flamenco guitar spicy, doesn't have to be fast, should have some meat on the bones, can be raw or well done, as long as it doesn't sound like it's turning green on an elevator floor.
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From: England, living in Italy
RE: Back into my photography (in reply to Escribano)
I am learning a lot more about digital editing and workflow, so I am revisiting some of my shots from last year which I kind of dismissed as snaps but were still taken with a decent camera.
From the Rose Garden in Florence.
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Joined: Jul. 12 2009
From: Washington, DC
RE: Back into my photography (in reply to Escribano)
Gorgeous, Simon. It looks like one of those famous paintings of the Tuscan landscape. If it were framed it would fit right in in a gallery.
Bill
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