Venice Italy Foot Bridge
Venice Italy Foot Bridge. The Hi-Res version is available for print, please contact me if you would like a print.
Venice Italy Foot Bridge. The Hi-Res version is available for print, please contact me if you would like a print.
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VeniceTime
Within a few hours of the middle of the day, not sure.Lighting
Nothing special about the lighting, daytime shot, boring light.Equipment
This was shot in 2013, before I got into interchangeable lens cameras. This was taken using a compact zoom camera, possibly a 3 shot exposure bracket.Inspiration
Travel, the architecture, color and texture of Venice. Composition is king, always will be and my photography focus in 2013 was purely on training the photographic eye, before moving onto more serious camera hardware that I have now, knowing that hardware is far less important in taking good photos than the experience and trained eye of the photographer.Editing
I was using freeware at the time, mostly Gimp with little skill in editing, especially using layers. This image from memory had a "dream smoothing" filter applied, part of the GMIC plugin for Gimp. I'm sure I did some more processing to bring out that colorful cartoon look also.In my camera bag
Sony A7II & A6000 with 16-35f4, 85f1.8 as my go to lenses. plus some various kit lenses and old school manual primes. Tripod and IR remote trigger. Editing now is mainly LR, PS, NIK & Topaz.Feedback
Composition, composition, composition! Regardless if you have basic or high end camera, regardless your editing skill, composition is key as the starting point, and that includes mood and interest in the scene. This training of the eye never finishes, if you want to continue to grow your skill. You can go spend mega bucks on equipment starting out, it may give you sharp detailed pics, but it will not give you good photos if you haven't already trained yourself to identify and capture a scene or mood well. If you don't have the editing skills yet, that's fine, that also comes with time/practice, allowing you to go back through your archives of well composed images and giving them those loving touches to make them shine, assuming you nailed the composition in the first place ;)
