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My focus in Tuscany this Summer was to shoot Street and to avoid standard tourist pics, but well, what can you do when you see a sky like this. I shot this for HDR (I tried a bracketed series even), but on second thoughts, I thought why would I do that? So, this is
No HDR, No Tonemapping I must say that I was skeptical about Pisa, seeing it as one of the worst touristic clichés ever and I postponed going there for quite some time, but I was wrong, it was awesome. Not because there happens to be a leaning tower (I could mention you four more of those from the top of my head), but because of the architecture. The real star for me is the cathedral, with it's Byzantine-Arabian-local Romanesque influenced interior, which - Tardis-like - manages to look bigger than the exterior. The complex shows that, although Pisa is a provincial backwater now, at one time the Pisans had a reason to feel like they were living in the Tokyo or London of their age. Photoshop CS3, curves, perspective. I dedicate this to all my friends and watchers who sent me on my way with the best of wishes, and whom I genuinely missed even amidst visions like the above.  Comments
"It wasn't anybody's fault, it just happened"...
 Thanks, DC!  -- "STREET" is great fun, but it's NOT pics of empty streets, your feet on the pavement, graffiti, traffic lights, ten poses of your girlfriend, or buildings without people. More info --> [link]  Beautiful image!
 This makes me want to visit Pisa so much more than the million shots of people posing, holding up the tower  -- Street photography is NOT a photograph of an empty street, traffic lights or graffiti. If you want to find out what street photography is really about check out the The Yard Collective [link] We adamantly refused to take any of those with ourselves, although I made a silly Street shot of such a person from the wrong corner.
 And I considered doing a shot pushing the tower over, but the cathedral stands in the way.  Somehow it bothers me that the complex isn't admired for the things that make it really unique and special.  -- "STREET" is great fun, but it's NOT pics of empty streets, your feet on the pavement, graffiti, traffic lights, ten poses of your girlfriend, or buildings without people. More info --> [link]  beautyful, isn'it?
-- call me ina Time to start running boot camp photography tours!
 You WILL take a photograph of the Leaning Tower of Pisa! You WILL NOT pose in the cliché tourist fashion! You WILL appreciate the structure in it's entirety! Failure is not an option!   -- Street photography is NOT a photograph of an empty street, traffic lights or graffiti. If you want to find out what street photography is really about check out the The Yard Collective [link]  Excellent work!
  Wonderful photo , Eric !
 Hele mooie foto, Eric! Ik ben in 2002 in Pisa geweest, en ook ik vond het een reuze leuke plek. Ik vind de doopvont ook prachtig.
 -- Feel free to visit my gallery   Beautiful shot, Eric. The sky is amazing and sets off the architecture of the cathedral well. The building on the right seems to be a little tilted though.
-- "You are a photographic and community retard, go play in traffic!" ~quoted from a friend |
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September 24, 2009
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