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Facades of Venice 2
Image Title:  Facades of Venice 2
 
 By: Thilo Bayer  
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Photographer Thilo Bayer {K:50301}
Project #36 Magic Light Camera Model Nikon D70
Categories Cityscape
Journalism
Alternative Process
Film Format
Portfolio Night/Low Light
Statics in the Dynamics
Venice
Lens Nikon  50mm f/1.4D AF Nikkor
Uploaded 4/21/2005 Film / Memory Type ISO 800
    ISO / Film Speed 0
Views 247 Shutter 1/15
Favorites Aperture f/1.4
Critiques 35 Rating
5.55
/ 15 Ratings
Location City -  Venice
State -  VENETO
Country - Italy   Italy
About Subject background: Venice by night, again. This time, I stand on a Vaporetta and shoot the cityscape. 1/15s, handheld, 50mm, f/1.4. moving vaporetta.

PS concept: mild work on levels and colors. I know, this image could be sharper, but personally, I love the soft look and the "dreaming" atmosphere.

Honest feedback highly appreciated.
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There are 35 Comments in 1 Pages
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Mark Drago   {K:10869} 4/21/2005
lovely shot Thilo-- and very good treatment. try to crop out bright light on left? (I know--this is a pet peeve of mine) --that way, photo is more "internally" framed in shadow


Joe Teng   {K:16723} 4/21/2005
Great composition! However, i prefer it sharper though! Cheers!

Best regard Joe


Thilo Bayer   {K:50301} 4/21/2005
hey mark,

you mean that the left side should start with a shadow? a well-thought idea... thanks, man!

thilo


Omar Amroussy   {K:3396} 4/21/2005
nice colors and continuty


prachi patil   {K:963} 4/21/2005
Wow!!!!
Great shot!!!
Great night*
And Great Dream-shot:)

Regards,
Chi:))


Antonio Trincone   {K:23167} 4/21/2005
quite nice reflections; full of colors, love it


NN     {K:26787} 4/21/2005
Hi Thilo! Very beautiful colours/reflections & mood! I can feel the warm night ...


Galal El Missary   {K:84194} 4/21/2005
Beautiful composition, exposure and color .


Jeanette Hägglund   {K:59985} 4/21/2005
Beautiful nightshot with very nice colours.
How much do you travel Thilo??? I just wonder????!!!!

Jeanette


Hugo de Wolf   {K:185005} 4/21/2005
Hi Thilo, I see both Marks' as well as joe's point. The light on the left could well be cropped out, and I like marks' phrasing of "is more "internally" framed in shadow" Joe's point about the sharpness is only relative; concidering this is a hand held shot at 1/15', it's of a very good quality. Funny how practise helps you improve, doesn't it? I rarely take a tripod with me, but I'm getting better and better at it the more I shoot, I feel. (yes, the last ore to iron shot was also made hand held, but I tend to wedge the camera a bit in between whatever is available) Solid shot, and again, the unusual toning to make it tick.

Cheers,

Hugo


Thilo Bayer   {K:50301} 4/21/2005
Hi Jeanette,

oh no, not so often =) I could travel a lot more, if my job would let me =)

But I always have my cam with me, and I tend to be very productive the last holidays... in Venice, I took around 700 photos =)

take care,

thilo


Todd Miller   {K:16464} 4/21/2005
i love these reflected lights thilo....great stuff. and i am again impressed by your tripod like hands. from a vaporetta too?? impressive.....


Paul's Photos   {K:34954} 4/22/2005
Venice.. venice.. venice :) can never get enough of this city. Beautiful lighting. I agree that the image is soft but sometimes it can enhance the mood your trying to convey which is what art is all about ..


Carlheinz Bayer   {K:14220} 4/22/2005
Very nice!...but I think I would convert this to B&W...
CB


Roberto Carli   {K:13689} 4/22/2005
Amazing nocturnal!!!!!!I think very good despite the difficult execution,like it very much,congrats!!!!


Cenk KIRBAS   {K:1739} 4/22/2005
Lovely colors of the night. Especially this kind of your photos make me feel I am there and watching the view from a hotel window. Live and natural. Cheers friend.


Angelo Villaschi   {K:49617} 4/22/2005
You left your hand-held "steadycam" superpowers in San Francisco?

Just kidding!

Nice point of view and time of day (good colour in the sky), but pitty about the movement. It is too obvious.


Thilo Bayer   {K:50301} 4/22/2005
Hi Angelo,

hehe, it's not the same standing on a moving boat and standing on a non-moving lawn (although the lawn was horribly wet and I had to throw my shoes away afterwards) =)

thx for the honest feedback.

thilo


Orazio Minnella   {K:47053} 4/22/2005
Excellent night shot with beautiful lights abd colors


Andre Denis   {K:56482} 4/22/2005
Hi Thilo,
I think I'm going to agree with Angelo on this one. The colours and the reflection are great, but in this case, the overall blur is kind of too much. It comes across as a photo that you tried to take a sharper image of, but didn't work out, then tried to do something with.
Probably the reason I see it this way is because I've done this myself so many times :) It's awful hard to get sharp images with 1/15 f 1:4 moving in a boat.
Andre


Mark Drago   {K:10869} 4/22/2005
this is what I was thinking of-- though now that I look at it, I'm not sure if it's an improvement on your lovely original


Tony Diana   {K:13396} 4/23/2005
Linda y dificl imagen, saludos


Giorgio Goretti   {K:15471} 4/23/2005
Wonderful work Thilo,
so you did this shot in a moving vaporetto?
extraordinary indeed!
the result you got, let me say, is quite stunning!
Not so easy to get so balanced tones over the whole scene, as you did...not so easy.
Simply excellent!

cheers
Giorgio


Zeev Scharf   {K:24824} 4/24/2005
Excellent nightshot of beautiful Venice Thilo
I also like very much the dreamy look here
7++++++++
Many thanks for commenting "Fishing pond IR"
My best regards


Miguel Andrade   {K:5463} 4/24/2005
Venice... beautiful city!
Excellent photo with a very good light!
Congrats to you

Miguel


Maja Gligoric   {K:13402} 4/24/2005
Nice colorful image but could be sharper.
Good lighting.

Regards


Carsten Ranke   {K:14453} 4/25/2005
First impression was "a bit unsharp", and I read your info about handheld etc and the discussion (thats the advantage of latecomers like me...). Then I thought about sharpening, a fairly good job would do "Focus Magic" with a layer mask, applied only to parts of the picture. YOur point is valid, the softness is nice and our eyes are not as sharp in the dark as in daylight, too. So, the impression is more natural here. If that is you intention, this is ok. Colors are very nice, compositionwise I like Mark`s idea with the crop.
Regards; Carsten


arwa abdullah   {K:34425} 4/25/2005
Thilo did you take an image of the gondolas with slow shutter speed? Bet they will look ghostly and dreamy1 if you want to go soft go all the way ;)
The image is unsharp but theres nothing you can do about it now, it?s a good excuse to go back to Venice ;)
The lights reflection on the water and the yellow tones make up for the softness!


Thilo Bayer   {K:50301} 4/27/2005
Hi Carsten,

I guess I have to try focus magic, as my tools cannot be applied just to parts of the image. thx for the info.

rest assured that my next trip to Venice will be more succesful regarding the outcome of sharper images ;-)

best wishes,

thilo


Thilo Bayer   {K:50301} 4/27/2005
Hi Arwa,

good idea with the moving boats =)

Thilo


Thilo Bayer   {K:50301} 4/27/2005
Hi Andre,

actually, it's 1/15 and f1/1.4 =)

I had my reasons why I didn't upload this picture within the first row of Venice pics. this is the second lineup where I wasn't sure to upload them at all.

thilo


arwa abdullah   {K:34425} 4/27/2005
hi thilo
so you didn?t...wish I can go again to Venice armed with my D70 and the new fisheye!!!!
and to lake Como, Tuscany Rome, just wish i can go to Italy


Thilo Bayer   {K:50301} 4/28/2005
hi arwa,

actually I did some shots but I wasn't very pleased with the outcome =)

problem is that Venice seems to be deserted after 8 p.m.

thilo


Raf D   {K:10453} 5/2/2005
Excellent image. The soft focus here works as it gives a different ambiance to the shot. It's almost a bit more close to reality, meaning how we actually see the original place. Nice work! -- Kind regards, Rafael


Thilo Bayer   {K:50301} 5/4/2005
Hi Giorgio,

thanks a lot for the kind words.

thilo


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