When I came back from my last trip to Italy I had fair amount of photographs stored on my hard drive. I spent almost 2 weeks exploring northern parts of the country, including Trieste and Venice.
I managed to took some very interesting photos of many historical and iconic places of Italy. But I think the featured photo the best represents Italy, at least from my perspective.
It was very hot afternoon in Venice, far away from popular and busy tourists spots. I stumbled on this tiny cafe Chiodofisso where visitors, all of them Italians, were taking their time having afternoon snacks and sipping coffee. No rush, no hurry just very slow and lazy afternoon. It felt right.
Italy. Venice
Loc: 45°26’19” N 12°19’26” E
Deconstructing Featured Photo
Camera: Canon 60D
Lens: Sigma 10-20mm
Focal Length: 20mm
ISO: 100
Aperture: F8
Bracketing: 3 shots (-1; 0, +1)
Tripod: hand held
HDR Photography. Processed in Photomatix
Lightroom: import, tagging, export to Photomatix
Photomatix: I used 3 images to tone map image (-1; 0, +1), 16-bit tiff image was exported to Lightroom.
Lightroom: straightening, cropping, export as PSD image
Photoshop: cleaning, contrast, blur
Photoshop Plugins:
- Topaz DeNoise was used to reduce digital noise (sky area )
- Topaz Detail was used to enhance details in the middle of the fame.
