AIDEA Giovani - 2

This is the second shot (the one I prefer^_^)

This time I got an EXIF at least^_^
Camera Model: NIKON D300
Date Taken: 2009:02:21 16:44:07
Exposure Time: 1/1000 sec.
Aperture Value: 6.00 EV (f/8.0)
ISO Speed Rating: 200
Focal Length: 105.0 mm

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AIDEA Giovani 1

These are two shot made on Commission for AIDEA (Associazione Italiana Dottori in Economia Aziendale) Giovani.

They were to have a conference in my university and asked me for something "Naples" to use as a banner on the conference poster...

I proposed to shot something for them and  I got out to shoot something classic "Vesuvio" the sleeping volcano near Naples... I proprosed two different shots...
I really prefer the second one... it has stunning details and a broader perspective you can fall into... but they chose the first one.

Both shots were taken with the Nikkor AF-D 28-105 f3.5-4.5 an astounding lens I was lucky to get cheap^_^.

Postprocessing them was easy than before as I used Hugin^_^ After joining the shots I just used some filters to enhance colors and contrast and make them more post-card like^_^

I do not know why but I have no EXIF embedded in this shot... :(

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Mergellina

I believe it was July when I decided one morning to take my cheap tripod, and go haveing some photo fun at the first rays of light....

That morning I took several shots of boats, ships, seagulls BIF.. and tried my hand (and the tripod) to a Pano... it has been one of my favorite shots ever since!

It's a huge pano made of 5 shots (or maybe six) taken with the AF-D 50mm f1/1.4 and composed togheter BY HAND in GIMP... FAR MORE DIFFICULT than I tought it would have been

I needed the whole morning (5 or 6 hours!) just to align them correctly... luckily the AF-D 50 mm f1/1.4 has not that much distortion to correct^_^

This panorama is high 2532 pixel... so in the original there's far more detail than in this scaled down version^_^

Capomiseno

This shot is the last I've taken in that same afternoon.

It is a sights from a sightseeing near Monte di procida.

These are the beaches of Capomiseno (near Naples). 

In the summer they are used by several hundreds thousands of locals to go at seaside (mainly families and youngsters).

Some months later I've discovered another photographer on the same photo forum I write sometimes on have taken a photo on the same spot.

To say it all it is my favorite shot of the day AFTER the Italsider one.

EXIF Reads:

Camera Model: NIKON D300

Date Taken: 2009:04:13 16:43:15

Exposure Time: 1/400 sec.

ISO Speed Rating: 200

Focal Length: 28.0 mm

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Fazzo's Scape

This is hte shot designed by Fazzo...
It's a good one for me... the three is used as a frame and  recall the horizontal line of the wharf...

I was in error THIS is the second shot the previous one was the third.

EXIF reads:
Camera Model: NIKON D300
Date Taken: 2009:04:13 15:30:17
Exposure Time: 1/250 sec.
ISO Speed Rating: 200
Focal Length: 60.0 mm
Software: f-spot version 0.6.1.4

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Maietta's Wharf

The second keepr of the day was from a sightseeing over Pozzuoli.
This is the Maietta's Wharf a place where the largest Naples yachts can moor.
This is private and not public so it is fairly expensive too!!


Camera Model: NIKON D300
Date Taken: 2009:04:13 17:38:35
Exposure Time: 1/1000 sec.
ISO Speed Rating: 200
Focal Length: 70.0 mm
Software: BibblePro 4.10

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Don't lose sight on him! (Color)

Just the same shot as before but in a color version.

Exif Reads:

Model: Nikon d300

Software: Bible 4.10.1

Date: 2009:02:21 16:17:09

ISO: 200

F Number: f/8.0

Exposure Time: 1/50 sec.

Focal Length: 28.0 mm

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There's still hope

Ok... I usually see things in my photos many other pepole doesn't see... but I think this is an exception as several persons share my own reading of it^_^.

Ok so this leads me to change the usual order... first I'll show you the photo and after it I'll briefly give you some info on it...

Here it comes...

The exif is:
Camera Model: NIKON D300
Date Taken: 2009:01:31 15:55:11
Exposure Time: 1/80 sec.
Aperture Value: 4.97 EV (f/5.6)
ISO Speed Rating: 200
Flash Fired: Flash did not fire.
Exposure Program: Manual
Focal Length: 300.0 mm

This title givew away my own reading of the shot. The fisherman looking in the sky at the tip of the fishing rod hoping to see it move revealing the catch of a tasty treat... so here it is... it not too far off a normal reading and I think there's a clear message in it...

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When the fish doesn't get the bait.... (Color)

As already said this is the same exposure as before just with a color post-processing

When the fish doesn't get the bait....

In the same day of the previous photo I shoot another fisherman... it seemed more "sad" as he usually looked bown on hte waters near the shoreline...

I recall easily the shooting conditions of these few photos (there are 2 shots and three images from this same man^_^) as I was stopped by the Carabinieri as I was shooting near U.S. Ambassy in Naples.

This same shot has been post-produced in b/W and in Color (next photo on this blog) as I'm still today unsure on what I like best (troublesome to be me!!).

P.S. This was shot with the SIGMA 70-300... not the best glass in the world but still plenty useful!!

Exif Reads:
Camera Model: NIKON D300
Date Taken: 2009:01:31 15:49:43
Exposure Time: 1/400 sec.
Aperture Value: 6.00 EV (f/8.0)
ISO Speed Rating: 200

Red Sky, Black Castle

Ok this is the last shot from the previous series... this last three shots were all taken in the same morning only a few minutes from the other two.

IIRC this was the first one... I was going for a classic photo... the silhouette!

But a single silhouette is a boring one... moreover is a flat photo... I needed something to create a sensation of depth...

The main subject was the Castel Dell'Ovo A monument in Naples linked to an ancient myth... The depth was provided by the boat in the lower right...

I'm happy of this shot as it has come out exactly as I figured it out^_^

The right exposure

This is not one of my best shots... meybe it can be considered one of my worst!
But I keep looking at it as it is one that has teached me something...

This shot has been made several minutes before the previous one... and it is the best of three or four try!!
The contrast in the image forced me to choose or a washed sky or silhouetted boats!

With the same lights only a couple of minutes later... I shot the photo from the previous post... and that has a good exposure... why? as I turned my back at the rising sun! (there's another thing I could have done as I'll show you in the next post).

Exif reads:

P.s. I've already scheduled the next post before leaving...

Sails on the horizon....

This is a strange photo... maybe the last in the photoshoot surely the last of it I'll show you^_^.

-I wanted to have an horizon full of little sails... the sails were there... but the 3:2 APS-C format of my D300 wasn't up to the task!
I needed to go into Pano mode... but hte sails were too far to get a decent 300mms shot... I tried to have it all in one shot... but half of this and half of that is not a recipe for succes... it's a recipe for failure I'd say!

So this is another shot I should have made better... still it is an interesting one as it clearly shows the difference between 100mm and 300mm on the 70-300 Sigma.

300mms are afar softer so in this photo there are good details even in the small sailboats!

Another thing... the shot was taken at ISO 1250 not bad at all, I was able to get a 1/640 sec as shutter speed... this, maybe is another wrong choice... I would have been better to shoot it at ISO 400 and 1/200 sec... 1/300 and ISO 600 would have benne better too... maybe...

To say it all it wasn't a choice of me... I clearly remember that I believed to have an ISO 200 Setting... it was a cloudy day and I was getting too much light in the exposimeter... but I was really convinced of that so.... good tht time I've learnt to chack twice on the setting BEFORE leaving home with camera gear ! [in the future will speak of the "OMG I've forgot to charge the AA batteries for shooting with the flash in the church!" just before a friend's wedding!]

So be it... the exif reads:
Camera Model: NIKON D300
Date Taken: 2008:12:13 15:11:00
Exposure Time: 1/640 sec.
Aperture Value: 6.34 EV (f/9.0)
ISO Speed Rating: 1250
Flash Fired: Flash did not fire.
Exposure Program: Manual
Focal Length: 100.0 mm
Software: Bibble 4.10.1

The Regatta

This is the last of the photos taken to sailboats in regatta or training for them (they are an easy subject here in naples).

It has been taken only some minutes after the first two (IIRC obviously as we're speaking about something from more than a year ago!).

I used the Sigma 70-300 APO as for all the others... but I've cropped the image a little in order to get a stronger composition.

Exif Reads

Camera Model: NIKON D300
Date Taken: 2009:02:21 16:22:12
Exposure Time: 1/1250 sec.
Aperture Value: 4.97 EV (f/5.6)
ISO Speed Rating: 200
Flash Fired: Flash did not fire.
Exposure Program: Manual
Focal Length: 300.0 mm
Software: Bibble 4.10.1

P.s. With this post I'll try the "Write Now, Post Automatically later approach". If it goes well you'll have the chance to read it on Wednesday!

Training for Regatta

Another shot of a sailboat....
This is the first of 3 shots I'll publish in the next few days ^_^.

It has been taken with the Sigma 70-300 APO and, obviously was taken without flash^_^.

Exif reads:
Date Taken: 2009:02:21 15:59:28
Exposure Time: 1/800 sec.
Aperture Value: 6.00 EV (f/8.0)
ISO Speed Rating: 200
Exposure Program: Manual
Focal Length: 300.0 mm
Software: Bibble 4.10.1

Lonely Sail...

During the same period I was focused on getting some good shots of fishermen I figured out I could use the FOV Multiplier of my d300 to take some good shots at sail boats... This one is
from December.

There not much to say about it.... but this is the first shot I publish in some months (it is an old one!)

Exif Reads:
Camera Model: NIKON D300
Date Taken: 2008:12:13 15:30:36
Exposure Time: 1/500 sec.
Aperture Value: 5.31 EV (f/6.3)
ISO Speed Rating: 1250
Flash Fired: Flash did not fire.
Exposure Program: Manual
Focal Length: 300.0 mm
Software: Bibble 4.10.1

Attack!!!

This is one of my favorite shots between those taken in Mergellina...
There are several Virgin Maria's Statues on the artificial reefs near Via Mergellina in Naples.
As they are not the most crowded places out there (they are pretty isolated to say it fairly!) many seagulls gathere there...

One of hte shot I took of them is kinda funny as it seems the gull is going to dive on the statue as a bomber in flight!

Let's see for youselves!

Exif Reads:
Camera Model: NIKON D300
Date Taken: 2009:02:08 15:39:32
Exposure Time: 1/2500 sec.
Aperture Value: 4.53 EV (f/4.8)
ISO Speed Rating: 200
Flash Fired: Flash did not fire.
Exposure Program: Manual
Focal Length: 195.0 mm

And the shipment goes...

It has quite a month...
I've had 3 speechs in the last month... to many to have an updated blog!

But... let us going on with our cargo trend and look at another photo of an another cargo!

I do not remember WHY I had taken that photo... so I won't go inventing it!

Exif is my only lead and it says:
Camera Model: NIKON D300
Date Taken: 2009:02:08 15:49:55
Exposure Time: 1/800 sec.
Aperture Value: 4.97 EV (f/5.6)
ISO Speed Rating: 200
Focal Length: 300.0 mm



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First Cargo

Even if this picture has been ideally presented after the previous one.

It comes out of the same day I was taking some shot at Mergellina with Pino, a friend of mine.
As you can see it is a 1250 ISO shot... I found it still impressive how much it is clean.
Moreover it is not have been taken with the SIGMA 70-300 APO but with a AF-D 28-105 mm f/3.5 -4.5. That is a MACRO lens! Funny how well it can focus on far objects... the only thing I had to gripe with that lens was is rotating focusing screen.

Too bad it was stolen too...

Exif Reads:
Camera Model: NIKON D300
Date Taken: 2008:12:13 15:24:48
Exposure Time: 1/499 sec.
Aperture Value: 6.00 EV (f/8.0)
ISO Speed Rating: 1250
Flash Fired: Flash did not fire.
Exposure Program: Manual
Focal Length: 105.0 mm


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Old and new Naples

And this is the last shot of this series... but it the first I shot too...
I was having some fun shooting some cargoes and I anded up framing a piece of Castel Dell'Ovo...

The difference was striking... Naples have always been a trading city... but in these times the differences are still more striking... we've got heritage attractions and commercial wharfs too...

Exif Reads:
Camera Model: NIKON D300
Date Taken: 2008:12:13 15:24:05
Exposure Time: 1/499 sec.
Aperture Value: 6.00 EV (f/8.0)
ISO Speed Rating: 1250
Flash Fired: Flash did not fire.
Exposure Program: Manual
Focal Length: 28.0 mm


Enjoy your light!