Sempre sia lodata...

Another shot from the trip to Bologna...

I really do not know what told me to shot this... maybe the contrast... I really do not know... I like the photo and I think  this is enough for me^_^

The matte homogeneous color in the sky is what has convenced me to blog it^_^

Exif Reads:

Camera Model: NIKON D300

Date Taken: 2008:06:30 17:53:45

Exposure Time: 1/160 sec.

ISO Speed Rating: 200

Focal Length: 105.0 mm

Have a Good Light!

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Torre dell'asinello

This is another classical shot of Bologna from the same day as the shot before.

This is the Torre dell'Asinello (Little Donkey Tower) near P.zza Maggiore.

If you go there you'll have to try this shot but it will be far better to carry with you a perspective correction lens as the other building are far too near to get a good sight...

Camera Model: NIKON D300

Date Taken: 2008:06:30 18:18:43

Exposure Time: 1/60 sec.

ISO Speed Rating: 200

Focal Length: 18.0 mm

Enjoy your lights

A Monument in Bologna

From the same research trip I've taken the attempt to HDR I've shot some other monuments that where in places of Bologna I've not been before as I was searching for the Business Adminsitration Department of the Alma Mater Studiorum (the Latin Name o the University of Bologna IIRC).

It was a sunny ad the end of June and I had my Nikon AF-S 18-200 f3.5-5.6 on... a perfect travel lens if used on a DX camera as the D300.

That was the second day of a nigthmerish travel (Broken Car, Costly Train, Wrong Hotel and Lost some of the opening gigs to the JP concert...) and I needed to relax so traveling around as a tourist instead as a scholar was a good way to restore my energies^_^

In order to shoot this photograph I've put a CPL on the lens (above the UV Filter I had always on at the time) and,after searching for a composition I liked more, I come up with a shot that needed some more cropping later (so I had not chosen wisely!)

Te exif reads:
Date Taken: 2008:06:30 14:01:18
Exposure Time: 1/249 sec.
Aperture Value: 6.00 EV (f/8.0)
ISO Speed Rating: 200
Focal Length: 24.0 mm
Software: Bibble 4.10.1

After this little while... enjoy the image^_^