A sunny day in Vernazza

I spend the last week in the Cinque Terre area in Italy. I visited all the five little towns there, and I even got some nice photos. The area is just wonderful, with so many great views. But if you don’t like hills and crazy amounts of steps, I would not go there :)

Here is the first one, taken in Vernazza. As you can clearly see, the forecast for the day, rain and thunderstorms, was perfectly correct :). It was equally correct for every other day I spend there.

For this shot, I took 4 shots vertically, to make a panorama. I also used the Nisi polarizing filter, not that much to get more color in the sky, but to get rid of the glare from the water. It worked quite nicely. This photo was combined in PTgui and finished in PHotoshop.

Dinner under the Burj Khalifa

Not easy to fit the Burj Khalifa into a photo, especially if you also want to include a foreground with it. But here is where the tilt shift lens works so great. With using a vertorama, you can get just so much more into your shot.

This is a three shot vertorama, combined in Lightroom, finished in Photoshop.

The endless dirt road

It’s quite strange to take photos with a 12mm lens. Everything is immediately so far away. It just does not work for all type of photos. Even with landscapes. But there are photos it works wonderfully with. And this is one of those. You point the lens a bit to the ground, and it will add so much depth to the photo. The fields and the road just wonderfully stretch to infinity. You just have to remove your fee and the tripod from the final shot, as you will see them for sure :)

This is a single exposure, edited mostly in Lightroom, cleaned up in Photoshpo.

In the southern Moravia fields

As the spring is in full swing, it was time to start going around and getting some nice nature photos. So today, together with Pedro Kin from pedrokinphotography.com, I went to the southern Moravia, for the beautiful rolling fields there. And while it was a bit more hazy that we would like, I think we got few nice shots. And here is one of them :)

This is a single exposure, edited in Lightroom and Photoshop.

Purple dandelions under the Burj Khalifa

I quite like this light installations around Dubai. They make for some great foreground elements for photos. And since these dandelions change the color every few seconds, you can also get quite different photos quickly one after each other :)

These dandelions are right under the Burj Khalifa (as it’s clearly visible here :)) and I used the Laowa 12mm lens to get as much of them in the shot as I could.