Alta Valsassina
Rather too pristine alpine houses, reflecting the rise of tourism in Italy. The luminous colours are again the result of using a polarising filter, which here also helps cut through some of the haze to the distant mountains.
Track
Path, walking up in the mountains around Alta Valsassina, Italy.
Church
Modern church at Pian delle Betulle, Italy. The colours are from using a polarising filter – this was even desaturated in Capture One. Still have not finished the film scanning…
Barceloneta by Night
Just to completely break any consistency with the previous uploads, here is a set of colour images taken around 8pm along the beach-front from Barceloneta to Port Olímpic in Barcelona. The lighting here is an impossible mess of different colour temperatures. Setting white balance for anything realistic is almost impossible, so I have settled for something surrealistic. Curiously, the saturation is not boosted – the main edits in Lightroom are to drive up the contrast and add vignetting. I used the DSLR for these to avoid carrying a tripod. All the […]
Santa Maria del Mar
A two-shot panorama of Santa Maria del Mar in Barcelona. This was taken using a Canon 5DIII and newly acquired Sigma 35mm f1.4 lens – which like the 135mm is rapidly becoming a clear favourite. The image was taken hand-held at ISO 12800, so perhaps not ideal…
