Bertinoro Landscape

I am visiting Italy these days and would like to post a view that I captured yesterday. It is from a small town called Bertinoro. I really enjoy the view from the town situated on a steep hill and even though I don't take many landscape photos, sometimes I just cannot resist. I like all the lines and curves in the image as well as the top of the street lamp in the right bottom corner and the feel of depth it adds to this image. The colors were, as usual, improved in Lightroom but there was no HDR used. Camera spec: Canon 40D with Canon EFS 60mm 2.8, F11 @ 1/160, ISO 100.

Musician from KL

I found recently this photo in my Lightroom catalog and I really liked it. It is shot in a very low light situation with the excellent Tokina lens at F2.8 and at high ISO 1600. Lightroom 3 did a good job in reducing the noise and I also like the long exposition time which made the hands of the musician (from a local band in Kuala Lumpur) very blurred, emphasizing the motion and the dynamics. Camera spec: Canon 40D with Tokina 11-16 2.8 at 16mm, F2.8 @ 1/20, ISO 1600.

Orange and Blue

Another photo from Aalborg Carnival that I like to present today is called Orange and Blue. The position of the dancer is more out of the center creating a more dynamic composition. What makes the photo interesting in my eyes is the contrast between the warm orange background and the cold blue dress of the dancer. The light is a pure ambient as in the photo below. Camera spec: Canon 5D mark ii with Canon 70-200 4L at 70mm, F5.6 @ 1/400, ISO 500.