Tropical Island

I am now safely back in Europe and when browsing through the photos I took in Rio de Janeiro, this one kept popping up. I like the colors and the simplicity of this tiny tropical island. Good bye Rio! Camera spec: Canon 20D with Canon 28-105 3,5-4,5 USM at 50mm, F9 @ 1/400, ISO 200.

Santa Teresa View

Today I had a walk up to the Santa Teresa hill in Rio de Janeiro and photographed this stunning panorama. It was raining the whole day but luckily the sky cleared up little bit in the evening so that I could make six expositions that were stitched together in Hudin. I like the result also thanks to the composition: the panorama is bounded from both sides by the green and the U shape of the trees in the foreground does not allow the viewer's eyes to escape. Camera spec: Canon 20D with Canon 28-105 3,5-4,5 USM at 28mm, F8 @ 1/100, ISO 200.

Sugar Loaf Panorama

Yesterday I decided to try a panorama photo of Sugar Loaf. I stichted together 7 expositions of vertical photos in Hugein. All expositions were in the manual mode and with manual focus. Hugein works flawlessly and the final result is very nice panorama photo. Camera spec: Canon 20D with Tokina 11-16 2,8 at 11mm, F11 @ 1/200, ISO 100.

A Tropical Paradise

Today I am blogging a photo I took two days ago after my arrival to Rio de Janeiro. The photo is taken from the top floor of the Military Institute of Engineering (IME) on a foggy day (unfortunately it has been raining cats and dogs since we arrived to Rio). I really like how the palmtrees are displayed over the ocean surface, giving it a nice contrast, complemented by the background hills partly covered in fog. The picture was enhanced in Lightroom, in particular I missed some element in the right-hand top corner, so I cloned there the three birds that add a final touch to the photo. In fact the original bird was at some other place on the photo, so I simply moved it to another position using the clone tool and replicated it tree times (see the original photo here). I think that the final result is very pleasing. Camera spec: Canon 20D with Canon 28-105 3.5-3.5 USM at 38mm, F8 @ 1/250, ISO 200.