http://gregmead.com/2009/03/europe-part-i/ Where random thoughts and bad grammar collide Thu, 27 May 2010 04:03:31 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 http://gregmead.com/2009/03/europe-part-i/comment-page-1/#comment-145 Greg Thu, 02 Apr 2009 22:35:28 +0000 http://gregmead.com/?p=1180#comment-145 Hey, Scott! Nice to hear from you. Thanks. No, I didn't use a filter. I just wait until about a half hour after sunset on overcast days and then shoot long exposures - often as much as 15 to 30, though I think this one was more like 5 or 10 - which has the added benefit of giving water that soft, surreal feel. It is also why the gondolas were so weirdly blurred. They were bobbing up and down while the shutter was open. That blue is naturally occurring that time of day if it is cloudy, just too weakly to discern with the naked eye. The camera just collects it for a while. There are a couple more with that effect in my main photo gallery at http://good-ham.smugmug.com. One is of the Manhattan skyline just a few weeks ago and another is of the Arc de Triomphe in late 2007. Night and evening photography is my absolute favorite and, when I find myself in somewhere is spectacular as Paris or Italy for it, I'm like a kid in a candy store. =o) Hey, Scott! Nice to hear from you. Thanks. No, I didn’t use a filter. I just wait until about a half hour after sunset on overcast days and then shoot long exposures – often as much as 15 to 30, though I think this one was more like 5 or 10 – which has the added benefit of giving water that soft, surreal feel. It is also why the gondolas were so weirdly blurred. They were bobbing up and down while the shutter was open. That blue is naturally occurring that time of day if it is cloudy, just too weakly to discern with the naked eye. The camera just collects it for a while. There are a couple more with that effect in my main photo gallery at http://good-ham.smugmug.com. One is of the Manhattan skyline just a few weeks ago and another is of the Arc de Triomphe in late 2007. Night and evening photography is my absolute favorite and, when I find myself in somewhere is spectacular as Paris or Italy for it, I’m like a kid in a candy store. =o)

]]> http://gregmead.com/2009/03/europe-part-i/comment-page-1/#comment-144 scott young Thu, 02 Apr 2009 19:14:19 +0000 http://gregmead.com/?p=1180#comment-144 greg your mom sent the link to the venice pics...lovely indeed...did you use a blue filter on some...the blue enhancement was superb! greg your mom sent the link to the venice pics…lovely indeed…did you use a blue filter on some…the blue enhancement was superb!

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