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Streets I Ran

Streets I Ran

Photography Photography \ Architecture | 08/27/07 @820 | Rychas | Comments critiques (19) | Views views (399)


Streets I Ran
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Aveiro, Portugal.

My beautiful second city - where I currently study, and live. Aveiro is often called the portuguese Venice, due its canals crossing the city. It's truly a remarkable place to live, a small quiet town with pretty much everything you need, and still with a lot of old traditions.

About the photo, this was taken back in 2006, and it's the result of 3 shots - HDR. I will spare the rest of the details since I just heard my cat breaking another jar.
 
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Avatar OzanKarabulut

 08/27/07 @831

Nothing to crit!! Top mark!!
 
Avatar cupcake

 08/27/07 @832

Beautiful
Top Mark
 
Avatar Daykan

 08/27/07 @833

Really beautiful!! Love the composition!
 
Avatar Roadrunner

 08/27/07 @887

Superb. The reflections are so strong in places it is almost blinding. Super dramatic clouds. Well done.
 
Avatar moserArtist

 08/27/07 @893

Wonderful evening shot (I assume)!

The colors on the buildings is really awesome.

Only minor crit would be those cables sticking up in the air. They distract the otherwise perfect site!

Keep sharing.
 
Avatar ARZILLIER66

 08/27/07 @901

Beautiful shot!
great colors and light
 
Avatar padrino

 08/27/07 @918

great image....the colors are very very nice ! well done !

greets
 
Avatar trevorm

 08/28/07 @034

Wow, great light and colours! You should try cloning out the cables (if you're so inclined). Also, I might have composed the shot a little higher (to get a little less reflection and a little more sky). And one more thing (if I may): the white detailing along the roof looks is a little too sharp / attention-grabbing, in my opinion. Anyway, nit-picking aside, I really like this shot. Great colours, lighting, reflections and architecture. Well done!
(Bad Kitty!)
 
Avatar Madanapale

 08/28/07 @072

Very nice image and details!
Carlos
 
Avatar Poohblah

 08/28/07 @077

i like the beautiful curves of the - is it a suspended electric cable? - compared with the architecture behind it, the cables holding it are a bit distracting though.
 
Avatar Rychas

 08/28/07 @115

Thank you all for the comments, I just wanted to clarify about the cables :)

First of all, I won't digitally remove the cables - I am highly against this kind of modifications to photography. Clone tool and similars are tools I don't accept when it comes to photography.

I had no way of not shooting the cables - actually, what you see is a bridge for people to walk on over the river, there's a monstruous structure where the cables come from which are holding the bridge. I wanted to capture it because, well, it's beautiful :)
 
Avatar moserArtist

 08/28/07 @229

R u religios or what? LMAO Well we have to respect you for not wanting the heal those cables as they are part of the construction and technically if they were not there the whole thing would break and fall into the water

Sometimes you need to heal for example a dirt spot on a picture. That is healing too. Is that against your believes concerning digital photography or is that to be considered accepted? ;)

I believe that minor corrections can be what it takes to bring a great composition to even next level. Of course plan your shot as much as you can to avoid major corrections due to lack of plan and execution..

Post editing in general is okay or not? :p
 
zelousangel

 08/28/07 @245

agree about the cables... but i dont like healing out those big things too... great shot!!
 
Avatar anastasia

 08/28/07 @481

It looks like a cartpostal. Very proffessional work.
Well done.
 
Avatar Rychas

 08/28/07 @486

I have my own strict rules about post-processing photography, I do it of course, but I only edit pictures as a whole and not "parts" of them.

When someone retouches a lot a of a picture (say for example, clone someone out of the picture!) it totally loses it photographic value to me, and it starts being photo manipulation. Dust and scratches from old photos are obviously ok, since they weren't part of the original composition, but since a photograph is a capture of what was ACTUALLY there, it's almost a crime to remove it!

I'm more than ok with contrasts and color enhacement, for example. But when I shoot with my analogic camera and scan those works, I never touch them in Photoshop. It just doesn't feel right, for those.

I've been in a lot of discussions about this with photographers, artists, etc, and obviously the opinions are split. But this is truly what I believe in. I got nothing against people who highly retouch a photo, since they assume they're more a photo-manipulation than the simple photo itself.
 
jinet

 08/28/07 @610

What a light ! Great job.
 
Avatar Lenn0

 08/29/07 @097

this is great!!! excellent colors and contrast! very good composition and the HDR works great here!
only the wires are a bit distracting...but okay.

still top marks for this!

Greets Lenny

PS: I looked at your homepage :) you have great artworks there!!! :) looking forward to see them here.
 
Avatar Maidith

 08/29/07 @741

I think that's gorgeous. Great detail and light.

+10
 
Avatar oldskool87

 08/30/07 @403

well done :) +9
 
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GFXuser name:
   Rychas
Full Name:
  Ricardo Magalhães
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Birthdate:
  05/09/1987 (21)
Country:
  Portugal
Member since:
  07/26/2006

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