Just for Fun No C&C will be given: Venice...the way I saw it

[fahim mohammed]

 

[Mike Shimwell]

Great colour and feel Fahim. M8?

Mike

 

[fahim mohammed]

Hi Mike. D700 + ZF 35/2.
Thanks

 

[Asher Kelman]

So, Fahim,

You are seeing with your imagination; the saturation is understood, but what did you do to get the painterly look of the water?

The darker presentation is often how I think the Venetians should think of their impressive heritage. Although the Italians possess some of the most advanced engineering skills in the planet, they don't seem to have the will to look after this jewel of city that is their inheritance. While they make a fortune on tourist, little seems to go back to infrastructure and maintenance. Stores on the ground floors often make millions of US dollars a year. But to what benefit? The buildings themselves above are in disrepair and support beneath are unsound.

Still, despite really dirty water and rats, Venice has managed to maintain itself as a tourist capital with endless crowds of happy folk enjoying the beauty, the gondolas, art galleries and some of the finest eating anywhere. What's so extra special about a vacation in Venice is that there's no ground transportation system. Either one walks everywhere or else waits for the overcrowded Vaporetto, (the giant water craft like long over-crowded buses in a London rush hour) and that is a happy experience only the first few times. So the net result is that one can eat anything in Venice, feast to one's heart content and then just walk it off. No one seems to gain weight in venice, that's the beauty of it!

Thanks for showing a version of the Venice canals that doesn't romanticize the decay and negligence! Beauty and ugliness do go together very well sometimes!

Asher

 

[fahim mohammed]

On the button, you are Asher. We mostly walked. I took the alleys less traveled.

For the water:

1. Selected that portion.

2. Blended with overlay + multiply.

3. Opacity to taste. Sharpened it independently of the other parts.

A few trips on the Gondolas and I could buy airfare to New York...off season of course!

 

[Asher Kelman]

Fahim,

I do like the painterly effect you have achieved with the water. That's impressive. For one picture with broken walls and decay you wish to exaggerate, this might work. As a general method of presenting Venice, isn't this too harsh? What are trying to say? All of Venice is decaying?

Now you have a perfect right to show things any way you fancy. I look at this trying to think ahead for all the great shots you have that might be put though this. So how committed are you to showing things this way? Is this a look you just "like" or is it a rational move to make a point of the state of the cultural heritage of Venice?

Maybe you might pull this effect back? Only a nuance might be needed.

Asher

 

[fahim mohammed]

Asher, I live a very sedate life. ' Proper ' is the word. Quiet.

But then I went to Italy!! And started ' Living '. Some call it ' Loud '. I call it ' Life '. ' Vibrant '.

'Passionate '. ' ALIVE '.

p.s and then there are the ' other places, things, and way of living '. I miss Italy.