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Published: 2009-09-25 07:34:47 +0000 UTC; Views: 2284; Favourites: 111; Downloads: 1
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My focus in Tuscany this Summer was to shoot Street and to avoid standard tourist pics, but well, what can you do when you see a sky like this. I shot this for HDR (I tried a bracketed series even), but on second thoughts, I thought why would I do that? So, this isNo HDR, No Tonemapping
I must say that I was skeptical about Pisa, seeing it as one of the worst touristic clichΓ©s ever and I postponed going there for quite some time, but I was wrong, it was awesome. Not because there happens to be a leaning tower (I could mention you four more of those from the top of my head), but because of the architecture. The real star for me is the cathedral, with it's Byzantine-Arabian-local Romanesque influenced interior, which - Tardis-like - manages to look bigger than the exterior.
The complex shows that, although Pisa is a provincial backwater now, at one time the Pisans had a reason to feel like they were living in the Tokyo or London of their age.
Photoshop CS3, curves, perspective.
I dedicate this to all my friends and watchers who sent me on my way with the best of wishes, and whom I genuinely missed even amidst visions like the above.
Thanks so much for featuring
in his journal "From a dear dA friend" [link]
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Comments: 62
EricForFriends In reply to ??? [2009-09-25 15:06:31 +0000 UTC]
Nope, never been there, never been more southerly than Montepulciano... sorry. But I've seen documentaries about it, there are many beautiful things in Naples.
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petruccinaphotograph In reply to EricForFriends [2009-09-25 16:19:39 +0000 UTC]
me, for exemple ahah jk.
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EricForFriends In reply to petruccinaphotograph [2009-09-25 16:54:45 +0000 UTC]
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Eliza-mac In reply to ??? [2009-09-25 08:32:46 +0000 UTC]
Beautiful image! This makes me want to visit Pisa so much more than the million shots of people posing, holding up the tower
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EricForFriends In reply to Eliza-mac [2009-09-25 08:42:20 +0000 UTC]
We adamantly refused to take any of those with ourselves, although I made a silly Street shot of such a person from the wrong corner. And I considered doing a shot pushing the tower over, but the cathedral stands in the way.
Somehow it bothers me that the complex isn't admired for the things that make it really unique and special.
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Eliza-mac In reply to EricForFriends [2009-09-25 10:24:27 +0000 UTC]
Time to start running boot camp photography tours!
You WILL take a photograph of the Leaning Tower of Pisa!
You WILL NOT pose in the clichΓ© tourist fashion!
You WILL appreciate the structure in it's entirety!
Failure is not an option!
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EricForFriends In reply to Eliza-mac [2009-09-25 17:20:38 +0000 UTC]
Exactly. And ten rounds on the double around the Campo after any hint of slacking!
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Eliza-mac In reply to EricForFriends [2009-09-26 02:01:21 +0000 UTC]
Distracted by Oh, nice pink piggy!
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EricForFriends In reply to damien-c [2009-09-25 07:48:58 +0000 UTC]
"It wasn't anybody's fault, it just happened"...
Thanks, DC!
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