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This is part of Capturing Change, a DeviantArt and SONY project to document the changes in a city and its culture, with mirrorless Alpha cameras in the hands of four photographers around the world.

See the full project here:
Capturing ChangeFour Deviants get game changing cameras from Sony for a collaborative assignment: Show us how your cities have changed from the past, for the present and into the future!
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FE 28 mm F2
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Miguel Santos
:iconmiguel-santos: Miguel-Santos
São Joaquim, Brazil
The most experience photographer of the group, Miguel has been a photographer for over 15 years, starting with a film camera and then moving to digital five years later. With the goal of featuring the past, present, and future of Brazil in this project, he traveled to smaller and lesser-known cities to capture the beauty and the chaos withi

For the theme of Past, Present and Future, I went to a town that is in the transformation process to become a huge city. Laguna is an old fishing town and the streets still show its colonial history. As we're moving into the 21st century, the old town is dying. The old buildings are no longer usable. People forgot about them. Almost everything is for sale, to be demolished. History is in the photographs and paintings now, it's no longer real.

Laguna.
Santa Catarina, Brazil.

THE SHOOT

Laguna was one of three cities I visited for Capturing Change and I chose it because of it's old town center. I wanted to capture the Past and I wanted it to be in black and white and sort of timeless. No need for great old buildings, I wanted a plain old building in a plain old corner. This spot had it all.

I got on my knees and used the flip screen of the a7RII to get the low angle. I had to concentrate on getting the composition right, with a person in it, at the right moment. For that, I set the camera to zone auto-focus and aperture priority mode. Fortunately, the camera did its part and got me a nice shot, well focused and with a great dynamic range. I needed that because this would tell the story just by its composition but also by its color, or lack there of.

SONY a7RII | 28mm | f/8.0 | 1/1000 | ISO 200

Enjoy and share a thought in the comments!

Any questions about the camera or shooting process, don't hesitate to ask.

Dedicated to FollowinTheBlackBird and iside2012
Thank you for the kind support!!!

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Description

This is part of Capturing Change, a DeviantArt and SONY project to document the changes in a city and its culture, with mirrorless Alpha cameras in the hands of four photographers around the world.

See the full project here:
Capturing ChangeFour Deviants get game changing cameras from Sony for a collaborative assignment: Show us how your cities have changed from the past, for the present and into the future!
Product Info →
FE 28 mm F2
Product Info →
Miguel Santos
:iconmiguel-santos: Miguel-Santos
São Joaquim, Brazil
The most experience photographer of the group, Miguel has been a photographer for over 15 years, starting with a film camera and then moving to digital five years later. With the goal of featuring the past, present, and future of Brazil in this project, he traveled to smaller and lesser-known cities to capture the beauty and the chaos withi

For the theme of Past, Present and Future, I went to a town that is in the transformation process to become a huge city. Laguna is an old fishing town and the streets still show its colonial history. As we're moving into the 21st century, the old town is dying. The old buildings are no longer usable. People forgot about them. Almost everything is for sale, to be demolished. History is in the photographs and paintings now, it's no longer real.

Laguna.
Santa Catarina, Brazil.

THE SHOOT

Laguna was one of three cities I visited for Capturing Change and I chose it because of it's old town center. I wanted to capture the Past and I wanted it to be in black and white and sort of timeless. No need for great old buildings, I wanted a plain old building in a plain old corner. This spot had it all.

I got on my knees and used the flip screen of the a7RII to get the low angle. I had to concentrate on getting the composition right, with a person in it, at the right moment. For that, I set the camera to zone auto-focus and aperture priority mode. Fortunately, the camera did its part and got me a nice shot, well focused and with a great dynamic range. I needed that because this would tell the story just by its composition but also by its color, or lack there of.

SONY a7RII | 28mm | f/8.0 | 1/1000 | ISO 200

Enjoy and share a thought in the comments!

Any questions about the camera or shooting process, don't hesitate to ask.

Dedicated to FollowinTheBlackBird and iside2012
Thank you for the kind support!!!

More in Laguna...

ALSO CHECK MY twitter • fb • 500px • tumblr • instagram • printstore