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Ominous skies

Below are few images from october that I took with my NEX-3. It is joy to use this camera with old manual focus lenses, however my A700 still delivers much better quality. I’ll probably go for NEX-5N this spring and looking forward to fully replace DSLR with mirroless in future, but maybe lets get back to photos. One day I noticed quite severe cloud front approaching from south west. Weather otherwise was good so I thought there may be chance to shoot some cloudscapes or interesting sunset. I jumped in my car and after about 15 minute drive I saw this:

Not a good landscape shot, but I think its interesting cloudscape shot. That was last time on that day when I saw some clear blue sky. A bit later I was few kilometers away waiting for sunset and got this:

Just after I took this image severe downpour forced me to go back to my car. I got bored after 15 minutes of waiting and decided to go back home. However when I was getting close to place from which I took first photo it slowly stopped raining and I was able to shoot these two images:

Forgive me burnouts. I forgot to take my Cokin filters Yeah, I know what you think: “how the hell he could’ve forgotten to take ND grad when he knew he was going to shoot cloudscapes?”. Really can’t answer that. Anyway… all images in this post were processed using software ND grad filter. Partially burnouts are due to my NEX-3 too because all images usually are about +0.5 to 1 EV overexposed than one would say judging from LCD preview (brightest settings available). Now I’m aware of this when reviewing, but these are one of my first shots with NEX.

And below is the only sunset shot I was able to get – just small rift in clouds.

Soon after sunset sky became overcast and only weak orange glowing over horizon was visible along with smudges of rain falling down…

Italy 2010 – Venice

In 2010 I’ve spent wonderful summer week in Italy. It was my first visit there and I definitely want to visit this country again One week was way to short, but our trip was well organized and we managed to visit Venice, Rome, Florence, Monte Cassino, Pompeii and Assisi. As you can see our schedule was quite busy and I hadn’t much time for shooting (I was more interested in sightseeing anyway). For me most of the photos from this trip are just family memories and thus they don’t need to be technically correct or even interesting. However I’ve selected few that I want to share with you. As usual I hope that you’ll enjoy them at least a little bit.

Today I’d like to show you Venice. We’ve spent just few hours there and unfortunately morning sky was a bit dull. When weather got better we were already leaving

Streets of Venice

The Grand Canal

Gondolas

Piazza San Marco

Giudecca Canal

Harbour part of Venice

Electricity

These two pictures were taken somewhere in Slovakia when I was traveling to Italy last year. You probably won’t find them that much interesting, but I like them a lot. They bring back some nice memories. Can’t tell why though…