My Wife and I spent a fun weekend in Venice for the first weekend of Carnival. Super crowded, but so colorful and fun. We had a blast. I shot over 300 images, which for me is a lot. This one is he first I will share. Many to follow over the next week or so.
I took the SL3 and a 28mm, and 50mm APO-SL primes because I treated it like an event type of shooting, so I wanted the AF for speed/accuracy, and the APO Primes for the costume details.
1bwana1 wrote:
My Wife and I spent a fun weekend in Venice for the first weekend of Carnival. Super crowded, but so colorful and fun. We had a blast. I shot over 300 images, which for me is a lot. This one is he first I will share. Many to follow over the next week or so.
I took the SL3 and a 28mm, and 50mm APO-SL primes because I treated it like an event type of shooting, so I wanted the AF for speed/accuracy, and the APO Primes for the costume details.
Stunning, would love to see carnival someday. Please post more !
1bwana1 wrote:
My Wife and I spent a fun weekend in Venice for the first weekend of Carnival. Super crowded, but so colorful and fun. We had a blast. I shot over 300 images, which for me is a lot. This one is he first I will share. Many to follow over the next week or so.
I took the SL3 and a 28mm, and 50mm APO-SL primes because I treated it like an event type of shooting, so I wanted the AF for speed/accuracy, and the APO Primes for the costume details.
Here is a few more quick portrait edits this morning before I get busy with the day.
The big challenge at this event was to try and detail the very elaborate costumes, while maintaining some sort of context of place to tel thr story. The vast majority of the costumed people stood around in the main squares while herds of photographers surrounded them and took pictures. So, I decided to move out of the crowds and haunt the back alleys and canals to do a bit more story telling in my images. I am hoping this comes across as I post the images.
The SL3 with the new v4.0 firmware is now a superb even platform. And of course the APO-SL lenses are just amazing when it comes to capturing the subtleties, and details of the costumes and the people wearing them. I find that many sensors and lenses have trouble holding detail and smooth transitions simultaneously with reds and blacks. Not this camera lens combo however. For me the capture of the blue eyes in the first portrait exemplifies the ability to capture fine detail and color..
Some of the costumes in my opinion tend more towards what I see at Comic Con rather that Carnival in Venice. I took portraits of a number of these participants. I will not keep them as part of the Venice Carnival set. But I still like them. The detail and work this man put in is just astounding.
1bwana1 wrote:
Here is a few more quick portrait edits this morning before I get busy with the day.
The big challenge at this event was to try and detail the very elaborate costumes, while maintaining some sort of context of place to tel thr story. The vast majority of the costumed people stood around in the main squares while herds of photographers surrounded them and took pictures. So, I decided to move out of the crowds and haunt the back alleys and canals to do a bit more story telling in my images. I am hoping this comes across as I post the images.
The SL3 with the new v4.0 firmware is now a superb even platform. And of course the APO-SL lenses are just amazing when it comes to capturing the subtleties, and details of the costumes and the people wearing them. I find that many sensors and lenses have trouble holding detail and smooth transitions simultaneously with reds and blacks. Not this camera lens combo however. For me the capture of the blue eyes in the first portrait exemplifies the ability to capture fine detail and color..
