Rome in 35mm

Raymond Lin

Raymond Lin

Raymond Lin

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I have to say that I don't normally do landscape photography, it doesn't inspire me, and for other reasons along those lines, I seldom take them.

I do however take photographs when I go on Holiday. This time I went to Rome, Italy. Oh, I also only take 1 lens, and to keep things light and small, usually primes. This time, 35/1.4.


Full set now on Flickr

http://www.flickr.com/photos/raymondlin/sets/72157625486101232/

So I present Rome in 35mm.

1 Sunset at 37k ft
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2 Colosseum at sunset (you can just about see the rain)
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3 St Peter's
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4 On the roof at St Peter's
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5 Fountain
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6 The Pantheon
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7 You will never get wet in Rome when it rains...people selling umbrella everywhere
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8. In the Metro platform
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9. Everywhere is so photogenic (we were lost)
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10. St Peter's door, but practically every doorway was HUGE !
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One or two nice shots there. Like No2., No4., and No6.,

Don't like the fountain one. Building is out of Focus, areas too dark and cannot really work out what you were trying to direct the eye to. If it was the drops of water they've been obliterated by the sun. I think it would have been better to move slightly left round the fountain so that the edge was still lit up and the lens shielded from the sun, that way the drops would have been well defined.

The couple with the umbrellas. Don't think that works due to the natural instinct of the eye and brain to focus on faces. They're the only faces in the picture and they're out of focus. They're also up on what seems to be an intersection of thirds as is the in focus umbrella seller - but they're the ones that pull the eye. Now if he had been out of focus and them in focus then it might have been a better shot.

Last one. Blown highlights and very dark shadows. I bet the inside of that building was amazing. Would have been nice to try to balance the light a little and show some detail inside. Very difficult to do I know due to the massive differences in light, but it would have been nice.
 
The fountain one was hard i agree. I tried to get that in with St peter's roof still in the frame, without ALL the crap, and people next to it, the place is busy place. I wanted to freeze the water, and i wanted that sun in the distance...i didn't really think about it like this but that was what i wanted. It is not the best photo i have taken that i agree.

The umbrella seller is the focus, so i am not bothered about the couple in the photo, in fact, i didnt notice they were there when i took it. On thing did bother me, is i cut his ankle off, so i cropped it even tighter so it seems less obviousl. I guess its my preference of shooting close to wide open which you don't agree with, with the couple being outside the focal plane.

As for the last one, i was going for a silluette, so in fact opposite of what you are saying, i wanted as little to zero details on the inside, but a figure of a person walking through the door, to illustrate the size of the doorway. Hence the comment above the photo.

P.s. Does it make any difference if i went to Rome with the girl in No.8 ? Who is also the girl in the doorway in No. 10.
 
Awesome shots :)

I have one similar to No.3 myself - it's a hell of a climb to the top and not one for claustrophobics but so worth it when you get there.
 
Oh, here is one inside :p



This is in the dome part in the roof of the Basilica, see how it is curved? It got really narrow towards the end, and it is 551 steps to the top, which if you think you get about 25 steps between floors in England, that is about 22 floors up, give or take. When we got to half way I said to her "If you are old or really fat you will never make it up here" Since you won't fit ! Then we turned the corner and saw these two HUGE americans stopping for breath like they are about to die !

They never did make it to the top, we saw them on the half way point on the roof later on.

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