"a" for athens

First letter of the alphabet is "A" - and this is how I am opening my new project Alphabet. Let me welcome you to my new section I am very excited about! I love travelling and I do love street photography. So I will combine those two passions and as I will be visiting different cities in coming months and years, I plan to prepare a proper photo journal for each letter of the alphabet. One city, one letter...

First letter is represented by Athens in Greece. Nice Sunday trip back in February 2015. A lot of people on the street, beautiful scenery, great light. What else you can wish for a walk with your camera?

Click here and visit the page dedicated to Athens for even more pictures!

Prvé písmeno v abecede je "A" a takto aj otváram svoj nový projekt Abeceda. Dovoľte, aby som vás privítal v mojom novom oddelení, z ktorého mám naozaj radosť! Zbožňujem cestovanie a mám veľmi rád fotenie na uliciach (tzv. streetphoto žáner). Tak som sa rozhodol, že skombinujem tieto dve vášne do jedného celku - tak ako budem v nasledujúcich mesiacoch a rokoch cestovať po rôznych kútoch sveta. Mojím cieľom je nafotiť poriadny foto žurnál pre každé písmeno abecedy. Jedno mesto, jedno písmenko...

Prvé písmeno je zastúpené gréckymi Aténami. Veľmi príjemný nedeľný fotovýlet, ešte vo februári 2015. Kopec ľudí na uliciach, krásne mesto, skvelé svetlo. Čo iného by si človek mohol priať na prechádzku s fotoaparátom?

Kliknite tu a navšívte stránku venovanú Aténam, kde je ešte viac fotografií!

negative space - project 52 | week 6

Not so negative in terms of negative feelings, but more from a perspective of working with a lot of space and then adding right amount of the interesting subject to the photography... I was looking around me whole week looking for a negative spaces - and was so happy so many opportunities around me! This one is for voted home as the best example, but I will come back with a few more! So please enjoy with me letter A in the coffee house at Athens airport. I was closing up on the letter A in word "machiato", which was on a board, where those letters were cut out to create this very visually interesting wall... (see the example at the bottom)...

Nikon D800, Nikkor 24-70mm @ 70mm, f/2.8, 1/60 sec, ISO 1600

Téma tohto týždňa je "negatívny priestor", ale nie vo význame negatívnych emócii, ale skôr z pohľadu spracovania záberu tak, aby tam bolo veľa priestoru - a potom pridanie do fotografie presne tú správnu dávku zaujímavého objektu... A tento týždeň som sa rozhliadal okolo seba riadne aby som našiel negatívny priestor - a našiel som ich kopec! Tento záber bol doma odhlasovaný ako najlepší, ale ešte sa vrátim zo zopár ďalšími. Predstavujem písmeno A v kaviarni na Aténskom letisku, kde som ho fotil riadne zblízka... je to písmeno zo slova machiato (viď nižšie) na doske, kde boli tieto písmená vyrezané aby tak vytvorili pomerne zaujímavú oddeľovaciu stenu...

panoramic athens

One more return to my rich Athens folder. At the top of the small rocky hill, right across Acropolis (when they've kicked out tourists after 5pm), I've spent about two hours. You know, as usual. Playing. With flash, without flash, wide angle, street zoom. And - with FLW filter I have taken this panoramic shot. Made out of 8 vertical shots, each taken at f/8 @ 10 seconds. Enjoy by clicking and opening a bigger size.

PS: and one more extra bonus - different place, different time. I personally like a lot strong line elements here. And I've just changed white balance to tungsten to pop up street lights.

athens in colors

My usual place to visit when in a new city is a flea market. Visiting Athens at the beg. of December (lovely 22°C!) - Monastiraki open market and surrounding areas were an obvious tip from my local insiders. At the first sight, place look a bit dark, but when you look closer - colors are everywhere!

heavy clouds above athens

Cloudy, with a chance of bankruptcy...
OK, I know, such a kind of cheap joke I should avoid. I should - but I couldn't resist! ;)
It was a lovely afternoon/evening. After the light shower - and before heavy rain. And I also got several glances of  beautiful sun rays....

greece without processing (again, FLW filter makes miracles)

I'm spending weekend in Athens (21.5°C on 1st of December!That's kind of winter I can live with! ;).
As I do not have my comp, I wanted to share only two pictures, where NO post processing has been applied at all.
First one is again a prove of Bryan's well shared tip - FLW filter makes miracles with the sky, when shooting after the dusk (see my previous example here).

05 dec - picture updated, sensor speck removed. photograph is still untouched

And as I am finalizing our new PPSOP.cz Flash course - I am obviously playing a lot with flashes recently. In my view - a beauty of combining ambient and flash light source offers just vast opportunities! In the background - famous Acropolis (under heavy construction). Highlighted tree in front lit with radio controlled, off the camera located flash NIKON SB-900 with amber gel.
Again - no processing has been applied - this is a straight out of the camera shot.

View at Acropolis  from the nearby hill.