Venice

In Venice you are really lucky if you get a shot with no people on the street, especially if you do long-term exposures. This motive I tried three times… until it was on the SD-card  🙂  The scene reminds me a bit of a video game like “The Thieve” where you had to creep through such alleyways and hide behind each wall that you won’t be found by a warden.

Post processed with: Color Efex Pro, Photoshop

• Camera: ILCE-7RM2
• Aperture: ƒ/4
• Shutter speed: 5s
• Focal length: 18mm
• ISO: 100

Italian streets are unique, these styles, architecture and colors…  you will only find there. And the culture has been coined for thousands of years, back to the Roman Empire. This scene of Venice was a bit off the tourist zones, still very lovely to watch and go around  🙂

• Camera: LEICA X VARIO (Typ 107)
• Aperture: ƒ/5.6
• Shutter speed: 1/250s
• Focal length: 18.2mm
• ISO: 100

January morning in Venice, cold, foggy, grey – an atmosphere which describes winter months. I was the second time in Venice in a January and like it most during this time. Not so many people, you  don’t have too long lines at the different sights, hotels are a bit cheaper and this nice atmosphere.  🙂

• Camera: LEICA X VARIO (Typ 107)
• Aperture: ƒ/6.4
• Shutter speed: 1/640s
• Focal length: 46mm
• ISO: 100

It was a bit of challenge to take this photo, because even in the begin of January Piazza San Marco and the surroundings are crowded by many tourists and many don’t see or recognize that you are taking photos with a tripod and run through your exposure in all directions. So I had to wait for the specific moment …  I used the Sony FE 10-18 F4 APS-C lens, which works very well on full frame  🙂

• Camera: ILCE-7RM2
• Aperture: ƒ/4
• Shutter speed: 2.5s
• Focal length: 18mm
• ISO: 100

The circumstances were not the best for taking stills on a swaying water bus, rough sea, night and rain, crowded deck with pressing people, there was only one way to take photos – high ISO. Armed with the king of high ISO, the Sony A7S, it was possible to take shots under really unfriendly photographic conditions. Sony A7S is unbelievable.

• Camera: ILCE-7S
• Aperture: ƒ/4
• Shutter speed: 1/60s
• Focal length: 46mm
• ISO: 65535

In Venice often streets are replace with waterways and then you have traffic similar to original streets, all kind of boats and ships are driving, but it looks like the left- and right rules are not so strict on the water  🙂

• Camera: ILCE-7R
• Aperture: ƒ/2.5
• Shutter speed: 1/1000s
• Focal length: 35mm
• ISO: 100

In Venice you can use the water busses as sightseeing busses, they have an open deck where you’re able to take photos in all directions. It’s a bit tricky to handle the camera shake, because the water and the boat are never calm enough, but you get rewarded with an impressive view.

• Camera: ILCE-7S
• Aperture: ƒ/4
• Shutter speed: 1/60s
• Focal length: 30mm
• ISO: 500

I like the atmosphere in the night where cafes and restaurants are closing and the real dark night is breaking on. In the streets you see fewer people and even famous places like the Piazza San Marco gets less crowded. Then it’s time to trek through the strees and take photos.

If you have the chance take it, even if the lane is a bit longer, it’s really worth to go up and have this wonderful 360° view of the city. You can see most of the sights and will never forget these exciting impressions. On the top there are huge bells, for security reasons there is also a grid but the clearances between the wire have exactly the size, that you can place a lens through it and take photos.

• Camera: SLT-A58
• Aperture: ƒ/8
• Shutter speed: 1/60s
• Focal length: 24mm
• ISO: 1600