Gaudi Architectural Detail at Park Guell
Monday, 8th December 2008 @ 4:34 pm by Ed O'KeeffeShare This | Please comment (0)
Gaudi spent years of his life designing and working on Park Guell in the city of Barcelona. So much so he lived in a house in the grounds. The detailing pictured here is above one of the small windows of this house. At the time I was chilling out on a bench after …(continue reading)
Skull Fresh Graffiti in Barcelona
Saturday, 6th December 2008 @ 3:48 pm by Ed O'KeeffeShare This | Please comment (0)
Since photographing some great examples of graffiti in Manchester and Salford, I was keeping my eyes open for walls of Barcelona’s street art that I had heard so much about. Here I used a 18mm wide angle lens, so I could get nice and close to the walls and not get trees or …(continue reading)
La Rambla - Barcelona
Saturday, 6th December 2008 @ 8:26 am by Ed O'KeeffeShare This | Please comment (0)
La Rambla is an iconic and busy street in central Barcelona, popular with both tourists and locals alike. Obviously coming to this city to photograph of much of it as I could, La Rambla was near the top of my list. However with the angle of the sun and tall
buildings on either side of this 1.2 kilometer-long, tree-lined pedestrian mall it was nearly always in shadow. As I result I was forced to do something I hardly ever do in Post Processing of the digital image and resort to HDR or high dynamic range processing. This means I was able to bring out the shadow detail of the pavement, but at the same time keep the blue of the sky. I used the super wide 10mm lens to give an idea of how busy the street was and in the processing tried to keep it as realistic as possible.
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