Week 33 - Night Photography

This is the night sky over Viscri village, Romania, captured with a 30 second exposure. I shot with a very wide angle, so there is some perspective distortion but I decided to leave the photo as it is because it adds to the strangeness. I love the weird colours of the grass and house, achieved by a combination of street light with different colour temperatures. I also like the eerie shadows from the trees, I think all in all the shot is very mysterious.

Week 12 - Straight out of Camera

Straight out of camera week found me on a skiing holiday so I had my pick of beautiful landscapes to photograph. I just had to be careful not to fall on my camera while skiing. As far as using shots without processing, my most common mistake was not paying attention to the edges of the frame and finding myself wanting to crop the raw shots. Alas, it was not permitted, so the offending photos were just discarded.

At last, I chose a shot that shows off the many perks of Winter holidays in Austria: skiing, relaxing in the sunshine and enjoying beautiful picturesque landscapes.

Industrial sunset

Last night we drove around for an hour because we didn't want to wake the baby <3

Under Construction

The beach can be a melancholic but interesting scene this time of year

Week 5 - Greetings from...

I took all the shots for this week's theme in 2 hours on Saturday, while we were visiting family in Cluj-Napoca. My initial plan was to shoot something from Bucharest but I simply had no time during the week... When we got to Cluj, I tried to wander the streets alone for a mini photo shoot, but I had to return empty handed because my battery died on me. I just have to remember that having a mirror-less camera means less battery life than my DSLR, it's something I 'discover' the hard way every now and then...

So in order not to miss the week, I ended up sneaking away from my nephew's one year old party to take some photos. Good thing the scenery around the party venue was nice enough to qualify for the theme.

Well, greetings from Cluj! Here is a beautiful lake, just outside the restaurant where the party was taking place:

This is actually the spot where my husband took me for our first date, but that is a story for another time... I chose this photo for the project because it is the 'cleanest' of them all. It has both foreground and background interest, the subjects are doing something mildly interesting, and the sky features some 'dramatic' clouds instead of being bland blue. All in all, it is a decent shot, though not the type of shot I usually take.

More photos from Cluj:

These were shot from the hill known as "cetățuie" (an old fortification), incidentally another spot I visited with my husband on said first date. This hill is a well known spot for seeing Cluj from above. I like the church tower and the panorama as a whole, but I thought that there were just too many rooftops for my taste in these photos, and the main subject (church tower) doesn't stand out enough.

This is the same lake as before, shot at sundown (yes, I took my tripod to a kid's party!). I had my husband stand in as subject for the first photo. I like them enough, but in the end they seemed to dark to choose as a "greetings from" photo.

Good Morning, Bucharest!

View from my balcony at 8 am - that's what I like about living on the 7th floor :)

Vast

Poza de mai sus poate fi admirată și pe un colț de perete, până pe 18 februarie 2013, la Cărturești în ceainărie. Parte din expoziția promoției 2012 a Școlii de Poetică Fotografică Francisc Mraz. Atât!

Later edit: se pare că durata expoziției s-a prelungit până pe 8 martie 2013, fapt care nu poate decât să ne bucure! :)

Bună dimineaţa!

Să începem în forţă, cu un simplu, clar, atât de minunat şi atât de banal, atât de unic şi totuşi repetabil... răsărit de soare! Dacă ar fi să-i dau un titlu, cred că i-aş spune răsărit de soare la fereastra mea, căci chiar asta este, nimic mai mult.

Şi cred că aşteptam răsăritul ăsta, pentru că pe cuvântul meu că nu ştiam cu ce să încep aici...