Barcelona

Fajitas!

Trip to Barcelona from a while back - Had a load of complications with my laptop so only got around to processing them last week..

Anyways, enjoy... (Click on pic's to get bigger ones on black background)









More in my flickr set here

Redundo

I think it should be made law that anyone who takes up photography must go to Barcelona at least once in their lives. Barcelona should be for photographers what Mecca is for Islam.

Some really nice character shots there, but i prefer some of those in your flickr. The vignetted corners looks a little too strong in places, but thats a matter of personal preference. It won't let me post it, but the shot of the couple holding hands is my favourite, I'm not too sure about the cropping - can't decide whether i would like to see their whole faces or have their heads cropped out completely - but their hands held forms a nice subject.

Linky

digitalage

Nice shots Fajitas, I see you like dark corners. The second shot is the best IMHO, but it looks a little tilted too the left, also the left hand corner is also a little too dark...The third shot you processed is too dark.

mervifwdc

on the second one, howq about a crop to leterbox style, cutting off the bright lights at the top?

Nice work,funny lighting for me, but I like it.

Merv.

Owen

I love the one with the Fruit, his expression is wonderful, and the use of light creates a juxtaposition where something so fresh appears to be for sale in a dingy corner of an alley. Well done!

5uspect

They're all very dark but in a very nice way that makes the images feel very rich. The vignette is also very pleasing. Great work as usual!

On Barcelona, I love the place, I went there for a conference shortly after a got my 350D and I would love to get back there again now that I know what some of the buttons do. It really is a photographers mecca.

rymus

boards trip to Barcelona anyone?

Borderfox

Some great shots there, looks like an interesting place. Prague next for me

Owen

rymus wrote:

boards trip to Barcelona anyone?

I'd a trip with work there in September 2004, stayed in the Arts Hotel, so I can highly recommend that place :-)

http://owenkelly.com/2004/06/barcelona-mini-dealer-event.html

Oriel

I can't see past the vignetting, I'm afraid - it looks so artificial it's ruins the shots.
It's making in images darker that they're already been over-made. Number three, I can't see anything.

PaulieC

sinecurea wrote:

I can't see past the vignetting, I'm afraid - it looks so artificial it's ruins the shots.
It's making in images darker that they're already been over-made. Number three, I can't see anything.

Sinecurea. The new Shrimp??

Oriel

cambo_gueno wrote:

Sinecurea. The new Shrimp??

Shrimp thinks he knows everything, I don't have such a claim.
That was an honest opinion on those photographs, take or leave it as you wish.

melekalikimaka

rymus wrote:

boards trip to Barcelona anyone?

i hate the place been there 3 times each time some one i'm with has been mugged or pick pocketed. i lost 400 euro there...grr

mikeanywhere

rymus wrote:

boards trip to Barcelona anyone?

Most defo!! However, if I went it wouldnt be for the photography HAHAHAHA

PS - Like the shots as always Al but I do think they look darker than they should be

Borderfox

melekalikimaka wrote:

i hate the place been there 3 times each time some one i'm with has been mugged or pick pocketed. i lost 400 euro there...grr

Boards Revenge tour 2007

magicbastarder

the food market off las ramblas is superb, if a bit dark, for photos.
speaking of crime, a mate of mine was etherised there.
another mate had a prostitute who wouldn't let go of his hand for half an hour, kept trying to convince him to try things no sane man would ever attempt.

redrob13

I'd normally be a bit leary of the darkness and vignetting, but you've really managed to pull it off here. It adds a sumptuous quality to what could otherwise have been nice travel shots. I particularly 1 and 4, although in the fourth one its a shame that the guy on the bench watching is obscured by the vignette. I think the idea of a wide crop on the second one could work well, as I find the brightness of the fluorescent tubes quite distracting in an otherwise dark scene.

Morlar

Borderfox wrote:

Boards Revenge tour 2007

Sounds like a plan. Though I can just see the headlines/mass deportations now.

trooney

magicbastarder wrote:

...a mate of mine was etherised there...

Anaesthetised with ether? How does that happen? How much did he have to pay?

There's a really good electronic music festival goes on there in June - Sonar. Not sure if anybody else here would enjoy that sort of thing. Good for snaps too. Lots happening in the city around that time.

magicbastarder

trooney wrote:

Anaesthetised with ether? How does that happen? How much did he have to pay?

rag held over his mouth, dosed with something which knocked him out. they got his wallet.

melekalikimaka

good god we'd be prime targets,all the canonheads would have to paint their white L lens black lol,, bike locks on our cameras, second lens down our pants, we'd look quite a sight. them bloody street urchins stole my friends shoes off his feet while he was alseep!

although this was the state we were in




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PaulieC

melekalikimaka wrote:

good god we'd be prime targets,all the canonheads would have to paint their white L lens black lol,, bike locks on our cameras, second lens down our pants, we'd look quite a sight. them bloody street urchins stole my friends shoes off his feet while he was alseep!

although this was the state we were in




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Magic!!

digitalage

Fajitas! hope you don't mind but I ran your 2nd pic through PS with a little adjustment, I think the closer crop works well as the flourescent lights are a distraction.

rymus

magic

magicbastarder

just got home (to the monitor i trust), and the b&w shot is insanely dark.

Fajitas!

Cheers all, yeah, the shots are looking terribly dark on other moniters, I've had a check about. I have this one calibrated to print...so I guess I'm happy with them. Might give them a go on one of the other moniters.

I like the crop on that one, but dislike the frame. Will defo consider the crop though.

Redundo

Jeez where on earth in the city were you guys going to say you kept getting mugged? The only time I ever came across anything remotely suspicious was in Park Guell where I was sitting in a kinda deserted part of the park and a local teen chose to sit on my bench. I got up and moved just in case.

magicbastarder

were you anywhere near las ramblas at night?
the city is famous for petty crime.

and the hookers, as previously mentioned, are incredibly brazen.

sineadw

melekalikimaka wrote:

second lens down our pants, we'd look quite a sight.

Indeed you would!

I love the darkness of the shots personally - adds a depth and dinginess to the colours. God only knows what my monitor is set to though.

Redundo

magicbastarder wrote:

were you anywhere near las ramblas at night?
the city is famous for petty crime.

and the hookers, as previously mentioned, are incredibly brazen.

Yup, I was staying in a hotel just off La Ramblas, but never had or saw a problem. And if you want to know about brazen prozzies you should try Liverpool at night!