Summer Wind VI

To be perfectly honest, I'm starting to get tired of all these "Summer Wind" posts, so I will make this one longer and finish posting these pictures. Then we can move onto something else (not macro, I promise).

Summer Wind V

I like photographing vacations. Photography allows you to notice things more easily, so you notice more details of what you are seeing. It allows for plenty of different perspectives and you can have several subjects, if you have the luck that they are willing to pose or at least, act natural around the camera. As a photographer, few things can be more annoying than someone ruining a nice picture by putting his hand in front of his face. Experience, however, will allow us to be faster about taking the picture and the subject to be more used to having the camera in front of him or her.

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Summer Wind III

All pictures taken at the Schönberg Palace, in Austria.

Self-Portrait

The Danube

One of the most memorable sights on last year's vacation was the Danube:

Summer Wind II

The following pictures were all taken in Vienna last August.

Abstract photo

Summer Wind I

I never did get around to finishing last summer's series (Venice Days, Vienna Days, etc.), and although I know summer ended eight months ago, here we go. I will be posting a few of those pictures every day for several days.

The first one is Venice for sure, the rest are of our trip between Venice and Vienna and of the city of Vienna itself.

This one is my favorite. I just love the way the sky is the protagonist in this picture, not the building behind, and the pretty shades of blue with just a hint of orange on the left.

Portraits

Instead of boring you with more of these,

(and believe me, it's the last one for a while)

let's take a break from all that bokeh-filled macro thanks to my recent discovery of F2.7 (aperture), and see some people.

In my opinion, the most important thing when photographing people is to capture them in their natural state. Nobody likes fake smiles. But of course, we don't want pictures in which mouths are full of food or the mouth is open so wide that you start to wonder when the last time they brushed their teeth was.

There it is. Something very difficult to capture with some people, yet incredibly easy with others. Taking a decent picture in which your subject has a natural smile and nothing else in the picture distracts you from your subject's face. That's the reason I cropped out the blurry person on the right side, yet I tried to allow as much space on that side as possible since that is where she is looking, as a picture in which her eyes almost touch the border is nowhere near as interesting. When looking at this picture, you wonder, 'what is she looking at that is so funny?' which is why it's a good idea to leave some space in that direction and give some clues as to what exactly it is.

There's plenty of space for originality and creativity, though. You can explore different angles, settings, types of light, facial expressions:

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