La Serenissima
Our last night in Venice and I made my way to the public pier/jetty on the waterfront. Santa Maria della Salute was nicely lit with a nice sky behind it so I thought I'd try some long exposures again. About 5 seconds I think. Originally I got some without any gondoliers but as it got later, more were coming back into the little mooring area in front of me so were often moving through my shot.
I didn't think much of the shots until I got back and looked at them on my laptop on a proper screen. Sometimes it's hard to judge looking at them on a camera's LCD. But this shot for me, I think, was one of the best I took of the holiday. A couple of ferries are moving in front of the Basilica while in the foreground a ghostly gondolier goes past complete with a light trail from his lantern. And the water and the pontoons are a blur in the twilight.
La Serenissima
Our last night in Venice and I made my way to the public pier/jetty on the waterfront. Santa Maria della Salute was nicely lit with a nice sky behind it so I thought I'd try some long exposures again. About 5 seconds I think. Originally I got some without any gondoliers but as it got later, more were coming back into the little mooring area in front of me so were often moving through my shot.
I didn't think much of the shots until I got back and looked at them on my laptop on a proper screen. Sometimes it's hard to judge looking at them on a camera's LCD. But this shot for me, I think, was one of the best I took of the holiday. A couple of ferries are moving in front of the Basilica while in the foreground a ghostly gondolier goes past complete with a light trail from his lantern. And the water and the pontoons are a blur in the twilight.