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So here we are, on the road again, and I hadn't sorted out the Sony A6000 to Snapseed interfaces.
I shoot RAW and my image transfers from this trip look meh. After 4 weeks it finally occurred to me to look at the file size. Lo and behold, thumbnail jpgs were transferred. Ugh.
This is why my cellphone images look sharp on Flickr and the A6000 images do not.
I tested shooting RAW + JPG and the good, full Rez JPG does transfer. Lesson learned.
Next thing is image processing.
I read about how Norman Seeff used to print high contrast works with a twist. He used a black stocking between the enlarger lens and paper to give a interesting softness to some of his images.
He wasn't by any means the only one to do this.
When I worked at Samy Cameras photo lab on Sunset Blvd in Hollyweird we used to do this at client request. It was really no big deal.
What was a bigger deal was our use of Agfa Portriga Rapid 111 Glossy paper. It gave a gorgeous deep walnut brown tone. We used this for may of the gallery shows we printed for various then famous photographers.
Taking the black stocking idea and borrowing tones from Portriga Rapid, it turns out, expresses pretty well how I feel about Rome.
So, here is a series of images done in an old, outdated, likely not very hip manner.
IMG_0040r Rome, Italy
The Quirinal Palace (known in Italian as the Palazzo del Quirinale or simply Quirinale) is a historic building in Rome, Italy, one of the three current official residences of the President of the Italian Republic, together with Villa Rosebery in Naples and Tenuta di Castelporziano in Rome. It is located on the Quirinal Hill, the highest of the seven hills of Rome. It has housed thirty Popes, four Kings of Italy and twelve presidents of the Italian Republic.
The Quirinal Palace was selected by Napoleon to be his residence par exellence as Emperor. However his permanence never took place because of the French defeat in 1814 and the subsequent European Restoration.
The palace extends for an area of 110,500 square metres and is the ninth-largest palace in the world in terms of area. By way of comparison, the White House in the United States of America is one-twentieth of its size.
So here we are, on the road again, and I hadn't sorted out the Sony A6000 to Snapseed interfaces.
I shoot RAW and my image transfers from this trip look meh. After 4 weeks it finally occurred to me to look at the file size. Lo and behold, thumbnail jpgs were transferred. Ugh.
This is why my cellphone images look sharp on Flickr and the A6000 images do not.
I tested shooting RAW + JPG and the good, full Rez JPG does transfer. Lesson learned.
Next thing is image processing.
I read about how Norman Seeff used to print high contrast works with a twist. He used a black stocking between the enlarger lens and paper to give a interesting softness to some of his images.
He wasn't by any means the only one to do this.
When I worked at Samy Cameras photo lab on Sunset Blvd in Hollyweird we used to do this at client request. It was really no big deal.
What was a bigger deal was our use of Agfa Portriga Rapid 111 Glossy paper. It gave a gorgeous deep walnut brown tone. We used this for may of the gallery shows we printed for various then famous photographers.
Taking the black stocking idea and borrowing tones from Portriga Rapid, it turns out, expresses pretty well how I feel about Rome.
So, here is a series of images done in an old, outdated, likely not very hip manner.
After Amsterdam, Copenhagen, Hamburg, Sao Paulo and of course Paris, Alaniz from Argentina is pasted in Rome as part of street art without borders
seen from the Palatine (one of the seven hills of Rome).
Rom - Kolosseum
vom Palatin (einem der sieben HĂŒgel Roms) aus gesehen.
The Colosseum or Coliseum (/kÉlÉËsiËÉm/ kol-É-SEE-Ém), also known as the Flavian Amphitheatre (Latin: Amphitheatrum Flavium; Italian: Anfiteatro Flavio [aĆfiteËaËtro ËflaËvjo] or Colosseo [kolosËsÉËo]), is an oval amphitheatre in the centre of the city of Rome, Italy. Built of concrete and sand, it is the largest amphitheatre ever built. The Colosseum is situated just east of the Roman Forum. Construction began under the emperor Vespasian in AD 72, and was completed in AD 80 under his successor and heir Titus. Further modifications were made during the reign of Domitian (81â96). These three emperors are known as the Flavian dynasty, and the amphitheatre was named in Latin for its association with their family name (Flavius).
The Colosseum could hold, it is estimated, between 50,000 and 80,000 spectators, having an average audience of some 65,000; it was used for gladiatorial contests and public spectacles such as mock sea battles (for only a short time as the hypogeum was soon filled in with mechanisms to support the other activities), animal hunts, executions, re-enactments of famous battles, and dramas based on Classical mythology. The building ceased to be used for entertainment in the early medieval era. It was later reused for such purposes as housing, workshops, quarters for a religious order, a fortress, a quarry, and a Christian shrine.
Although partially ruined because of damage caused by earthquakes and stone-robbers, the Colosseum is still an iconic symbol of Imperial Rome. It is one of Rome's most popular tourist attractions and also has links to the Roman Catholic Church, as each Good Friday the Pope leads a torchlit "Way of the Cross" procession that starts in the area around the Colosseum.
The Colosseum is also depicted on the Italian version of the five-cent euro coin.
The Colosseum's original Latin name was Amphitheatrum Flavium, often anglicized as Flavian Amphitheatre. The building was constructed by emperors of the Flavian dynasty, following the reign of Nero.This name is still used in modern English, but generally the structure is better known as the Colosseum. In antiquity, Romans may have referred to the Colosseum by the unofficial name Amphitheatrum Caesareum (with Caesareum an adjective pertaining to the title Caesar), but this name may have been strictly poetic as it was not exclusive to the Colosseum; Vespasian and Titus, builders of the Colosseum, also constructed an amphitheater of the same name in Puteoli (modern Pozzuoli).
The name Colosseum has long been believed to be derived from a colossal statue of Nero nearby (the statue of Nero was named after the Colossus of Rhodes). This statue was later remodeled by Nero's successors into the likeness of Helios (Sol) or Apollo, the sun god, by adding the appropriate solar crown. Nero's head was also replaced several times with the heads of succeeding emperors. Despite its pagan links, the statue remained standing well into the medieval era and was credited with magical powers. It came to be seen as an iconic symbol of the permanence of Rome.
In the 8th century, a famous epigram attributed to the Venerable Bede celebrated the symbolic significance of the statue in a prophecy that is variously quoted: Quamdiu stat ColisĂŠus, stat et Roma; quando cadet colisĂŠus, cadet et Roma; quando cadet Roma, cadet et mundus ("as long as the Colossus stands, so shall Rome; when the Colossus falls, Rome shall fall; when Rome falls, so falls the world"). This is often mistranslated to refer to the Colosseum rather than the Colossus (as in, for instance, Byron's poem Childe Harold's Pilgrimage). However, at the time that the Pseudo-Bede wrote, the masculine noun coliseus was applied to the statue rather than to what was still known as the Flavian amphitheatre.
The Colossus did eventually fall, possibly being pulled down to reuse its bronze. By the year 1000 the name "Colosseum" had been coined to refer to the amphitheatre. The statue itself was largely forgotten and only its base survives, situated between the Colosseum and the nearby Temple of Venus and Roma.
The name further evolved to Coliseum during the Middle Ages. In Italy, the amphitheatre is still known as il Colosseo, and other Romance languages have come to use similar forms such as Coloseumul (Romanian), le Colisée (French), el Coliseo (Spanish) and o Coliseu (Portuguese).
(Wikipedia)
Das Kolosseum (antiker Name: Amphitheatrum Novum oder Amphitheatrum Flavium, italienisch: Colosseo) ist das gröĂte der im antiken Rom erbauten Amphitheater, der gröĂte geschlossene Bau der römischen Antike und weiterhin das gröĂte je gebaute Amphitheater der Welt. Zwischen 72 und 80 n. Chr. errichtet, diente das Kolosseum als Austragungsort zumeist höchst grausamer und brutaler Veranstaltungen, die von Mitgliedern des Kaiserhauses zur Unterhaltung und Belustigung der freien Bewohner Roms und des römischen Reichs bei kostenlosem Eintritt ausgerichtet wurden. Heute ist die Ruine des Bauwerks eines der Wahrzeichen der Stadt und zugleich ein Zeugnis fĂŒr die hochstehende Baukunst der Römer in der Antike.
Das erste steinerne Amphitheater Roms war das 29 v. Chr. eingeweihte Amphitheater des Statilius Taurus. Bis zu seiner Vernichtung durch den GroĂen Brand von Rom im Jahre 64 n. Chr. stand es auf dem Marsfeld und dĂŒrfte sich nicht wesentlich von den Amphitheatern auĂerhalb Roms unterschieden haben. Nach dem Brand errichtete Kaiser Nero am selben Standort nicht nur einen hölzernen Ersatz, sondern begann auch am SĂŒdhang des HĂŒgels Esquilin eine neue Palastanlage, die Domus Aurea. Die GĂ€rten der Domus Aurea umfassten auch den spĂ€teren Standort des Kolosseums in der Talsenke zwischen den HĂŒgeln Oppius (Teil des Esquilin) und Palatin.
Um 72, wenige Jahre nach Neros Sturz, gab sein Nachfolger Vespasian, der die Macht in einem blutigen BĂŒrgerkrieg errungen hatte, das Gebiet demonstrativ der römischen Ăffentlichkeit zurĂŒck. Dort lieĂ er binnen weniger Jahre ein neues steinernes Amphitheater errichten, das nicht nur Neros VorgĂ€ngerbau auf dem Marsfeld, sondern alle bisherigen Arenen ĂŒbertreffen sollte, um den Ruhm der neuen Herrscherdynastie der Flavier zu mehren. Nach einer Rekonstruktion der Bauinschrift des Kolosseums wurde seine Errichtung insbesondere aus der Beute des JĂŒdischen Krieges finanziert, unter anderem mit dem im Jahr 70 geplĂŒnderten Goldschatz des Jerusalemer Tempels.
Das GebĂ€ude, das ursprĂŒnglich dreigeschossig sein sollte, war beim Tod Vespasians im Jahr 79 fast vollendet. Es bestand aus drei ĂŒbereinander angeordneten Arkadenreihen zu je 80 Bögen. Die Arkaden wurden durch HalbsĂ€ulen gegliedert: die zu ebener Erde im dorischen, die des zweiten Geschosses im ionischen und die des dritten Geschosses im korinthischen Stil. Angeblich auf Wunsch von Vespasians Sohn und Nachfolger Titus wurde den drei Rundbogengeschossen noch ein viertes Geschoss hinzugefĂŒgt, das nicht von Arkaden durchbrochen, sondern massiv gestaltet und nur von rechteckigen Fensternischen durchbrochen wurde. Die AuĂenmauern des Kolosseums wurden in römischem Travertin ausgefĂŒhrt, im Inneren wurden jedoch die billigeren Ziegel und Tuff verwendet.
Nach seiner Fertigstellung im Jahr 80 wurde das Kolosseum dem Geschichtsschreiber Cassius Dio zufolge mit hunderttÀgigen Spielen eröffnet, unter anderem mit GladiatorenkÀmpfen, nachgestellten Seeschlachten und Tierhetzen, bei denen 5000 Tiere in der Arena getötet wurden.
Die antike Bezeichnung Amphitheatrum Flavium leitet sich von den Kaisern der flavischen Dynastie her, in deren Herrschaftszeit das Kolosseum errichtet wurde.
FrĂŒhestens im 8. Jahrhundert lĂ€sst sich die Bezeichnung Kolosseum (vgl. das urspr. altgriechische kolossos) historisch belegen. Die ĂŒberwiegend anerkannte Deutung dieses Namens geht von einer Kolossalstatue des Kaisers Nero aus, die nach dessen Tod in eine Statue des Sonnengottes Sol umgewandelt und neben dem Amphitheater aufgestellt wurde. Dieser Colossus, der mindestens bis zum 4. Jahrhundert gestanden hat, dĂŒrfte der Arena den Namen gegeben haben.
AuszuschlieĂen ist, dass die römische Bevölkerung des Mittelalters den Bau einfach wegen seiner kolossalen AusmaĂe Colosseo genannt hat, da das italienische Wort colosso fĂŒr âKolossâ erst seit dem 15. Jahrhundert in Gebrauch ist.
(Wikipedia)
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So here we are, on the road again, and I hadn't sorted out the Sony A6000 to Snapseed interfaces.
I shoot RAW and my image transfers from this trip look meh. After 4 weeks it finally occurred to me to look at the file size. Lo and behold, thumbnail jpgs were transferred. Ugh.
This is why my cellphone images look sharp on Flickr and the A6000 images do not.
I tested shooting RAW + JPG and the good, full Rez JPG does transfer. Lesson learned.
Next thing is image processing.
I read about how Norman Seeff used to print high contrast works with a twist. He used a black stocking between the enlarger lens and paper to give a interesting softness to some of his images.
He wasn't by any means the only one to do this.
When I worked at Samy Cameras photo lab on Sunset Blvd in Hollyweird we used to do this at client request. It was really no big deal.
What was a bigger deal was our use of Agfa Portriga Rapid 111 Glossy paper. It gave a gorgeous deep walnut brown tone. We used this for may of the gallery shows we printed for various then famous photographers.
Taking the black stocking idea and borrowing tones from Portriga Rapid, it turns out, expresses pretty well how I feel about Rome.
So, here is a series of images done in an old, outdated, likely not very hip manner.
Rom - Trevi-Brunnen
The Trevi Fountain (Italian: Fontana di Trevi) is a fountain in the Trevi district in Rome, Italy, designed by Italian architect Nicola Salvi and completed by Giuseppe Pannini. Standing 26.3 metres (86 ft) high and 49.15 metres (161.3 ft) wide, it is the largest Baroque fountain in the city and one of the most famous fountains in the world. The fountain has appeared in several notable films, including Federico Fellini's La Dolce Vita, the eponymous Three Coins in the Fountain, and Roman Holiday.
The backdrop for the fountain is the Palazzo Poli, given a new façade with a giant order of Corinthian pilasters that link the two main stories. Taming of the waters is the theme of the gigantic scheme that tumbles forward, mixing water and rockwork, and filling the small square. Tritons guide Oceanus' shell chariot, taming hippocamps.
In the centre a robustly-modelled triumphal arch is superimposed on the palazzo façade. The centre niche or exedra framing Oceanus has free-standing columns for maximal light and shade. In the niches flanking Oceanus, Abundance spills water from her urn and Salubrity holds a cup from which a snake drinks. Above, bas reliefs illustrate the Roman origin of the aqueducts.
The Tritons and horses provide symmetrical balance, with the maximum contrast in their mood and poses[citation needed] (by 1730, rococo was already in full bloom in France and Germany).
Coins are purportedly meant to be thrown using the right hand over the left shoulder. This was the theme of 1954's Three Coins in the Fountain and the Academy Award-winning song by that name which introduced the picture.
An estimated 3,000 Euros are thrown into the fountain each day. In 2016, an estimated âŹ1.4 million (US$1.5 million) was thrown into the fountain. The money has been used to subsidise a supermarket for Rome's needy; however, there are regular attempts to steal coins from the fountain although it is illegal to do so.
(Wikipedia)
Der Trevi-Brunnen, italienisch Fontana di Trevi, ist der populĂ€rste und mit rund 26 Meter Höhe und rund 50 Meter Breite gröĂte Brunnen Roms und einer der bekanntesten Brunnen der Welt.
Er wurde 1732 bis 1762 nach einem Entwurf von Nicola Salvi im spĂ€tbarocken, im Ăbergang zum klassizistischen Stil, im Anschluss an den Palazzo Poli erbaut. Er ist eine der wichtigsten SehenswĂŒrdigkeiten Roms.
Der Brunnen wurde am 3. November 2015 nach langen Restaurierungsarbeiten wieder neu eröffnet.
Der Trevi-Brunnen besteht aus einer Palastfassade, der ein Triumphbogen vorgesetzt ist. Davor tummeln sich Meeresgestalten auf einer Felslandschaft, ĂŒber die sich das Wasser in ein groĂes, flaches Becken ergieĂt. Das verwendete Material ist Travertin aus Tivoli und Marmor aus Carrara.
Der Trevi-Brunnen ist der dritte Brunnen in Rom, der als Endpunkt einer renovierten antiken Wasserleitung das Triumphbogenmotiv aufnimmt. Salvi entwickelt die Vorbilder, den Mosesbrunnen (1587 fertiggestellt) und die Fontana Paola (1613 fertiggestellt), weiter und fĂŒhrt deren Architekturprinzip in monumentalerer Form aus.
Salvis Thema waren die Naturgewalten, die das Werk der Menschen bedrohen. Auf der rechten Seite scheint die Fassade durch die hervorbrechenden Felsen bereits zu zerbrechen. Die dramatische Wirkung wird noch durch das vom flieĂenden Wasser erzeugte Meeresrauschen verstĂ€rkt, das schon in den Seitengassen zu hören ist. Salvi hat lange experimentiert, mit welcher SteinoberflĂ€che er diesen Effekt trotz der relativ geringen Wassermenge erreichen kann. Auf den Felsen sind allerlei Fabelwesen des Meeres wie Meerespferde und Tritonen angeordnet, die dem Betrachter entgegenstĂŒrmen. Ăber ihnen steht im Zentrum der herrschaftliche Meeresgott Oceanus bereits in der mittleren Nische des Triumphbogens.
Der Triumphbogen stellt eine Neuinterpretation des Konstantinbogens dar. In den Nischen rechts und links des Oceanus stehen Figuren, die von Filippo della Valle geschaffen wurden, die die Gesundheit und die Fruchtbarkeit symbolisieren. DarĂŒber befindet sich jeweils ein Relief. Rechts zeigt eine Jungfrau (lateinisch virgo, daher der Name Aqua Virgo) Soldaten Agrippas die Quelle in den Sabiner Bergen. Links befiehlt Agrippa den Bau des AquĂ€dukts. Auf dem Architrav stehen vier Figuren, die als Allegorien von rechts nach links die satten Wiesen, die Gaben des Herbstes, die Fruchtbarkeit der Felder und die FĂŒlle der FrĂŒchte darstellen. Die Inschriften huldigen den am Bau beteiligten PĂ€psten. Bekrönt wird die Brunnenanlage mit dem Wappen Clemens XII.
(Wikipedia)