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Rome, Italy
(January 3, 2021)
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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So, here is a series of images done in an old, outdated, likely not very hip manner.
St. Peter's Cathedral, seen from the roof of Monumento Nazionale a Vittorio Emanuele II, Rome, Italy
I knew it was Rome's secondary airport but I thought it would be like Gatwick. It's more like Inverness.
So while my wife is walking off the soles of her shoes, I have no choice but to have my own little tour of Rome via my old sketchbook, which, although I loved to draw when I had the time, I was also often too lazy to get it out of my backpack, leaving my present 'virtual tour' rather sparse.
I'm pretty sure I got the proportions here, well.....all wrong. It should more narrow.
I am also pretty sure I ate noodles afterwards.
The Theatre of Marcellus was an ancient open-air theatre, built in the closing years of the Roman Republic. At the theatre, locals and visitors alike were able to watch performances of drama and song.
The theatre was 111 m in diameter and was the largest and most important theatre in Ancient Rome. It could originally hold between 11,000 and 20,000 spectators.
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Ostia Antica is a large archeological site, close to the modern suburb of Ostia, that was the location of the harbour city of ancient Rome, which is approximately 30 kilometres (19 miles) to the northeast. "Ostia" (plur. of "ostium") is a derivation of "os", the Latin word for "mouth". At the mouth of the River Tiber, Ostia was Rome's seaport, but due to silting the site now lies 3 kilometres (2 miles) from the sea.[1] The site is noted for the excellent preservation of its ancient buildings, magnificent frescoes and impressive mosaics.
Rome wasn't built in a day and you'll need much more than a day to take in this timeless city. The city is a real-life collage of piazzas, open-air markets, and astonishing historic sites.
Rome is the capital of Italy and the largest and most populous city in the country. It covers an area of 1,285 square kilometres and has nearly 3 million residents.
Erected during the fourth century AD, the Basilica of St. Paul Outside the Walls (Basilica di San Paolo Fuori le Mura) is one of the four major basilicas of Rome, and the second largest after St. Peter's Basilica. It was founded on the burial ground of St. Paul.
A short weekend trip to Rome included some of my quick street, gallery and museum shots. I'm getting back into photography with a new camera, so many of these were consider test shots to gauge where I am and what I really need to learn. I welcome any critique of my images as that's the way we grow, right?