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Here’s Lisa in one of the many photos I took around Venice while filming. We basically spent most of the day rolling around Venice with our cameras while shooting. I ended up with probably 10,000 photos, many of which I still have not processed. So, here’s one of them!
It would have been awesome to have one of these rooms during Carnival in Venice right in the middle of St. Mark’s Square. That’s where all the activity is centered, so I think it’d be cool just to hang out there on the balcony and have a lovely day, watching all the costumes down below… it must be a lot like time travel and seeing everything it was 1,000 years ago.
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This sure was a great trip! I think it was rainy and moody almost every day we were filming, but the sun finally came out at the end. It was seriously like 3 weeks with no sun… That’s okay in many ways because Venice is even more beautiful in the rain and mist to me.
This is a cool boutique hotel I stayed in for almost a month in Venice. We also hosted our photo workshop here, so we would all gather here every day to work on photos together and I would do some teaching while helping people out with their own photos. Then, we would also usually end up here at night to have a nightcap before bed.
As you can see, this isn’t exactly the sharpest photo in the world, but I still think it’s cool. The shutter was plenty fast enough at 1/250th of a second, but I had to get the ISO up super high to 12800. That’s why you see all the grain. It’s not the end of the world, and most non-photographers would even notice… I probably should not have even pointed it out!
When I was there during Carnivale, people were in costume all day long and all night long. I would try to visit St. Mark’s Square every night to get people in costume in a slighty different light. Here is one of the favorites of the lot.
Man, you see all kinds of stuff at the Biennale in Venice. I was up on the bridge taking photos and there was a huge party happening nearby… out of nowhere, this gal came floating along in this outfit then just rocked into the party. She really knew how to make an entrance! 🙂
Here’s a favorite photo from my time in Venice… I think it’s almost impossible to take a bad photo of a gondola. In fact, even people that are brand new to photography can’t even take a bad photo of one. I still have a ton I haven’t gotten through yet, but I’ll be processing even more soon!
Here’s one of my favorite photos just outside my hotel in Venice. I stayed here for about three weeks, so it was quite a long time to be returning to the same place every night. After about two weeks, I finally memorized most of the streets and would no longer get lost. This was the view that awaited me every night upon my return home… I took this one with the Hasselblad.
You know, as much as I make fun of the Hasselblad, I’m very happy with how some of the shots come out. I still do quite a bit of post-processing using Aurora and other tools, but, I have to admit… shooting in Venice at F/22 has its upside. Maybe I will try the Hasselblad again… (tents his fingers like Mr. Burns…)
