Aerial view of Lisbon

I like very much the roofs in the foreground. This is a nicely balanced composition. I guess you didn't play with the colours since the photo has an atmospheric blue dominance. Lisbon is (it is my impression) a yellow-green city and, here, the red roofs need to find they real colour (as close as possible). In the attachment I added yellow and red and increased the saturation of those colours, then increased the contrast, added some green and decreased the general saturation. Please don't take this as a 'lesson', it is only my personal impression from Lisbon.

Hi Manolis,

thanks for the comment, and for the help!

Actually I pressed autolevels on this one - please see attached the original. It was just as blue, but darker ...

Your version looks just great!!!

I will fix the colours and upload a better version, but tomorrow I have to finish an article.

warm (sunny like in Lisbon) regards

Maria

Manolis,

I have just uploaded a picture with roofs you might like - the colour was OK even in the unmanipulated version, although autolevels seem to have removed some of the blue. It was one of my early favourites, for which reasons I have an A4 print of it :)

thanks for looking, and for all the feedback and help

Maria

Hi Maria...I am interested to know what camera you use?

regards

Mike

Hi Mike,

thanks for the question. It is described in the technical details - I did my best.

Unfortunately is not working anymore since the 1st of May, in Vienna :( The curtain is blocked, so I guess I need a new one ... when I get my contract signed. I bought it used, and not thought that this means a shorter life span ...

Regarding this photo - I will upload one in better colours soon, but had no time, and one more on Lisbon even sooner. Just tomorrow is again a day when I have to submit one more paper ...

kind regards

Maria

I see that you cannot see everything in "My equipment". It is a SRL camera, an older DDR (German Democratic Republic) model. Unlike the Zenith, which had a textile curtain, and flexible, this one has a metal one. And it has a light measurer integrated into the lens, unlike the Zenith, where it was above, and so the risks of under- and overexposing were bigger.

regards

Maria

I can seee you really have a love for photography , more like a self expression? your photo's have a doncumented feel to them , I am no technical wizz and as we 'speak' I am studying the ins and outs of shutter speed / apertures! ...most of my photos are instinctive and learnt from what i read.

Hi,

thank you very much again for the help and the instructions. I could not find how to increase yellow, so I only increased red and green, contrast (16%) and then left autolevels work. Anyway, the roofs came closer to their real colour, I think; and the blue reflection in the foreground I find OK, after all, at such a blue sky ...

The old image is attached for archiving purposes ;)

sunny regards (today even here)

Maria

One of the last photos in Lisbon made 2004, but in November this year

I am going there again (www.lisbon1755.org) :)

regards

Maria

Hello Maria, this a good, sharp shot. I had thought you may have used your Zenit for this as the image is quite sharp. I guess the Praktica shines when the sun comes out.

I must go back to Lisbon one day, you make it look great.

I'm glad to hear you have a contract coming up. Is it a post doc, where will it be?

P

Hi,

thanks for the comment.

Right now I am reading about Portugal and found out that it is the country of the wine :)

To answer your question: it is the equivalent of a postdoc, as it is a two years position for an experienced researcher (more than 4 years of research), but I don't have a doctorate ... (I submitted on the 19th of April 2004 and till today there are no referats, not positive, not negative - although I got told to work further two years on the thesis, financed privately, and even then it is not sure that there will be a positive referat ...).

regards

Maria