Alfama

The dog in the picture accompanied me during the walk through Alfama.

It is a romantic part of Lisbon, with winding narrow and steep

streets, remained so from the Middle Ages. Fado, a traditional

portuguese music, refers often to Alfama.

 

thanks for your time

Maria

required a stable tripod this capture

The dog's butthole is distracting. Underexposed in the foreground? It's a high contrast and difficult scene. A bit soft.

Hi,

 

thanks for the comment.

I cropped the dog (partially).

Well, the fact is that always my pictures include more than what I've seen when taking the photo throught the SRL. In the majority of cases this is actually and advantage. I uploaded yesterday the images quite in a hurry without making any changes except the size in pixels and did not scroll the big version. On the smaller it was less disturbing.

 

The exposure is optimised for the wall on which is written "alfama", the part without reflections.

 

thanks again

Maria

Thanks for the comment.

 

I've let the DTP software sharpen - is it better now?

 

I have a tripod, but it is heavy, and since quite long I renounce taking it with (since 99 actually). I used it with the video camera some times recently, but only for longer scenes taken from the same position.

 

kind regards

Maria

 

PS: I forgot to attach the original image to the previous comment, so I do so now, in order to let people know to what were the first 10 anonymous ratings done. I hope it is OK for photo.net