SMB2
02-07-2017, 10:49 AM
Sometimes it is a good idea to shoot out of your comfort zone. I like animals, birds and motion, so architecture is not a strong suit. But, I was just on a trip with my wife and two grown children to Mexico and Dad's usual camera stuff was banned! So I took one camera body, a 24-120mm lens and snuck in my tripod.
We wanted to revisit the city of Merida, capital of the Yucatan. We spent a lot of time walking and eating our way through the city and visiting the surrounding area with its ruins and small towns. Mayan history is fascinating and the food is not too bad either. Merida is a city with lots of faces. The center part has fallen into disrepair but is now being revitalized as some of the old colonial homes are being bought and restored, many by US expats. We got to see the inside of some of the finished projects...amazing.
Anyway, one evening while the rest of the family was recovering from climbing the ruins, I decided to give myself a photo assignment. So I walked the streets to photograph doors!
These were all taken on a tripod at sunset with an f stop 11-13, ISO 200 and shutter speeds between 2 and 10 seconds (as it got darker). I need to try some further processing to render some of the images with a "grungy" look, but here are some of the images that I have looked at so far.
If you haven't picked up a camera in a while, give yourself a project and go shoot. You will be surprised how the juices start flowing and the images may teach you something.
These images aren't difficult, but the doors had caught my eye during our walks so I wanted to try and photograph them.
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We wanted to revisit the city of Merida, capital of the Yucatan. We spent a lot of time walking and eating our way through the city and visiting the surrounding area with its ruins and small towns. Mayan history is fascinating and the food is not too bad either. Merida is a city with lots of faces. The center part has fallen into disrepair but is now being revitalized as some of the old colonial homes are being bought and restored, many by US expats. We got to see the inside of some of the finished projects...amazing.
Anyway, one evening while the rest of the family was recovering from climbing the ruins, I decided to give myself a photo assignment. So I walked the streets to photograph doors!
These were all taken on a tripod at sunset with an f stop 11-13, ISO 200 and shutter speeds between 2 and 10 seconds (as it got darker). I need to try some further processing to render some of the images with a "grungy" look, but here are some of the images that I have looked at so far.
If you haven't picked up a camera in a while, give yourself a project and go shoot. You will be surprised how the juices start flowing and the images may teach you something.
These images aren't difficult, but the doors had caught my eye during our walks so I wanted to try and photograph them.
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