Florence - Ponte Vecchio

This is the crazy bridge Ponte Veccio in Florence that is covered with houses, and as you walk through you can see a lot of people selling arts and jewelery in the shops, as well as on the street. These are poor people, arguing about why you are taking photos, physically strong people, but afraid of everyday life. In the evening we had a glass of wine there that our professor brought with him. He actually brought a lot of that from Slovenia :) It was nice, after three intense days in Florence, so peaceful, despite the street market. The photo was taken a few hours before, twice at 55mm with a telephoto lens and I think it looks like it should, as it does when you are there. As I remember it :) I was taking portraits of the people on the street at the time at long focal length, so I forgot the ISO 800. But I think there is no problem with that.

How it was done

This is another masterpiece of Alvaro Siza Vieira which stands in the student campus at the edge of the city of Aveiro, Portugal. The picture doesn't show the good work of the architect, it is more a parody, but a college friend of mine, who was making a report about this building, asked me if I have any different (or possibly funny) pictures of this library. And then I remembered this one which I made when we were walking through some new construction yard to this student campus. The photoshop was done quickly, so where I had to make it manually, the edges are still a little green :) Also the original picture is OK, because the sky is white and grey and there are only two colours, green and orange. Sadly, I can't find the original. The thing I like most of this building is the interior, because the five floors are joined so nicely into one big hall, and some details make the outside world look like a picture framed in the external frontage. It is hard to show that in the picture, but I have to admit that the man is a genius.