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.

Welcome to the Jungle

One from a sunny trip for these cloudy days... This photo was taken about a year ago, a few weeks after I discovered the polarised filter and the power of raw files. The jungle is river Soča, where we took a trip with a turist boat. The picture is not as sharp as it could be, the boat was moving all the time and I had a lot problems with sharpnes on my kit lens when using the filter. Not so much with the focus, but with the acurate sharpness, so I had to use aperture f8 and the time is quite slow for the 90mm (equivalent) using on the boat, only 1/100s. I don't like the picture that much now, it looks like some inappropriate use of hdr to me, but I thought some of you would like it. If you don't tell me and I will replace it with normal one :)