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13 images from Venice

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Some very nice captures you have - the last one is really cool. We were there a little over a year ago and can't wait to go back.

I shot some film as well but haven't gotten around to taking it to a proper lab. :-(

If interested, you can see some of my digital captures from that trip on my flickr site.

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Beautiful images of a magical place. Especially like your B&W version.

Whatever lens you used to capture the first image . . . get rid of it! The bokeh gives me a headache. It's simply awful and detracts from an otherwise interesting picture. It's not our camera, you have a good one. Has to be the lens. Whatever you paid for it was too much.

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Steven
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Volosong,

Thanks for your comments. I must protect my lens since it's a 80-200f2.8 which delivers stellar image quality. I admit that the image in question has a dizzy background but solely because the brick pattern could not have been blurred more at f2.8. Otherwise the lens is superb and I'd dump it only for a 70-200VR.

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Daniel Kékesi
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If it were my image, I'd dump it into Photoshop...mask out the foreground subject...and apply a Gaussian blur to the background. It really is a good image, but the bokeh makes it painful to look at.

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Steven
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I love these shots - especially #1 and #7! Although I, personally, tend to over-telephoto (if that is even such a word) where the bokeh is too creamy and you can't make out the background, these were superbly done.

The bokeh is out of focus, directing the viewer's eye towards the main subject, but the background is still recognizable.

P.S. I love Venice...and Murano...:)
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“The photographer is a joyous sensualist, for the simple reason that the eye traffics in feelings, not in thoughts.' ~ Walker Evans
Daniel Kekesi said:
http://www.james-nguyen.com
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Please remember . . . I like your shots. Here is a quickie of what I'd do to your first shot. Maybe it is not the effect you were after. Or, maybe my monitor is the problem. The bricks I understand, but those in conjunction with the bars of the bridge is very distracting to me and draws my attention.

For your consideration...



Your shot reposted here for comparison.



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Steven
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