I've probably bored some of you with talk of an impending European trip for a few months. Well, now its happened, we've gone and returned, and now its time to bore you with some photos from that trip. I took two camera bodies and four lenses - EP2, EPL1, 14-150, 9-18, 20, and 17. All Oly except for the Pany 20. I generally kept the 9-18 on the EPL1, ready to pull out of the bag at a moments notice, and kept whatever primary lens I was shooting with on the EP2. The 14-150 was my go-to all day lens and I'm incredibly glad it became available in time to take it on this trip. It was invaluable. The 9-18 was also critical for a lot of close spaces and some landscapes, but it didn't get the bulk of use, but it was always instantly available. When I got bored with shooting general scenery, I'd slap the 17 on the EP2 and just do street shooting for a while. The 20 was on every evening and for lots of indoor spaces. This was a GREAT setup for me to travel with. I kept it all in a Domke F6 which was the right bag for me - it holds plenty and, importantly, everything is very easily accessible. And it doesn't look like much so no thieves seemed to have any interest in me this trip. Oh yeah, I also took the Canon S90 for the last week of the trip, when I did a lot of cycling in Italy. I got a few great shots with that, but the vast majority were taken with the m43 gear.
In terms of photos, I probably took about 4000 altogether. I had that edited down to about 3000 by the time I got back, culling the obvious garbage in the evenings. I've put about 300 up in various sets on Flickr in a collection, which folks are welcome to see if they want. And I'm going to share a couple dozen of them in the next three posts in this thread.
First, here is the Flickr collection link for any of you who have way too much time on your hands and want to browse - the various sets are explained there:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/20889767@N05/collections/72157624522224735/
The next three posts include shots of 1. Big Landscapes - outdoor, large view. 2. Small details, indoors or out, but still clearly travel photos. And 3 is some street photography I did to give myself some variety. The first two types of photos come relatively easy to me - see it, frame it, shoot it - some are good, some are not so good, but it never feels difficult. The street stuff is the biggest challenge because people keep MOVING and it requires a level of interaction. Maybe being in a place where you didn't know anyone was kind of liberating but I LOVED doing street stuff over there. At home, it makes me a bit more nervous for some reason.
Oh yeah, one more detail - the trip was a two week cruise of the Med followed by a week at a beach community in Italy with incredible cycling immediately inland. So these are almost all in Spain, France, and Italy, but one or two from Greece or Croatia probably snuck in. I can answer questions about any specific shots.
Enough talk - I hope you enjoy some of these.
-Ray
In terms of photos, I probably took about 4000 altogether. I had that edited down to about 3000 by the time I got back, culling the obvious garbage in the evenings. I've put about 300 up in various sets on Flickr in a collection, which folks are welcome to see if they want. And I'm going to share a couple dozen of them in the next three posts in this thread.
First, here is the Flickr collection link for any of you who have way too much time on your hands and want to browse - the various sets are explained there:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/20889767@N05/collections/72157624522224735/
The next three posts include shots of 1. Big Landscapes - outdoor, large view. 2. Small details, indoors or out, but still clearly travel photos. And 3 is some street photography I did to give myself some variety. The first two types of photos come relatively easy to me - see it, frame it, shoot it - some are good, some are not so good, but it never feels difficult. The street stuff is the biggest challenge because people keep MOVING and it requires a level of interaction. Maybe being in a place where you didn't know anyone was kind of liberating but I LOVED doing street stuff over there. At home, it makes me a bit more nervous for some reason.
Oh yeah, one more detail - the trip was a two week cruise of the Med followed by a week at a beach community in Italy with incredible cycling immediately inland. So these are almost all in Spain, France, and Italy, but one or two from Greece or Croatia probably snuck in. I can answer questions about any specific shots.
Enough talk - I hope you enjoy some of these.
-Ray
