After such cold, winter dusk of Switzerland …
… let’s hope for a warmer dawn in spring …
Best light of the day: how to plan your photography hike on the snow.
Set the alarm clock at 4am to catch the sunrise.
At 4am turn the alarm off and fall back asleep.
Miss the sunrise and enjoy the blue light after the sunset!
Pictures shot in Braunwald on a lazy Sunday. Nikon D800 plus 16-35 mm f/4
Istanbul: Artborghi’s 2013/2014 top choice for photography
In the last months I had the lucky chance to visit one after the other Rome, Jerusalem and Istanbul. All of them filled with history and cultural traditions. For variety of people, colours and architecture, I have no doubts crowning Istanbul as top location for photography.
I was in Istanbul only for 4 days. In such short time I had so much fun in picturing this wonderful city day and night! 1 Bosporus by night – arrival to Istanbul 2 Turkish finger food in Istanbul harbour 3 The amazing word of Hagia Sophia 4 Humans of Istanbul 5 Fishing at Galata bridge 6 The seafront of Istanbul 7 Turkish boats 8 Birds of prey in Istanbul 9 The Imperial Harem of the Topkapi 10 Istanbul sight from the Galata tower 11 Mosques of Istanbul 12 The Topkapi Park
Enjoy Artborghi last (maybe not!) shots from Istanbul, another sunset, this time leaving this marvellous city from the same place our trip started.
Seagulls will be the main reason for buying an extra SD card before going to Istanbul.
As well as the long, colorful sunsets on the Suleiman Mosque while leaving the harbour
Take the ferry just before the sunset: you will gain hours of wonderful shooting!
Watch out: Bosporus fires (sunset reflections on windows) are turning on!
So that when you reach the Bosporus bridge …
…you can shoot the last lights on “The City”. Istanbul, see you again!
Sunset over the Topkapi Panorama 1453 Park, Istanbul, previously also known as Constantinople
Out of the old city wall of Istanbul is a tram stop called “Topkapi”. Odd enough the famous Topkapi palace is 40 minutes far away from this stop: I decided to step out and visit this location. Here is a museum dedicated to the Fall of Constantinople that took place on the 29 May 1453.
One attack after the other, that day the Ottomans rolled several heads down the wall, from Genoese generals up to the Christian Emperor Constantine XI.
Blood went on flowing in the city “like rainwater in the gutters after a sudden storm“, and bodies of the Turks and Christians floated in the sea “like melons along a canal”. And so was that the second Rome turned into Istanbul, “The City”.
Picture of this blood-red sunset shot with my Nikon D800 + 16-35 mm f/4 (click pictures to magnify). This is still my camera. A special thanks go to Istanbul police who showed me the way out of this Panorama Park, after darkness prevailed … and scary inhabitants of this place started to show some interest for me, or just for my camera… or both?
The ever changing (cropped) panorama at the seafront of Istanbul: D800 36 Mpx “vs” Nokia Lumia 1020 41Mpx
The following pictures are near-to 100% crop from shots with D800 + 16-35 F/4. Click each to magnify.
Walking towards to “golden horn“
The Galata bridge and tower
The “Bosphorus fires” at sunset
The Ataturk bridge
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The Suleiman Mosque
For example, the first picture of this post is cut out of the below one.
Cropped pictures showed here are not as crispy as with a zoom (the mounted lens is the Nikon 16-35 f/4 wide-angle), but they are still better detailed than the Nokia Lumia examples you can find here . Of course I should have had both cameras at hand in the same moment… but it is clear how useless the 100% crops from Nokia are, unless light conditions are optimal like here. Pity, I thought a Nokia Lumia 1020 could have been useful when my back refuses to carry the D800.
