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Click click zoom. Duncan Rhodes is given a license to mill around Barcelona s streets and shoot up anything that gets in his way. Join him on the creative rent a car in heraklion crete tourism bandwagon in the photogenic capital of Catalonia.
I m crouched down behind the plastic slides of a children s playground, lying in wait, my zoom lens fully extended but wait, there s no need to call the police! The subjects of my attention are in fact perfectly safe as they casually browse the graphic novels and poetry compilations of Barcelona s Independent Book Fair , which is taking place right next to where I m lurking. And whilst I do feel (and maybe even look) a bit like a voyeur up to no good, in fact I m nothing more sinister than a street photographer for the day, patiently waiting for the right angle for my shot. And finally I get it! Two girls wander into my viewfinder so that they are perfectly framed by a hole in one of the blue plastic slides. I press the shutter release and hear the rapid fire of continuous shoot mode.
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Our guide and instructor on the tour, Alejandro Rojas, a professional photographer (and, as I later discover, interviewer of the stars !), is always on hand with some sage advice for improving our shots. At one stage I lament that my photo of a church, shot with aperture priority mode on my Nikon 310, somehow doesn t look as good as Rob s on his humble iPad camera. Alejandro points out that the varying amount of light on the church s facade means that the top part of my image is overexposed, making it pale and washed out. Whilst he can t fix the light, he teaches me how to read the light meter on manual mode and adjust the shot, underexposing it fractionally, making the whole church front darker and more defined. This relatively simple advice makes a dramatic rent a car in heraklion crete difference, and for the rest of the afternoon I start getting rent a car in heraklion crete to grips with the camera s manual settings something I d realistically struggle to do without a knowledgeable pro on hand, giving me the instant answers I need to keep shooting.
As we make our way through the bar and cafe-lined pedestrianised street of L Allada Vermell there is enough time to capture two of my favourite images from the day the first an eccentric front door surrounded by potted plants, the second a series of polka-dotted pennants stringed across the avenue before we retire to a cafe to de-construct our afternoon s labours. Over a homemade vermouth we discuss some selected rent a car in heraklion crete shots. Alejandro is relentlessly positive, rent a car in heraklion crete finding something to admire in nearly every photo, whilst still occasionally giving hints on how they might have been improved. I try to take a step back and not get carried away: but even though neither Rob nor I will be turning pro any time soon by my reckoning, it s hard not to think that, sporadically at least, we ve managed to turn the every day and the mundane into the beautiful and provocative. And I guess that s what street photography is all about.
Duncan was a guest of Foto Ruta on their Streetscape tour, which you can book via their website . They also offer Foto Clue, an interactive photographic rent a car in heraklion crete treasure hunt, and iPhoneography, a day out shooting with nothing more than your iPhone capabalities.
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