Captured an awesome travel pic lately?

[lindam]

Share your amazing travel photography! Let us know the Canon gear you used and the story behind the photo. 

This beautiful scene in Italy was captured with a Canon EOS 5D Mark III and a Canon EF 24-70mm f/2.8L USM lens at f/11, 1/5 sec, ISO 100.

[Waddizzle]

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@ebiggs1 wrote:

"The Castle, Glen island, New York."

Cool.  What is the "history" of it?

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Excerpt, From the New York Times:

Restoration at Glen Island Published: June 13, 1993

IN 1875, the 100-acre island off New Rochelle now run by the county and known as Glen Island Park was a privately owned amusement park. Now one large expanse of land, it then consisted of five islands that could only be reached by boat; each one had a different international theme. One of the most popular was set up as a German beer garden, complete with Bavarian-style stone structures built to resemble castles.

Today, two 30-foot-high stone turrets are all that remain of the old amusement park. One is used to store sculls and oars used by Iona College rowing teams; another is roped off because of the danger of falling rocks.

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[EDIT]  The island park acquired the name "Glen" after famous big band leader, Glen Miller.  At his peak, he owned and operated the nightclub on the island.  During warmer months, the castle facitly is hidden among trees, which makes it impossible to photograph the entire castles.  There are still two castles standing, and a small stone guard shack type of building. 

The first posted photograph is the smaller of the two buildings.

EOS M3, EF-M Adapter, EF 40mm f/2.8 STM, 1/80 sec, f/8, ISO-100.

The shot above is the rear of the main castle, which includes a mini-courtyard with an arched entrance, and turrets at each corner, the tallest of which is several stories tall.  I cannot find a written description of its' height, but it as least 40 feet tall.

[Waddizzle]

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@Jason wrote:

Thank you both for sharing these pieces of history with us.

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I love photographing what I am going to refer to as "stone stuff', which are structures made mostly of big stones, and statues.

[EDIT]  EOS 6D, EF 70-200mm f/2.8L IS II USM, 180mm, 1/200 sec, f/2.8, ISO-100

I re-phiotographed the statue in my avatar photo.  It is Poseidon, ancient Greek God of the Sea.  It's about 5 feet tall.

[ebiggs1]

Fire up your PS and remove that person in an otherwise neat photo. 

I remember that castle now.  When you said Glen Miller it trigger some cob web infested brain cells.  One of my buds was David Stienmeyer (google him ) who was the director of the Air Force's Glen Miller big band.

[Waddizzle]

"Fire up your PS and remove that person in an otherwise neat photo." 

I left that person in this photo to give a sense of scale. 

BTW, i waited several minutes for the person to leave, but she wouldn't move on.  She was running up and down the stairs as part of a workout.

[ebiggs1]

"I left that person in this photo to give a sense of scale."

And cut off his/her head?  I think removing is better than a reference to scale.  IMHO, of course, as always.

[Waddizzle]

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@ebiggs1 wrote:

"I left that person in this photo to give a sense of scale."

And cut off his/her head?  I think removing is better than a reference to scale.  IMHO, of course, as always.

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Yes, cutting off the head was intentional.  I have no intention of using someone's face without permission.

I edited the very first shot of the same scene, though..

[RobertTheFat]

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@ebiggs1 wrote:

"I left that person in this photo to give a sense of scale."

And cut off his/her head?  I think removing is better than a reference to scale.  IMHO, of course, as always.

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All right, Ernie, I'm feeling obnoxious today, so I'll call your bluff. I rather like the picture as it is. The figure on the stairs is missing her head, but there's Poseidon with only his head. There's a certain symmetry to it!

[ebiggs1]

Beauty is truly in the eye of the beholder!  I like it gone.

[Waddizzle]

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@ebiggs1 wrote:

Beauty is truly in the eye of the beholder!  I like it gone.

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I think PS added a grainy texture to the stone blocks.  Both photos were given identical processing in LR, which I used to create JPEG files.  Both files were slightly cropped when the images were "leveled" to correct for handheld camera tilt.

One file was cropped to remove the face of the stair climber, and that was posted.  The second photo was given a near identical crop, and passed to Photoshop as a PSD file.  New Layers were created for each of two cut and paste opertoins, and then the file was saved as a JPEG.

I don't know if is the difference in the appearance of the texture in the stones, but it seems to me that a WB shift seems to have also occurred.  Although, the WB difference could be ambient light, too.  Both photos were taken near sunset, in pretty low light, on a variable cloudy day.  One photo may have had more indirect sunlight from the sky, than the other.

My intent when I shot the photos was to capture Poseidon.  I wasn't really looking for a beauty shot of the scene.  I was looking to capture "golden hour" shadows being cast on the face of Poseidon.

[ebiggs1]

PS didn't do anything you didn't tell it to do.