Last month on April 13 I posted a picture of the Pink Street in Lisbon. I took the shot at dawn to avoid including people in the scene, and I showed the end of the street in which dozens of umbrellas were hanging overhead. This shot is from the other end of the street where the unusual scene is framed by by the underside of an artistically embellished bridge. There is a lot of Photoshop work here to make the shot exactly what I wanted (for example, I covered up the construction on the building on the left side with the attractive upper facade of the building on the right). To create the wide angle exaggeration of the foreground and the frame-filling colorful street scene beyond, I had to use two different lenses and two shots. A super wide 14mm for the underside of the bridge and a 105mm focal length for the street. The bridge is actually shown twice in this composite: Once as the foreground and then, again, in the background. I could have simply taken a straight shot like everyone else, but my mind always looks at a photographic situation and thinks about the best possible artistic rendition, not necessarily how best to capture what I see. If I were to do this again, I wouldn't have truncated the word 'Pink' at the far left edge.
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