Ria de Aveiro

Hello guys!
Here are some photos that I took on the Ria de Aveiro. I tried to sneak up to the flock of birds but it proved to be very difficult, so, I'm going to have to try shooting at dawn and see what happens! Lets see if I can sneak up better next time!

Bodyboard 01

Hi there!
These are my very first photos of me bodyboarding. My girlfriend and her brother were taking some pictures while I was enjoying the waves! On a total of 54 photos I selected 10 photos that were really good! My only regret is that they didn't take a photo of me in a tube that I have ridden, the tide was still rising and the waves had more power. I'm going to post some photos of this great day! Cheers guys!

Macinhata´s Cornfield

Hello, I shot this one in the middle of the afternoon while scouting for the right spot for the nigh photography 003, it turned out to be a good photo.

My Dogs

Hello!
After talking about my dog Minas in my photo "NighPhotography 003" I felt compelled to add a picture of all my dogs!

From the left: Minas, Yuki, Tina, Ventoinha.

NightPhotography 003 (Macinhata do Vouga)

Hello again,

     Here's another night photography photo this one was taken in Macinhata do Vouga. It all started yesterday around 18PM when I was thinking to myself "Today is a good day to apply some of the things I've learned about THE famous Golden Hour!!" But it turned out not to be quite as I thought it would. The main reason is location, Macinhata is situated in a valley and instead of bringing that goldenish look to the place, everything fell right in the shadows way before the desired time and the final result wasn’t that good… well it wasn’t all that bad! but it didn’t have that glimmer I was searching for!

     After trying and trying to capture a good photo within what I considered to be a good relation between light, color and shadows, I decided to look for a good place for my next night photo, after half an hour I found a good spot for my next nighty photo.

     At 22PM I wandered out with my photography equipment, all dressed up and ready for the cold night. My dog (Minas) came with me and after 20 minutes we were both in the right place. The moon wasn’t up yet and I wanted to work fast because it was going to be a long exposure photo and I didn’t want the interference of the moonlight.

     After defining the camera to ISO 100, aperture of f13, and a focal length of 22mm I activated the Bulb mode, put the camera to manual focus mode turned off the anti vibration mode focused it just shy from infinity, and pressed the button on my shutter release cord! The exposure time was of 50 minutes! The photo was taken in RAW mode which gave me maneuverability for the future correction I had to do within the photo later that night. It turned out to be a good photo, but still… I regret for not leaving it on for another 30/40 minutes. It would definitely turn out to be a greater picture than the one I got, well… maybe next time!

 

Espinho Fireworks

This one i shoot in Espinho during a festivity in honour to Nª. Sª. do Mar (Lady of the sea). This photo should have had more distance to the subject, but I got there just in time to take a few shots.

São Jacinto (Aveiro)

This one was taken at São Jacinto (Aveiro), the subject is unknown and it felt right to take the picture as he was mastering is boat. You can do some very good fishing here, you have my word on it.

This is one my very first pictures with my new Nikon.

NightPhotography 002

This one is just me with my cell phone light fooling around at the back! The place is again Malhão beach in Alentejo as you can see everybody was sleepy after all it was 1AM!

NightPhotography 001 (Day One!)

Hi there guys!

This is my very first night photograph taken in Alentejo region in Malhão beach. It was taken at 1:20AM with a Nikon at ISO 100, Nikkor DX 18-55mm VR at 18mm, aperture of f10 with an exposure time of 30 minutes. The long exposure noise reduction was not activated. The original file quality is in RAW.
Some editing was done on Adobe Lightroom.

This is Malhão Beach, with Sines harbor at the right bringing light to the nightly sky. You can see some star trails due to earth rotation. This aspect could've been more intensive if it wasn't for the full moon lighting up the sky.

Day One!

What should I say about this Blog? It came to my mind during the summer vacations of 2011. Its purpose is to share some pictures I took, publishing them online and sharing some very nice places I've stumbled upon my journeys...