yellow flower 3 by steveinfante, on Flickr

Down the hill 4 by steveinfante, on Flickr

Apple tree by steveinfante, on Flickr

Some JDM love from AE by steveinfante, on Flickr

 

I got the chance to really bust out my SLR when the wife and I recently went to Italy. I could probably fill 20 pages with all the pics I took, but here are a few of the best

 

I took over 1000 pictures when I went this summer. We went to Florence, Rome, Positano on the Amalfi Coast, and Capri. I drove it all in the Mustang. Epic trip.

 

awesome thread.pics from my europe trip

 

Amazing shots Shiaz! That really tells a good story of your Europe trip. i'm jealous

 

thanks Darren. it costed me a supercharger but still sometime you need to keep your better half satisfied as well.

 

Rather than post photos here I am posting a link to our travel journal of our recent trip to England, France, Italy and Malta. There are thumbnails in the journal pages and clicking on them will get you a new page with an enlarged version.

http://www.tukatz.com/html/travel/eu...ing_there.html

 

Cool. Living in Europe for over a year has spoiled me a little when it comes to this type of scenery. I'm going to sure miss it when I leave. I miss America every time I can't get something I need in the middle of the night.

 

There's much to be said for that scenery, Steve, but look on our site at Getaways. I've posted a 15 day western states National Parks tour we took this past spring. Our spectacular scenery is in our landscapes.

 

Nice, I bet your Stang turned a few heads there. Saw a Corvette in Rome, was one of the most alien things I'd seen. I gotta imagine parking the car was a pain in the *** there

 

I just watched "Once upon a time in the west" again last night and I wish I could visit Monument Valley and take some pics there. Absolutely spectacular. Almost alien looking.

 

Love the compositition on the Gondola. I didn't get much from Venice (pic wise and from the city in general)

 

A couple pics with my camera recently. Tag is watching a bald Eagle family that plays over top of our area some mornings. When he was younger i had to keep an eye on the eagles, as i caught them eyeing up Tag as possible dinner.

A mated pair of ducks hanging out near home as well.

 

It was a great experience driving the Stang through Italy. I drove down from Germany, through Austria, and into Italy. Everywhere I went people where taking pictures. The Kooks exhaust helped a little too since all the streets are narrow and the echo was intoxicating. Paying over $8 a gallon for gas wasn't though. I also hit up a couple parts of the Miglia on the way down. I was trying to get my wife to agree to hitting up the Stelvio pass but she was ready to get out of the car.

 

i have been struggling with getting my whole car in focus while blurring the background, using my 7D dslr. so any pics of my car with the dslr seem to focus on a point on the car then blur the rest. is that depth of field issue?

 

That is correct. You will want to shoot it with an aperture of around 4-5.6, that should do it.

 

Thanks Ben. I have been defaulting to my new samsung galaxy note which takes amazing pics, within creative limits.

 

No problem.

Setting to start with on the 7d

AV Mode and start at 4.0 and work from there.

Let the camera set the shutter speed. If it is lower than 1/250 use a tripod.

I would use an ISO of around 400.

This photo was shot with the following settings

ƒ/4.0 71.0 mm 1/1600 200


IMG_5953-2 by benbrengman, on Flickr


and same here


IMG_5012-Edit by benbrengman, on Flickr

This is 2.8F .. focus on the eyes.


Erika by benbrengman, on Flickr

 

Nice. I like the composition too. Your eye wants to look past her down the tracks but keeps getting drawn back to her eyes.

 

Thank you. She is great to work with.