And off I go again to Spain. Seems like I just left Bar­celona yesterday ;-)

This time I’m off to a con­fer­ence in Valèn­cia (POSTA ’09), and right after that Steffi and I will have a small “Ersatz”-honeymoon since our ori­ginal plans to go to Hawaii had to change… We’ll have a small roadtrip around the south of the Iberian pen­in­sula.

The photo here was taken on our last Spain trip to Bar­celona and it shows one of the nar­row streets in the old part of the city. I just loved the warm col­ours of the build­ings, and to intensify that I cranked up the white bal­ance to a fairly high value (must have been above 10’000 °K I think). That’s a very simple but neat trick to add some extra warmth to your pic­tures without much too much effort. Along the same lines, if you add in some more magenta, you can achieve a more of sunset-​y type of flair.

Another com­mon thing done here is the com­pres­sion of per­spect­ive by using a tele­photo lens and a fairly long focal length. This addi­tion­ally reduces the depth of field to high­light two little details in the pic­ture, the wind-​wheel-​flower and the street light.

Any­way, will be back in a couple of weeks time, hope­fully with some more pictures :-)