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Catalonia is a region located in the northeastern part of Spain, known for its rich history, culture, and stunning landscapes. It is a popular destination for photographers, offering a diverse range of photography locations, from the rugged Pyrenees mountains to the picturesque Mediterranean coastline. The region is home to several iconic landmarks, such as the Sagrada Familia in Barcelona, the medieval town of Girona, and the stunning Montserrat mountain range. Catalonia also boasts several natural parks, including the Aigüestortes i Estany de Sant Maurici National Park, which is a paradise for landscape photographers.
Photography regions of Catalonia
Photography of Catalonia
Sagrada Família, Barcelone, Espagne (HDR)
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Sunrise in Moll del Petroli (Petrolium dock), Badalona.
Simple shot in Manual mode with 416 seconds (7 minutes) of exposition. This is my first shot taken and published with a filter. In fact, it was a double filter (Haida ND3.0 {100 steps} and Haida ND1.8 {6 steps}).
After, It was processed with Darktable creating the basic canvas for AdobeRGB with the Logarithmic option for Unbreak input profile. Then, additional plugins like Tone Curve, Highpass filters (only rocks), Local contrast (only rocks), Lowpass filters, Haze removal, some denoise plugins, and others were applied.
In this edition, the exposition was a little bit increased, colors were not modified but saturation and vividness were increased.
There is another version where the exposition was maintained a little bit low, colors were modified to be more neutral, and also violets where increased. You can see following this link: www.flickr.com/photos/fersg/46899055231/in/photostream/
Parc de la Ciutadella: les cascades monumentales
It was a cloudy sunrise on that beach near Cap Roig Hotel in Costa Brava, Catalonia. This shot was taken at 7:56, 4 minutes before the sunrise.
It was really relaxing to be there enjoying colors and the sound of the sea.
More pictures from those days and location can be seen in this album: www.flickr.com/photos/fersg/albums/72157676556069928
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El Pont del Petroli
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Simple long exposure shot, from Aiguablava beach. A 'Gobe' UV, CPL Polarizer Filter, and a Haida 3.0 Neutral filter were used. You can read additional technical information in my profile (about section).
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Long Exposure Shot (4s) from "Far de Punta de la Galera" of Torremdebarra lighthouse.
A Haida 3.0 Netrual filter, a 'Gobe' UV and CPL Polarizer Filters were used. You can read additional technical information in my profile (about section).
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First picture from a serie that I took while having a nice sunset near the sea.
It was taken near 'La Jovera (Tamarit), just aside of the trail (Carrer A) to walk from Tamarit to 'Platja de la Mora'.
Walking near the coast in Costa Brava, near Calella de Palafrugell, you can imagine interesting things while admiring the sea and nature.
This is a hard edition of this shot where the sea and skype is managed in a soft focus. You can see the soft one following this link:
Shot taken from dam of "Foix swamp" (Pantà de Foix).
En el municipio de Castellar de N'Hug nace el río Llobregat, uno de los ríos más importantes de Catalunya, que tras 170 kilómetros desemboca en el Mediterráneo.
"Coll del Port" near Tuixent, Pyrenees, Catalonia.
Invernal amanecer en Sant Pol de Mar.
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It is one of the many falls in Canaletes village (Alt Penedes Catalonia). It was a shame to visit it at the beginning of summer since there was really little water flowing.
Playing with white streams in Es Colodar beach at the sunset
The Sagrada Familia was designed by Antoni Gaudí (1852–1926), who worked on the project from 1883 and devoted the last 15 years of his life entirely to the endeavor. In 1882, prior to Gaudí's involvement, Francesc del Villar was commissioned to design a church on the site. He resigned a year later and Gaudí was appointed the project architect, redesigning the project entirely. The project is scheduled to be completed in 2026. 西班牙巴赛罗纳著名的圣家族大教堂
El puente de Besalú es un puente románico que está situado en Besalú (Gerona, España) y cruza el río Fluviá. Está catalogado como Bien de Interés Cultural a nivel nacional y a nivel autonómico como Bien Cultural de Interés Nacional,
Se trata de un puente de forma angular con siete arcos desiguales (el primero queda incluido dentro del sector correspondiente al recinto amurallado), que están situados encima de pilares, muchos de ellos basados en la roca viva, con tajamares. Al final del primer tramo, entre el cuarto y el quinto arco, hay un ensanchamiento de la calzada y más adelante, entre el sexto y el séptimo, hay otro. El portal de acceso, fortificado, está sobrepuesto al primer pilar del puente.
Encima del quinto pilar se levanta la torre fortificada, de planta hexagonal con dos arcos de medio punto superpuestos, por el lado de levante, y con un arco apuntado y aspilleras en la cima, por el lado de poniente. En uno de los sillares del pilar central del segundo tramo, hay una piedra heráldica con la fecha 1680, lo que hace pensar en una restauración de gran envergadura o en una reconstrucción casi total del puente.
Historia El puente de Besalú es el resultado de varias reconstrucciones, reformas, añadidos y restauraciones, realizadas a lo largo de los siglos. La primera noticia que se tiene del puente es del año 1075. En 1284 se vuelve a hacer referencia al puente, al vender un huerto. Puede que el trazado inicial fuera otro, ya que aguas arriba hay restos de un pilar con sillares en la base similares a los del puente. Varios aguaceros (1315, 1321, 1433, 1421, 1669, 1771 y 1790) afectaron el puente de modo que fue necesario repararlo a menudo. En 1880 se derribó la torre del centro y el portal de acceso desde el pueblo para facilitar el paso de maquinaria necesaria para la industria local. En 1939, durante la Guerra Civil Española, se volaron dos arcos.
La técnica:
5 archivos RAW +4 +2 0 -2 -4 pasos de luz, trípode y filtro ND 1000 Revelados y procesados con Aurora HDR 2018
Nice blue hour in Tossa de Mar just the day before a new year was born.
Enjoying powerful sensations while taking this shot.
This is a long exposure (10 seconds for the main shot) and HDR shot made up of 5 shots taken in autobraking mode (-1.4Ev; -0.7Ev; 0Ev; +0.7Ev; 1.4Ev). It was used:
- Haida Neutral filter of 6 steps (1.8 ND)
- Gobe CPL Polarizer Filter
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It was a cloudy sunrise on that beach near Cap Roig Hotel in Costa Brava, Catalonia. This shot was taken at 7:41, 20 minutes before the sunrise.
It was really relaxing to be there enjoying colors and the sound of the sea.
More pictures from those days and location can be seen in this album: www.flickr.com/photos/fersg/albums/72157676556069928
Extracted and translated from wikipedia: ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catedral_del_vi
A wine cathedral is, in the Catalan sphere, a cooperative winery with a large ship built in the Modernist style approximately between 1910 and 1920.
The architects that designed this type of construction are Cèsar Martinell (disciple of Antoni Gaudí) or Pere Domènech i Roura, among others. The denomination was created by Àngel Guimerà to refer, initially, to the Cooperative Winery of the Espluga de Francolí and later extended to the Cooperative Winery of Gandesa and other similar cellars. These buildings have in common their characteristic architectural style, as well as the size of the ships.
The name of the wine cathedral is explained above all by the aesthetics (for example, by the facade and the vaults of the ceiling) and by the dimensions. Keep in mind, on the other hand, that the beauty and other peculiarities of these works are linked to functionality. It is a specific conception of modernism, in which the aesthetics and functionality were built on the wall; and so is seen in many other modernist works that are wineries like the attic of La Pedrera in Barcelona, the Palace of Catalan Music of Barcelona, the Institute Pere Mata de Reus or slaughterhouses Modernist Tortosa among others.
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Enjoying the end of the day in 'Casa de la Serra de Dalt'. This is an HDR shot made up of 5 shots taken in autobraking mode (-1.4Ev; -0.7Ev; 0Ev; +0.7Ev; 1.4Ev). A 'Gobe' CPL Polarizer Filter was used. You can read additional technical information in my profile (about section).
A reminder of war consequences.
Extracted from wikipedia: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corbera_d%27Ebre
"The town was completely destroyed during the Battle of the Ebro (25 July–16 November 1938) and although the lower part of the town was rebuilt, the upper part, known as Poble Vell (Old Town), including the old church on the hill, has been kept as a reminder.
The town has one of the five information centres run by COMEBE, a public consortium, including the Generalitat de Catalunya, that was founded in 2001 to recover the historical memory of the areas in which the 115-day-long Battle of the Ebro, the longest, bloodiest and most decisive battle of the Spanish Civil War, took place. The Centre d'interpretació de la batalla de l'Ebre (Battle of the Ebro Information Centre) has marked paths on a circuit around the area."
Views from 'El Castellot', in Castellvi de la Marca, Alt Penedès.
This panorama is made up of three landscape shots in autobraking (0Ev; -2Ev; +2Ev). It was processed with Enfuse for getting three HDR canvas, and with Hugin for blending the panorama, and with Darktable 3.4 for the general treatment from raw until the final version.
Most of the job was done as scene-referred with "Linear Rec2020 RGB". In the first stage (the scene-referred one) were applied plugins like White Balance, Calibration Color for WB, many Calibration Color for color and contrast adjustments, Denoise modules, Lens correction, Tone Equalizer, Contrast Equalizer, Local Contrast, and RGBFilmic (v4). In a second stage (the display-referred one) specific saturation adjustments with Color Balance and a personalized Orton effect was applied with a gradual blur from the foreground area to the background area. Finally, a little frame was applied.
This is a long exposure shot (15 seconds) processed under the scene-referred paradigm with Darktable from RAW. It was taken with:
- Haida Neutral filter of 10 steps (3.0 ND)
- 'Gobe' CPL Polarizer Filter.
You can read additional technical information in my profile (about section).
This shot was taken in Calella de Palafrugell, Costa Brava, Catalonia on the 31st December 2018.
This is a 3 shots panorama taken in landscape mode made up with Hugin and managed before and after with Darktable. Each shot was taken in autobraking mode (Ev0 ; Ev-2 ; Ev+2) and merged as HDR with Darktable. Main plugins: Tone Curve, many Highpass filter, Lowpass filter, Channel Mixer, Global Tone Map, Velvia, and others.
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Near Sant Pau de Seguries, Catalonia.
One could dream in violets while the sunset in "Cala de l'Aigua Xelida" -Costa Brava- was coming.
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Panorama made up of two long exposure shots, from "Far de Punta de la Galera"
A 'Gobe' UV and CPL Polarizer Filters were used. The panorama was made with Hugin choosing a Biplane projection. You can read additional technical information in my profile (about section).
La Cathédrale Sainte-Croix de Barcelone: Le Chœur de la cathédrale : sur le dossier des stalles se trouvent encore les tableaux aux armes des chevaliers de l'ordre
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Shot taken from "Cala Tobera" (Tamarit, Catalonia). It was my first attempt with Sony E 10-18mm F4 OSS Lens.
Sunrise in Moll del Petroli (Petrolium dock), Badalona.
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Nice lake in "Parc Nacional d'Aigüestortes" within the Catalan Pyrenees.
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Pont del Petroli
Sun captured before hiding behind rocks
Nice view of Monestero Lake.
This panorama is made of three shots. Hugin was used for stretching the panorama with a Biplane projection, while the rest of the job was done with Darktable. A 'Gobe CPL' Polarizer Filter was used.
A scene-referred pipeline was chosen, and a personal Orton effect was applied in the end with few display-scene plugins, blurring a little bit the far mountains.
Nice lake in "Parc Nacional d'Aigüestortes" within the Catalan Pyrenees.
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This is a Mas Tinell winery building located at Vilafranca del Penedes, Catalonia. It is a special building which features innovative architecture and an amazing structure resembling a collection of stacked wine bottles with a Gaudí-esque, mosaic-tiled roof.
Both my son and I signed this shot. It was a pleasure to explain to my son -a 10 years old child- the technic for long exposure shots with filter and hdr long exposure shots.
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This is an HDR shot made up of 5 shots taken in autobraking mode (-1.4Ev; -0.7Ev; 0Ev; +0.7Ev; 1.4Ev). A 'Gobe' CPL Polarizer Filter and UV filyer were used. You can read additional technical information in my profile (about section).
Nice fall in "Parc Nacional d'Aigüetortes".
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This is a long exposure (2.5 seconds for the main shot) and HDR shot made up of 5 shots taken in autobraking mode (-1.4Ev; -0.7Ev; 0Ev; +0.7Ev; 1.4Ev). It was used:
- Haida Neutral filter of 6 steps (1.8 ND)
- Gobe CPL Polarizer Filter
- Gobe UV filter
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Thanks to all Phoide contributors to Catalonia!
Most notably StarCitizen, Fer_SG, Enrica Fabriani, Joanot Bellver, Jean François Bonachera, Alberto Estella, Walter Maurer and arribamarcos.