Steve Simko

Porto: hot take and pretty pics

Porto, I’m not sure I’ve ever been to a city that was in equal measure so pretty and so uninteresting. Ok maybe Carmel too. 🔥

But you are pretty so I will share some pics.

ALSO. Daddy got a new camera lens. Let’s see how these came out. Unedited as yet—I haven’t had time to adjust these in proper software. It took me a hot minute to realize that my camera was only transferring compressed images to my iPhone, so here are some full fat pics best viewed on a larger monitor. Unless of course WordPress decides to compress them.

For those of you that care about such things, these pictures were shot on a Sony a7III full farm mirrorless camera with a FE 4/24-105 G OSS lens. I’m still learning how to optimize it.

First view of Porto coming down a cable car
Historic boats carrying port. Touristy? Yes. Pretty? Also yes.
Exact same picture, but cropped to highlight resolution
I particularly like how the high resolution captures the text on the red flag
I love zooming in on this one, there’s so much going on
Sunset over the Douro river
Prince Henry the Navigator, and anti-colonialist seagulls. This statue was 50 feet up on a pedestal far away in the center of a square, so I never could have gotten this pic with an iPhone.
OK I might have played with this one on Lightroom
I love how the flecks of paint are so sharp in this one

simkostephen

Leave a comment