These images can cause health problems

If you keep looking at them, you might get ill and want to live there!


This post is a series of landscapes I took last week while visiting my parents in Rio. I was not lucky with the weather: there was a lot of rain and only three sunny days, but I have used the clouds on all the compositions.

It is hard to photograph landscapes with so much "low" clouds. The problem is the light, which reflects through the clouds between you and the landscape. The result is this "hazy" dreamy image. With a bit of work you can push on the micro-contrast (Clarity control), lighten the overall image and apply a gradient filter on the sky to recover a bit of the texture.

Lúcio Costa Bridge, seen from Pão de Açúcar

Botafogo Beach and the boats

The image below was blown up ( the highlights)! The highlights were too strong, impossible to recover them. Therefore you see this pink cast on the left side of the image. The image is also not sharp. I was bouncing into the cable car! But look at the power of this rock. I love it. And to think I practiced rock climb for years... nowadays I get afraid just to look at it.

A piece of Pão de Açucar

I like the this one. Without a defined horizon.

Copacabana Beach

Flamengo Beach and the downtown

Copa, Babilônia Hill, Botafogo

Oh my, hold your breath. This is NOT a paint, it is a picture I took from "Vista Chinesa" (Chinese view). It is just... astonishing. Not the image but the landscape!

And finally, a sunny day on a high place. Look at the clouds! It was a perfect spring Carioca day!

Rio seen from Parque da Cidade - Niterói

Baixada Fluminense

The beaches on the North of Niterói: Camboínhas, Itaipú, Itacoatiara

To complete the series, a picture of myself :) I was there!

Me by Raden