A long, graffiti'd rant by an American architecture student who dislikes the design for the new cultural centre ...
As much as some of the Romans seem to - but inscriptions include "BELLISSIMO" as well as "Please don't do this,"
Here I deliberately increased the exposure to make the picture look like it looked in real life. And it does. Everything was sunlit (it was morning, around half past nine or ten), there was mist in the air and the church was very hazy. The exposure suggested by my camera would, I thought, have assumed average lighting and made the scene look dull.
The Mausoleum from another angle. Here again I felt that there were no important middling values in the scene, only the light stone and dark trees. And I didn't want the insides of the arches to lose all detail. So again I increased the exposure a bit and got the effect I wanted (you may not agree that it was the right effect to go for; my aim was mainly to visualise how I wanted the photo to come out, and achieve the result deliberately)
The buildings in the Piazza di Spagna are attractively painted - Here too I deliberately increased the exposure to get the luminosity of the colours right. I used my camera's meter to measure the pink, which I now understood to mean that the camera's suggested exposure treated this as a middle (18% grey) value. In real life the whole scene seemed more luminous than that, and there weren't really any middle values I could reliably measure. So I noted the camera's suggestion and increased the exposure accordingly (by opening the aperture).
If I had used the exposure suggested by the camera's light meter, the pink would have looked rather dull, as it does here.
Rome is built on hills, and you soon notice. This is the top of the "Spanish Steps". I would have done better to come back later in the day when the sky was blue, but by then the steps would have been impassable, and I was falling asleep.