Mostar, Bosnia

Mostar is a small city located in the south west of Bosnia. Like Sarajevo it has been badly destroyed during the war in the 90s.

Please enjoy my photos that I took during my trip last month. All photo were shot with K20d, The lenses I used were, sigma 10-20, Sigma 18-50, Pentax 31mm, Pentax 77mm, Pentax 50-135mm.



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And another amazing set of pics. An even better set than your Sarajevo set IMO.

The "purple suitcase" pic is superb, as is the "caged stairs"

The composition of #10 is fantastic.

My only complaint is .... please number the pics to make it easy to comment


btw - I'm aware of the old Mostar bridge and it's restoration story.

Another really lovely series ! I love the light in the street of #2.

However there are quite a few shots that need straightening (and I don't mean those with the deliberate tilt) ! The river shots in particular.

Hi

do you mean my lens has distortion?

No definitely not distortion ... operator disorientation perhaps

Look at the horizon in 2124 for example.

Oh ic,

Thanks for your comment, Will look out to avoid making same mistake in the future.

You haven't made a mistake IMO.

A horizon doesn't have to be straight for a pic to work. The way the hut sits in the top right corner of 2124 works great IMO. Sorry frogfish but the tilt in that pic works IMO.

m42geo my opinion is to just take pics using your gut feeling and do what looks good. Forget rules like horizontal horizons.

Of course my opinion is equally valid as the opinion of Frogfish and anyone else. You must work out what works for your own gut and not take anyone else's opinion as a rule but only an opinion.

A terrific set, just as good as the Sarajevo set. Poignant and memorable.

Quite true Smeggy .... but a 20% tilt on a river doesn't tickle my fancy ! And as it wasn't intentional it's definitely something you'd want to keep on your check-list IMHO. Doesn't detract from a fantastic set Geo.

That's cool, and I fully, 100%, respect that.

My point is that sometimes nothing is intentional but just a gut, automatic feeling.

I take a many pics that aren't horizontal and none of them are intentionally snapped like that.

Sometimes they don't work tilted so I straighten them up, and sometimes I feel they do work and I leave them tilted.

So don't get me wrong, I do respect your personal taste , but I feel it's important not to indoctrinate rules into people.

m42geo felt he'd made a 'mistake' and I wanted to reassure him that there was no mistake made and he was just listening to a varied bunch of opinions and there was no right way other than what feels good.

Oh absolutely - it was just my opinion of course, to each his own and all that jazz.

However it is worth bearing in mind that sometimes you can't straighten an image you may want to, because you didn't leave enough room and it leads to cropping, and of course straightening always leads to image degradation. I just think it is something to be aware of.

This is just nit-picking on my behalf though because Geo has put up some wonderful pictures today !

Thanks for everyone's opinion.

A question to Smeggypants, I see that you have a pentax 14mm 2.8 lens, can you tell me what you think about that? I am using the sigma 10-20 and always find the distorion very annoying, I know I can not avoid it 100% in WA lens but I guess it would be good to have a fix wide in my bag, I am not sure to pick the 14mm f2.8 or the 15mm f4. Any suggestion?

Very good set. 2,3 and 5 are my picks. Personally I don't like the tilts - slightly tilted just looks wrong to me. More tilted (11) looks purposeful and works much better.

Thanks everyone once again, I think with the K5 leveling screen I will produce better photo!! Just another reason to convince myself to buy the K5

I've no experience of the 15 f4, but I love my 14mm 2.8. It's very sharp at the usual stop downs.

I use Lightroom lens profiles when distortions bother me, but the 14mm/2.8 is good right from the glass. it has a bit of CA, but then nothing unusual and easily corrected in PP.