
Built between 1059 and 1158 the Battistero di San Giovanni is one of the oldest buildings in Florence.
To get this shot without the hordes of tourists I got up before 5am.
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@Andrew: Thanks Andrew!
@DULCIE: Thanks Dulcie!
@Hans ter Horst: Thanks Hans. You're right about the framing - I was able to keep the camera level which helped enormously in keeping the sides of the building vertical. In post processing I then simply cropped out the bottom third of the frame which was all pavement. Any small residual distortion was resolved using a plug-in that I use all the time called PTLens.
The only thing I regret now is that I was lazy and didn't use my tripod as it would have allowed me to use the camera's base iso instead of the iso 3600 that this was shot at.
@Ryan Hammond: Thanks Ryan!
NIKON D700
1/15 second
F/4.0
ISO 3600
16 mm (35mm equiv.)