Arcades in the Praça do Comércio Photo

Photographer’s Note

Hi TE friends

These arcades are in the "Praça do Comércio" also kanown as Royal Palace Square.

Praça do Comércio in Lisbon (often known as Black Horse Square) is an 18th century architectural and town-planning project carried out during the rebuilding of Lisbon after the 1755 earthquake and designed in the light of the cultural and artistic models of the Enlightenment. It is located on the site of the former Terreiro do Paço (Palace Square). Its monumentality, scale and rationality make it one of the prime examples of the architectural culture of the period. Architecture, town-planning and sculpture are harmoniously combined, contributing to a scenario that is both beautiful and functional.

Facing the Tagus estuary riverfront the square is part of the Pombaline Downtown or Baixa, an area of great cultural value in which several buildings are classified as National Monuments and Buildings of Public Interest. In addition to its historic importance and artistic representativeness, it is a structural element of the city’s urban space and a place of memory of many events in the country’s political, social and cultural life that occurred in or around this centuries-old emblematic Square...

The new Praça do Comércio is quadrangular and on three sides has uniform façades, whilst the fourth side faces the river. The architect Carlos Mardel drew the plans for the buildings and their façades based on principles of uniformity and rationality.

The run of great arcades at street level and the composition of the two upper levels convey an aesthetic harmony based on simplicity and rhythmic repetition. Despite its conformity with 18th century international artistic proposals in keeping both with late Baroque monumentality and with the rationality of emerging neo-classicism, traces of the pre-existing architecture were respected: the large towers, in fact, were directly inspired by the monumental Mannerist tower of the royal palace, built by the kings of Spain.

Nikon D40X
2009/11/08 19:05:11.3
Lens: 18-55mm F/3.5-5.6 G
Focal Length: 18mm
Exposure Mode: Manual
Metering Mode: Multi-Pattern
1/2 sec - F/5
Exposure Comp.: +2.0 EV
Sensitivity: ISO 200
Optimize Image: Vivid
White Balance: Auto +3
AF Mode: AF-S
Color Mode: Mode IIIa (sRGB)
Tone Comp.: Normal
Hue Adjustment: 0°
Saturation: Enhanced
Sharpening: Medium high

Budapestman, John_F_Kennedy, jhm, JT50, paura, jjcordier, Amaz, JanD, Cricri, siamesa, erthmuffin, Graal, pablominto has marked this note useful

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Budapestman (41440) 2009-11-16 1:54

Hi Aires,
a very impressive and spectacular photo of these arcades with attractive composition, the golden tones are very nice, the depth of the photo is superb. Beautiful architectural photo, Tfs! Have a nice week!
George

John_F_Kennedy (31055) 2009-11-16 2:00

Hello Aires,
You have managed a clear shot. The focus is sharp and the colours and details on the arcades leading the eye well.
Best wishes,
Achim

delpeoples (5722) 2009-11-16 2:12

Ola Aires, this is one our friend Aadiil would be proud of! Great work with the symmetry, light control and shutter speed. The definition and perspective are so beautiful, it's one of my favourites all month and I hope you don;t mind if I add it to my Theme on Symmetry. Great work, enjoy your week, Lisa.

Nicou (44341) 2009-11-16 2:45

Hello,

merveilleuse pespective sous ces archesk, avec ce tons doux, la ligne de reflets au mileu, le belle colonnes et cve personnages, mangigique.

Bravo et amitié

Nicou

mkgoyal2004 (635) 2009-11-16 3:13

Hi Aires,

You have captured the arches of this historical building in a new perspective of cemetry, i.e. right dominated. Framing is good and sharpness is perfect. Congrats.

pajaran (2800) 2009-11-16 8:21

Dobro vece, kod nas promenjljivo vreme, kisa i sunce.
Tekst je rekao mnogo, dobra pesrpektiva i boje ove mnogo lepe fotografije.
Pozdrav, zdravlje, zeli vam Paja.

jhm (82085) 2009-11-16 9:13

Hello Aires,

You did very well addition the people this for the scale.
Sharpness and clarity be superb.
Good perspective through the perfect chose of your angle.
Very well done, TFS.

Have a nice evening,
John.

JT50 (598) 2009-11-16 10:24

Hi Aires,
Perfect point of view to give this
capture a great depth. The bright
line of the reflection makes you follow
the light. The people seems so far away.
Fine details of the arches and the
surroundings.
Regards.
Janak

barrufeto_77 (25667) 2009-11-16 15:20

Hola Aires.

Perfecta la simetría y el detalle de la gente allá para darle una escala.

Muy buena foto!

Un slaudo!

paura (38116) 2009-11-16 16:15

Aires,
O equilíbri é o destaque nessa linda composição. Beleza de trabalho, amigo.

Abraço

Paulo

jjcordier (24404) 2009-11-16 23:04

Aires
Très belle perspective crée par ces arcades. j'aime aussi beaucoup l'unité de tons de l'image et ta composition avec le point de fuite décentré.
Amicalement
JJ

npecanhuk (13525) 2009-11-17 1:01

Olá Aires!
Ficou linda esta foto!
A luz e as cores foram muito bem captadas nela!
Ponto de vista muito bem escolhido para mostrar o lugar, com seus detalhes arquitetônicos, além de incluir também algumas pessoas que por ali passam, dando-lhe uma certa vivacidade!
Parabéns, abraços e até logo!
Neyvan

Amaz (6622) 2009-11-17 1:21

Ótima apresentação, amigo Aires!!
Extarordinária simetria dessa composição!!

Brilhante travalho!!

Um abraço forte,

JanD (14562) 2009-11-17 2:13

Howdy Aires!
Superb shot, excellent lightness, nice colors. Good scene. Very good long perspective. Wonderful arcades.
Regards.

giorgimer (20938) 2009-11-17 3:30

Olà Aires,

excellent shot, nice perspective, great quality, DOF is perfect

Parabéns!

G

rodgerg (23573) 2009-11-17 3:35

Olà Aires,

Incredible depht and superb prospect to these famous arcades of the Praça do Comercio. a very nice memory for me. Very good managment of light give details well collected and nice harmony of colors. Interesting element of life with the peopels in the gallery.
have a nice day,
Roger

Cricri (43030) 2009-11-17 6:05

Hola Aires
Bonne profondeur et perspective des arcades, très belle prise de la lumière et des couleurs chaudes, belle et intéressante composition
Good day
cricri

Silvio1953 (41304) 2009-11-17 11:53

Ciao Aires, beautiful composition with splendid perspective and superb light, very well done, ciao Silvio

erthmuffin (1531) 2009-11-18 8:44

very nice warm colors. for being a dark area, the capture is still very crisp and you did a good job of capturing the details in the marble. well done centering the line along the lights/center of the hall.

Graal (57529) 2009-11-18 23:54

Hi Aires,
arcades are beautiful. Very nice architecture. Good shot and well done photo. Fine perspective and symmetry. I like it a lot.
Gr., Aleksander

Bluejeans (31921) 2009-11-20 5:09

Oi amigo ,
Este lugar sempre rende boas fotos , ficam com uma profundidade magnifica , bonitos tons dourados , parabéns!!
Um abraço Gonçalo

Bom fim de semana

pablominto (40334) 2009-11-23 0:34

Hello Aires,

A stunning feeling of depth here!
The framing of the archway is well done, the dark persons in a distance is the spice...
Good details in the architecture, and the available light is well used!

Greetings,
Pablo -
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