I am to turn 40 in two weeks! My love surprised me with a 4-day trip to Istanbul. As per my last post, I am to do the due diligence this time.
Location Research
The most naive approach I could think of was
- Do a Google image search for general impressions
- Do a flickr search to see some sample photographs
- Check out the Wikipedia article and look for 10 key aspects of the city
The Google image search yielded this:
Flickr had this to say about Istanbul:
Wikipedia takeaways:
- One of the largest cities in Europe – home to 15 million
- More European than Asian
- Inhabitated for 8000 years
- 34th richest city in the world
- Insanely diverse culturally
- Boomed in the last 30-50 years
Creative Vision
In bullet points:
- On the border of Europe and Asia
- Mosques
- Bosporus and its bridges
- Colors
- Narrow streets
- Turks
- Bridges
Gear – easy pick this time
This warrants its own post – or series of posts – but my retro camera obsession is still at its peak, and one of the recent challenges was to build out a decent full-frame kit for less than 500 EUR. I made it under 450 and will be taking the entire set to Turkey. It has some limitations – I’ll be certainly more restricted than with a travelzoom – but far from let’s say two primes.
- Canon 5D (Mark 1) body
- Tamron 17-35mm f/2.8-4 wide angle
- Tamron 28-75mm f/2.8 normal zoom
- Tamron 70-300mm f/4.0-5.6 stabilized telephoto
- Canon 50mm f/1.8 prime