Thank you 🙂

Thank you 😊

We really fell in love with Romania, it's such a beautiful country. Not over touristic yet, lots of nature, really beautiful old towns, very nice people and a very welcoming atmosphere. And proud Europeans! I've never seen a country before that hangs an EU flag next to every single national flag, down to lamp posts in the smallest village.

Lol, for the first glance it looked like the square was flooded to me! It makes more sense now. To be fair, it's picturesque either way.

Note to self: visit the country before I kick the bucket. It's just gorgeous all around.

Thanks! I did some minimal digital editing afterwards, but I try not to "cheat" too much when shooting on film.

I have them developed at CameraNu.
They have a service for developing and scanning photos on film, and the actual machine to develop colour film happens to be located at the Eindhoven branch.

So I can bring in a roll and the scans get sent to my email within two hours.

Edit: I'll upload the original scan when I get home, so you can be the judge as to whether I cheated 😄

Thanks, but I'm trying to move away from having a smartphone altogether, and I just don't like the experience of shooting on them.

Fair enough - though with those goals I would see what smart phones with decent cameras in your price range can do, as an alternative approach. To me, fun includes "always with you" - I may have a very nice "proper" camera, but it's not something I can stick in my pocket :)

Ah, I missed that it was actual film - which I think increases my respect for your result, film being much less forgiving!

Out of interest, film you develop yourself, or just an apparently very sympathetic shop?

The sky was indeed quite over-exposed.

I take these photos on film, so the dynamic range is not quite as wide as with digital, and getting the exposure right remains tricky

Woahhh that's awesome! Great picture, mate!

I will mostly never want to bother with editing, I just want something quick, fun, and with great quality.

Interesting and quite effective choice to have such dark sides to the photo and a central golden strip. I like the way you can see the detail in the sides if you pay attention. I'm guessing the sky was over-exposed in this photo - did you try extracting a bit more detail from it (e.g. a hint of cloud shapes) as, to me, as the lack of detail feels a bit out of keeping with the rest.

Depending on how you develop (hah), you may come to find "Proper color straight out of the camera" a bit of an irrelevance. By its very nature, a camera can only make simple guesses about a good colour balance and luminance curve looks like for any given shot. If its guesses happen to be ones that satisfy you for the sort of shots you take, great, but you may well move on to taking RAW format photos and messing about in post-processing to get results that satisfy you more, especially if you take a wide range of types of shots. And your range from cats to landscapes to events is wide!

So do look at the post-processing options and software available for that camera (alas, I can comment nothing on the camera model). It also means that quality of lens, sensor and auto-focus should also be a concern of course - if the basics aren't right, no post processing can rescue the result (bar outrageous levels of AI work).

Nice picture! I'd like visiting Romania one day, and Sibiu looks like a beautiful city.

Arată foarte frumos, bine lucrat!

Wasn't critiquing 🤔

Which is why I cut out the dissonant museum elements that didn't go with her look of the car.

If you're not a fan, move on and don't upvote. This isn't a critique community.

Beautiful picture! My grandma was from Iași and told me that in Sibiu they make sausage out of horse meat. Not once or twice, that was part of the lore growing up and the only thing I knew about Sibiu. I looked it up now and turns out it's bologna (pardon the pun)? Maybe was true a century ago?

Dissonance in music is an artistic choice. It's still dissonance, though. lol

I hope you become a little rich weirdo then! I would love to visit more botanical gardens, especially with those little signs!

If I were a little rich weirdo, I'd be putting botanical gardens everywhere. Especially ones with native plants. And lots of those little signs talking about the plants.

Or everything outside of this was garish museum hardware and signs and I was trying to focus on the design of the car. It's an artistic choice

Yeah, they were really neat to see.

Thanks, good point about the age. I assume the model spent at least several years on the market, so maybe it wasn't bought at launch. But I will probe more into it.

Get a tripod for your phone and install a third-party camera app like OpenCamera.

The heads are so cool!