I took a tour bus around Buenos Aires, Argentina. One of the stops on the tour is the neighborhood of La Boca.
La Boca Neighborhood
La Boca is a colorful working class barrio on the south side of Buenos Aires. It is where the original port was located on the Rio de la Plata. In the 1870, La Boca was home to many Italian immigrants from the city of Genoa who worked at the port and in the factories and warehouses. They lived in run-down tenements in La Boca.
Today La Boca is known street Tango dancers and for its brightly-painted buildings. The houses are covered with corrugated steel and painted red, yellow, blue and green.
Technical Details
I shot this sometime at 3:30 in the afternoon on October 10, which is springtime in the southern hemisphere. Most of the day was bright overcast. I am not the greatest travel photographers; it is not my usual kind of gig. I thought this was one of the better results of that day.
The camera was a Nikon D700 full-frame digital SLR with a Nikkor 24-120 f/3.5-5.6 VR zoom lens. I set the f/stop at f/8.0 because I read somewhere that lenses tend to be sharpest at around f/8.** Everything else was full automatic: Auto ISO, Auto WB, Aperture=Priority Exposure (matrix metering), and single-point Auto-Focus. Exposure details: focal length=85mm, ISO=200, WB=5685, f/8 @ 1/320.
RAW Developer 1.8.5 on a PowerBook G4 using the Camera Default (D700) Settings and RDv182 Nikon D700 Normal Input Profile. No editing or adjustments at all–As-Shot.
** There is a more detailed review of the lens at SLRGear.com: Nikon 24-120mm f/3.5-5.6G ED-IF AF-S VR Nikkor (Tested). They show the sweet spot varies with focal length from f/8 at 24mm to f/16 at 120mm.
