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Posts Tagged ‘Eyes’
YO! (London Pride 2009)
Today, while in the US they are celebrating the Independence Day, in London the gay community was celebrating the day of their pride. Walking on the big streets of the capital, gay, lesbians, queers and simple normal people were having fun, remembering the whole nation that there should be no discrimination for the sexual preferences.
“Some [...]
Busy Times
I like being busy, having my agenda filled with events and appointments is something I want. I hate when I can relax completely, with nothing to do for weeks, but these weeks are so full that I am not realizing they are moving away so fast. Immersed in the bad news coming from around the [...]
El Diablo!
There is an old song that comes to my mind every time I see this photo. I have been editing it for some days, always on the verge of publishing it, but only today I have decided to go through pushing it online. The song is from an Italian band called Litfiba and its name [...]
Photographic workflow: from camera to eternity
What is the flow that brings your photos from the camera to being published? Do you use many different software of just one?
In this small article I will explain my methods, hoping they can be helpful to someone and hoping someone can critique them well enough to make me change my mind on them!
One of [...]
Listening to Twilight
The other night Fabiana and I decided to go to the cinema with a friend of ours. She asked to watch “Twilight” and we accepted. To be honest I was not expecting anything really good, more a teenager story than anything else, but we went and watched the film. Twilight is a story I would [...]
Questions, again.
Where am I going as photographer? it seems to me that my skills are improving, but that I still lack that “bigger vision” to go somewhere, I still miss the photo of myself in few years time. I am still asking myself if there is the possibility of a professional goal in my photography or [...]
The Actor
“James’s face coming out of the dark in an experiment of lighting. London, 10th January 2009.“
I have to admit that when I casted James I had some small doubts on him, honestly. The photos in his portfolio were very diverse and I was not entirely sure he would have been the perfect model for the [...]
The Artist
“Suzana is much more than a simple Make Up Artist: she is a team player, a proactive person who works hard and professionally. All this on the top of being a very nice person!“
When I posted the casting call for the models, I also posted a casting call for a Make Up Artist. I did [...]
The Lady of the Snow
I have to admit that the session we had two weeks ago with five models was quite a success. It took some efforts to plan everything, but in the end everyone behave almost perfectly. The session taught me a lot, many things about photography, many things about people and reminded me that being organized can [...]
Keep me close
Tai keeps Meeka in his arms, in a fraternal embrace. Zen Photo Studio, London November 2008
There are times when we need a warm hug, being embraced by those we love. Those moments are like a warm hot chocolate during a cold and windy day out, when your hands freeze, battered by icy crystals.
Someone told me [...]
Meeka
“For this shot I got closer to Meeka, asking her to look into my lens, trying to imagine it like a screen where a nice film was shown…“
Being in a studio is quite fun. I like to play with lights, but at the same time I miss the street, especially in these short, dark days. [...]
uhm… Juicy
He was walking with some friends under a shadowy bridge. The first shot I took of him and his friends was not spectacular but it gives me the possibility to see his spectacular eyes. So I zoomed in to get them and I waited him to get under the light. He saw me, and to [...]
The Deep Eyes of the Faith
He definitely stand out from the crowd. It was not only the way he walked or the way he kept his hands in the pockets nor even the way he help his backpack on one shoulder. It was all these things alltogether and much more.
The pendant on his neck was hanging out, showing a Faith [...]
Is there anything interesting over there?
I normally use aperture for any editing of my photos, but from time to time I like to experiment with some plugins. This time I tried to give a dreamy look to this girl. I wasn’t convinced by any of the three different version I had created, and the Bleach Bypass that usually satisfies me, [...]
Spider
I am in love with both my lenses, the 70-200 and the 28mm, and I like to use them both. The result are quite different, the feeling of the photos are quite different. While the 28mm is a cheap lens, very slow in auto focus, the other one is fast and precise. The prism in [...]
Plumpy Charlize
Fabiana insisted that she reminded her of Charlize Theron. Undoubtedly there is some vague resemblance, maybe the blonde hair, or the eyes. I don’t know for sure.
I had two frames of her but I was not satisfied with the first. It was empty. With this one I had the luck of a straight eye contact, [...]
The long gaze into the abyss
“If you gaze long into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you.“
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
I know the story behind this shot, so I cannot really understand the general feeling this photo can give. What would you say was going on between these two women?
I know they were merrily chatting along the South Bank, [...]
Good News on the Phone
Good news are always welcome. No matter who you are, what you background is or what the news is.
I was hit by the expression of this woman. I like to think she just received a great news and she was trying to behave well while on the phone. Or at least I hope she did!
Yesterday [...]
Hand in Hand
Few things are more reassuring than someone keeping your hand. There may be noise, crowd, the whole scary world out there, but nothing is too dangerous if your guide is holding your hand. And if one is reassuring, having both your hands kept by guardians’ hands is peace.
There was a large crowd this year at [...]
Pirates of the Caribbean
The Notting Hill Carnival is a Caribbean carnival, so the title matches perfectly, doesn’t it?
This year experience at the Carnival has been fantastic. The girl in the middle was playing with that toy gun, and let me tell you that she was the leader of the group: no one would have challenged her! Those eyes [...]
A Friendly Smile
I will never be tired of saying that grabbing the camera and going in the middle of a crowd during a protest or a carnival is one of the best thing you can do if you want to shoot people. You will not find a lot of disgruntled looks or many suspicious ones, instead many [...]
Another Shoulder Rider at the Carnival
Another shot of a baby riding her father’s shoulders, not the first and not the last during this year Notting Hill Carnival. In my last photo I have expressed a fatherly instinct. I normally tend not to shoot babies, mostly because the schizophrenia linked to the pedophilia. Please do not misunderstand my words, it is [...]
Notting Hill Carnival 2008
The Notting Hill Carnival is one of those events everyone who loves photography. You can walk around with your camera always on your eyes and no one will never tell anything about it. Just fabulous.
She was one of those walking in the parade, blowing in her whistle following the rhythm ot the music. When I [...]
Send the camera a kiss, Baby!
Send the camera a kiss, Baby!, originally uploaded by Carlo Nicora.
When you walk around in a parade with a big white lens, you cannot pretend to pass unnoticed. The Candid photo you can expect with a wide angle lens are simply much more difficult. You can be one of the many with a camera and [...]