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Location, Location, Location: The advantage of being a “Strobist”
Using powerful studio flashes has its advantages. They can overpower the natural light and they can shape the type of light you want without too many troubles, but while you are out and around, maybe in a nice and interesting location, sometimes small and light flash units are much more handy. You do not need [...]
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 [...]
Pushing Boundaries: the human factor
Last week we went in the studio to exercise a little bit, and I wanted the session to be focussed on “Couples” and “Emotions”. I wanted to reproduce those shots I so much love on the street, but I underestimated the power of human relations. We had the luck to work with some great models [...]
Guy with tattooed face and Beautiful chick
There are times when you know that if you want a photo, you need to approach your subject and ask their permissions. It is not because who they are, or better what they seem to be, but it is about what you feel as a photographer. Sunday I was walking up and down Regent Street [...]
Colonial
Yesterday has been a great day. London under the sunshine is a dream with few rivalry and adding a Regent Street closed to the traffic for a feast you have a fantastic Sunday.
I admit I have taken some good photos, and amongst them I have decided to start publishing this one. This man resembles me [...]
Sparse thoughts
Summer is clearly fighting its way in these days… well apart from today to be honest: the sky is quite gloomy. Nevertheless walking on the South Bank the other day we were blessed by a fantastic sun and by a very good temperature. I have to admit that I am feeling the need of it, [...]
In the sea of memories
In these days I am migrating my Aperture library to a different structure. More over I am also importing all my library in iPhoto, to see if it makes sense to remove a lot of old photos from my main library, pushing them into another type of “memory holder”.
Looking the flow of almost 30.000 photos [...]
A momentary lapse of wonder
Fabiana is a wonderful person. Yesterday she was dressed in a quite summery way, with a lot of white things on, leaving her beloved black at home. At least more than usual.
She is not an easy subject to capture while she is talking though: she moves a lot, she is alive and her expression can [...]
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 [...]
www.thousandportraits.com
We discussed about it and, in the end, we decided that, even if the name of the domain will, without any doubts, give away some information, releasing it is the first step to release the project.
In 16 days www.thousandportraits.com, the project I and another photographer carried out a little more than a week ago, will [...]
The Colored Wall
This is one of the many photos I like, but that I hadn’t published because I had many others to and because I do not like to publish too many from a single series. Then, when the series have moved on, I tend to not to like the photos I took. My constant research for [...]
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 [...]
The Learning Process
“Michael lighted by a small flashlight reflected in a silver umbrella during the last London Calling Photographers’ meeting. London 21st January 2009“
I believe that life is a continuous learning process. We can easily sit down and avoid learning or we can push the changes and be the promoter of those processes. Six months ago I [...]
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 [...]
Managing…
“James posing in one of the last minutes of the Workshop by the London Calling Photographers. London, 10th January 2009“
Of the many lessons I could have learned during the workshop there is one that is not at all linked to photography or lighting that is hitting me today. It is related about managing more than [...]
Max the Violinist
I have met Max more than once around the National Portrait Gallery. On his wheelchair, playing his violin and watching those passing by. The first time I stopped to have a chat with him i was because I saw he was looking my digital camera with a little bit of disgust.
I do not think that [...]
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 [...]
Ed
Edmond Terakopia walking around London to show the capabilities of the new Canon 5D Mk II to five photobloggers. London, 4th December 2008
A camera is a tool; this is the bottom line of my thoughts. You can use a grainy film or the fastest digital camera available on the market, nevertheless it is not a [...]