Cities
What is a city? A set of buildings, people, traffic, stories. But mostly, an endless light show.
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Art of Deception
Photography is a two-dimensional representation, just like painting. But photography has learned from painting how to deceive our eyes. Geometric perspective is the art of deception.
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In the Mountains
The dust of the mountain paths seeps into the pores of your skin and you cannot wash it away any more. You breathe, and it is so impalpable that it penetrates your soul. When it happens, you belong to the wild.
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Old Papers
The image of a manuscript or of an old binding is not just a reproduction. The photographer must know very well the subject matter, to highlight the elements that researchers will need to analyze to study and describe the document.
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Travel Notes
En route. Just a traveler searching for the soul of places (and places of his soul).
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Backlight
Backlight is the situation of shooting I like best. The sunlight floods the entire frame and compels the photographer to face contrast, light, sharpening, and balancing of lights and shadows. Only lenses with irreproachable quality can grant good (and sometimes spectacular) results.
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Desert Southwest
Exploring the Colorado Plateau, where the desert reveals itself cruelly: hot, sunny, silent, crazily colorful and stunningly fragrant. Sandstone, pines, junipers and the ubiquitous sagebrush create an incredibly palette inflamed by the sun.
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Closely
The unsettling world of insects, the intimate secrets hidden in a flower, but also the strange world of everyday objects seen at close range.
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Zone System
Can Zone System be applied to digital imaging? Sure, but it requires a long practice in black and white photography. Knowing how Zone System works is not enough: you need to know how the sensor works, how to extract the information you need from the digital negative, and how to create the very image that you had visualized before taking the picture.
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