Author: Marco
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One-light setup for wide portraits
Looking for a one-light setup that casts a beautiful set of shadows on the face, is sufficient to illuminate the torso as well (while keeping the right prominence on the face, and softly illuminates the background as well? If so, I may have the right answer for you; the only caveat is that this setup…
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Ghosts of Christmas’ past cameras
I’ve shot some Christmas pictures in the past years, and now that autumn is approaching its end and winter is arriving, I thought of showcasing a few photographic memories of the most abused festivity of the year. These pictures are scattered in time, space and photographic medium (iPhone, interchangeable lens digital camera, film SLR).
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Un libro in inglese facile per bambini amanti dei cani
Era nato come un libro personalizzato per un paio di piccoli amici miei ma, vedendolo completo, stampato per bene e coloratissimo, mi sono reso conto che il libro che avevo preparato con le foto della mia Dafne potrebbero piacere a molti genitori che vorrebbero introdurre i propri figli a semplici letture in inglese… soprattutto facendo…
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Photos of walls as backdrops
Wandering through Tuscan villages is beautiful in itself and doubly beautiful for a photographer. The eyes may wander far away and meet villas, mansions, fields, nature, sunsets… but beauty can be found in close-ups as well and insignificant walls – old, stained, faded, weathered – can become an awesome background for text, illustrations, or even…
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Il nuovo orto botanico di Ghezzano
Dopo anni di incuria lavori di preparazione, finalmente l’orto botanico di Ghezzano (frazione di San Giuliano Terme) è stato inaugurato ieri in via Lazzeri, con senza la presenza del sindaco. Specie diversissime, tutte esotiche, popolano i canali di scolo i quali, invece di fornire l’utile l’inutile servizio antiallagamento delle vie cittadine, offrono ai visitatori uno…
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Pillola di marketing su social media
Certe cose non cambiano, nemmeno nel marketing. Oggi come ieri, il proprio messaggio pubblicitario deve arrivare spesso. Un esempio efficace di pubblicità in vecchio stile è il mega cartellone in autostrada: lo crei e lo piazzi, aspettandoti che per qualche mese il pubblico veda, spesso, lo stesso messaggio, il più possibile efficace, tuttavia lo stesso,…
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Travelling with my bulldog during the summer
Introduction: holidaying in hot weather Bulldog owners already know they deal with a difficult breed. Travelling with bulldogs is just one of those aspects of bulldog ownership that require extra attention. Having organised a trip with my Dafne, I had to go through a series of issues: here they are, described together with the solutions…
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Come pulisco lo schermo del mio MacBook
Pulisco lo schermo del mio MacBook quasi come una lente di un obiettivo fotografico. Innanzitutto tolgo la polvere con un getto di aria. Poi tolgo ulteriore polvere residua con un pennello morbido, per es. quello incorporato nel LensPen per filtri e obiettivi, anche se per un uso sul solo schermo questo pennelo può essere inutilmente…
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Equipment for photographing in a pizzeria
Packing the right gear is for me the last stage of a process where I try and understand the least I can use to get the look that I want. In the pizzeria I wanted to achieve a good backlight effect. I had tried, without success, with a smaller and sturdier beauty dish, but eventually…
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The best lighting for pizza
Pizza is food so, traditionally, benefits from (moderate) backlighting. Pizza is also large and flat: a large(r) and flat light source was my choice. The Elinchrom Rotalux 90x110cm softbox, placed about 30cm above the pizza, slightly angled, was large enough that I could use its “tail” like some sort of moderate backlight. A small reflector…
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Warm, soft light for food, with one light source
I would not call a 90x110cm Elinchrom softbox “portable”, however I set for myself the limit of one light source or when I want to shoot food outside of my studio, and albeit I tried and get the results that I wanted with a beauty-dish reflector (smaller and sturdier), I decided I would not settle…
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Morning light for food
How I re-created in studio some natural-looking morning light for food photography.