Author: Marco
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Red hot chili pepper: good or bad for migraines?
To eat it or not to eat it, this is the problem When talking with friends affected by migraine, sooner or later the argument whether or not eating red hot chili pepper (that is capsaicin, its peppery substance) helps or makes it bad pops up.
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Ecco un modo per fare ritratti su sfondo bianco
Esistono molti tipi di ritratti e molti tipi di bianco :-) La mia “ricetta” seguente è nata dal volere un ritratto luminoso e dai vincoli posti dalla mia attrezzatura (una sola softbox, su un totale di quattro lampeggiatori).
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Simulating natural sunlight filtering through a window…
Here is how I tried to simulate sunlight filtering through the trees for a still life photograph
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Cars parked in the street
They may have travelled for miles, they may have come from the most disparate places, often very different from the ones where we see them: cars, parked in the streets, tell interesting stories when they are framed in their environment: stories made of contrasts, surprises, colours and cultural clashes. I have found them in the…
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Mi hanno messo su Panorama
Storie di esperimenti scientifici assurdi ma veri, miracoli e altri prodigi Source: Dizionario delle cose impossibili di Didier Van Cauwelaert – Panorama
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Una foto di Francesco S. su El Pais
A portrait of Francesco S. was used by El Pais to illustrate an article about menstruation
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Short Letter to a Friend who Wants to Choose Another Camera
How to choose a digital camera suitable for street photography
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Dramatic light for somebody sitting in a room
Aside some editing, this effect was obtained with a large Elinchrom Rotalux softbox 90x110cm with its (Rota)grid placed just in front of Francesco S., very low and throwing light parallel to the floor. A little bit of filling was give by a reflector illuminating a far white wall behind him.
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Shooting wide open: fad vs technical necessity
Sometimes, I believe it is just a fad: wide-open lens to shoot creamy blurred background. I like it but I am not too much into it. As it has been said, often a blurred background compensates for the lack of composition skills: what to do with what is behind the subject? However, a blurred background…
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Superman salverà (anche) la scuola italiana
Ottobre è quel periodo dell’anno in cui una zucca mette in difficoltà la scuola primaria pubblica italiana. Ad ottobre, una zucca rivela la sudditanza culturale ed economica della scuola italiana, assieme alla sua scarsa autonomia. Ad ottobre, nelle scuole primarie, chi insegna inglese (pardon, lingua) si ritrova con un programma di insegnamento già compilato (dagli…
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Quick lighting set-up
You have a model in your studio: he wants a quick portrait. Quick, here, does not only mean rapid to set-up, but also tolerant enough to his not-so-perfect positioning. A coloured background, moreover, does not necessarily require a separate light. So this is what I did: a beauty-dish (with central reflector) in front of him…
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Come rimuovere i pesticidi dagli ortaggi che compriamo?
Il problema Lavare le verdure a casa? Perché? Come? Belli erano quei tempi, vecchi, quando le verdure si lavavano soltanto per rimuovere germi! I germi potevano esser lì (cosa brutta) oppure (il più delle volte) no. Per certi versi, i pesticidi sono più pericolosi dei germi: bisognerebbe evitare di mangiarne. Gli effetti devastanti sulla nostra salute…