Author: Marco
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Quick and simple soft light for headshots
It’s a matter of personal taste: generally, when lighting people for portraits, men or women, I tend to prefer soft lightrather than harder, more dramatic settings. I have a simple, go-to scheme that I set up every time I want something soft in a pinch. To make it, I use two large softboxes (I own…
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Usigliano
I don’t really recall how I ended up in Usigliano (province of Pisa); I only know that it was at the end of a brief car tour across the landscape around Crespina, dotted with elegant villas. Of course a short walk, together with my Sony 7II and an adapted Carl Zeiss Contax Tessar 45mm f/2.8…
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English Bulldogs in 100mm focal length!
Perhaps, the Canon 100mm f/2 lens is one of the most underrated/overlooked lenses ever (as of today, I cannot even find it on sale on Amazon!). This is, for me, especially incomprehensible: – if we think of the current fashion/hype around bokeh and fast lenses – given the fact that its weakest technical characteristic is…
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Sony Alpha 7 II, Nikkor 50 / 1.2 AI-S, some crazy colours in Cenaia, province of Pisa
Much to my surprise – I didn’t know the area around Fauglia – Cenaia and its surrounding are a simply beautiful place to live in. The following pictures were all shot during a single short walk with my Sony Alpha 7 II and an adapted Nikkor 50mm f/1.2 shot wide open.
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the simple beauty of Fauglia, near Pisa
All these pictures derive from a couple of short walks in the simply beautiful town of Fauglia, not distant from Pisa. They were either shot with a Fujifilm X-T1 camera equipped with a Fujinon 35mm f/1.4 XF or a Sony alpha 7 II with a Carl Zeiss Contax Tessar 45mm f/2.8.
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Satirical graffiti
For each of these images, I combined a photograph with a text that was either scanned (pen and paper) or digitally inked.
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ammemipiace il mare
Mi piace il mare ma… nessuno mi crede. Ecco qualche foto scattata con la mia Bronica SQ-A… al mare.
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Holiday trip with Velvia: minimal?
For a working photographer, choosing the cameras and the lenses to pack for a holiday isn’t easy (the mere proximity of those two words should raise an alarm). The possibility of being able to do everything seems to feel the need of translating into the obligation of doing everything: why then preparing for stills only…
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Riomaggiore with Portra 160
Riomaggiore is a pleasant town to visit. Since we are all sinners, we don’t deserve a pleasant, relaxing, tranquil walk wandering through the narrow picturesque streets… at least, this is what I must have thought when I decided to photograph it with two cameras, one of which being a not-so-heavy-but-certainly-not-light-either Bronica SQ-A loaded with Porta…