Category: Photo essays
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Keywords for stock photos: clothes line, airing the laundry in the sun
How to keyword the laundry that is left outdoors to dry on a clothesline?
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Shakespeare and stock photography
I’ve been trying to build up a portfolio of photos of pages where non-adjacent words would mean something together. These words were extracted from William Shakespeare’s works. Shakespeare was not a stock photographer. Certainly he wasn’t a photographer; as for the stock part, it can be argued that he did not always write having a…
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Keyword dictionary for stock photos: images in personal perspective, standing, looking down
Photos taken in p.o.v. (point of view) i.e. personal perspective, while looking down, show our feet together with the environment where we are, and suggest to the viewer a first-person experience. Useful keywords for tagging our stock photos are: Keywords: personal perspective; looking down; standing; feet; directly above Additional keywords: shoes, pavement, sidewalk, environment, legs More often than…
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One day, one camera and one lens in Lucca
A short photo-trip to Lucca, to create stock photos, with a sample and the main relevant keywords that I used
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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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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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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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Cup stuck inside a mug: how (not) to free it
I do not want to advocate it is the best solution – I don’t even go as far as saying it is a solution at all. But, when all else failed, this is what I did and it worked. It worked twice, even, because I was so dumb to let them get stuck twice, in…
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Bicycle as a solution to a photographer’s block
When I was an undergraduate student in Pisa, I cycled daily for my urban commute from home to the University. I found it pleasant and relatively safe. I used my mountain bike frequently and with enjoyment, but always in urban contexts. Basically, wherever I could have a stroll, I cycled instead. The bike was a…