Category: Photo essays
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To grain or not to grain
It often happen today that, instead of choosing digital imagery for what it has good to offer – that is cleanliness -, “filters” to add digital film grain are popular. I, for once, believe that shooting with an Ilford Delta 3200 not only is great fun, but also yields great results in terms of tones…
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Chislehurst last year in December
If you live in New Eltham… well, first, you should not live there and, anyway, if you do, you would be not reading my post, because you’d be wasting your time commuting. Anyway, if you really happen to live there, you should definitely look around and see that, just a couple of miles away, Chislehurst High…
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Making or taking pictures
Most of us, most of the times, thinking of photography, think of taking pictures rather than making. It’s true for me, too. At times, however, I have an idea in mind and I need to create it in order to shoot it. The following is an example. Besides the usual difficulties of light and exposure,…
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Enhancing Autumn
I learnt most of what I know about photography several years ago. One of the few “new” things is for me the discovery of the “enhancing” (dydidium) filter (generally manufactured by Tiffen or Schneider Optics B+W), that apparently works only on digital sensors, by differentiating further the wavelenghts corresponding to colors of earth and foliage.…
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This year is going to snow
It doesn’t matter what meterologists will say: the snow will come to London, abundant. I have recently sold this stock: If people buy my snow stock, snow will come. Stock doe not lie, buyers know (better than metereologists).
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I keep finding examples…
…of human artifacts that add to the beauty of the sea. Yet, often photographers try to get the shot without them in the frame. These two are from Hastings, East Sussex.
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It does not happen every day…
…to see Canary Wharf from within this “frame”: That is, the Naval College musem in Greenwich. Available on iStock, too.
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The park around the Greenwich Observatory is beautiful…
…and they know how to care for their vegetation. This is their effort: And this is some result:
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Una cava nei dintorni di Pisa
Con molto ottimismo, l’estate scorsa mi avventurai, a stento protetto dall’aria condizionata dell’auto, attorno a Pisa. Fui premiato da questa scena che mi affrettai a divorare con la mia Mamiya C220.
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I went into the woods…
I went into the woods because I wanted to live deliberately. I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life…to put to rout all that was not life; and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. ~Henry David Thoreau Andai nei boschi per vivere con saggezza,…