Category: Photography
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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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Una capra ed un cetriolo
Sometimes, shooting in RAW pays back, especially if we are playing with our new digital toy, and have a long learning way ahead. This picture is over two years old. When I shot it, I used one of the crappiest Nikon lenses (the 35-135 AF zoom, now sold) and I was not into subtle retouching…
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I miei DVD
La mia collezione di DVD – collezione di fatto, ma non per intenzione – è a circa quota 400. Dove arriverà? Dove arriverò?
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What I expect to find at the beach
Ombrelloni? No! Excavators? Yes. Folkestone beach. As long as the sea is visible, even these trucks can look beautiful.
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The presence of the sea
There would be no reason to consider this picture beautiful, if it were not for the presence of the sea, that can be “felt”. Whitstable, Kent Zenza Bronica SQ-A, Ektar 100, Photoshop
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Ed's dream
…at the right moment of the day, when the light of the sky perfectly matched the paint on the hut. Whitstable Bronica SQ-A, 80mm f:2.8 PS, Velvia 100F
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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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Canary Warf underground station
It has been a long wait before I edited and uploaded this picture, but apparently it was worth it, since it has been accepted in the iStock Vetta collection. I took the picture about three years ago with a Mamiya C220 that I do not own anymore. Because of the recognizable people, I never considered…