Category: Photography
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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…
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How to blur the background of a portrait taken with a single lens iPhone
You just need a Live Photo. Take your selfie while you are spinning. Then, amongst the Live Photos effects, choose Long Exposure. This is what you’ll get!
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Film photography on Mt Abetone
A few notes on Mt Abetone in Tuscany, perhaps useful if you want to visit it, together with some photos I took with a film camera
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iPhone vs medium format
What happens when you compare the image taken with an iPhone with the one taken with a medium format camera!
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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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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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Lighting scheme for a radiant look that inspires calm and serenity
For a portrait look that puts the subject in an almost glowing light, I use two large rectangular softboxes. The subject is about 1 m in front of a grey background. I then place the two softboxes so that they are parallel to each other, almost to create a tunnel into which the subject is…
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One-light setup for wide portraits
Looking for a one-light setup that casts a beautiful set of shadows on the face, is sufficient to illuminate the torso as well (while keeping the right prominence on the face, and softly illuminates the background as well? If so, I may have the right answer for you; the only caveat is that this setup…
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Un libro in inglese facile per bambini amanti dei cani
Era nato come un libro personalizzato per un paio di piccoli amici miei ma, vedendolo completo, stampato per bene e coloratissimo, mi sono reso conto che il libro che avevo preparato con le foto della mia Dafne potrebbero piacere a molti genitori che vorrebbero introdurre i propri figli a semplici letture in inglese… soprattutto facendo…
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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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Pillola di marketing su social media
Certe cose non cambiano, nemmeno nel marketing. Oggi come ieri, il proprio messaggio pubblicitario deve arrivare spesso. Un esempio efficace di pubblicità in vecchio stile è il mega cartellone in autostrada: lo crei e lo piazzi, aspettandoti che per qualche mese il pubblico veda, spesso, lo stesso messaggio, il più possibile efficace, tuttavia lo stesso,…