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A photo shoot with songwriter Angus MacRaild
in Peru I had the chance to to a photoshoot with Angus MacRaild (Click here to listen to some music from this very talented guy), so I thought about sharing this with you guys. For the whole shoot I used an Alien Bees 1600 with the AB giant octabox (powered with the vagabond II). Mixing [...]
PSF: The Challenge
I would like to introduce the third and final video we have created for Pisco Sin Fronteras: The Challenge. The idea was to challenge the wanabe volunteer, while also showing the diversity of the international people that come through PSF. Comments and suggestions are strongly welcome. Tweet
A small donation to save Norma’s life
PISCO SIN FRONTERAS is an NGO based in Pisco, Peru. Pisco suffered major devastation from an earthquake in 2007. Norma lives in Pisco, she has 4 kids and the youngest of them, Norma Noelia, was born with an imperforate anus and diagnosed with Down syndrome. Her family is extremely poor and can’t afford a surgery. [...]
Fundraising can be fun
While shooting docu/stories here at PSF, I’ve been involved with fundraising events. Considering that the vast majority of the people working here are crazy to say the least, we thought about mocking up a little improvised studio and shoot a few portraits. Even if these shots are just for fun, it was a good way [...]
Delia’s Story
I know it’s been a while but I’ve been reasonably busy in the last period. At the moment we’re working for an organisation in Pisco, on the coast of Peru. Pisco had been devastated by an earthquake in 2007 and it’s still struggling to recover. Pisco Sin Fronteras is an organisation who has been manly [...]
Terje Sorgjerd goes nuts on the Milky Way
Another fantastic time lapse from the same photographer who created “The Aurora”. This time he got 3.6 million (yep, million) view in the first week… This was filmed over a week on the tallest spanish mountain “El Teide”, famous to be one of the most beautiful places in the world to watch the milky way. [...]
Kate’s story, a short movie for charity
I’ll let you watch the movie and then go a little bit through the process of making it, which has actually been a lot of fun. Just a bit of info to better understand the purpose of the movie itself. I’ve got commissioned by FAIRPLAY (www.fairplay-peru.org), a Peruvian not for profit organisation based in Cusco, [...]
TheLongWayUp.info
I haven’t updated the blog for while because I decided to take on a life change: I left Australia where I’ve been working for 2 years, and left to go to South America. Here we (me and my girlfriend, a photographer as well) bought a vehicle and we’re going to travel from the really bottom [...]
Blair Bunting on Photoshop
The issue of quality, post production, retouching etc… had already come out a few times on this blog, so this is just a “to be continued” chapter. Today I wanted to present to you the work of Blair Bunting, american photographer who makes an excellent use of post production, and looking at his blog it [...]
Guess the lighting
Ted Sabarese (image below is from his portfolio) is a NY based advertising and editorial photographer, who’s work is definitely worth a look. But the reason why I’m writing here today is because of Ted’s side project/blog, named Guess the lighting. As the blog name suggests, Ted guesses the lighting of other photographers pictures using [...]
ParknFly AD
Recently I’ve been collaborating with a video production company named Don’t Look Back Pictures, (like the Bob Dylan documentary..), they shoot TV commercials and video clips, all with the Canon 5D markII, which produces an incredible video quality and combines all the capabilities of a HD pro video camera with the portability (and price) of [...]
Risking your life for a photograph
It’s been a while since I’ve posted something here, but I believe this will inspire and make us feel what the essence of photography really is. Well, at least it did to me. This is a short video with Ben Lowy, a photojournalist who’s work is definitely something that is worth to spend some time [...]
Studio lighting and gels
Today I feel really inspired, so I’m going to share some lighting diagrams for a shoot I did a couple of weeks ago. The whole theme revolved around smoking, and I wanted to play with gels and strong moody contrast. For all these pictures I used a Canon 5d mkII, a 24-70 2.8L canon lens, [...]
Nadav Kander
Sometimes it is hard as photographer who’s trying to find his own direction to look at some others’ work, and realise the excel in ALL type of photography. This is pretty much the case with Nadav Kander. I find his work really inspirational probably because his style is so different than mine (and that broaden [...]
High Pass Filter #1
High pass filter is a well known tool that has been highly used and explained. What not everybody knows is that there are many different ways of implementing it, with different and interesting results. In this first post I’ll go through the standard tecnique that I have been using recently to increase contrast and give [...]
Stopmotion Video by Blu
Maybe it’s because this guy is from the same city I’m from (Bologna, Italy). Or maybe it’s because this is just amazing. I’ve never seen such an intense and complex stopmotion video like this one.
That Yellow Touch
In this period I’ve been working with a TV presenter who wanted few shots for her presenting and lifestyle modelling portfolio, she gets the shots for free, I get a free model that I can experiment with. Yesterday we did a really traditional headshot shoot, but in between we found the time to experiment something [...]
Old vs New #2
Today I’d like to continue to investigate into a question which is damn important to all of us: quality. In this previous post I put into comparison two fashion photographers, thier work and the quality of the final print. The image that you see at the beginning of the post is Simon Harsent’s, a photographer [...]
Innovation to 0
Here’s a video coming from Ted with Bill Gates. Forget any prejudice you might have for the man and Microsoft (I know us Mac users..), this speech is smart, direct and fairly realistic. Contributors about this subject are strongly welcomed.
Old vs New #1
Recently I’ve found myself questioning a lot regarding how much technology has changed photographers work quality. I’m not even talking about how technology has changed the game, Andrew already explained well enough all this, but what I would like to focus on it’s the mere aspect of picture QUALITY. I think that the quality of [...]
Mixing Lighting and Post-Production
I’ve been working on a series of dynamic portrait based on jumping. The concept is simple, but sometimes it is tricky to realize. A couple of days ago I had the chance, with a photographer friend of mine, to follow the final hours of a guy dreadlocks. Christian (the guy) decided to cut them off [...]