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Marco |
Dec 19th, 2009
“When you reach the end of your rope, tie a knot in it and hang on.” Thomas Jefferson.
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Posted by
Marco |
Dec 15th, 2009
Sunsets are overrated, most of the times. I’m not a collector of them, but i do have to say this particular one shot an arrow in my heart. This is a pan of 6 shots, shot around 5.00 pm, all of them made iso400 1/125 f/11. No post processing, just...
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Posted by
Marco |
Dec 13th, 2009
Same shot as the previous, with some Regnier treatment. For the final composition there’s not so much photoshop twinking as you might think, it’s just about lowering the overall saturation and adding a color curve. The good part was taking...
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Posted by
Marco |
Dec 13th, 2009
Windows Desktop style, easy shot, the marvellous Tuscany is full of these beauties. The place here is near Grosseto, and it’s a shot i took in december so everything is a bit colder, both sky and grass. It’s a f/13 aperture made with my short...
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Marco |
Dec 11th, 2009
This is a tribute to a true artist and a genious visionary, Michael Regnier. He decided to step forward and combine together paintings and photos. And i want to say it loud and clear, this is not about spending hours on photoshop from a normal shoot....
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Posted by
Marco |
Dec 10th, 2009
Because Mars is farther from the Sun than the Earth is, the Sun appears only about two-thirds the size that it appears in a sunset seen from the Earth; and the glow is dark purple and blue. Well, i shoot this one in Follonica, after a very cloudy day,...
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Posted by
Marco |
Dec 4th, 2009
How can you get a shot like this one? Hours of photoshop? Tons of enhancements? Naa. Grab a good lens (Sigma 24/70 love you darling) and remember the lesson number one of close ups. A pure exercise of techinque, no brain shot, school picture, probie image,...
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Posted by
Marco |
Nov 23rd, 2009
View from Ellis Island, from 1892 until 1954 the main entry facility for immigrants entering the United States; This is the promise the ship made them, what they saw while approaching to New York. A huge and beautiful skyline, the big apple as they call...
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Posted by
Marco |
Nov 18th, 2009
Everyone’s been asking for Las Vegas pictures of the 2009 US Summer trip, and i kept saying, cause it’s true, no good images were made there. Everyone can also see the point here, if you’ve been in that hell of a city, that’s really...
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Marco |
Nov 16th, 2009
Good catch, the bike, the reflection in the pool, both merit and luck in it. I’m realizing lately my photography is evolving in something different, something to hang up on the wall, or at least it’s like these in my eyes. Well, it feels good...
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Posted by
Marco |
Nov 10th, 2009
The question is? Who the hell is supposed to enter that door without having troubles? A very thin man perhaps, a slim shady guy, or a slice of cheese i’d say. Moreover it’s on ramp, so twice the effort to get there, a genious idea if you ask...
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Posted by
Marco |
Nov 5th, 2009
It comes a time when you do a shot and you’re so proud of it. This is the case. This picture is completely unprocessed, it’s pure photography. White balance tactics, silver paper in front of it to bounce the light aganist the petals and of...
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Posted by
Marco |
Nov 2nd, 2009
Not the greatest photo ever but funny indeed!
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Posted by
Marco |
Oct 30th, 2009
Another day in the park, sunny and windy, around 10.30 in the morning. The guy in the tractor was waving towards my direction, i stood there and i kept shooting, then he approached and asked me “are you taking photos to build some towers and houses...
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Marco |
Oct 27th, 2009
It’s common knowledge the canyon in Arizona is one of the most beautiful landscapes of the planet, i’ve been very lucky this year and got a beautiful sunset, and believe it’s not easy to get one in the monsoon season. Looking at this...
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Posted by
Marco |
Oct 25th, 2009
He’s not like this believe me. This is a rare moment of sleep during his never-ending-messing-’round, chewing shoes, chasing balls, messing up. He’s a concentrate of pure madness. But can’t you love him? I mean, look at him, he’s...
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Posted by
Marco |
Oct 23rd, 2009
First of all, this is not salad. It’s the savoy cabbage, aka verza. I recently discovered that the most used material to create artificial drops (for photographic pourposes of course) is glicerine. I’m definitely going to buy some, if i’m...
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Posted by
Marco |
Oct 21st, 2009
First of all, this shot has no post processing at all. I realized this during a sunny morning in the park outside my house: the yellow glare is done just by using a shade white balance settings and of course high speed shutter 1/200 (to freeze the wind) ...
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Posted by
Marco |
Oct 15th, 2009
As the great Bob says. Welcome to the new site, and please make yourself comfortable. When you finished looking around, check this shot. I made it a couple of days ago, when that damn hard wind was blowing, i thought, hey! is the perfect picture of what’s...
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Posted by
Marco |
Oct 15th, 2009
“Luxury is the wolf at the door and its fangs are the vanities and conceits germinated by success. When an artist learns this, he knows where the danger is”. -Tennessee Williams-
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Posted by
Marco |
Oct 15th, 2009
If you know him, you’ll probably be laughing. If you don’t know him, please stop laughing. He’s a serious guy and he was just having a little crysis. Joking, he’s not serious. Ok now you can start laughing again! Thanks Christian...
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Posted by
Marco |
Oct 15th, 2009
The intent here was to make something printable and good looking. And to hang it over my sofa. To achieve that, i just took the original shot and added a S contrast curve, then some selective saturation. Art attack project ready to enlight your living...
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Posted by
Marco |
Oct 15th, 2009
The New York subway is the hottest place on earth as you might know. Beside of that taking this shot has been pretty easy, i wanted to recreate the lonely planet guide cover and i’m proud to show you the result. You can see here the original shot...
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Posted by
Marco |
Oct 15th, 2009
Tricky shot, done in september, those days of heavy rain. Made with a tripod and the…reversed camera…wanted to mess a bit with gravity in the old analogic way. I could have saved a lot of time just tilting it with photoshop but i’m a...
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My photography has evolved over the years. I've gone from wild post-processing experimentation with Photoshop toward a more classic approach.
As my best teacher, Joe McNally, says, it's all about the Moment it Clicks. I still use post processing but just white balance and curves adjustments, trying to do my best to get a clean shot and forget about digital monitor work. I always remember one thing. Light is the most powerful tool i have. 
Marco 
