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  • Colour,  Daily photo,  Streets&Squares,  Winter

    The Last Journey

    March 7, 2021 /

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    Open Window

    February 4, 2015

    Is Iron Sky just a sci-fi movie?

    May 5, 2015

    Soldering

    November 8, 2021
  • B&W,  Beach&Shores,  Daily photo,  People

    Zombie

    March 4, 2021 /

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    Enough…

    March 2, 2013

    Final Arrangements Before the Hearing

    April 19, 2015

    The Actor’s Nightmare

    August 3, 2013
  • Beach&Shores,  Colour,  Daily photo,  People,  Winter

    Uninterest

    March 2, 2021 /

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    On Detachment. Or ‘If You Love Something, Set It Free’ (cit. Sting)

    June 17, 2025

    Sweet Dilemma

    November 4, 2015

    Street-Photographer’s eye side effect

    April 8, 2014
  • Bridges,  Colour,  Daily photo

    Lava Nails

    February 28, 2021 /

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    Moonshot with a handheld Fuji XF150-600 and a Fuji X-T3

    April 24, 2023

    Parachute

    September 14, 2013

    Shooting an Outdoor Volleyball Match

    June 19, 2025
  • Beach&Shores,  Colour,  Daily photo,  People,  Winter

    Pensive

    February 26, 2021 /

    Manual focus needs practice. This photo would have been better if I framed also the top of the cabin and focused better the person.

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    Who The Hell Killed the Light Off?

    August 2, 2015

    Matching Nails

    September 18, 2017

    Gigi Cifarelli Guitar Solo (feat. Michele Di Toro) – Live@Florian Espace Pescara

    March 7, 2016
  • Colour,  Daily photo,  People,  Streets&Squares,  Technique,  Winter

    A Skater

    February 23, 2021 /

    Framing the whole statue would have made this photo better. The mistake was caused by the necessity to shoot fast, the lens’ field of view and the distance between the subject and the focal plane.

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    Inside The Palace of Power

    September 17, 2015

    The Smoke Teacher

    July 1, 2013

    Lightblade

    September 6, 2013
  • Bridges,  Colour,  Daily photo,  Winter

    A droplet

    February 21, 2021 /

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    Dai Shodo@Kyoto

    December 2, 2020

    A Night at the Opera – Plays and Opera Photography

    December 21, 2024

    So what?

    April 9, 2013
  • Colour,  Daily photo,  Gear,  Winter

    A Rudder

    February 19, 2021 /

    Pentax K-1/smc Pentax-A 135/2,8

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    A Bitter Sweet

    March 23, 2013

    Is Iron Sky just a sci-fi movie?

    May 5, 2015

    Moonshot with a handheld Fuji XF150-600 and a Fuji X-T3

    April 24, 2023
  • Colour,  Daily photo,  Visual,  Winter

    A Mesh

    February 16, 2021 /

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    Urgent Call

    May 15, 2017

    A cigarette

    September 28, 2015

    A Nikon’s Portrait Made With a Fuji

    January 14, 2016
  • Colour,  Daily photo,  Fountains,  Visual,  Winter

    An Essay on Composition

    February 14, 2021 /

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    Venditti&DeGregori – Live@Anfiteatro La Civitella

    August 11, 2022

    People

    December 21, 2012

    The Real Street Photographer

    February 25, 2013
  • Colour,  Daily photo,  Gear,  Summer,  Thoughts

    Pentax SMC-A 50/1,7 – Nikkor 50/1,4 – Summicron 50/2

    February 9, 2021 /

    The left slice is taken with a Pentax K-1 and SMC-A 50/1,7, the centre with a Nikon D750 and a Nikkor 50/1,4, the right with a Fujifilm X-T3 and a Summicron 50/2. All the cameras were at their base ISO (100 for the Pentax and Nikon, 160 with the Fujifilm), at F2 and aperture priority. The K-1 and the X-T3 photos were shot in manual focus. Only the K-1 has IBIS stabilization. The jpg is taken in Affinity by slicing each OOC RAW file without post-processing.

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    Forgotten bike

    April 3, 2013

    UnortORTOdox (Ferrania)

    July 22, 2023

    The King’s Solitude

    May 6, 2018
  • Colour,  Daily photo,  Winter

    A Lockheed C-130 Hercules

    January 31, 2021 /

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    Different Stories

    December 30, 2023

    Alone

    January 1, 2013

    Just a Bench (or a Sacrificial Altar?)

    January 11, 2017
  • Colour,  Daily photo,  Kite Surf,  Seasons,  Sport,  Technique,  Winter

    Kite Surfer Under Duress

    January 29, 2021 /

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    Superpila still rides…

    December 10, 2018

    Ready For Lunch

    November 1, 2014

    Servicing a Beretta 98FS

    October 13, 2019
  • Artists,  Colour,  Daily photo,  Streets&Squares,  Winter

    Busker and Covid-19

    January 26, 2021 /

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    The Traffic Controller

    November 20, 2013

    The Shooter’s Dilemma

    July 12, 2014

    Disagreement

    December 29, 2012
  • Colour,  Daily photo,  Gear,  Thoughts

    Galaxy S21 Ultra 5g. The difference between Marketing and Reality in Image Quality

    January 24, 2021 /

    To put it short, this is what you get by purchasing a Galaxy S21 Ultra 5g using the standard camera app: access to all four lenses is limited to jpg, 108megapixel resolution is limited to one lens (the one Samsung calls ‘wide’ or ‘1x’), RAW format is only availble in ‘PRO’ mode, limited to ‘ultrawide’ (0,6x) and ‘wide’ (1x), with no access to 108megpixel resolution. Samsung advertises the Galaxy S21 Ultra 5g by spinning its 108 megapixel camera. However, it does not make clear that the 108 megapixel resolution is not available in “PRO” mode, the only that records in raw. By contrast, this super resolution is available in normal…

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    Wrecked Hull

    February 14, 2014

    Las Ramblas’ Lifestyle

    April 18, 2014

    A ‘Trabocco’ on the Adriatic Sea

    April 20, 2021
  • Colour,  Daily photo,  Photography

    A Fix for the Wikipedia Photos’ Copyright Scams?

    December 19, 2020 /

    As reported by Petapixel, a new form of copyright (better, ‘moral rights of author) scam hits photographer: the credit stealing on Wikipedia. In a nutshell, as everything on Wikipedia is editable, somebody started changing the photos’ ownership information from the original author to somebody else who, as Petapixel writes, get a series of ‘benefit’. As bad as it sounds, copyright protection on the Internet is a lost battle for an individual. Some services like Unsplash “turned the problem into an opportunity”. However it did not solve the issue in general terms. I’m seriously considering if just going back to a print-only sharing is a better way to handle pictures’ copyright,…

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    Framed

    November 26, 2015

    Rusted Platform

    April 25, 2015

    A tribute to an old friend

    January 7, 2014
  • Actors,  B&W,  Daily photo,  Gear,  PhotoCritics,  Portraits,  Technique,  Winter

    Easy To Shoot?

    December 12, 2020 /

    This picture might look “ordinary” but for the fact that I shot it with a rangefinder film camera (guess which?) during the scene change between to acts of a theatre play. Scene assistants were placing the furnitures, actors were trying to focus on their parts, there was no time (and place) to design a proper composition and set the camera. No autofocus, no real-time exposure and white-balance setting. Maybe I have been lucky capturing the match flame close to the cigar, maybe it was because of “muscle memory”, but I did it nonetheless. Problem is that I could not be sure if I succeeded until, one week later, I saw…

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    Processing DSLR-digitized film with and without Pentax K-1 Monochrome Custom Image profile

    April 30, 2023

    Weren’t a Smartphone and a Selfie Stick Enough?

    October 6, 2016

    The Chicken

    September 10, 2014
  • Bookstores,  Colour,  Daily photo,  Kyoto,  Summer

    Dai Shodo@Kyoto

    December 2, 2020 /

    Kyoto ‘s Teramachi-dori is full of suprises. Amidst shops of the most different kind and attire, booklovers can find this small gem.

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    Portrait of aTocaor

    October 8, 2013

    The Shooter’s Dilemma

    July 12, 2014

    John De Leo’s Grande Abarasse Orchestra – Live

    February 10, 2015
  • Colour,  Daily photo,  Marketing,  Nagoya,  Reportage,  Travels

    Nagoya’s reportage featured in The Good Life

    October 29, 2020 /

    The Good Life‘s October issue features my photoreportage of Nagoya.

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    As Deep As The Ocean

    April 15, 2016

    Norwegian Suits

    October 15, 2014

    The Unintended March

    January 13, 2013
  • Daily photo,  Gear

    Fuji X-T2 records audio at 16bit/48Khz

    October 11, 2020 /

    Neither the user manual, nor the Youtube ‘experts’ tell this open secret: the X-T2 samples audio at 16bit. Although the sample rate is 48khz (a standard in video production) 16bit may not be enough to record (a minimum) professional grade audio. This is not a big deal for the rest of the humans, but If you want to ‘go pro’ or need to unleash your Gear Addiction Syndrome be advised that to have 24bit/48Khz audio you must switch to the X-T3.

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    Sea Anemones

    August 20, 2014

    VueScan and the missed Bits-per-pixel

    December 1, 2013

    Let’s get the party started…

    January 20, 2014
  • Actors,  Colour,  Daily photo,  People,  PhotoCritics

    Meaning in Photography

    March 4, 2020 /

    In this picture, taken during the reportage I did for the Teatro Marrucino’s I Miserabili, an old and exhausted fighter rests while a young citoyen waves the French flag defying the fire of the royalists. The strength of the picture is in the dialectics created by the two protagonists, hinting at a “relay” between an old man that “gave all”, resting while a young man steps in.

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    Footprints

    March 27, 2021

    From Waltham to Boston

    August 4, 2023

    Hard work

    February 13, 2013
  • Colour,  Daily photo,  People,  PhotoCritics,  Reportage,  Winter

    Denegata Justitia

    March 2, 2020 /

    Sometimes a picture acquires a meaning that goes beyond the original intent of the photographer. In this case, taken from a reportage I did for Victor Hugo’s Les Miserables featured at Teatro Marrrucino, in Chieti, the photography becomes the archetype of the denegata Justitia. The defendant asks to speak, the justice stares elsewhere.

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    Which Part of “No Smoking” Got You Lost?

    June 21, 2015

    Action! (beware of Fuji X-Pro 2)

    February 2, 2016

    Settled in the wrong place

    January 11, 2017
  • Colour,  Daily photo,  People,  PhotoCritics,  Technique,  Winter

    Breaking the Fourth Wall

    February 17, 2020 /

    Shooting a play is challenging because you must be ready to seize ‘the moment’ and, at the very same time, think of unusual compositions to avoid the boring ‘frontal’ perspective. Shooting part of the reportage from the backstage of Hamlet, with Giorgio Pasotti and Mariangela D’Abbraccio directed by Francesco Tavassi I had the possibility to experiment the breaking of the fourth wall. This picture is one of the results.

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    Batklubben

    July 23, 2016

    The audience

    September 23, 2013

    A ghostly bystander

    September 21, 2013
  • Artists,  Colour,  Daily photo,  PhotoCritics,  Technique

    Counter-intuitive Focus

    February 9, 2020 /

    This photo I took during a reportage for a theatre hosting a concert of Uto Ughi shows a counter-intuitive use of focusing. Rather than go for the obvious option, the attention is shifted on the two musicians in the background capturing their concentration, with the leading violin blurred and conceptually, thus, ‘left behind’. The global effect is reinforced by a neat separation between the dark and light parts of the frame.

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    Late Afternoon Shopping

    March 1, 2014

    Boat Under The Bridge

    September 18, 2016

    Running On The (Oslo’s) Docks

    September 28, 2014
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