Seasons
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Red Wine Makes Good Blood…
When it comes to food, Italians aren’t short of reasons to sit and eat!
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The Misplaced Buoy
This time I’ve enabled the lens correction feature so that the Nikkor 16mm F/3,5 Fish-Eye horizon doesn’t looked curved.
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Fashionable’s shots
In praise of ‘cheap’ lenses for ‘pro’ works
The Hasselblad Way
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The Eye
Another example of the constant brain’s meaning quest in the things the eye sees.
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Two Beers, One Cigarette
Not staged. Swear to God!
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On the Edge of the World
Still experimenting with a 1973-made Nikkor 16mm F/3,5 Fish-Eye.
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Bent
What’s wrong with this photo? Right, that’s one of the zillion’s, ubiquitous, boring rural landscape pictures. There is something, nevertheless, odd: panning from right to left everything starts bending. The foreground tree is vertical so is the red house, but when the road starts bending, the whole horizon does… The effect is achieved with no digital doctoring, just with a fish-eye (Nikon 16mm F/3,5) and a mindful composition.
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Brain vs Camera
The picture on the left is what the camera saw. The picture on the right is what I had in mind while shooting. Thanks to Photoshop I’ve been able to bend the “objectivity” of the camera along the line of my creativity.
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Las Ramblas’ Lifestyle
Who cares about pickpockets?
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Which One?
The Abundance’s Paradox
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A Fujifilm X-E1 Annoyance
The X-E1 is a good camera, though has some annoyances that make it less handy for Street Photography. Contrary to Leica, (some) Zeiss or (some) Nikon lenses, zone-focusing is not set on the lens barrel. You must do it either through the viewfinder or the LCD, and this makes problematic the switch from one technique to another. Same is true for aperture settings. Operating the camera one-handed, happened twice to me, led to a change of the image quality settings from RAW to Jpg. Unfortunately I wasn’t aware while shooting and I’ve wasted half a day in Barcelona getting inferior quality pictures.
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Same Seats, Different Lifes
They’re close, but never been so distant
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Quality Check
Books are maybe the only good you can actually try before you buy. p.s. ETTR is harder than I thought without liveview or an EVF…
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Perfect Strangers
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National Security
A danger for the National Security? This picture is nothing special, but for the fact that while I was taking it a security guard at the European Parliament tried to stop me on the “National Security” excuse, by claiming that photos were not allowed. Minding the lesson of “Stand your ground” I countered politely the requests of the guard, by telling him: – First: shooting in public spaces is perfectly legal, – Second: there where no “no-photos allowed” signs, – Third: “I am a lawyer and a journalist. I checked both EU and Belgian Law and find nothing that could prevent me to do what I am doing. Could you…
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Rollercoaster (kind of)
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Lamp
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Skating on Avenue Louise
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Hanging Heart at via Olmetto
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A
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Hanging Towels
This is what happens when coupling a summicron 50 (third gen) with a Fujifilm X-1.
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Off-Duty Eurocrats in Bruxelles
Late afternoon at the European Parliament. The Eurocrats – now off-duty – come back to their human form.
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Firefighters at Tour Saint-Jaques
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Late for Lunch
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Early Leave at Bruxelles-Midi
