Andrea Monti

Photos, not gear

  • Home
  • Daily photo
  • Colour
  • B&W
  • Landscape
  • Cities
  • People
  • Sport
  • FAQ
  • About
  • Conctact
Menu
  • Home
  • Daily photo
  • Colour
  • B&W
  • Landscape
  • Cities
  • People
  • Sport
  • FAQ
  • About
  • Conctact

No Widgets found in the Sidebar Alt!

  • Colour,  Daily photo,  Fountains,  Gear,  Spring,  Thoughts

    A Fountain’s Jet

    April 12, 2021 /

    I took this shot with a Viltrox AF 56/1,4 XF at full aperture. The focus reacted swiftly, and the colours’ rendition is pretty accurate. There is minimal colour fringing. However, it is more likely caused by air bubbles rather than by the lens itself. Like its bigger sibling, the AF 85/1,8 XF, this lens is excellent. Photographing water at f/1.4 is, in many ways, an exercise in precision gambling. The Viltrox AF 56mm f/1.4 XF, mounted on the Fuji X-T3, gave me a razor-thin depth of field to work with. At this aperture, there’s no room for hesitation – you either nail the plane of focus or lose the subject…

    Read More
    Andrea Monti

    You May Also Like

    Windows XVIII … Century

    February 27, 2014

    Outdoor Aperitif

    April 7, 2017

    Lava Nails

    February 28, 2021
  • Colour,  Daily photo,  Fountains,  Winter

    Splinter

    March 13, 2021 /

    Read More
    Andrea Monti

    You May Also Like

    Sun Worshipers

    January 3, 2022

    @ Mediterranean Beach Games 2015 – Italian Female Rowing Team

    October 25, 2015

    An illuminated escape path will help you to reach the exits …

    November 10, 2013
  • Colour,  Daily photo,  Fountains,  Visual,  Winter

    An Essay on Composition

    February 14, 2021 /

    Read More
    Andrea Monti

    You May Also Like

    5 (improbable) Frames with a roll of Ferrania Orto and a Nikon 35TI

    February 28, 2024

    Washed

    November 22, 2015

    Will The iPhone Kill Traditional Cameras? Not Very

    October 15, 2019
  • Colour,  Daily photo,  Fountains,  Spring

    Floating Flower

    May 19, 2015 /

    Read More
    Andrea Monti

    You May Also Like

    Did You Forget Something?

    October 3, 2016

    An attempt at DSLR-made film digitization

    January 14, 2023

    Portrait of a Master luthier

    October 26, 2013
  • Colour,  Daily photo,  Fountains,  People,  Spring

    Thirsty

    June 10, 2014 /

    Read More
    Andrea Monti

    You May Also Like

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

    April 24, 2023

    National Road Running Championships 2023 – Portraits

    June 28, 2024

    Waiting For The Bus On Las Ramblas

    August 19, 2014
  • Colour,  Daily photo,  Fountains,  Spring

    A Fountain

    May 17, 2014 /

    Read More
    Andrea Monti

    You May Also Like

    Parisian’s Bags

    April 6, 2014

    Lost in iPhone while the wind blows

    January 23, 2013

    The Audience (Not a Rock Concert, Indeed)

    September 23, 2013

Projects

  • Daily photo (1,391)
    • B&W (275)
    • Colour (1,102)
  • Daily Video (16)
  • Portfolio (2)
  • Projects (1,305)
    • Airport (15)
    • Bottles&Cups (12)
    • Cars&Bikes (42)
    • Chairs&Seats (19)
    • Cities (455)
      • Barcelona (16)
      • Boston (11)
      • Bruxelles (66)
      • Hamburg (3)
      • Helsinki (2)
      • Kyoto (2)
      • London (27)
      • Milan (50)
      • Nagasaki (2)
      • Nagoya (8)
      • New York (9)
      • Nikko (1)
      • Osaka (3)
      • Oslo (17)
      • Padua (1)
      • Paris (31)
      • Rome (147)
      • Stockholm (11)
      • Tokyo (28)
      • Tsukuba (2)
      • Venice (22)
      • Yokohama (1)
    • Court (23)
    • Landscape (99)
      • Beach&Shores (78)
    • Lines (19)
    • Marketing (5)
    • Moon (7)
    • Observer Bias (14)
    • Odds (21)
    • OutOfFocus (13)
    • Parks (6)
    • Past&Relics (56)
    • People (624)
      • Actors (15)
      • Artists (85)
      • Fighters (29)
      • Portraits (42)
    • Seasons (919)
      • Autumn (143)
      • Spring (183)
      • Summer (260)
      • Winter (347)
    • Shops (166)
      • Barber&HairStylist (1)
      • Bookstores (10)
      • Brand Stores (1)
      • Fashion Shops (16)
      • Garages&Labs (11)
      • Groceries (3)
      • Jewelry (3)
      • Patisserie (11)
      • Restaurants&Bar (92)
      • Street Markets (15)
      • Tobacconists (2)
    • Social Control (51)
    • Travels (19)
    • Urban Landscape (293)
      • Boulevards (12)
      • Bridges (7)
      • Buildings (23)
      • Docks (74)
      • Doors&Windows (26)
      • Downtown (29)
      • Exhibitions (11)
      • Fountains (6)
      • Garbage (17)
      • Gates&Fences (12)
      • Parks (21)
      • Streets&Squares (66)
      • Works (2)
    • Visual (67)
    • WideAngle (13)
  • Reportage (17)
  • Sport (71)
    • Beach Handball (1)
    • Beach Volley (5)
    • Billiard (1)
    • Body Builiding (1)
    • Cycling (1)
    • Fighting Disciplines (24)
    • Handball (2)
    • Kite Surf (4)
    • Road Running (1)
    • Roller Derby (1)
    • Rowing (2)
    • Shooting (11)
    • Skating (4)
    • Soccer (6)
    • Swimming (Fin) (1)
    • Track&Field (5)
  • Thoughts (225)
    • Gear (67)
    • Photo Journalism (6)
    • PhotoCritics (19)
    • Photography (62)
    • Street Photography (83)
    • Technique (29)
Dear anonymous visitor, you may enjoy this web site’s contents with all the ease of not being tracked.

I do not know your identity and will do nothing to figure out who you are.

This explains why I do not ask for your consent: it is not possible to abide by the law if one’s counterpart is unknown.

I do not have social network’s ‘share buttons’, comments are disabled, as are user registration features.

I only use those cookies and pieces of code that make Google Analytics work and that will eventually be dismissed as soon as I am sure that Matomo (also installed) works as advertised.

If you check this website with some online tool you may find two cookies ‘_utmz’ and ‘_utma’. The former tracks your sessions, the latter your location. You may find more information in the Legalia and Cookie Policy page

Compulsory Information

  • Legalia
© 2025 Andrea Monti - all rights reserved