Archive: 28 August 2013

Prime, zoom and sharpness: a tale of three friends

28 August 2013

Once upon a in a photographer’s land there were two friends and a girl who was long beloved and desired by the two friends.
Prime was the strictest, as he loved to say “the world is there in front of you and it flows, you have only one view over it and you got to know how to use it to the best”.
Zoom instead was the most eclectic, he used to say that life can always surprise you, you may need to get in close or step back a bit and have a wider view on things…you gotta always be ready.
Prime and Zoom they both did their great and rewarding job but they fought to conquer the heart of the most beautiful girl in the land: Sharpness.
Sharpness was that kind of girl whose presence, you’d say, made everything look so darn good!
But conquering her heart was a though task and Zoom had a hard time competing with Prime. ‘Prime’ he said ‘ only does one single thing and sometimes even only manually, but for her he does it sooo well!!’

The fight to conquer her heart was long fought and many photographers on the whole world supported either of the parties.

Who won though, it’s not yet clear…

And you, who would you fight for: Prime or Zoom?

Frankfurt Airport shooting with Andrzej

16 August 2013

Hi there, Image

following the successful sunset shooting experience me and Andrzej decided to give it a try with a different topic: shooting airplanes landing at Frankfurt am Main airport.

So we packed all our stuff and on Monday we went, straight after work, to shoot close to the landing lanes. Not an ideal position though, planes were passing straight above our heads (by the way an amazing experience watching those beasts flying few meters above your hairs…) but we didn’t have a perspective (nor a lens long enough) to catch the moment of the landing.

We shot a couple of hours there anyway and then moved just around the corner where a memorial monument was built for Allied air forces who fought and died during the second world war.

There are two airplanes of that period and we shot, probably, the most interesting shots there.

Want to see more?

Than go to My Works > Travel > FFM Airport.

Then why don’t you go and have a look at Andrzej’s gallery and post?

Stay tuned,

Roberto

Discover My Works > Travel

16 August 2013

Hey there,

following my previous post on the updates to the blog design, I invite you to get to know more about my photography by browsing through ‘My Works’ sections.

Have a look at the Travel section, here are a few samples to arouse your curiosity

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Updated the design

16 August 2013

Dear all, iShoot7D-Self-portrait-Feb2013-ISO 125-130224-3

as you may have noticed, the design and the Blog title have changed.

I recently left my old 7D and sold it to go for the Full Frame adventure and I bought a 5DmkIII so the name ishoot7d didn’t really make any sense anymore.

I then took the chance and restyled a bit the blog, added a new page and related blog post on Frankfurt’s sunset shooting and fixed other bits and pieces.

More updates are on their way to get the blog, so sit down and enjoy and don’t forget to leave a comment should you wish to, I’d really appreciate it.

Roberto

Photowalk in Frankfurt with Andrzej

15 August 2013

It’s been a great pleasure and a rewarding experience to go out and shoot Frankfurt skyline at sunset!rpphoto-1600px-20130811-7
On Sunday the 13th August we went out with Andrzej Olchawa (http://photography.andrzejolchawa.com/esoc-photoclub-ffm-skyline-2/) heading to Frankfurt am Main to shoot some nice landscape of the skyline at sunset.
We picked up a place on a railway bridge on the Main river and waited for the sun to set, grabbing some interesting skyline silhouette shots.

Then we moved back to the car and shot some other night skyline from the Floßerbrücke bridge.

You can find selected shots at the Frankfurt am Main sunset page in the Travel section (Click here to see the gallery).

Here below the two maps:

– Railway bridge from where we shot the Sunset
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– Floßerbrücke bridge for the night shots
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