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Contrasts, appearances and equilibriums
(Instinctive Photography)
Photographing…
The ability to freeze reality, making what is relative absolute, always fascinated me.
I started digital photography in November 2006 and, finally, I have found the expressive mean to describe how I see the world around me.
It has been like being hit by lightening: nothing is the same when you see and capture it through a viewfinder.
Surrounding universe is imbued of a beauty so often we ignore.
Watching common daily objects under a different light, from a different angle and, with a simple action of just a tiny click they become absolute, frozen in the photographic composition to reveal their hidden beauty.
This “picture path” tries to bring you into the discovery of the particular and how a picture must not be an exclusive expression of emotion, but how it can be the search of the pure and simple graphical beauty of a object, of a colour, of a shape, of a line without having a specific meaning in itself, if not the emotion that it stirs up.
My shooting is mostly instinctive: no picture is done with specific tricks and sophisticated equipment. Many shots are “home made”, using a simple table lamp, white paper sheets and various objects available in that specific moment.
In some cases there have been a real picture evolution, from a first initial shot to the final and decisive one, changing position, light, composition until you get the right one, that picture that is love at first sight, that makes your hair stand up on the back of your neck and say “It’s her…”.
Sometimes it was just pure luck, carpe diem, being in the right place at the right time.
All pictures have been shot with a Canon 400D, Canon EF-S 18-55mm USB or EF 24-105mm IS US in RAW format and then converted and re-touched with commercial editing programs.
Digital post processing is normally limited to contrast and level curve enhancement, sharpening and cropping.