Giorgio Photo

I have added few pictures at the Little Things gallery.

As in the previous post, i took this pictures with a macro lens with a ring flash fitted on the front of it. I was testing the camera after was coming back from an annual checkup service, so there was no particular lighting setup,  just walking around my living room and grab some shoot of little objects around me. For most of the pictures the distance between the subject and the lens was less the 5 cm, so was quite difficult to keep the right focus and deep of field.

In this gallery there are both the old and the new pictures.

Having a photography home studio is very handy because I’m able to setup a photo shoot anytime 24 hours a day.
Few week ago we decided to take some easy shoot of Mai’s pregnancy (it’s a very extraordinary experience, I will not talk about it now simply because I don’t have enough words to describe one of the best times in my life) , so I quickly organized the flashes and the background for a “standard” lighting setup.
The photo shoot wasn’t planned but in few minutes everything was ready and while Mai was finalizing her makeup I was making sure that all the flashes had the right amount of light output.
One hour later we were finishing the photo session, it went quite fast, with no particular direction, just genuine pictures without looking for something too elaborated.
In this gallery there are few of the images taken that day.

This Wedding took me busy from early morning where I got  pictures at the Bride’s place, to late evening during the reception.
It was a long day, full of emotions and unique moments, and I really enjoyed every minute of it. I approached this Wedding as a photojournalist, trying to record the story and the emotions of the day, for sure I took many formal pictures but the most of them come from not driven shoots.
The weather that day was quite cloudy but variable so we were lucky to also have some sun during the location photo session, I had to change camera setting quite often and fast in order to keep the right exposure for any light variations, I use my camera mostly in manual mode so I need to be very careful about the light in the scene. Almost all the location pictures were taken fro 100 iso to 400 iso, while the indoor pictures were taken from 400 to 3200 iso. I often use 1600 to 3200 iso indoor just because I always try to avoid the use of the flash if possible, and if it’s not possible I try to bounce the flash on a wall or  ceiling or any available surface, ambient light is always better in terms of colours rendition than flash light. So, do I never use the flash? Well, I use the flash a lot, but it’s rare I use it as main light, I use it mainly as fill light, to open the shadows or to balance a dark foreground against a very bright background. Well, an other reason why I don’t often use it it’s just because in most of the church or ceremony hall it’s forbidden to use it.
In this gallery there are few pictures taken that day.

An other Bridal photo shoot session taken in London few months ago was with S.
It  was a quite long day, starting from home location photography session and ending at a central London park, luckily the weather was very good so we had more chance to walk around the park and fully enjoy it
Fill flash and reflectors were often used to open shadows especially on the Bride face, on a full sunny day like that, flashes or / and  reflectors are really useful to compensate the sun light.
I would like to say a big Thank You to Mai, she really made a great make-up.
In this gallery there are few pictures taken that day.