What I’m looking at these lights hidden eye asleep?

A breath, a tendency towards experimentation that I find with every cut of shadow, light and dark frame, the color saturation of a uniform exposure?

Something stirred in me and still “photothinks” that settle down in the stomach trying to return to the surface, out of the loop of everyday life to evolve over the shot, another, again.

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Re-examine shots dictated by instinct and I become aware of their similarity with the images of the origins, contemporary to a mature awareness of the reason that cutting brings light to enhance the texture so well or the sun at 45 ° from the center of this landscape, or even to analyze in a glance the spread nice and soft. They are images so far conceptually from my recent portraits and totally devoid of flash, but explain with such clarity as to why and against what kind of halftone hard.

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I can not explain but I swear that in my head is totally clear.

This abstraction, chance that this shooting was in itself a reason, systematic research that has as its ultimate goal the application on projects still in progress.

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But everything is static! Accurate! Defined, locked, respected, filtered and free of shake! No, no, no certain rules must be understood and not just blindly follow! I absolutely have to disrupt, dismantle, reassemble! And stop point! End of transmission to reread them soon!
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Skylight Panel DIY

The last week I made the prototype version 1.0 of a light diffuser that I want to test since a long time: a 110x80cm skylight panel. The Lastolite Skylight Panel is not so cheap and so the decision to make one by myself.

DoItYourself style: with 6 meters of polymer tubes RIG of 25 mm diameter, glue and a shower courtain!!

A little work for cutting and snapping the different parts and here you are a translucent white panel, or almost white, because I noticed after being open that the courtain is designed with little fishes and shells! The test phase was supported by Matteo as assistent and the model Valentina.

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The panel called “Skycervo 1.0” works well as a reflector but better as a diffuser: all the shot you can see in this post are made with two canon 430 ex, via Cactus V4, through the panel. A little circular Lastolite silver reflector is used to fill in the shadows on the other side of the model.

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I was frightened that the fishes and shells would create shadows but in the end results are harmless.

This push myself to a beauty shot with full dark background, I wanted to extract only Valentina from the blacks.

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I’m very proud of my DIY “Skycervo” and the next step would be the use of velcro and alloy tubes.

Have a good light and see you soon!!

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Dancers in Luino – BTS Video

Here you are the Behind The Scene Video of “Dancers in Luino“, thanks to my  polyhedric fellow photographer/cameramen/postproducer Alessio, have a nice show!

Dancers Luino from Alessio Lo Piccolo on Vimeo.

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Dancers in Luino

Finally my new personal project started its life during this week! It was a long time for preparation, making contacts, planning location and time to shoot. With the partecipation of new models and some old good friends “Dancers in Luino” will keep me busy for the next months, it is a middle term project that I hope to complete before December 2011.

More explanations and details about the concept will arrive later, I can tell you that with the help of my fellow photographer Alessio Lo Piccolo probably we will be able to provide some BTS video time to time.

This project has also the aim to push myself to care attenction to the quality of the light, not only the quantity! ;-)

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The first shooting session was held with the beautiful ballet dancer Giulia Colao, many thanks for her hentusiasm and patience.

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All the work has the common strobist philosophy and taking inspiration from the pictures of Joe McNally and his ability in managing light.
See you soon and have a good light!
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Between shots

Nothing to say, something to show in this static period while a new project await its start.

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After some good theathre shots (I’ll show you more next) my mind grinding, wheeling and sum old ideas with new one, evaluating what can I do with the gear in my bag, planning locations and time to shot in order to organize a mid term work that I hope it will be well structured.

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In the meantime are the snapshots that punch my attention, tell a moment or explore new lighting situation. Between shots I rest and recovery energies, let settle to the concepts.

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Have a good light!
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