About
My Dad and Mum bought me my first camera when I was just a kid. It was a film camera, not because we were very cool or sophisticated but because digital photography didn't exist then. That's when I started shooting, actually I barely did anything else for a good few months. Click, click, and before you knew it the film roll was gone. Yet again! I still remember the excitement of waiting for and collecting the photos from the shop after they had been developed. The disappointments that followed I have tried to forget!
Who knows why, the truth is that my interest for photography didn't flourish then. I was probably too impatient. Some time later I bought myself a digital compact camera which I would shoot occasionally. It never stopped surprising me how different from reality (bad, really bad, I mean) things looked in my photos, ranging from the most conventional to the most exceptional things.
In September 2011 I travelled to Istanbul and, among other things, I took pictures. Aweful, terrible pictures. Not that it surprised me, as I mentioned above, but for some reason it was then that I found the right motivation to try to get to the bottom of the problem. Over the next year or so I visited as many photography exhibitions as I reasonably could, I read websites, magazines and books on the subject, I asked for and got very good advise from various friends, and I finally got myself a digital camera together with a couple of lenses. Ah, and the most important bit, I started shooting and processing digitally my own photos.
This is what you will find in this website, the pictures of someone who is trying to answer a question. It has been said that in the right light, at the right time, everything is extraordinary. Agreeing with that as I do, what I will try to do here is attest to it.
This is the stuff I use to produce my photos:
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Body: Nikon D5100
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Lenses: Nikkor AF-S DX 16-85mm f/3.5-5.6G ED VR, Nikkor AF-S 50mm f/1.4G, Tamron SP 70-300mm f/4-5.6 Di VC USD
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Software: Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 4.1
Finally, one day I will get myself a film camera...