Prints

Dear students I left yesterday all the prints in the dark room at Fiorentini. You can pick them up.

My Final Post

Hi Serafino!

I'm so sorry I couldn't make it to the final meeting yesterday.  I had my Italian final 12-2. But here is my final blog. I just want to say thank you so much for everything. I really enjoyed your class and I feel that I learned a lot, not only about the technique of developing film and printing but also about myself as a photographer. I realized that I am extremely fond of portraits and photos of people in general. What I love most about photography is capturing the genuine essence of a person and I will certainly taking pictures!

Julia O'Brien

Thanks

Dear students,

I want to thank you for this intense and passionate semester. I spent with you good days

S.A

Thanks

Dear students,

I want to thank you for this intense and passionate semester. I spent with you good days

S.A

My best picture

The picture I selected is the one taken in Villa Borghese during one of our out-of-class experiences.  Madison, Federico and me were chasing after the main group while shooting some random pictures when we stopped by a small lake where you actually could sail with little boats. The place was packed of ducks and seagulls (no idea what the hell they were doing in the middle of Rome) and we decided to take some pictures of them. It was actually a bit hard to shoot at them, since they would never stop moving. Then, I decided to try to put in practice the skills we learned during the course and set my camera. I increased the shutter speed to be able to catch the birds even though they were moving; put the iso on 400 (because the light was good, but it was a shady area); zoomed in and finally shot the picture. The result really impressed me be cause I was able to catch the birds in movement with an amazing game of lights. This is maybe the best picture I have taken during the whole course and I’m extremely happy of this.

(I was unable to upload the picture, I'll try to do that again later)

Andrea

Green Trails

Out of all the pictures I shot during this semester, the one above is one of my personal favorites. It may be its uniqueness and the satisfaction after taking it while I was experimenting new techniques. In fact what I noticed is that if you go on manual and set the shutter speed at a low rate and then while taking the shot you zoom either in or out quickly enough, you get a sense of movement and of dynamism that is hard to get in with different techniques.

This one in particular was shot in the Lemon Courtyard a beautiful sunny morning, just before midday; the light was pretty intense and the colors already vivid but I decided to try anyway. I pointed the camera toward one of the windows at the first floor, put it in focus, slowed down the shutter speed, and while pressing the button I quickly zoomed out. The result was unexpected, I admit I was surprised by the result; luckily while shooting I twisted my wrist just that little that gave this amusing results. I did some photoshopping later at home to reduce the amount of light in the photo so to give the colors a stronger tone. The green trails in the pic are actually the lemon trees of the courtyard.

I find this photo very artistic and I'm really satisfied with the result I got.

Federico Jarach

Picture description

There is one picture I took this semester which involved most of the concepts we learned during the semester. So I had this beatufil view of rome from the terrace of the Zodiaco in Monte Mario. I had the camera set on A, and I just had to set up the diaphragm becuase the sun was shinning right in front of me. So I closed the diaprhagm in order to capture less light but the picture didn't come out as I thought. I realize that in most pictures you can work with the camera set on A and change only a few things manually. However, in some situations, like this one the manual setting is fundamental. This allows you to take the picture from your own perspective and in a certain way to change reality. So I put the camera on manual and closed the diaphragm, increased the shutter speed, changed the iso to 100  and the ev to +2. The picture did not come as I wished, but better! It is surprising with the manual setting you can "paint your reality"
Eleonora