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Escribano

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From: England, living in Italy

Back into my photography

From the streets in a city to learn about landscapes and villages around here. Not so easy.

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REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE | Date Mar. 9 2022 19:34:10

gerundino63

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RE: Back into my photography (in reply to Escribano)

Well, Simon, you did not loose it! You still manage to paint wonderful with the light.
Like the old Dutch masters.

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Richard Jernigan

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RE: Back into my photography (in reply to Escribano)

Beautiful shots, Simon. Perfect composition and colors.

Damn, I miss Italy! 3 1/2 years since our last visit. Maybe we'll make it this August to celebrate a friend's wedding in Friulia...if the virus permits.

RNJ

Lago di Como, photo by Larisa.

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REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE | Date Mar. 10 2022 9:53:44

ernandez R

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From: Alaska USA

RE: Back into my photography (in reply to Escribano)

I started shooting B&W in the pre digital days, pan-x I think, I think this helps a lot with composition, although with today’s digatal tools it’s easy enough to fix... but not really and it’s a trap of sorts.

What’s cool about digital is one my shoot a lot more to get that shot, bracketing costs nothing, and most digital cameras can be set up to take a handful of shots with various settings at the blink of an eye.

Later I was shooting skateboarding and that up shot was de rigor so I became used to use of the not typical angle regardless of the setting. It’s fun to incorporate into street photography. I’ve been using I little digital Licea fir a decade now and I had a look down viewfinder that I found to be vary intuitive, I lost it and haven’t been able to find one that I could afford...

HR

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can be raw or well done,
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REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE | Date Mar. 10 2022 16:36:00

BarkellWH

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RE: Back into my photography (in reply to Escribano)

Beautiful shots, Simon. I love the way you captured the light.

Bill

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REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE | Date Mar. 10 2022 16:49:37

Escribano

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RE: Back into my photography (in reply to BarkellWH)

Thanks everyone. I am surrounded with such beauty, so I will now do my best to record it.

I am running in a new lens but on a 10 year old digital camera. All Fujifilm.

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REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE | Date Mar. 10 2022 18:23:12

Richard Jernigan

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RE: Back into my photography (in reply to Escribano)

Bravo, Simon!

RNJ

REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE | Date Mar. 11 2022 5:28:49

Piwin

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RE: Back into my photography (in reply to Escribano)

Nice work Escribano!

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REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE | Date Mar. 11 2022 5:48:56

Auda

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RE: Back into my photography (in reply to Escribano)

I am envious too. My wife and I were giving serious consideration to moving there for an extended stay but alas the pandemic hit. Now am hoping to get there for a few months after spending the winter in Madeira. But that is two years from now so anything can happen.

Been to Italy quite few times but sorry to say the bulk of my photos are tourist shots. The shot I have posted is when I anchored in a bay for the night at the Isla De Vulcano in the Aeolian Islands as I was making my way to Sardinia.

Cheers

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REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE | Date Mar. 11 2022 16:00:05

gbv1158

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From: Italy

RE: Back into my photography (in reply to Escribano)

Great photographer !…. also talented landscaper!

Ciao
Giambattista

REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE | Date Mar. 11 2022 22:32:50

Escribano

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RE: Back into my photography (in reply to gbv1158)

Grazie Giambattista, come sempre

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REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE | Date Mar. 12 2022 17:43:49

Escribano

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RE: Back into my photography (in reply to Escribano)

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REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE | Date Mar. 12 2022 17:46:52

Escribano

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RE: Back into my photography (in reply to ernandez R)

Nice, though I would crop the stuff stuff on the right, it distracts the eye. Then it would be a really good shot.

I still do film. Zenza Bronica SQA medium format a couple of weeks ago.

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REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE | Date Mar. 12 2022 17:49:26

Pgh_flamenco

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RE: Back into my photography (in reply to Escribano)

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ORIGINAL: Escribano

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The tractor is a Lamborghini. This shot reminded me of YouTube videos of people starting the motors of vehicles that have been sitting in the woods for 70 years.

Great pics, Simon! Of course, there are a lot of good subjects for a photographer living in Italy.

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REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE | Date Mar. 12 2022 18:50:38

Escribano

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RE: Back into my photography (in reply to Pgh_flamenco)

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Great pics, Simon! Of course, there are a lot of good subjects for a photographer living in Italy.

Been busy settling in but now I am stacked up with a load of photo safaris.

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REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE | Date Mar. 12 2022 19:40:41

Escribano

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RE: Back into my photography (in reply to Escribano)

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REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE | Date Mar. 15 2022 19:46:06

Auda

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RE: Back into my photography (in reply to Escribano)

Looks like spring has started Simon. Is that a clearance cairn in the foreground or a field boundary? It doesn't look prehistoric.

In an earlier post you said you had some "safaris" lined up. Are they self led or more formal?

Keep them coming please.

Cheers

REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE | Date Mar. 16 2022 16:12:23

Escribano

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RE: Back into my photography (in reply to Auda)

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Looks like spring has started Simon. Is that a clearance cairn in the foreground or a field boundary? It doesn't look prehistoric.

In an earlier post you said you had some "safaris" lined up. Are they self led or more formal?

Probably clearance as it was inside the boundary fence but boundaries are circumspect here.

All safaris will be self-led. Hoping to pop down to Pisa this weekend.

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REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE | Date Mar. 16 2022 19:57:16

Escribano

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RE: Back into my photography (in reply to Escribano)

My favourite road around here

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REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE | Date Mar. 16 2022 20:17:14

Auda

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RE: Back into my photography (in reply to Escribano)

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Probably clearance as it was inside the boundary fence but boundaries are circumspect here.

All safaris will be self-led. Hoping to pop down to Pisa this weekend.

That is what I thought.

Hopefully you can capture Pisano's pulpit in the Baptistry better than I ever was able to manage. Don't know if you have been but Lucca is an interesting town and I think the first Triumvirate was signed there if memory serves. It is remarkable the amount of significant historical sites located throughout Italy as well as the prehistorical ones too.

Cheers

REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE | Date Mar. 19 2022 13:38:01

Escribano

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RE: Back into my photography (in reply to Escribano)

35mm colour film in my old Olympus mju-ii

Home developed in Italian chemicals.

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REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE | Date Mar. 19 2022 23:30:37

Escribano

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RE: Back into my photography (in reply to Escribano)

Zenza Bronica SQA medium format film (Kodak Ektar 100).

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REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE | Date Mar. 25 2022 21:46:05

ernandez R

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RE: Back into my photography (in reply to Escribano)

Vary nice!

Of course the guitar builder in me says, hmmm bet there is a rib and back set in there somewhere? Poplar?

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doesn't have to be fast,
should have some meat on the bones,
can be raw or well done,
as long as it doesn't sound like it's turning green on an elevator floor.

www.instagram.com/threeriversguitars

REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE | Date Mar. 25 2022 22:05:08

Escribano

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RE: Back into my photography (in reply to ernandez R)

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hmmm bet there is a rib and back set in there somewhere? Poplar?

Not sure. There is a lot of poplar around here, so maybe. I'll see if I can identify it with an app.

It was split by a big storm last year.

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REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE | Date Mar. 26 2022 8:56:12

Escribano

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RE: Back into my photography (in reply to Escribano)

I am learning a lot more about digital editing and workflow, so I am revisiting some of my shots from last year which I kind of dismissed as snaps but were still taken with a decent camera.

From the Rose Garden in Florence.

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REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE | Date Mar. 27 2022 21:03:46

Escribano

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RE: Back into my photography (in reply to Escribano)

I've been reading, learning and practising. Went further south in Tuscany this last weekend and caught this one at dawn.

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REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE | Date Apr. 14 2022 20:23:48

BarkellWH

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RE: Back into my photography (in reply to Escribano)

Gorgeous, Simon. It looks like one of those famous paintings of the Tuscan landscape. If it were framed it would fit right in in a gallery.

Bill

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With the name of the late deceased,
And the epitaph drear, "A fool lies here,
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REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE | Date Apr. 14 2022 20:47:04

kitarist

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RE: Back into my photography (in reply to BarkellWH)

I had the same reaction as Bill. It is hard to believe it is a photo - in the best possible sense. Amazing.

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