Oh look! A photogallery!
Hey there! Here, you'll see some photos I've taken over the course of the years. I started taking photos when I was five.
My father gifted me one of the first digital cameras of the early 2000s and I was pretty good at it.
I even became "famous" in primary school because, during a school trip in the mountains, I managed to take a
Now, I shoot both digital and film, and I really enjoy Polaroid photography. The latest models are pretty good and do a fine job at the whole 'point, shoot, see the result' thing. They are really funny and engaging to use. The film is quite expensive, though, so I rarely use it. Recently, I've been developing a sort of lo-fi/nostalgia aesthetic using my older cameras from the early 2000s. To achieve some sort of dreamy atmosphere, I've decided to shoot at a very low resolution (I've experimented with between 3 and 5 megapixels) and with a pretty high ISO (these old cameras start introducing digital noise at around 800 ISO, which is exactly what I'm aiming for). I then do some editing on Photoshop (color, noise correction and filters). Now I'm trying to create a series of poster-like photos, you can read more in the first section of the gallery. As for analogue photography, I own an old point-and-shoot Olympus, which is really lovely and easy to use. I like shooting with Kodak Ektra and Fuji C200.
Come on, have a look!
Latest photo added:
"The Looming Tower"
In my hometown there's a pretty small radio tower,and I'm kind of obsessed with it right now. It's right in the middle of a small green area, and it gives me a strong retro-futuristic vibe (like it came out of a Stalenhag book, if you know what I mean...). So, I'm experimenting, creating a bunch of poster-style photos inspired by 1980s' aestetics. Most of the process is messing around in Photoshop, and trying to get the right colors with my "vintage" digital cameras.
Lo-fi photos
These are, at the moment, the best "lo-fi" photos I've taken. I've used my old Fujifilm camera from 2005, and it delivered great results. I love the fact that these photos are imperfect. They are sometimes blurry, crooked and over or underexposed. While these "features" are usually considered mistakes, I've made them part of the aestethic. The idea is that in these phots, time cannot be determined exactly. Sure, you can roughly extimate it by looking at a few elements of the scenery, like pylons and radio towers, but that's it. So, I wanted them to give off a nostalgic/melancholic vibe. Certainly, I don't mean a feeling related to a specific past circumstance, but something vague and rather indefinite. So...yeah, that's the concept behind these pics.
Polaroid
Regarding Polaroid...it's a pretty annoying camera sometimes! The new film (i-Type) is really sensitive to light, and it's pretty easy to over or underexpose it, so, you have to be very careful initially, and you have to be ready to spend a few bucks on it. I got the hang of it pretty quickly, and it's really satisfying when a photo comes out. It's costly, so I only use it on special occasions, but it's worth it. Feels like magic when the photo comes out of the camera and you're sweating while waiting to see if you messed up!
A touch of analogue
Olympus EF-10 Super with various film types (Kodak Ektar, Fuji C200)
Here you can see some photos I've taken during a wonderful two-weeks trip to New York back in the summer of '25. I brought my compact point and shoot, an Olympus EF-10 Super, and it delivered wonderful pics! I really love all these shots, especially the one with the banana plushies in Coney Island!
Mountains!
These photos were taken eight or seven years ago in Val Gardena, Trentino Alto Adige. It's a wonderful place where I've been going on vacation since I was a child. All those mountains are familiar shapes to me, impossibile to forget. Unfortunately, it's been a while since I've been there. Actually, I believe I took these pics the last time I've been in Val Gardena. They are probably the best landscape photos I've ever taken: I love the feeling the B&W gives, it's so much better than color in this case. My favorite photo of this collection is the penultimate one. I love the patterns in the lawn, which had just been mowed...they catch the eye!
