Dreaming stair

I really do not know who has painted this and what is its title... but is a woundrous kind of painting in my opinion!

I really like its colors, and the nearly impossible light cut near the base of the stairs...

This painting too comes out of hte teaching school in Pinerolo, of course^_^

3d Painting

This was in the Aula Magna of the business teaching school in Pinerolo...
There are two photos of paintings I'll show you this week (after a week without Computer as I've broken down 2 Notebooks and a Desktop).

This is an interesting idea... I do not know if this is classified as painting or sculpture... as it is not flat.. is 3.D so the shadows you see are real shadows not something paint by the artist... it interesting as the painting change slowly during the day (not only in colors!)

So this get the "interesting piece of art 2007" Award... Friday you'll see incredible colors award^_^

Cloudy Sky

It was one of hte last days at the teaching school of Pinerolo...
That day I had to give lessons on something about accounting to make a road test of what I had learnt.

It was a hot day, but the sky was cluody... ok sort of cloudy...

I publish this picture (taken straight out of the camera with no PP!) as it has one of the best sky I've seen!

Mole Antonelliana (2/2)

And now the inside of this mounmental building... but in a different way!

But something more of the usual shots from inside a building...
I'm sorry not showing you the bautiful bar with changing lights... but my Canon was not able to focus and expose properly without flash (or a tripod I did not have) and the flash would have spoiled the light effects...

Instead I prefer to publish two photos of a model inside the building that can make you feel how tall the building is. Moreover this part of the building was lighted enough to have some good photos.

The first one was taken at f/2.8 with a shutter speed of 1/60" (with flash!)


The second shot is from the same model but let you understand how the building is inside ^_^

Same shooting conditionsas the shot above...

1 note!
If you look at building's center there's an elevator... it's a frightening device made of glass that let you see all of the building decorations while it is rising... I suffer from acrophobia (fear of heights) so meybe using the elevator wasn't the wisest thing to do^_^

No! I won't post any picture from the top of the builfing as I went there in a sunny day at noon so there was a too strong light to shoot good photos :(

Mole Antonelliana (1/2)

In the next couple of posts I'll show you another great thing you can see in Turin: The Mole Antonelliana.

If you want to know technical data you can go at a wiki site, so do not ask me to tel lyou when it was built and how much it is tall.. .I will only say that it is not a modern building and that it is very very tall^_^

Trough this shot I tried to show the overwhelming sensation it creates...

Just sorry for the corner of the near building... I did not saw it before shooting...

Exif tells me it was taken at f/4.0 and a shutter speed of 1/640...

This is the shot as it was taken... I could have PPit to saturate the sky (getting more blue out if it^_^) while using duplicate levels to make the building clearer and brighter while cutting off the building corner...

I prefer not to apply PP (as for all the photos of this blog till now) to show what I get out of the camera..

The Police Live 5 e 6

This time I prefer letting you compare two shots I've made at the concert.

The first one was taken at 200 ISO while the latter was taken at 2 stops higher: 800 ISO.

Surely the latter is more grainey but it let you see the people that were present at the live.
Moreover in this way you can assess how much distant I was :(

Maybe I've said it before, but this live has benn the one I ve seen farther in my life... but it was one of the most involving too...
A really meaningful experience^_^ and looking the second picture you can imagine why^_^

A great event with many many people all singing the same sogn with sting... each was following the same drum or guitar solo...

These are the last two shots of the live I'll publish on my blog...
And reviewing he various shots for selecting the ohotos to fill the six "slots" I decidd to dedicate to this event I made some considerations.

Above all I'm happy to have bought the new Nikon d300. It has a far better dynamic range and its performances are better at higher ISOs. This alone should help me take some beautiful shot at next gigs.
And.... damn! I'd prefer to sit nearer to the stage! It should have been unbelievable^_^
Surely we were in a more confortable positions but there in the front there was the real show!
And it's incredible to say that in spite of this consideration that was one of the best live I've ever gone to!

The played all the masterpieces and they got all new arrangements so there was that strange sensations that all of them were both new and old at the same time!

It was a nice day not too cold and not too hot, we slept in a good real B&B and altough the car injection broke while we were going to Turin we hve succeeded in driving it back in Naples after seeing the live... great day... great experience.. great memories (and you'll see some other shots from this travel!)