BFS - Meat!

The second course was a kebab of pork with pepperoni and served with some olives.

I've taken 2 shots, the first one was taken when the meat was still on the grill (we do not have a barbecue!).

I wanted to give the idea of abundance or of a pub where they were cooking this course... it is better conveyed from the shot than described in my poor English!
It was taken with the Nikon AF-D 28-105 f/3.5-4.5

Exif Reads:
Camera Model: NIKON D300
Date Taken: 2009:01:01 15:19:46
Exposure Time: 1/13 sec.
Aperture Value: 4.14 EV (f/4.2)
ISO Speed Rating: 400
Exposure Program: Manual
Focal Length: 52.0 mm

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Better food shots (BFS) - Pasta

The first day of 2009... My sister was at home and helped my mother in getting a good meal for alla of us.

After some starters we fasted on a good portion of pasta with "besciamella" and steamed ham.
Really good.

My sister helped me in composing the shot... but I had to change the whita balance in PP as it was not good...

Exif Reads:
Camera Model: NIKON D300
Date Taken: 2009:01:01 15:15:18
Exposure Time: 1/250 sec.
Aperture Value: 5.31 EV (f/6.3)
ISO Speed Rating: 200
Focal Length: 50.0 mm

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Yummy Chocolate...

A Christmas present my mother got from one of her students. It's a chocolate bar shaped as a piece of wood and my mother wanted it to be shot.

I jumped on the occasion in order to confront my self with still-life food photo... It was a failure!

I had only a flash and used the AF-S 18-200 in order to take the shot... it is not a good photo and moreover I used the red-eye reduction (Why on the earth I did something like that?)..

I still do not have a still life softbox but I could have used some linen instead of a trasparent table!

Exif Reads:
Camera Model: NIKON D300
Date Taken: 2008:12:26 20:06:11
Exposure Time: 1/200 sec.
Aperture Value: 6.00 EV (f/8.0)
ISO Speed Rating: 200
Flash Fired: Flash fired
Exposure Program: Manual
Focal Length: 56.0 mm

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Flowers

When I got the AF-D 50 f1/1.4 I decided to test its macro capability on a couple of Flower Shots...
One of them was good enough to be printed and nailed in my office....

Let me be clear on it... it is no t a perfect shot!
Not at all! I really believe there a too small DoF!

I liked the shot and I was happy with the new lens so it got chosen!

Exif Reads:
Camera Model: NIKON D300
Date Taken: 2008:05:30 09:33:54
Exposure Time: 1/125ISO
Speed Rating: 200 sec.
Focal Length: 50.0 mm

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We with Dragons! (2 of 2)

And the shot taken by Enzo!

Camera Model: NIKON D300
Date Taken: 2009:03:14 19:33:06
Exposure Time: 1/60 sec.
Aperture Value: 4.64 EV (f/5.0)
ISO Speed Rating: 200
Flash Fired: Flash fired
Exposure Program: Normal program
Focal Length: 28.0 mm
Software: Bibble 4.10.1

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We with Dragons! (1 of 2)

After a beer and some fun we finally decided to go back to our car...

but not before getting some shots of us (Enzo and Me) with a trio of Dragons... How can you pass the chance? You cannot!

Moreover We've discovered why Dragoons are so strong? BEER! (sometimes Italian beer too!)

This is the first shot, the one I've shot of Enzo...

Exif Reads:
Camera Model: NIKON D300
Date Taken: 2009:03:14 19:32:29
Exposure Time: 1/80 sec.
Aperture Value: 5.31 EV (f/6.3)
ISO Speed Rating: 200
Flash Fired: Flash fired
Exposure Program: Manual
Focal Length: 28.0 mm
Software: Bibble 4.10.1

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An Early Spring Flower ^_^

After the game we went to the "3rd Half!" a moment of friendship and nearness between supporters of both teams (and the teams themselves share some time together!).

While we were leaving the stadium (the 3rd half place was out there!) We met several welsh dressed up in costumes... I resisted the urge to shot the first few of them... till I saw this lady...

I could not missed this lovely flower, Could I?

She was realy lovely to pose for me :)...

To say it all I do not like this PPing... There's to much unreal vignetting ant it does not really enhance the shoot... but this was how it worked out... today would have been different or I' would have tried to PP it in a more subtle way...

Exif Reads:
Camera Model: NIKON D300
Date Taken: 2009:03:14 19:05:29
Exposure Time: 1/80 sec.
Aperture Value: 3.85 EV (f/3.8)
ISO Speed Rating: 1600
Flash Fired: Flash fired
Exposure Program: Manual
Focal Length: 35.0 mm
Software: Bibble 4.10.1

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... And his family too!

Later after the game we have meet the same guy another time... He was with his family looking for a show going on after the game by one of the sponsors (I believe was Radio 101!).

As you can see all the family was dressed up in some way...

You'll see they were not the only ones!

Enev this shot was taken with the 28-105...

Exif Reads:

Camera Model: NIKON D300

Date Taken: 2009:03:14 19:26:23

Exposure Time: 1/80 sec.

Aperture Value: 3.61 EV (f/3.5)

ISO Speed Rating: 1600

Flash Fired: Flash fired

Exposure Program: Manual

Focal Length: 28.0 mm

Software: Bibble 4.10.1

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Let's loose the dragons!

This is one of the things I like the most in rugby!

You can literally seat side by side with other team's supporter and there are not any problem at all.

Moreover there are several really funny people seeing the match!

This guy was seated near us and it was dressed up as a dragon with the wales shirt!

This is the first shot of these strange dresses they wore!

This was shot with the Nikon AF-D 28-105 3.5-4-5 (IIRC they've stolen the lens so maybe I'm getting the wrong f numbers!) a fabolous lens (and it can be considered cheap too!)

Exif Reads:

Camera Model: NIKON D300

Date Taken: 2009:03:14 18:02:57

Exposure Time: 1/320 sec.

Aperture Value: 4.00 EV (f/4.0)

ISO Speed Rating: 400

Focal Length: 70.0 mm

Software: Bibble 4.10.1

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Marcato's 3 points!

I clearly remember this shot... how could I forgot it!

Italy was playing a good game but not getting any try out ouf our plays (as usual I should say!). Welsh actions grant us a kick on the 40 meters line and near the touch line (12 meter in the field I would say)... We all believed it would have used the kick to move the game nearer the tryzone...

Andrea Marcato and some other Italian players are discussing...

Marcato raise his hand and point to the goal... I'll try to go for three points? it's a 46 meter long kick with a wild angle!!

This shot is the moment of the kick...

2 seconds later all the stadium was cheering (Welsh too!) for the really good kick...

I took the shot with the Sigma 70-300 and I set it to 70 in order to get an idea of the relative positions of Marcato and of the goal.

Exif Reads

Camera Model: NIKON D300

Date Taken: 2009:03:14 18:22:37

Exposure Time: 1/500 sec.

Aperture Value: 4.97 EV (f/5.6)

ISO Speed Rating: 800

Focal Length: 70.0 mm

Software: Bibble 4.10.1

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