Books Archives - Luigi Barbano Photography

Jul 05

by Barbano Luigi in BlogUpdates, Books, FineArt, News, Nim148, Uncategorized 0 comments tags: Black and White, fine art, Luigi Barbano, nim148, photography, zine

nim148, welcome to my new Zine

A brief introduction to my new zine: nim148.

Black and White Tales, The Book

Before I start with the new projects for 2021, here some final considerations about my Black and White Tales project and the presentation of the book. The book can be previewed and bought here on Blurb. . . I kept the book very simple, with a short version of the tales and just location and camera used for each picture. . . See you with the new projects…

Jan 13

by Barbano Luigi in Black and White Tales, BlogUpdates, Books, Film photography, FineArt, Gear Talk, meditations, News, Uncategorized 0 comments tags: film photography, fineart, New Year, new year resolutions, photography

Welcome to 2021

What a freaking year 2020 had been! Now we are 12 days into 2021 and it seems to suck even more… but I’m still optimist so I will focus on the positive I got from 2020 and tell you a little about my projects for 2021. If you prefer a video version, just watch it here, but if you prefer to read go on. I’m really glad in January 2020, before the shit hit the fan badly, I decided to start my Black and White Tales project. It was a great way to keep myself busy and stay in touch with the world and my creative mind while we entered the Covid jail we still have to leave! That project taught me a lot about myself and my photographic style and preferences. I got even more involved with film thanks to the images I found in my archive and really loved. If you followed the projects from the beginning I owe you a big thank you. If you did not just click here and enjoy it. If you do not click and check it out nothing will happen to you but you will make me sad and that will perhaps […]

Dec 15

Black and White Tales, Print #49

The project is almost done and I decided to close a circle. This image was taken in the same place and with the same subject as the Black and White Tale #1. Around 35 years between the 2 images and a lot of similarities and differences! The image is a part of a project you can see here , about Giulianova harbor . . . See you next week for the conclusion of the project!

Apr 28

Black and White Tales, Print #16

In the 7th week of Italian Covid lock-down, it is the 75th anniversary of the Italian Liberation from the dictatorships that brought us to WWII. While now other “leaders”, following the same socialist philosophy, are establishing a new dictatorship all over Europe with the excuse of a virus and the help of bureaucratic non elected worldwide organizations, I decided to homage the real people that freed us. I hope they will do it again, because Europeans are demonstrating one more time to be just sheep ready to lose all their freedom for the impossible promise of safety. Sadly the people’s memory seems to be very short, the same mistakes are going to be repeated and the trust is wrongly given to the fascists that, wearing now a red shirt, rewrote history. Personally I have only one creed: Live free or die! . . . …to the next week!

Apr 14

by Barbano Luigi in Black and White Tales, BlogUpdates, Books, FineArt, meditations, News, Uncategorized 0 comments tags: Clearwater, clearwater Beach, family, fine art printing, fineart, friendship, Luigi Barbano, photography, print, Summertime

Balck and White Tales, Print #14

Easter is gone and the summer is here. . . . See you next week, knowing it will be another week of Italian covid jail! ouch…

Apr 12

by Barbano Luigi in BlogUpdates, Books, Film photography, FineArt, News, nudes, Uncategorized 0 comments tags: aviation, CarbonCub, Christ of the Abyss, Clearwater, clearwater Beach, Fascism, italy, novel, photography, romance

Lasting Photographs.

“Almost eighty years and an ocean separate John Ragnar, a pilot with a mysterious past, from the photographs he found in a box on the beach in Clearwater near a diver in coma. The desire to give a voice to the nude young woman portrayed in the Italian Riviera, will bring John in a journey of discovery of terrible times and the power of romance.” Yes, I did it, I wrote a novel. Lasting Photographs In the past years I had the time to immerse myself in my family archive and I had a confirmation of the importance of photographs and the stories around the images. Real printed images that I was able to see with just my eyes and a simple source of light. But sometime we find images and there is nobody around to tell their stories. Sometime is just too late in time, and sometime the image traveled far away from the people who knows the story. On the antique markets we often find old photographs, most of the time of people we don’t know, and we will never know who they were and how was their life. All this made me think about the importance of […]

Aug 21

by Barbano Luigi in BlogUpdates, Books, Fujifilm, IR Photography 0 comments tags: Fuji, fujifil. FujiLove, infrared, photography

Bovisium Infrarubra featured on FujiLove

FujiLove, a fantastic online magazine for the Fujifilm world, featured my article about the project and book “Bovisium Infrarubra”. You can read the article here https://fujilove.com/bovisium-infrarubra-infrared-photography-with-fujifilm-x-series/ Enjoy the reading! 🙂

Dec 07

by Barbano Luigi in BlogUpdates, Books, News, Uncategorized 1 comments tags: camera, Luigi Barbano, photography, photography for beginners, photography manual, photography tools, spotmeter

Photography is not rocket science… and the essential tools to learn

Photography is not rocket science and we need few simple essential tools to learn how to make good pictures. Few days ago I wrote an article on my blog, and it was kind of viral in the photography world. Many FaceBook pages and websites re-posted it and, out of curiosity, I went to explore who re-posted my article. Some of the pages were for beginners and others for a more general public and in both categories, and specially the beginner side, I noticed that most of the articles were about cameras, software and gadgets. The idea is “what a camera with what new tool and that software can do”. Nothing bad in this but I was attracted by the comments, specially from the beginners. A lot of people asking questions like “How do I expose for portraits?”, “How do I expose for weddings?”, “What lens is best for X or Y?”, ”I’m experimenting with manual, what settings I have to start with?” and so on. I learned photography with film, mostly large format view camera and medium format Hasselblad, and every time I read questions about how to expose for a particular subject I think in the digital […]

Apr 27

by admin in Books, BlogUpdates, Film photography, IR Photography, News, Uncategorized 0 comments tags: book, Luigi Barbano, manual, photo technique, photography, photography manual

Photography: The f Manual

Do you want to have a solid base to understand the photographic process? This book is for you! You can be a beginner amateur or a professional photographer but if you want to easy understand what is involved in the photographic process to make the correct decisions you need to have strong and clear basis. The book contains the essential basic concepts to understand the photographic process. The author is explaining all the concepts and rules photography is based on, giving a general theory. Luigi’s book talks about everything from f stops to file formats, the difference between JPG and TIF and how image scaling and DPI relate. His section on how camera, computer monitor and printer color calibration works is explained so well, you’ll never forget it (just think toast). It even has in-depth explanations on photo composition, HDR (High Dynamic Range) photography, depth of field, printing your images, publishing, and more. Luigi’s English is pretty good yet his lovely Italian flavor and sense of humor still come through. You can buy the book on Amazon or directly on CreateSpace