News Archives - Luigi Barbano Photography

Dec 22

by Barbano Luigi in BlogUpdates, News, Uncategorized 0 comments tags: Christmas, Christmas 2023, happy new year, Luigi Barbano, photography

Merry Christmas… was I nice or naughty this year?

Christmas is here. It’s time to think about the past year and see if we had been nice or naughty… but I’m always a nice boy! 😉 I’m so good that this year I received the Claus House Seal of Approval for my 29 years of Christmas photographs! In time for the opening of my new Italian studio! And here as usual my Christmas picture to wish you all a Merry Christmas and a fantastic 2024. I wish you to live in a free world where all the totalitarian dictators, real and in spirit, will be sent out of our way so we can create freely! Have a great Christmas and see you all in the new year! Ciao!

Nov 15

by Barbano Luigi in BlogUpdates, FineArt, News, nudes, Photography Class, Uncategorized 0 comments tags: #ItalyTours, #travelItaly, LaDolceVita, Luigi Barbano, photography, workshop

La Dolce Vita Workshops

Great news! In partnership with La Dolce Vita Workshops, I created traveling workshops in Italy. The workshops are designed for any level of expertise and will teach you to live everyday La Dolce Vita and bring it in your photographs. . Italy is not just a place, it’s a lifestyle that created the most beautiful art and design. It’s a lifestyle you can live everywhere after you had experienced it in the proper way. You can check the details of the workshops on www.ladolcevitaworkshops.com . Book before Christmas 2023 and receive $500 discount. Hurry up, only ten rooms available and usually fill up quickly!

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.

May 26

by Barbano Luigi in BlogUpdates, Gear Talk, News, Uncategorized 0 comments tags: #Fowa, #Kimono, #monochrome, #Pentax, #Ricoh, #Ricohimaging, Black and White, K3Monochrome, Luigi Barbano, photography

Pentax K3 Monochrome, full review.

Introduction Thanks to Fowa, the Italian Pentax importer, I had the Pentax K3 MkIII monochrome to test for some weeks. There is only one way to describe my feelings for this camera: I’m in love with it. I like to do black and white photography, both in film and digital, and it’s the first time using a digital camera I feel the camera is just a tool to realize my vision and not something that will be in my way and I will have to figure out how to not let it influence my vision. . The camera The Pentax K3 MkIII, in its normal color version, had been on the market for a while. It’s a beautifully built 26 Megapixels Aps-C reflex camera that had great reviews from many photographers. The body is solid, weather sealed, very easy to use and has a beautiful viewfinder. In the era of mirrorless Pentax decided to continue to produce reflex cameras. If you like optical viewfinders as much as I do, you will really like the quality of the Pentax viewfinders. I tested the K1 MkII, a full frame camera, and the K3 mkIII and also if the K3 has a smaller […]

Apr 06

by Barbano Luigi in BlogUpdates, Gear Talk, News, Uncategorized 0 comments tags: aviation, Castelleto Stura, Fowa, Luigi Barbano, Pentax, photography, Ricoh, Ricohimaging, Tecnam

A tale of two passions and a beautiful Sunday morning

Whoever knows me knows I have two great passions in life: photography and aviation. Both of them started early in my life, photography when I was 8 years old during a darkroom class at the elementary school and aviation with my first flight when I was turning 6 and my father, a private pilot, brought me up for my birthday. A lot of water passed under the bridges since then and life decided photography had to become my job and aviation an hobby I had to dream about more than practicing it. I tempted many times to bring the two passions together but I was able to do it just for a little while when I lived in Florida and you can see here a peak moment of that union. In Italy it’s not that simple and when the unexpected opportunity of last Sunday arrived I jumped on it. . . Sadly Italy is not offering the same opportunities in aviation. General Aviation in Italy was annihilated by years of excessive taxes, absurd bureaucracy and socialist rhetoric. The story of aviation in Italy was great at the beginning, the development of aviation was fast and strong around the World Ward […]

Dec 23

by Barbano Luigi in BlogUpdates, Film photography, meditations, News, Uncategorized 0 comments tags: #filmisalive, #Pentax, #photography, #Ricoh, Black and White, fineart, Luigi Barbano, photography

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year

Also this year Christmas arrived and with it my usual Christmas picture to wish you wonderful holidays, a fantastic 2023 and the joy of experiencing an analog life. . . Usually for my Christmas photograph I follow the big events of the year, and you can see in this article what I did in the past, but this year I decided to stay far away from the world events. I simply decided that I had two choices: getting very upset with how the world is run and be very polemic and political or concentrating on my passion for photography. I chose the latter. I decided to create an homage to film photography. First of all in the last years I started to use again film for a lot of my artistic production. Second this year was a great year for film photographers; Leica produced again the film camera M6 and Pentax announced, just few days ago, that will again produce analog cameras. It’s really a great moment for film photography because the involvement of big companies in the analog field means film is not dead and there will be a revival as there was in music with vinyl. We have […]

Jun 04

by Barbano Luigi in Gear Talk, BlogUpdates, Film photography, News, Uncategorized 0 comments tags: film, Filmcamera, filmisalive, Luigi Barbano, MX

Gear Talk: Pentax MX

There are cameras that remained the preferred, no matter if other cameras were better with more options. For me the Pentax MX is that camera.I used many cameras and some of them gave the possibility to do more things than the MX, but still, when I take the MX in my hands and I hear the click, something gives me the desire to take pictures. . . See you soon with the Pentax LX!

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…

Black and White Tales, Print #8

A good photograph is not just an image, it also needs to be taken with some ethical principles. “Urbex”, an ugly label shortening Urban Exploration, must be done following good practices with respect for people and their properties. Here a little story about ethic and friendship. . . . This image won an Honorable Mention at the 14th Black and White Spider Awards in 2019. See you next week! .

Feb 25

by Barbano Luigi in Black and White Tales, BlogUpdates, FineArt, News, Uncategorized 0 comments tags: Clearwater, clearwater Beach, fine art, inkjet, Luigi Barbano, photography, print, stopping time

Black and White Tales – Print #7

A short and easy one! . . . Sometime the reason why I chose an image is pretty simple. In this case I just miss Clearwater Beach! See you next week.