photogrpahy Archives - Luigi Barbano Photography

May 10

by Barbano Luigi in BlogUpdates, FineArt, Gear Talk, News, Uncategorized 0 comments tags: Black&White, K3, K3Monochrome, Monochrome, Pentax, photogrpahy

Pentax K3 Monochrome vs K3 mkIII Color

Thanks to the Italian importer of Pentax, FOWA, I had the Pentax K3 Monochrome and a K3 MkIII to test. For now I just did a first walk with the camera, at night in the city of Cuneo and a little comparison test in studio. . . Here, in the video you can hear what I think about the camera, if you like to see the pictures I took in the studio to have a first comparison of the K3 Monochrome and the K3 MkIII Color and download the raw files, just scroll to the end of the article and you will find the link. . The results are really impressive. The lack of noise also at higher ISO, the dynamic range and the general quality of the images are absolutely fantastic! . Here the 100% zoom. If you want to download the original RAW files and play with them, use the following links. Please consider to use the Donate button so I can cover the increase of expenses for the server space and bandwidth. K3 Monochrome:KimonoTestRAW_Part1.zipKimonoTestRAW_Part2.zip K3 MkIII Color:K3MkIIITestRAW_Part1.zip K3MkIIITestRAW_Part2.zip Please consider a small donation: . See you next time with more tests!

Apr 10

by Barbano Luigi in Photography Class, BlogUpdates, Film photography, FineArt, Fujifilm, Uncategorized 0 comments tags: betterphotographer, class, exercises, fineart, improveskills, Luigi Barbano, photoclass, photogrpahy, workshop

What to do during COVID Jail?

We are all in the same situation, all round the world, we are stuck in our houses with a lot of time available. This is a great moment to improve ourselves and our skills. I see around me a lot of posting about cameras and photographic techniques so I decided to do something a little different. You can see here 10 COVID Compliant Exercises to Become a Better Photographer. The concept is easy, with what you have available in the tranquillity of your home or inside the border of your COVID jail, you can do this exercises to try new approaches, or relive forgotten ones, to photography. The results can be shared and discussed on the FaceBook Group I created just for this project. The class is available for free on YouTube! Watch the introduction here and follow me on YouTube for the exercises. . . See you in the FaceeBook project page!

Feb 21

by Barbano Luigi in Uncategorized, BlogUpdates, CaptureOne, Film photography, Fujifilm, News 10 comments tags: Acros, analogue camera, digital camera, film photography, film versus digital, Fujifilm, Hasselblad, photogrpahy, XPro-2

Fuji Acros Digital vs Fuji Acros Film

Digital or Film? Fuji Acros Digital on a XPro-2 compared to Fuji Acros 100 Film on Hasselblad 6×6… who will be the winner? Few weeks ago I did a non scientific comparison between black and white digital and film, using my beloved Fuji XPro-2 and a Pentax 67 with Ilford FP4. The article got a lot of interest and was also published on Fuji X Passion magazine. I decided to improve the test and use Fujifilm Neopan Acros 100 film, instead of Ilford FP4 and Hasselblad instead of Pentax. The use of actual Acros film instead of Ilford is obvious and needed for a less casual comparison. Hasselblad instead of Pentax is because I suspected some lack of sharpness was caused by the lenses, and since I have used Hasselblad all my life and I’m sure were the best analogue medium format camera and optics, I simply wanted to eliminate every variable related to the lens. As I said before: I know that, scanning the negative, part of the process is still digital so is not perfect I do not intend to give all the answers I did this just for fun and to understand myself a little better […]

Nov 03

by Barbano Luigi in Uncategorized, BlogUpdates, meditations, News 3 comments tags: ginseng, ginseng festival, Midwest, photogrpahy, rural USA, travel photography, Wausau, Wisconsin

Wausau, International Wisconsin Ginseng Festival

Wausau, it’s a small town in Wisconsin, in the middle of a beautiful country where the hills are spotted with colorful barns immersed in cultivated fields. Few people in the western world know that in the Wausau area, one of the best species of ginseng is produced. This ginseng is appreciated all over the world and especially in Asia, the largest export market for Wisconsin Ginseng. In 2010 I had the privilege to photograph the cultivation process of the ginseng and portray most of the farmers associated to the Ginseng Board of Wisconsin. For the first International Wisconsin Ginseng Festival I was invited to do an exhibit of the images taken in 2010, part of the book “Wisconsin Ginseng”, and I had the opportunity to take the pictures of the Festival and the correlated events. The festival was great and perfectly organized, the people at the Ginseng Board of Wisconsin and Lori McGehee from Millennium Marketing did a perfect job. A lot of people attended to enjoy the ginseng products offered at the booths and the live performers on the stage. There were meany correlated events, a 5k run, visits to the farms […]

Mar 05

by Barbano Luigi in BlogUpdates, News, Uncategorized 0 comments tags: CIPA, digital cmera, film, market, photogrpahy, sales, sven Skarfisk

Good news for professional photographers?

Today I read an article on PetaPixel abut the camera market compared to the smartphone market. You can find the original article here. From the article I took a graphic that was created by the photographer Sven Skafisk (I wanted to go to the source and link him, but I have not found a link in the article or his page on Google) who spent the time to put on a graphic the data of the camera production from 1933 to today, divided by typology and including the smartphone camera market. The article is very interesting and points the difference in scale between the camera and phone market. It’s worth to read. But what really impressed me about this graph is the comparison of the camera numbers before and after the digital revolution. How this can mean good news for professionals photogrpahers? We can see that after the end of the film era in 2005, anybody wanted to become a photographer and the sales of digital equipment (from compact to serious cameras) really increased exponentially. In those years we have seen crowds of people getting one good picture with a digital camera that decided to buy a D-SLR and become […]