Italy is incredibly photogenic, and really is a photographer’s delight. This is something I know about being a keen amateur photographer myself. However, if you want to create really memorable photographs of Italy from which you can create framed prints to hang on your wall, you could do with a digital SLR.
Why a digital SLR and not a smaller more compact point and shoot?
Photographer Di, whose work I love, is having a little photo themed prize draw. All you need to do to get 2 of her photographs, enlarged and printed up to 30x45cms in size and mailed to you, where ever you are in the world, is to visit her site and leave a comment. The prize draw is Sunday 11th January 2009.
This is a photo I took this morning. The champagne bottle with rose and glass had been abandoned just around the corner from my house here in Milan.
Fellow blogger, photographer, and Kiwi, Di Mackey spent some time in Genova, Italy recently. Di does portrait shoots, and her fame has even spread as far as Italy.
On Saturday, we took the wee one who must be occupied for a trip up to Como, but the big one, me, who must take
This was a photo I forgot about. It’s an attempt to see what kind of bokeh I can achieve with my Tamron 28-75 F2.8 lens.
Our little one made a mess in the bathroom.
An example of my digital photography using a wide angle 12-24 mm lens on my Canon digital slr.
I added a second lens to my camera gear recently. It’s a Tokina 12-24 f/4.0 wide angle. I’ve still to learn how to use it
