“Old Torino” new photo series

10May09

Old Torino, my most recent photo series, is now viewable on www.lucalacchephotography.net in the “travelogue” section.

27 images, all taken in Piedmont, Italy (Torino, Venaria, Superga) around may 1st 2009.

Canon EOS 1Ds Mark III, EOS 5D mark II – Lensbaby Composer with plastic optic, Original Lensbaby – Canon EF 14mm, 15mm fisheye, 35 1,4 L, 70-200 2,8 L.

Thanks for checking it out – as usual, comments are welcome.

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VENEZIANA The Ghosts Of The Carnival And Other Stories – new photo book on Blurb.com

28Mar09

VENEZIANA The Ghosts Of The Carnival And Other Stories, my most recent portfolio-photo book, is available on Blurb.com:

http://www.blurb.com/bookstore/detail/614752

Large Format Landscape (13 x 11 inches, 33 x 28 cm), 80 pgs, Premium Paper with Hardcover and Dust Jacket.

Intro from back cover:

During these years of photography I made myself used to always catching the immediate atmosphere of a place – my photo approach and technique are expression of an instinctive attitude, I like to let the eye and the mind run free when spotting the subject, framing, composing.

Such point of view makes Venezia a particularly easy task because this one-of-a-kind location is so incredibly rich, like a goldmine of details suggesting infinite variations – even subjects not anywhere else worth of consideration in Venezia become peculiar, unique. It is perhaps the subtle feeling of decay, corrosion and neverending motion that give soul and life to stones, walls, bridges – there is no escape from imagining and telling stories, and using the obvious like gondolas and masks, poles and seagulls doesn’t feel for once wrong because they are still a basic ingredient, key elements of the atmosphere, and in most cases the catalyzers of the composition. It is of course never easy to concentrate in the continuos flows of mass tourism, which especially in Venezia is like a plague – but, as in most cases in my experience, photography helps in getting into the mood of a place even in “distracting” situations.

A tech note for those of you who may be interested… All the images in the portfolio have been taken in Venezia on February 2009, over the days of the Carnival, with my current double-camera setup in what I call “double view” – The Canon EOS 1Ds Mark III handling the “regular” lenses (in this case mostly the Canon 70-200 2.8 L-is with the 1.4 extender which makes it a 98-280 f/4) and the Canon EOS 5D Mark II handling the selective focus view via the Lensbaby Muse fitted with the “yellow single optic” and f/2.8 aperture – I actually consider it the updated version of my favorite selective focus lens, the Original Lensbaby, which I have been extensively using over these last two years.

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Piazza Maggiore portfolio

19Mar09

Piazza Maggiore, an all-monochrome 10-pieces portfolio, is viewable in the “Travelogue” section of www.lucalacchephotography.net.

The images have been taken in Bologna, Italy on March 18th 2009 with the Canon EOS 1Ds Mark III plus Lensbaby Composer and plastic optic.

Thanks in advance for your feedback.

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Portonovo Beach Portfolio

08Mar09

A new all-monochrome portfolio in the “Travelogue” section. Nineteen images taken on Saturday March 7th at Portonovo Beach, a moody rocky beach in Le Marche on the Adriatic Sea.

The images have been taken with the Canon EOS 1Ds Mark III + the 14mm 2,8 II L and the Canon EOS 5D Mark II + the Lensbaby Composer and plastic optic.

Thanks in advance for your feedback.

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Featured Artist on February’s Lensbaby newsletter

28Feb09

I am “featured artist”, with the “The Japanese Haunting” photo book, on February’s Lensbaby newsletter – viewable HERE.

Many thanks to Jessica and the Lensbaby Team.

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The Veneziana Portfolio

28Feb09

The brand new Veneziana portfolio, forty-four images taken in Venice, Italy during the days of the Carnival, is now viewable on my website www.lucalacchephotography.net in the “Travelogue” section.

A tech note – the photos have been taken with my current dual-camera setup, with the Lensbaby Muse on the Canon EOS 5D Mark II and various Canon EF lenses on the Canon EOS 1Ds Mark III (mostly the Canon EF 70-200 2.8 L-is with the 1.4 II extender).

Thanks in advance for your feedback.

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Arcangel Images

27Jan09

Second gig this year… I received (and accepted) an invite to become contributing photographer by Arcangel Images of Malaga, Spain. They’re a British-Spanish imaging agency, ad this is how they describe themselves: “The Arcangel photo library specialises in supplying some of the most inspirational, creative and unique rights-protected Imagery to be found in the stock industry. We represent some of the finest International photographers, artists and illustrators in the creative market (…) Our images are used by book publishers, record labels, design, advertising agencies and magazine publishers worldwide”.

They invited me because (their words) “We feel your images would appeal greatly to our clients” – and since they mainly work with publishers for book covers and such, I do think that my photos would definitely be a match. I consider all this a good opportunity.

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FarmBoy Fine Arts

17Jan09

This 2009 is beginning to bring… new stuff. I am going to collaborate with FarmBoy Fine Arts of Vancouver (BC) which is “an integrated art and design company that develops site-specific artwork and design objects for hospitality, healthcare, retail, casinos and corporate environments”.

They like what I do the way I do it and I like their style so I definitely think it’s going to be a good one.

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“Lo Sguardo Vago E Altre Storie” photo book

26Dec08

Lo Sguardo Vago E Altre Storie is now available on Blurb.com here.

120 pages, printed on premium paper, hardcover with dust jacket.

LO SGUARDO VAGO E ALTRE STORIE features my photographic experiences in the most diverse locations (from Italy to France, Denmark, Norway to Thailand, Hong Kong, Japan, Macau and more) with the selective focus technique over the last two years (2006 – 2008).

Selective focus basically means that in the frame just a portion (which the photographer is usually able to choose and select via a bellow or shifting gear) of the subject is in focus, and all of the other elements of the composition are out of focus, blurred – that can happen in various manners, depending on the type of lens used and the technique applied.

A tech note – for those of you who might be interested. The photos in this book have been taken with the Canon EOS 5D d-SLR (used in “raw” mode) and the selective focus has been obtained from the Lensbaby lens in its “Original” and “2.0″ versions; the lens has been used, like a regular Canon EF lens, in aperture priority or manual exposure modes.

This book does not feature the photos included in my previous book “The Japanese Haunting”.

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“The Japanese Haunting” photo book

14Dec08

The Japanese Haunting - A visual journey through Japan impressions is now available on Blurb.com here.

Featured by Blurb as “Staff Pick”.

76 pages, printed on premium paper, hardcover with dust jacket.

The Japanese Haunting comes directly out of the Japanese influence - the distinctive mood, which is one with sounds, objects, language, is something that, even being used to catching in photography the “local atmosphere” in the most diverse locations, I never experienced before.

Japan is not Asia, is not Europe, it’s oriental and western at the same time but in its own unique way, so different from any other Asian place – and every detail and view in Japan inspire the mind and the eye to creating, to seeing and expressing in a peculiar way… the Japanese mood is something deeply involving, and definitely addictive in the best acception of the term.

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