Vittorio Fracassi

thanks steelhead3 and icon1 for your kind words, and for encouraging me in developing a "style", a dream of many amateur photographers.     This particular one appears to be limited to stilts and...

thanks Ed for the interesting link, a great adventure!  unfortunately not much wildlife around, I hope there will be more where I am heading... Regards,  Vittorio

all with my light kit: 7D + 400DO, from inside an old dark green Nissan Micra.   And just to remain in theme, a 1kg bag of rice as "bean bag" for some, others just handheld. Sgarza Ciuffetto...

thanks for your kind words hindesite!    Regards,  Vittorio

Absolutely right! there were also trees for the shade and for the fruit. made a point of checking the vertical before editing, there is some sort of ground instability, look at the poles.   Quite...

what else would you expect from someone born in the very fine year 1940!  :-) Cheers,   Vittorio

Ciabòt in piedmontese means "rural building (small)".  This is the smallest and less vertical ciabòt I have seen, driving down from La Morra to Gallo: Ciabotìn d'le vigne  Brusà means "burnt". My...

Placed 17^th in the challenge.

we may have been neighbours, I spent part of my youth skiing (my parents thought I was studying) in great Swiss schools, but I did not know how to cook then (in the Jurassic)... Now you know what...

I don't own studio lights or backdrops so I use a small halogen table lamp and screen the rays which would stray behind the scene with a piece of light carboard cut to suit the task.   I turn all...

Thanks to: Kelpie Mjankor Clayton Landscapephoto99 Great Bustard Gravi For their kind words and for taking the time to comment! A special thanks to TEdolph who usually dispenses compliments with an...

not silly at all Joseph! With your choice, proposed for sake of reasoning: -          DOF (link http://www.cambridgeincolour.com/tutorials/dof-calculator.htm) for 4/3” sensor, 75mm focal length,...

Rain, rain, rain.    So after cooking a pie with minced beef, asparagus, small potatoes, raisins, toasted hazelnuts and béchamel what could I do but set up a still life in which to photograph it? I...

hi Msnap,   a "Wow", even when not deserved is a comment which calls for a reply.    But I don't understand the question: how do I do "what"?  Choice of subject, composition, story told, technical...

touché rrr_hhh,                       my framing and cropping is totally intuitive, you won't find two of my pics with the same height/width ratio.    And in this particular case a little less...

my brother, who bottles Barolo, which is the wine of these vineyards, would pay a very high price for the patent! and dpreview would be an even better place,  Regards,  Vittorio

not as simple as it may seem Geoff, I tried it on 22nd last for the spring version and stood on the wrong spot.  Must go there again before the grass grows too high or the vigneron mills the grass...

hearty thanks to: amipal jalywol   and Allen Regards,  Vittorio

thanks Marc, glad some emotion passed on to you, so much of it in that part of the world that you can can grab it by handfuls!

remember this? Odderi, near Alba, a vineyard in December now a late and wet spring has come with tender light greens and yellows, Seralunga d'Alba, a Cru of Fontanafredda Serralunga d'Alba, the...