Apparently, I'm starting to create some rumors among models, saying I'm slow and awkward to work with, because of my critical manual focusing technique.
Things got even worse when I started using the GFX medium format camera, that require even more precision.
But I also noticed this is happ...
Even if this is the same hotel as always, the color palette of the bed was more sedate and relaxing in this shooting with Paulinepastel, as if to acknowledge her aristocratic beauty and make it shine even more on a mere neutral background.
Whatever, I have been making some great shootings with...
Currently working on Elfa's shooting in the asylum to gain more experience about the place, as I might be doing 2 more attempt this year there in August.
One with Barbora and one with Maria, hoping they are not overlapping...
I have to see how other models are interpreting this scary place,...
I wanted to get a seriously sexy photo in this case, but Maria is a playful model, and this position reminded to her a cat asking to be pet.
We tried also her version, but she cracked up in laughter, as you can see here.
In this case you have to be cold blooded and keep shooting, to record ...
The worst fear of Elfa on that day, were humans.
Whenever she heard a voice coming toward us, she jumped and run for her jacket, that was long enough to cover every sensitive part of the body.
I have no idea why she would want to cover such beauty, if I was as beautiful as her, I would be w...
I promised to shoot at least one photo of Elfa wearing her safety slippers, and here is the first one, but I shot a lot more, so you will see the yellow sandals again.
The fear she experienced on the roof of the taller and more modern building surprised me.
All of a sudden we hear a nois...
This is the second time I shoot with Elfa, but it is the first time I get to use the Monbello Asylum as a location!
I went there in August of 2024 to check out the location with a friend, and finally (now that the weather is good) I tried to shoot in this huge location.
It is inside a park,...
Today I'm not inside Milano, but very near, for a shooting I've been waiting to do for the past year.
It was August when I went to do a preliminary inspection last year, with a friend of mine, and found it was a great location.
Since then I have been planning to take some model there.
With the shooting of Elfa in the abandoned Asylum, I will definitely take a different approach to the urbex style photos I made in Sotto il Monte with Ania.
No Nikon D810, no AF-S NIKKOR 20mm f/1.8G ED, no flash.
I hope I will not regret it, but I've chosen to shoot only with availabl...
2025-06-15 07:30:01 +0000 UTC View Post
Today I'm showing you Inna again, but with less shadows, and with her beautiful silhouette fully extended.
Also this photo was shot on the Fujifilm GFX 50S II + "Martin" (the Zeiss T* 1,4/85mm Planar ZF lens named after the Patron that sponsored part of the purchase), so I suggest you enlarge ...
No teaser this time round, because today I will post 2 more photos of Inna, the new model from yesterday, on my regular social media feed and on DA Subscriptions!
The day before the shooting and the very same morning we had numerous hiccups, like she couldn't check-in the apartment in time ...
2025-06-13 07:30:01 +0000 UTC View Post
Today I'm in Milano, shooting with yet another brand new model.
So you Patrons are the only ones to get a post, and something similar is going to happen on Monday, the 16th, with the return of Elfa.
A busy period also this Month, but how can I waste every opportunity to work with the mod...
2025-06-12 07:30:01 +0000 UTC View Post
Deciding which and where to post the 2 pictures of today was a difficult choice!
This first shooting with Barbora is extremely important for me, and I didn't want to give away too much about the various corner of the house.
I have a long sequence of photos in the corridor, shot on the Le...
2025-06-11 07:30:01 +0000 UTC View Post
Another photo of a model exposed on a balcony, you can't tell, because I was with my back to the city of Milano, pointing the camera on the inside of the balcony, where Quinn was leaning on the wall.
So anyone looking at us would have seen my back whilst I was taking the picture, and the front...
Starting the week on a high note, with Martina's bottom in plain view.
Sometimes I have to remind myself to move my attention from her mesmerizing eyes and front of the body, to pay some attention also to the rest of her body, especially the backside, which is so charming.
This is why I hav...
Cara Mell is one of the most appreciated models I've ever photographed.
So my Patrons deserve to have another look at her, on a Sunday, and just for them.
In the mean time, let me tell you more about the preparation for Elfa's shooting on the 16th.
She accepted to pose with bare feet,...
I might have managed to bring Elfa back to the table.
After she asked for a 40% increase from last year's fee, and I had to refuse, she came back with another offer.
I accepted the offer, and she accepted my location suggestion, because I didn't want to shoot again in the same hotel.
So ...
This image is refined, made with a medium format camera and a very special lens, the ultimate portrait lens from Nikon from the past millennium, the Nikkor 135mm f2 Defocus Control.
In this photo the details are superb, with every single hair in focus perfectly visible, and the out of focus ar...
I was looking some YouTube videos about the Leica SL2-S, just to keep informed about what are the opinions of other photographers, and I keep hearing praises about the extraordinary high ISO performances of this camera.
Something I don't agree upon.
To verify I'm not doing something wron...
2025-06-05 07:30:02 +0000 UTC View Post
It's a long time since I posted a photo of Karina, March the 3rd to be precise, and here she is!
I was still experimenting colors arrangements with the Leica SL2-S, and now I might do a different interpretation of this image, but it is still such a pretty photo.
There is no right or wrong i...
Ok, the rain was not exactly falling on Linda at the time, but it was refreshing a hot August day in 2021, and is visible in the background.
The advantage is that the hair of the model is dry, and it can move with the wind in front of her face, and making this photo much more dynamic.
If...
2025-06-03 07:30:02 +0000 UTC View Post
September 2023, shooting number 18 with Martina, this is the corridor sequence.
In this case I had to create the light artificially, using my spotlights (I believe I had already a couple at the time...)
The quality of the Leica SL2-S sensor is not so impressive at 1.600 ISO, but overall I l...
I shot in this Milan apartment several times, but the best feature was surely the balcony, dominating the City.
Feeling so exposed was surely a great sensation, and adds to the pictures.
If you want to learn more about the Bramley Apple Project or Archives,<...
2025-06-01 07:30:02 +0000 UTC View Post
I was listening at a YouTube video, where they were talking about hair of models, and how lenses that are too good can make life difficult when retouching untidy strains of hair in the picture.
And that might be true in case of photos for commercial, or high end photographers...
But for ama...
I've learned my lesson, I can experiment shallow depth of field on full frame sensors, and with 50mm lenses, but with medium format I have to be careful!
The Fujifilm GFX 50S II + "Martin", the Zeiss T* 1,4/85mm Planar ZF (named after the Patron that sponsored part of the purchase), is framing...
I hope you like this new model, Barbora, because she is likely to become my next favorite model, now that Martina is so hard to book!
I was excited about her and had great expectations even before meeting her in person, but after our first shooting I can confirm she is going to become my new f...
Got some pretty light contrasts in this photo of Martina, from February 2020.
The cold light from the blue hour outside, and the tungsten light from the existing light fixture, are contributing in defining the hot spot represented by Martina's body.
Even with the most ordinary lights, she s...
The exterior of the apartment booked by Demi was promising, in an area of Milano full of trees and squirrels running around.
It was the apartment itself that was not ideal, especially because it was too dark.
It is not the first time I experience this kind of problem in apartments on the gr...
I was considering the idea of buying lenses from brands, or periods in time, I have not yet sampled, just to give them a go, as a sort of photography encyclopedia, and the Pentax I used for this photo is a perfect example.
I had already 3 of the more recent SMC Pentax lenses, 28mm, 100mm macro...
What a strange week this has been, with 2 models returning to the Bramley Apple Project for a second helping, both shot for the first time several years ago (6 for Dovile, 7 for Demi), and both born in 1991.
In some ways the experience with Demi has been the opposite of the one with Dovile, be...