phototherapy

snowboarder

2010-11-08T12:13:00.001+01:00

snowboarder, originally uploaded by Stefano Brozzi.

2010-08-18T23:58:00.001+02:00

Whoa! this is great!

2009-12-29T14:29:00.001+01:00

Below is an image and video from { tcb }. He’s posting light paintings along with ‘making of’ videos. If you want to see how light paintings are made, check out his set.

If you’d like to see more, check out the Light Painting – The Real Deal group.

Photos and video from Dennis Calvert, jannepaint, maria flash, BURИBLUE, BlaisOne, and { tcb }.

via Flickr Blog

Stop & think

2009-10-07T10:57:00.001+02:00

Stop & think, originally uploaded by Stefano Brozzi.

l'iPhone sta per superare la canon XT/Rebel/300 come macchina... ehm... apparecchio fotografico più utilizzato su flickr... ne capisco la ragione: GPS, upload automatico immediato...
ma tutto questo sta contribuendo a compromettere la situazione della fotografia nel mercato mondiale, e non per la sua qualità, ma solo per la sua fruibilità

foto scattata dal mio iPhone

_A2Y6312

2009-10-02T20:01:00.001+02:00

_A2Y6312, originally uploaded by Stefano Brozzi.

San Pietro church, Portovenere, Liguria, Italy

Parma

2009-10-02T11:28:00.001+02:00

Parma, originally uploaded by Stefano Brozzi.

duomo e battistero
HDR

istanbul

2009-09-29T21:10:00.001+02:00

Autunno, prima o poi...

2009-09-28T12:46:00.001+02:00

Longiano

2009-09-28T12:40:00.001+02:00

Martin Parr

2009-09-24T10:10:00.001+02:00

non solo ho scritto a Martin Parr,
ma mi ha anche risposto!

qualche giorno al mare, però...

2009-09-23T12:27:00.001+02:00

flickr

2009-09-18T11:44:00.001+02:00

ho messo un po' di foto su flickr!
è così comodo rispetto al mio sito, almeno per ora...

http://www.flickr.com/photos/stefanobrozzi/

votate per me!

2009-08-21T16:45:00.003+02:00

premi qui per vedere la mia foto...

Ha vinto la civetta!!!

2009-08-18T17:05:00.001+02:00

catergo beach in folegandros

2009-07-27T12:28:00.001+02:00

Parigi

2009-06-25T11:21:00.001+02:00

Vernazza

2009-03-17T16:03:00.002+01:00

camogli 2

2009-02-13T11:38:00.001+01:00

camogli

2009-02-13T11:37:00.001+01:00

Paris

2009-02-11T18:02:00.001+01:00

some pics with a good editing come back to life

Tilt Shift effect in photoshop

2009-02-11T16:09:00.001+01:00

Since I've no TS Lens (but most probably the Canon 24mm TS-E will be my next lens) I love to recreate one of the effects obtainable with this lovely lens...

The basic steps I use to recreate the effects are:

In quick Mask mode, select gradient toolwith reflected gradient
make a selection end exit the quick mask mode
Lens Blur filter should be the tool of choice here,
- Depth Map to 0 (but sometimes adding a mask here could help)
- Specular Highlights to 0 (but low values could create a nice effect)
- radius/blade/curvature depend on photo and effect desired, but 50/0/0 generally work for me
raising contrast curves and saturation could help for the little toy effect

this could do the trick

storm coming

2009-02-04T12:24:00.001+01:00

Torino - Luci D'artista

2008-12-12T17:59:00.000+01:00

Luci D'Artista

Venezia

2008-12-05T18:31:00.001+01:00

lensbaby

2008-10-09T16:50:00.002+02:00

lensbaby.com released one new baby: http://www.lensbaby.com/lenses-composer.php

selective focus as usual, double optical lenses and a focus ring made
this new generation.
I already love it

Uber and Web2.0

2008-10-09T14:06:00.003+02:00

I received this email...

Thank You.

That's the first thing that we wanted to say. We have some bad news. The crisis in the economy has claimed Uber as its latest victim. Our investors have decided to stop supporting Uber and we have closed the doors. We would like to thank them too; it’s no fault of theirs that this happened. On the contrary, without their unflinching support we would never have made it this far, and they have stood by us and tried desperately to help us realize our dreams.

The site will be inactive as of Monday September 29, 2008.
[...]

uber.com was a great site for posting pictures, a new site could be created in mins.
All free. I was disappointed, at first, but...

After a week or so, a second email:
"There's A Chance To Save Uber.com"

In the past week we’ve had a flood of great feedback and support from all of you. Thank you again. That activity brought us several opportunities from different companies that could keep the doors open here and one of these companies, sharenow.com, has graciously bought us some more time to figure out if there is a fit. We hope you’ll not only stick with us through this next month, but even POST EVERY DAY! The more activity we get, the better chance we have to keep this going. [...]

This is what a community is, this is Web2.0 "

Portfolio

2008-08-18T18:17:00.002+02:00

I've added a new page on the site...
http://www.stefanobrozzi.com/photo/portfolio/

I'm temped to keep it as the main page of my site,
perhaps adding a gallery to keep track of places I've visited
and photographed
and another space in which I can keep things, thoughts, ideas, new
proposals, work-in-progress...

The Recent projects/Personal projects should be merged

Update: Recent project removed

Torrechiara

2008-08-14T14:27:00.001+02:00

by the light of the moon

new RSS feed

2008-08-08T15:54:00.002+02:00

I've added a new RSS feed on my homepage http://www.stefanobrozzi.com.

Technically speaking, it's an RSS 2.0 generated with a perl script using XML::RSS with the addition of extra tags for the use of piclens (http://www.piclens.com).
A small icon in the page should be available allowing the use of piclenslite, a small flash gallery feeded by RSS, created by piclens.com. Not sure it's valuable for me, but it's here, for now.

So far, only 7 pics are available to the RSS feed, I'll add more
but a major rewriting of the site is on its way.

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Bagan - little planet

2008-07-23T09:57:00.001+02:00

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genova - notte

2008-07-18T19:33:00.001+02:00

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Genova - San Lorenzo

2008-07-18T19:01:00.001+02:00

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piclens

2008-07-15T11:46:00.001+02:00

a good reason to have RSS feed on your site.

Piclens is a firefox addon, transforming a standard
picture website into a 3D browser.
Fast and easy to use.

I'm going to write my RSS feeder soon!

Venezia

2008-07-14T14:39:00.003+02:00

come mostrare una città sempre uguale a se stessa in modo differente?

Blogger

2008-07-14T14:26:00.002+02:00

in attesa di un RSS feeder sul mio sito,
mi accontento di un blog...

Viaggiare con Thai

2007-07-11T18:45:00.000+02:00

Mi capita di viaggiare con Thai, ho la tessera frequent Flyer, sono soddisfatto del servizio di volo, lo spazio in economy non è tanto ma va bene così.

Quello che proprio non funziona è il loro sito, la possibilità di prenotare on line un volo, l'impossibilità di pagarlo online.

La cosa peggiore è che in realtà è possibile pagarlo online, l'ho fatto non più tardi di 36ore fa, ho inserito i dati della mia carta di credito per un volo Malpensa-Jakarta sul sito www.thaiair.com.
Ho ricevuto un e-ticket, qualcosa che può essere stampato e presentato al bancone di un aereoporto per ottenere dei biglietti cartacei validi per il volo. Peccato che in realtà quanto ricevuto non valga nulla, non sia valido nemmeno come prenotazione. Se non fosse stato per un mio scrupolo, conoscendo le capacità organizzative di Thai, almeno per quanto riguarda l'Italia, se non avessi avuto dubbi della validità del biglietto e-ticket in mano mia, mi sarei presentato al bancone dell'aereoporto pronto per partire con della carta straccia in mano. Ad oggi non mi è arrivato alcun messagio / indicazione / email / telefonata del fatto che questa prenotazione non ha alcun valore.

Per questa ragione oggi ho impiegato il pomeriggio per presentarmi ad un ufficio Thai,
prendere un nuovo biglietto, accertarmi della completa non validità del precedente,
e pagare 40€ per non-so-che-diritti-di-agenzia, naturalmente senza ricevuta...

Storage disks

2007-07-05T09:03:00.001+02:00

As a travel photographer I always evaluate the trade off between _saving space_ and weight and size of my luggage. A laptop is always a great solution to quickly save pictures, edit them, perhaps catalog, make backup copies and similar. I've used it in situations ... A laptop is not always the perfect solution, even the small MacBook 15" could be simply too heavy and big to be a good companion in some travels in which everything should be shoulder-carried. I generally shoot RAW, with a Canon 1DsMarkII means that 1 file weights something like 15, 20mb, sometimes more. I own 20Gb in CF cards and since their price dropped lately could be a good solution for many. 20Gb could be filled in 4, 5 days of medium-intense shooting. I generally shoot 8, 10gb a day in situations like Venice Carnival.

For this reason an alternative solution to laptop and CF cards is needed. I've used two X's Drive II, 40Gb each. A moderate cheap solution, for a small and handy way of saving your cards.
Some _XXXXXXXXXXXX_ though.

1. Battery runs out in minutes, a 6GB Microdrive card cannot be fully backed up without AC plugged in
2. no control about saved files, if some error occurs, I hade some on my CF, the reader stops copying and in a minute or so it turns off. Only 1 information is displayed, the remaining space available. I've lost pictures for this.

I've recently buyed a Epson P3000. So far, seems to be great.
It's fast, in displaying, copying, backing up. Shows videos and plays MP3.
It has 40gb of internal HD, it reads somehow RAW files. Well, currently it reads the internal thumbnail, it makes no conversion at all, but this is good enough for me for an immediate feedback on a 4" LCD display for keeping track of my pictures and for checking dust on my sensor. However, one of the best features is the control over external USB peripherals,
disks, USB keys.

Initially, I bought a 120 2"5 internal drive for substituting its internal HD.
I've the knowledge to make a perfect copy of the internal drive.
But two reasons stopped me in making this: I don't want to lose my warranty, I've serious doubts about its internal OS in managing HD superior to 80gb.

Moreover, control over USB external peripherals, gave a new life to my external couple of
XDrives. The 120gb works perfectly into the "dumber" XDrive. The XDrive could be considered as a external box for 2"5 drives and using it as an external drive for my Epson P3000 is the simplest thing to do.

Right now I've something like 240gb on small drives I can use to backup my CF cards, and a 4" display to keep everything under control. AC adapters are a bit weighty, but this solution could allow me to 1, 2 months trip in Oceania.

contrast masking

2006-12-15T10:01:00.001+01:00

1.) Duplicate background layer
2.) Desaturate(Ctrl. + Shift + U)

3+4. Blend mode: SCREEN

or

3.) Invert(Ctrl. + I)
4.) Set blend mode to overlay

5.) Apply Gaussian Blur filter(adjust radius setting to your liking)
6.) Adjust layer opacity to your liking

contrast masking 2

2006-12-15T09:53:00.002+01:00

1. duplicate image

2. mask + apply image (*)

3. gaussian blur w/ radius 40px on mask