I love to walk so today I decided to go in the city center of Rome to have a coffee and to take some street pictures. I bringed with me my Canon 5D MKIII with the 35mm F2 Canon lens.
Worked mainly in Aperture mode with an iso that was moving from 400 to 3200 depending on the scene.
Enjoyed the way the new focus system of the camera work and I felt a big difference between the MKIII and the previous generation of 5D.
I receive several emails every months asking about my setup so I decided to post a little compendium with some information on my gear.
As you can see here we have my little Soho (small office / home office). When I’m not shooting I spend several hours every day in this room
I mainly do my post production on a Window 7 64 bit pc. A quad core i7 with 32 gbyte of Ram and a GTX 580 graphic card. Several terabytes of raid hard drives and two SSD all around the office. I have a second backup of the most important files in another secure location.
I do all my post production and 3D work using a Wacom Cintiq 21UX. I have a second monitor (a 40″ LED TV) for a bigger visual (..and videogames!).
I’m working with the Adobe Creative Cloud environment (Photoshop, Lightroom, Premiere, After Effect and so on..).
For 3D Renderings I just chose Luxology Modo 601 and ZBrush, but I’m still in the beginning so it’s training time. I’m also learning to use Blender 3D.
My laptop is a 13″ MacbookPro with 8 Gbyte of Ram with which i use a Wacom Intuos 5 M tablet.
The complete Adobe Suite is also on the Mac, along with Motion and Final Cut X.
I work mainly with Canon Cameras. I own a 5D Mark III and a 5D Mark II. Several Canon prime and zoom lenses and few Manual focus Nikon lenses that I use for video.
Two Elinchrom quadra RX portable sets (4 heads), 5 little led lights panel and 4 big studio strobes are my studio and location light equipment.
I also use a Fuji X100 that I take with me when I take a walk to shoot some street photography.
As you can notice I’m a videogame / Scifi Movie / Comic addicted. All around the office you can see an Xbox360, PS3, PS2, PS Vita, Wii, Gamecube, 3DS and many more… (also a lot of retrocomputers but they are in the Studio garage).
That’s all.
A series of portraits that I made in India in 2008. I was working as Steve McCurryassistant on an assignment for Nokia.
During the several hours I spent scouting around I made some black and white Street Portraits.
Shooted in ambient light with Canon EOS 5D Mark II and a EF24-70mm f/2.8L USM lens.
Black and white using Topaz Black & White Plugin.
Today in Rome in Via del Corso Street. Fuji X100.
