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About
me
I am a photographer
and a journalist from Italy.
Like Doctor
Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, I have a double personality: I'm a researcher working
in an high technology research centre in everyday life, but the other person
that lives inside me is exactly on the opposite position: no science, just
art! "Mr. Hyde Belverde" is a reporter and a journalist and writes for
several Italian newspapers and magazines. He loves telling the tales of
the Island of Sicily, its people and traditions. Reportage, portraits and
nudes are the genres he loves the most.
My main studies
were in the field of electronics, and they lead me to my first job. This
is a wonderful job, so I work as a scientist during the day, and I spend
a lot of my free time as a photographer.
I can provide
my photos to everyone who likes them.
I'd rather
prefer not to supply just a single photo but the entire set it belongs
to, because I believe the power of my work relies on the full story, on
the complete set.
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SKILLS
I attend several
workshops and courses but I found internet is the best way to learn
and compare myself to the world.
After gaining
a base in photography by reading books and magazines I vowed never to stop
learning.
APPROACH
I like to
keep my approach quite simple, I love natural light but I use fill flash
quite often. I don't like to work quickly during my session. I love to
be on good terms with the subject. I spend a lot of time speaking with
people before I take pictures.
I aim to be
very close to the subject and I often use a wide lens. I generally work
alone, and with reduced equipment with me, in order to go unnoticed and
take the subject spontaneously (for street and reportage only).
Equipment
I use
a Nikon D700 with a few nikon lens (20mm, 35-70, 85mm), an SB25 strobe
flash (just for fill-in), and a reflector (for portrait on available light).
I prefer digital
because of the wonderful quality and the ability to see instantly what's
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Post
production has a lot of importance in my workflow and I use several editing
software to retouch my shot.
I agree with
the philosophy that there are no rules (equipment or technique) on how
to realize a nice photo, it's only the final result that counts and not
how you get it.
About my
Photos
Someone says
that my portraits are retouched and interpreted with to much post production.
May be, if
you consider these portraits like passport photos.
These pictures
are just a point of view about the subject, just an interpretation.
It can be
right or wrong but in any case they cannot be considered exactly the reality.
So, the question
is: “can we consider this kind of photos like a traditional document?”
Even if retouched and hard interpreted, do them contain part of the original
message?
Well, Professor
PhD Ludvík Baran has a personal opinion about my photos (street),
and about this kind of photos:
download article
in PDF format: download |
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Thanks to:
Lucia Cantone
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