With a 365 the photographer publicly takes the responsibility of taking and publishing one shot each of the 365 days which make a year. It’s a tough project, which forces consistency and dedication.
I wanted my 365 to be like a diary of my life and my ideas, so I needed a camera to always bring along, wherever I had to go, whatever I had to do. It wasn’t easy since quality and compactness are not exactly synonymous in digital photography.
Finally, for my thirty-third birthday I bought myself a Sony NEX-7, a great little professional system. With it I started my own 365 project (actually a 365+1 project, since 2012 is a leap year), which will end when I turn 34. I made the rule that every picture in the project must be taken with the NEX-7. Each photo gets published along with a short story on the project blog.
186/365(+1), a photo by Luca Rossini on Flickr. Lens: Voigtlander color-skopar 35mm f2.5Camera: NEX-7, ISO1600, f2.5, 1/5, raw NO CARD … NO CARD … NO CARD … no memory card inserted.$h1t.I didn’t have much sleep, Agata put three teeth in one night. Then woke up early in the morning. And I’m the one responsible to […]
185/365(+1), a photo by Luca Rossini on Flickr. Lens: Voigtlander color-skopar 35mm f2.5Camera: NEX-7, ISO100, f8, 1/125, raw The third quarter of the project starts today, I’m already halfway through it, one hundred and eighty four photos and two volumes now published (by the way, if you missed them, you can find both the FREE […]
184/365(+1), a photo by Luca Rossini on Flickr. Lens: Minolta 100mm f2.8 macroCamera: NEX-7, ISO400, f2.8, 1/60, raw It’s again time to publish another book of the four volumes which will eventually collect the whole material from the 365(+1) Days of NEX-7 project. The second quarter of the project witnessed a particularly intense part of […]
183/365(+1), a photo by Luca Rossini on Flickr. Lens: Voigtlander color-skopar 35mm f2.5Camera: NEX-7, ISO200, f8, 1/1000, raw The same family friends who invited us yesterday at their pool at Cala Piccola offered to bring us sailing today. They own a nice sailing boat, 12 meters long. We met this morning at 10 am and […]
182/365(+1), a photo by Luca Rossini on Flickr. Lens: Voigtlander color-skopar 35mm f2.5Camera: NEX-7, ISO100, f4, 1/640, raw Pools are beautiful. And relaxing. And refreshing. And a lot of fun, when you are a kid. And yet, when you look at pools for what they really are, pools are simply geometrically unnatural, crystal clear, perfectly […]
181/365(+1), a photo by Luca Rossini on Flickr. Lens: Voigtlander color-skopar 35mm f2.5Camera: NEX-7, ISO100, f2.5, 1/320, raw Sunset over a hill of Tuscany, is there any landscape more dreadfully abused in photography? Well, this particular landscape isn’t even one of the best, it’s actually probably one of the worst, and yet it’s kind of […]
180/365(+1), a photo by Luca Rossini on Flickr. Lens: Voigtlander color-skopar 35mm f2.5Camera: NEX-7, ISO100, f2.5, 1/250, raw Today Claudia and I left Rome and drove to the summer house. Soon after we arrived, my parents returned with Agata from the beach. Apparently it has been an extremely windy day, with sand blowing everywhere and […]
179/365(+1), a photo by Luca Rossini on Flickr. Lens: Voigtlander color-skopar 35mm f2.5Camera: NEX-7, ISO1600, f2.5, 1/50, raw Testaccio is probably the coolest neighborhood of Rome. Most of the city’s best restaurants, clubs and bars are here. The streets are nice to walk around, kind of dark and yet not (too) dangerous. The heart of […]
178/365(+1), a photo by Luca Rossini on Flickr. Lens: Minolta 50mm f1.4 AFCamera: NEX-7, ISO1600, f2.5, 1/50, raw I’ve been definitely sucked into photography. I got so deeply and fatally stuck in it that I can hardly do or watch anything else. It has always been like this, every time I get closer to serious […]
177/365(+1), a photo by Luca Rossini on Flickr. Lens: Voigtlander color-skopar 35mm f2.5Camera: NEX-7, ISO1600, f2.5, 1/50, raw My dog Lucy gets fourteen years old this August. She’s with me since I started my engineering studies, she’s with us since the story between Claudia and I started, she’s followed us in the Netherlands when we […]