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.
166/365(+1), a photo by Luca Rossini on Flickr. Lens: Zeiss 24mm f1.8 e-mountCamera: NEX-7, ISO100, f1.8, 1/160, raw You don’t tell Alaska what you want to do, Alaska tells you what you can do. With this Hollywood-ish sentence, one of the guys finally settled the dispute arisen within the cabin crew on how to proceed […]
165/365(+1), a photo by Luca Rossini on Flickr. Lens: Zeiss 24mm f1.8 e-mountCamera: NEX-7, ISO100, f5, 1/1600, raw Today the adventure begun. We left the hotel early in the morning, when a thick and smokey fog was still covering the island, waiting for the sun to eventually dissolve it with it warm rays.We were heading […]
164/365(+1), a photo by Luca Rossini on Flickr. Lens: Zeiss 24mm f1.8 e-mountCamera: NEX-7, ISO100, f2.5, 1/4000, raw One of the guys I’m working with here in Kodiak lended me the Zeiss 24mm f1.8 prime lens for the nex e-mount. So, today I left my 35mm skopar at the hotel and went for the first […]
163/365(+1), a photo by Luca Rossini on Flickr. Lens: Voigtlander color-skopar 35mm f2.5Camera: NEX-7, ISO1600, f2.5, 1/15, raw This has literally been the longest day in my life. I never went to sleep last night because I had to leave home for the airport at 3.30am. My first flight took off at 6.20am, while dawn […]
162/365(+1), a photo by Luca Rossini on Flickr. Lens: Voigtlander color-skopar 35mm f2.5Camera: NEX-7, ISO1600, f2.5, 1/40, raw So, it’s finally time to leave. Which means that this is a goodbye post. I won’t be able to publish any daily photo for the next whole week, but I’ll keep shooting and writing, so as soon […]
161/365(+1), a photo by Luca Rossini on Flickr. Lens: Voigtlander color-skopar 35mm f2.5Camera: NEX-7, ISO1600, f2.5, 1/60, raw Three weddings in a row are quite a tough job. I know that if the studio takes the wedding direction seriously, three or four weddings a week during the hot months will become the norm, so I […]
160/365(+1), a photo by Luca Rossini on Flickr. Lens: Voigtlander color-skopar 35mm f2.5Camera: NEX-7, ISO100, f2.5, 1/80, raw Sometimes I get immersed into worlds so different from mine that I don’t know what to expect. Take today. We were the photographers of the wedding of a very young couple. He’s Italian, she’s Russian, Muscovite to […]
159/365(+1), a photo by Luca Rossini on Flickr. Lens: Voigtlander color-skopar 35mm f2.5Camera: NEX-7, ISO100, f5.6, 1/200, raw Not far north of Rome there is an incredibly beautiful volcanic lake. It’s name is Martignano and, for some misterious reasons, no one ever raised a town over it or build a road around it. Then it […]
158/365(+1), a photo by Luca Rossini on Flickr. Lens: Sony e-mount 16mm f2.8 with fisheye adapterCamera: NEX-7, ISO200, f8, 1s, raw Our studio is finally ready. Yesterday we received the last prints, today we framed them and now they’re hanging on the wall. We made a line of six frames on the long wall, plus […]
157/365(+1), a photo by Luca Rossini on Flickr. Lens: Voigtlander color-skopar 35mm f2.5Camera: NEX-7, ISO1600, f2.5, 1/30, raw Summer holidays are approaching for everyone here in Rome. It’s very typical (in some cases even mandatory) that Italians take their holidays, usually around two to three weeks, in August. This actually makes it the worst month […]