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.
16/365(+1), a photo by Luca Rossini on Flickr. Lens: Minolta 50mm f1.4 AF with macro rings (+1, +2, +3)Camera: NEX-7, ISO500, f5.6, 1/60, vivid The storm kept raging the whole day. At minus four Celsius, strong wind, intense snowing, and all the roads iced, we though it would have been a good idea to spend […]
15/365(+1), a photo by Luca Rossini on Flickr. Lens: Minolta 50mm f1.4 AFCamera: NEX-7, ISO1600, f3.5, 1/15 When you are staying in the mountains you have to worship the Weather Forecasting Service. If you don’t, or even forget to just for one day, then you are screwed. We were supposed to come back today from […]
14/365(+1), a photo by Luca Rossini on Flickr. Lens: Sony e-mount 16mm f2.8 with fisheye adapterCamera: NEX-7, ISO1000, f11, 1/60, vivid We spent the day on the mountains around Pescocostanzo. First a sunny lunch with ham and hot cheese panini (ham being “crudo di montagna” and cheese being “scamorza”) drinking a lot of belgian white […]
13/365(+1), a photo by Luca Rossini on Flickr. Lens: Voigtlander color-skopar 35mm f2.5Camera: NEX-7, ISO1600, f2.5, 1/15, high contrast monochrome Today we left our home for the first time since Agata is with us. We packed an enormous amount of stuff and filled the car, just for two days in the mountains. We all left, […]
12/365(+1), a photo by Luca Rossini on Flickr. Lens: Sony e-mount 16mm f2.8 with fisheye adapterCamera: NEX-7, ISO1600, 1/15, f5, vivid Regardless being an antifascist country by constitution, Italy still hosts many glorious referrals to Benito Mussolini, the Duce. This place in particular is an old school triumph of hymns to fascism and praises of […]
11/365(+1), a photo by Luca Rossini on Flickr. Lens: Voigtlander color-skopar 35mm f2.5Camera: NEX-7, ISO1000, f2.5, 1/60, vivid I’ve got just the time to come back home, pack the family, and move the Rossini(s) to an “Apericena” (literally aperitif-dinner) hosted by a colleague of mine. I spent the day preparing for some intra-neural recording I […]
10/365(+1), a photo by Luca Rossini on Flickr. Lens: Minolta 100mm f2.8 macroCamera: NEX-7, ISO100, f32, 1/160, vivid Working from home today, full-immersion on some document production, which results in me still wearing a pajama. I don’t feel like going out shooting at all. It is in days like this that I am glad I […]
9/365(+1), a photo by Luca Rossini on Flickr. Lens: Voigtlander color-skopar 35mm f2.5Camera: NEX-7, ISO1600, f3.5, 1/20, vivid Today it rains, a lot, but it’s fine since it will finally melt the last snowdrifts on the roads. Sure rain makes Rome a mess in terms of traffic, but it also shines on all its marbles. […]
8/365(+1), a photo by Luca Rossini on Flickr. Lens: Voigtlander color-skopar 35mm f2.5Camera: NEX-7, ISO1600, f5.6, 1/50, vivid It’s Goodbye Day. He’s Michele, he’s a neurologist, a neuroscientist, and an amazing musician (check out his band’s music at Chat Noir). He’s my best friend, the one I missed most when I lived in the Netherlands, […]
7/365(+1), a photo by Luca Rossini on Flickr. Lens: Minolta AF 50mm f1.4Camera: NEX-7, ISO 1000, f5.6, 1/60, vivid I spent most of the day by “scanning” the slides from my friend Edoardo’s bachelor party. During the three days we spent partying in Bruxelles the last December I shot solely with my soviet LC-A (which […]