If are looking for a place to spend a few days in total peace, where you can focus only to take some beautiful pictures, enjoying some spectacular sunsets with the sun “falling” into the sea and where your biggest problem will be to choose whether the next glass of wine will be red or white, well.. Look no more, because the Cinque Terre is exactly the place you were looking for.
The sun isn’t arose yet, but you are starting to clearly see the details of the landscape; the shapes and lines that were creepy till 10 minutes before are finally becoming familiar again, and the night is clearly passed and gone. The birds are starting to sing again, and you still feel cold as hell even if you see the first lights coming through.
Autumn is considered by many photographers the best season to go out and take pictures. It doesn’t take a genius to understand why: the “foliage” (term to express the beauty of the typical autumn palette) colors, the mild climate and the abundance of subjects makes autumn a valid contendant for the title of “Best Season of the Year”, if ever there was such a contest.
Sometimes it will be hard to resist. Sometimes you’ll ask yourself who made you do it, or why you are doing it. Sometimes you’ll think you’ll be freezing to death in that harsh, unwelcoming environment, which doesn’t matter if it’s 3 minutes from your home or 3 continents away.
You’ll think “that’s enough, I quit”. But then, as if by magic, you’ll find yourself again in that same cold environment. And again.
White balance is one of the most important yet less considered settings when it comes to producing compelling images. A slight change towards a warmer or a colder color temperature can make the difference between a dull image and an impressive one.
The main problem is that many photographers never put much effort into learning how to deal with the white balance and its settings, so when they find themselves with some weird colors in their images they don’t really know how to fix the problem, even if it’s much easier than everyone might think.
It can be overwhelming – to say the least – to enter into the “magical” world of editing softwares and apps, if you don’t have a clue about what are their features or even how to interpret those qualities/numbers, what do they mean in practice.
And oh, did I mention the fact that there are more and more choices every day? Till the last decade, options were quite limited; now, (un)fortunately, they are endless!
“The Times They Are a-changin’”, like Bob Dylan would say. That’s what is happening at the moment in the photography world.
In the last decade (or even less!) we saw the rise of the so-called “mirrorless” cameras, and the set back of the DSLR reflex domination.
Sony, which has probably been the real first mover in the mirrorless market, has just announced to have surpassed Nikon in sales, and became the #2 world camera producer, just behind Canon.
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