Hello guys....is Eolo from Rome writing...I received an email about this discussion and I'm quite surprised about it...:-)(posted 8462 days ago)So I'll try to give some info about what i'm doing. I hope it can help...please forgive my not so perfect english.
First of all as you may imagine I love photography. When I discoverd it 3 years ago I discovered what I really like to do.
Photography now is for me a lifestyle....I dedicate all my time to it...trying to improve my style, my technique and my printing capabilities....at the same time I choosed not to make photography my work (now i'm working for an italian web agency) and at the moment I'm living this situation with a great pleasure because I feel I need to do a lot of experiments to become the photographer I hope I will be one day.
Few American friends told me that I should already transform that in a business...that I should have the capabilities to do that....but well..I'm not in hurry....I'm quite lucky to have a good work and....I would like to have some more time to study photography ...they told me that this is....an European approach :-)
If you navigate the internet a little bit or you go to the nearest bookstore you will find incredible photographers....giants of photography that create incredible images. I admire their work and i'd love one day to be able to be as good as them.
I dedicate to photography all my spare time and i'm a lucky guy....I have a small team of supporters that helps me every time I organize a shooting session (they have fun) and a lot of people that would like to be photographed. This helps me to "simulate" a working enviorment.
If you want to have a look to the way (and where) we work have a look to
http://www.smallstudio.com/eolo/backstage/
while here there is a small selection of images
http://www.smallstudio.com/eolo/
I know that the gallery is really slow to download...and that as a webdesigner I should do something a little bit more friendly.
Please forgive me...at the moment I'm really so busy...in the near future I hope to be able to make a new site.
As you said i work with a 35mm camera and I mainly use my 105mm while i also have a 24mm...a 50mm and a 180.
Do not get surprised about that...giants of photography such as Lindbergh works mainly with the 35mm
the format do not make a photography.
give to a good photographer a compact camera and he will be able to took a nice photogaphy.
Of course as much powerfull is your equipment more potential you will have in your hands.
by the way i normally do not dedicate to much time to my equipment while i love to think to the different photographic situation i may try to create.
I'm trying to improve my tech skill as always....but Style is my goal...... buy style is difficult because is not something you learn...is something that comes out with time....with experience and with culture. So I suppose is something i may be able to archieve in the future....starting to work on it now. I'm studying a lot and I hope to be able to transform what I'm reading in good images.
The "models" I'm working with are all friends...just a couple of them works as a pro model...while other are just beautifull. They dedicate me some of their time and this has an incredible value for me.
Now a couple of big agencies contacted me to make some tests....I'm very happy...even if entering in their offices i saw their photographic archives and I found myself so small....:-)
So is time to work hard (well is fun so is not so hard) and see what the future has behind the corner.
90% of the time I work in ambient light while as you can see from the backstages few weeks ago i rented a garage and got a couple of flash to start to study artificial light. The place is quite "underground" but works well and for the moment is ok.
External Locations are places near my apartment. I normally like to go around looking for nice places where to make a photo session.
All the photographic sessions I do are organized to be as much cheap we can...photogaphy is already a so expensive discipline that I 'm spending all my pay in that....:-) makeup is made by a guy that is studying and that is creating his small portfolio. So he has the models and a photographet that works form him while I have a makeup artist that helps me....a good way to collaborate i feel.
He also manage to do some hairstyle but this is not his job so....for the clothes we always ask to all our friends or we buy used stuff in the sunday market.
I used for a lot the Ilford Xp2 beacuse was fast to develop and now i know it quite well. By the way I'm becoming to experiments different films and dia trying to understand the one that fits my way. But is so difficult...as you know...there are billions of variables...so i continuw with the Xp2 while sometime i shoot few new film.
I love (really) fashion photography but may be I shold try to be a little bit more "fashion oriented" in my shooting. I also love portrait..and I'm considering to try some streeth photography in the near future. I love people. That's all.
www.necron.com is my old site. I made it when 3D graphic was my hope for the future...but then...photography took all the space in my heart and now i found this site a little bit to "old fashion". I keep it cause it generato so much traffic and I love contacts. As soon I'll be able to define a design I like www.smallstudio.com will become my new presence on the net.
Well...i hope not to have been too boring. Thanks a lot for the discussion and ask if needed. I'm here.
I hope a fantastic light for all of you and to have always fun with photography.
ciao.