Nicola Cocco – How did you shoot that? One day’s dance

This year during the International Dance Day ( April 29 ) the main museum of my city acted  as location for some dance shows. There was a lot of schools and performers like: Cristine Sonia Baraga, Tiziana Bolfe, Gleni Caci, Giada Meggiolaro e Giorgia Nardin. The event was organized by Centro Per La Scena Cotemporanea [...]

Nicola Cocco / How did you shoot : watchtower in clouds

Empty spaces, nature greatness and good light are always a good mix to achieve a good shoot, that’s almost true if you like some aspect of the classical and emotive photography. I like to keep the “classical roots” in every picture as a base to build more “modern” or conceptual images like in that winter [...]

Nicola Cocco: How did you shoot that – Artificial light in city

Sometimes happens that you have to take some shots of a city, or a part of it, and the weather and lights are not on your side. I’m pretty sure that you have faced that condition few times, and you know, you’re out in a city and you have nothing useful and good to use. [...]

Michael Freeman: How Did You Shoot That? – Just a gesture

Sometimes it’s a simple little thing that wins the day. Or at least, wins my day when I’m on assignment. There was very little to this shot really, but it worked for me because of just one unpredictable thing. I was in Songzanlin Monastery on the outskirts of Zhongdian, a Tibetan town in northern Yunnan, [...]

Michael Freeman: How Did You Shoot That? – Bassac River

This week’s tutorial is about removing stuff from digital images – the contentious issue of content removal, to be accurate. It’s contentious because it interferes with the apparent reality of what was in front of the camera, and many people do not approve. Well, that’s discussed sufficiently over on that page, and I’m not going [...]

José Antunes: How did you shoot that – The intimacy of orchids

Going into the intimacy of flowers is only open to those that use macro lenses, a moment when backgrounds almost vanish and you’re in a brave new world. I recently came across a comment on a website, someone claiming that everybody was photographing flowers at close range, with backgrounds out of focus, a trend that [...]

Michael Freeman: How Did You Shoot That? – Udon Noodles

It was a food assignment, studio work, a cookery book for Wagamama, a successful chain of restaurants in London specializing in many kinds of Asian noodle dishes. Part of it, because these were early Photoshop days and we were experimenting with assembling images, involved photographing the ingredients one by one. Udon are the thick chewy [...]

Nicola Cocco – How did you shoot that: Eglise des Frères-Prêcheurs

I made this shoot while visiting “Les Rencontres d’Arles” in Arles, France. All the city is full of events and photo expo all focused on photography. I shooted mostly on the aesthetic way without mind on a project to tell-a-story of the city: stopping on moments and places I noticed and I liked. I can’t [...]

Edward Mendes: How did you shoot that – The thrill of the hunt

Here in the United States we just finished celebrating the Thanksgiving holiday which got me thinking.  A number of years ago I was sitting around a picnic table with some of my wife’s extended family, we were chatting and the conversation eventually turned to hunting and a recent trip they had taken to Africa.  As [...]

Milko Marchetti: How did you shoot that? – Backlit Egret

The story of this picture is short but intense, as they say, in the days before the ambuscade, I had watched from a certain distance the presence of several herons in the nearby of a bulkhead that does enter/exit the water in the valleys of Comacchio. Herons do furious struggles and continuous flights to position [...]

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