Manfrotto launch SYMPLA video rigs for HDSLRs and camcorders

  HDSLR cameras and ever-smaller pro camcorders have changed videography dramatically, and along with the obvious advantages and opportunities presented by smaller, lighter cameras come new problems to solve. As ENG camera operators started to use smaller camcorders, and photographers were expected to shoot broadcast-quality video footage on their HDSLRs, both groups found that their [...]

Manfrotto School of Xcellence supports Sympla at NAB!

Sympla is supported at NAB by Manfrotto School of Xcellence through its mentors:   Monday 16 10:30 The Bui Brothers - “Dynamic film making for the 21st century” supported by Manfrotto The Bui Brothers will show some of their latest work and discuss the latest developments in DSLR video, plus share their latest hot tips and techniques [...]

Manfrotto at Fotografica 2011

Manfrotto, world leader in the creation, manufacture and distribution of professional products for the Imaging world, will participate as technical partner at Fotografica 2011, one of the most important events dedicated to those who love photography and video. The event, organized by Canon from 30th November to 4th December in Milan is a meeting where [...]

Jerod Foster – Finding Favorites: Revisiting Your Archives

In January, I started a small series on my own blog called Finding Favorites with the intention of sharing some of my more memorable photography experiences. I think as a photography community we get so wrapped up in the technicalities of how an image was produced that we overlook the value of the experience in [...]

Stacy Pearsall: What’s In My Bag?

What’s In My Bag from Stacy Pearsall on Vimeo. In order to create a successful photo shoot, I use several items. I have lighting gear, light stands, cameras, lenses, tripods, monopods, batteries, gels, flashes, power packs and on and on and on and on. To keep the clean, organized and ready to go, I use [...]

Stefano Pesarelli – Travel photography: Africa, travelling with a Leica and an iPad

Travelling in Africa is my life condition. As a photographer, often, in a constant aesthetics search for aesthetics and communication, I have wondered which is the proper instrument for travel photography. Generating memories, recalling instants to share when back home: this is what, at least partly, travel photography should be. I am fascinated by the [...]

From the Andes to the Rainforest, journey into the heart of Peru

I asked him: «Are you ready to catch a snake and bite it in half? Without missing a beat, he said yes, and we were over with this question Werner Herzog, Interview with Fabio Fazio – “Che tempo che fa” (Rai 3, January 19, 2008) “The settlers destroyed the jungle and constructed that masterpiece of [...]

Stefano Pesarelli: a slight common thread

Tea stories The bitter Taste of Malawi (2007-2009)   When I thought I could tell the workers’ day in the tea plantations, I immediately became aware that the reportage should be dealt with in black and white and not in colors. My choice was not just aesthetic, but necessary to underline the story and not [...]

Jose Antunes: Dive into the sea bottom

Diving into the sea bottom and exploring other worlds are concepts that tend to make people think different things than I do. I do those two activities close to home. Photographers usually make thousands of kilometres to explore the most fantastic landscapes, always looking for other worlds beyond the one they know, so they look [...]

Bruno D’Amicis and his book “The last stronghold”

After three years of work and more than two hundred days spent in the field, the new book about the project to save the endangered wilderness of Tichá Valley in the Slovak Tatras is finally out! “The Last Stronghold” is a large-format book presenting the unique pictures of the Italian wildlife photographer Bruno D’Amicis and [...]

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