Da qui a li

My final project was transportation through Europe. I titled it, "Da Qui a Li" (From Here to There). I studied the movement and vibrancy of travelling.

Sunrise

My favorite pictures from the Sunrise shoot! So grateful for this photo class!

Ain't nuthin' but a Gita

Earlier in the semester we took a little gita to Lucca! On the way, we stopped off on the top of a mountain to make photographs of a sunrise. This is the first project where I have broken my own rules and done something different. They are grainy, blurry, and imperfect.
Luciano has taught us to go beyond what is to be expected from us and experience the unfamiliar. This project is unlike anything I have done before and that is what I like about it.

My Final Project

      I chose to base my project around Chefs in Siena.  I have a passion for food and I figured this would be a good way to try and catch a free meal (which I did).  I wanted to photograph chefs because they are always inside the kitchen, and are never able to go out into the restaurant.  I wanted to bring the work of the chef outside of the kitchen for all to see.  In doing so I brought my fellow "eaters" inside the kitchen to see how much work is put into the art that is Italian Food.
     Here are just a few of the 25 photos I used for my project, entitled "Cuochi Senesi."

Here we are lucky enough to have Luciano as our professor who loves to do out of class activities! We have worked with flash in and outdoors, continuous light in studio, day trips to different cities, creeping on people in the piazza del campo, worked with a model and a prop, and had numerous lessons on photoshop from Emilio.  We are all weird in our own way which makes photo lessons that much more fun, here is a  just a taste of what a studio lesson looks like with us!