tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9121264702768165352011-04-21T15:40:44.272-07:00Danilo Piccioni (A.K.A. The Italian Eye) PhotoShop Expert and professional Photographer in Canada and USA.The Italian Eyehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08216661720830939778noreply@blogger.comBlogger41100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-912126470276816535.post-47206868855033582642008-07-12T16:05:00.000-07:002008-07-14T11:16:30.829-07:00

How many times have we read an article in a photography magazine or book that said to achieve better photographs we should frame our shots using things that are available to us in our own environment? Things like a tree branch or an arch. That’s all fine, but to make your images more personalized you need to explore new ways to frame, out of the conventional .I must have been an explorer in my

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By Danilo PiccioniThe Italian EyeSeptember 2006, workshop in Venice under constant rain, definitely not a September Italian kind of weather if you ask me!Despite the weather, we tried to be inventive, we tried to be creative and make the best of the time we had together.Sheltered from the rain standing under the colonnades in Piazza San Marco, I spotted an abandoned broken red umbrella inside a

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By Danilo PiccioniWhen thinking of black and white photography, the worst thing one could think is that B&W is a photograph without any color. It would be just as bad as thinking that a color image is a B&W photograph infested with colors. There are sixteen million shades of gray in the B&W world; trust me when I say that's a lot. There is no reason to think that a B&W picture is in any way

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By Danilo PiccioniSome of you may remember that time in the Venice-Workshop: despite the season it was cold and rainy. Who said it never rains in Italy?(LOL)We were all bundled-up and heading out in the rain at 6 o’clock in the morning, but with an optimistic smile printed on our faces thinking, the sun will come out later, (yeah, right!)As Bryan always points out, even unexpected and

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