Davide Barranca | ALCE - A Local Contrast Enhancer for Photoshop

Ferrari F40 and Bburago Die Cast Model A simple yet powerful Photoshop tool to effectively boost the local contrast of an image, by means of a smart algorithm which avoids the clipping issues typical of methods like shadows/highlights. The user interface is simple and clean, with just one slider, allowing the user to customize the effect in a straightforward way.

 

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The amazing, extraordinary story of "Wonderful Mistakes"

This is an amazing story. The story of a lazy assistant who misplaced a box full of film, outside, exposed to the weather, the heat, and the bugs. The negatives stick together, they transform; dirt, insects, and other unknown particles become part of the gelatins. The transfiguration of the original details creates new "original images" with new meanings.

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Manfrotto Website | Bigano's Corner

Bigano's Corner - Manfrotto WebsiteRoberto Bigano: Not your standard photographer, but a photographer who sets the standard

...and in fact, if, the world over, tripods and photographic equipment like our own are now photographed in exactly the same way, then we have to acknoweldge that it was Roberto Bigano who invented the standard when he first started shooting for Manfrotto, back in the days before digital. That way of making our heads, tripods and special products look that little bit more dynamic, more appealing, is all his...

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Victor by Hasselblad | Roberto Bigano - The Bugatti Portfolio

Bugatti Type 57SC Coupè Atalante Whose heart doesn’t begin to race at the sight of a Bugatti?
Photographer Roberto Bigano seizes a unique opportunity to shoot an entire fleet of these glamorous vintage cars using his Hasselblad H3DII-39MS multi-shot camera in the flowering hills of Tuscany.

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The 3F system | The revolutionary professional scanning system by Hasselblad

3F raw In 2000, Christian Poulsen, Hasseslblad's current CEO, created a new proprietary format for the Imacon scanners, the Flexible File Format or fff. 3F has determined the biggest revolution in the field of original analog scanning since the introduction of the drum scanner.

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