Please consider this page an index to make it easier to navigate the site. I like to mix different genres and specializations that present many common characteristics and sometime are arbitrarily divided.
In shooting art collections, like paintings, sculptures, armors, antique cars, we use innovative techniques, usually reserved for big budget projects. For example, we can shoot objects with reflecting surfaces on site, reach extreme or virtually non accessible positions or execute panoramic shoots with very little distortion. In every situation we face the problematic we encounter and we choose the most appropriate technique.
First of all forgive us the word play, which might come off as presumptuous. However, we felt like we came up with something that perfectly summarizes our philosophy in this arena by uniting the concepts of high resolution and quality reproduction.
Our main rule is to not get stuck in the past. We do everything we can to translate methodological experiences gained in one field, to the next one. This way we managed to collect many references in different important fields; from the technological with Manfrotto, Gitzo and Dopplemayr, to art still life for FMR, and the publishing sector for Mondadori and even in the food shooting where we won a prize for the best photography in Italy in 2007.
We want to suggest you to change your point of view. We believe it is worth it. We can do overhead shoots even where there are not existing point to shoot from. In most cases the result change surprisingly even by raising a few meters. Often we combined overhead shooting with panoramic shooting indoors or out with highly innovative technologies.
One of the things we specialize in is panoramic shootings with a very low level of distortion. We use the linear stitch technique with special expedients that, almost always, allows us to challenge those laws of physics and optics, which would normally cause unacceptable distortions. Similar techniques are also utilized to produce special or inaccessible pictures otherwise impossible to realize.
In the era of image banks, royalty-free pictures and consumerism, the "Slow Shooting Special Projects" are an attempt to recoup photo reporting methods and approaches extraordinarily effective. These are projects developed over long periods of time and are as independent as possible from commitment constrictions.
| Davide Barranca | ALCE - A Local Contrast Enhancer for Photoshop |
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| The 3F system | The revolutionary professional scanning system by Hasselblad |
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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.
In 2000 Imacon, now Hasselblad, 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.
First of all forgive us the word play, which might come off as presumptuous. However, we felt like we came up with something that perfectly summarizes our philosophy in this arena by uniting the concepts of high resolution and quality reproduction.