Montag, 27. September 2010

#10 Asian Seascapes Vol #2

A few shots from my actual work.
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This is part 2 of my seascapes from Koh Ngai, Thailand.


All pictures were taken with my NIKON D200 DSLR. For most of them I used 12-24mm DX NIKKOR Ultra Wide Angle Lens, or the 10,5mm DX Fisheye NIKKOR.

See more of my Seascapes in my next blog #9 Asian Seascapes  Vol #1


Enjoy, Alfredo Briccola

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Dienstag, 21. September 2010

#9 Asian Seascapes Vol #1

A few shots from my actual work.
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I shot these pictures below on the tiny and remote island Koh Ngai (spoken Co High) in southern Thailand, where no roads or paved ways disturb the eye and just nature rules. The so called long tail boats are the only traffic devices available around and being used by the local fishermen. Most of them were made at sunset or in the early morning, when the light is so soft and magic, that the colors turn the scenery into a mix of crazy warm tones. On Koh Ngai, I always stayed at the very nice and friendly Coco Cottage Resort, wich I recommend. I had the chance to spend a little time on this island more than once and that gave me the opportunity to catch the full beauty of the place in different lightening situations. The three islands in the background are typically for the scenery of the archipelago on Thailands southernmost outskirts.





I shot this pictures with my NIKON D200 DSLR. For most of them I used 12-24mm DX NIKKOR Ultra Wide Angle Lens, or the 10,5mm DX Fisheye NIKKOR.

See more of my Seascapes in my next blog #10 Asian Seascapes  Vol #2


Enjoy, Alfredo Briccola

Legal: All pictures in the «Onehundred ISO Photography» Blog are property of Alfredo Briccola. It is strictly not allowed to copy, alter or use this pictures for print, electronic media or other media without the permission of the creator.

Dienstag, 22. Juni 2010

#8 Tropical Rain

A few stills from my actual work.
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A tropical rainfall produces very nice water droplets in the nature environment. Especially on the large foliage of palm trees and the petals of beautiful flowers. Mostly, the clouds after a shower disappear very quick and one can get out for the shots. I preferred the palms in a hotel garden and made the pictures before the water dries out on the leaves.














My tropical raindrop pictures were shot with my NIKON D200 DSLR with a NIKKOR AF-S VR 105mm, f 1:2.8 ED Micro Nikkor lens. All the fine tuning was made in Apple Aperture 3. The important part to shoot these pictures is a lens, that give you a nice bokeh for all the blurry highlight dots of the out of focus raindrops and even fore- and backgrounds. The VR function helps quiet a lot, because the shots were all taken freehand.

Enjoy, Alfredo Briccola

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Freitag, 18. Juni 2010

#7 Little Buddha

A few stills from my actual work.
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Nearly in every place in Thailand you can find Buddhist Temples. A lot of them are really ancient or they are recent but build in an ancient style. Many of the recent ones are build in a sort of modern «candy maker architecture» as I would say, because of the overwhelming gold, mirrored glass and color everywhere, inside and even outside. I for myself like both types. I find always new ideas for nice shots, every time I discover a unknown one to me.  It is not easy to shoot in such places, because these are places of prayer and also of tourism. Exactly there is the problem. I have to respect the worshippers. So I'll need a lot of time, be very careful in what and how I frame it and trying not to disturb the people at their prayers. If I take my time, I'll mostly get out with a lot of amazing pictures.
The best of all Buddha statues, in my opinion, are to find at construction sites of some temples. The statues are much more ancient looking, because of all the dust around them, the naked concrete walls and floors and the slightly «worn out» look they present. They are much less gilded than the official statues in the temples itself and some times some parts like arms, hands or others are missing. But despite the poor look, they are all in really use for the workers to pray each day and provide me with the motives for good pictures.













The pictures above show a mix between the Buddhas inside Wat Chalong, the workers Buddhas at the construction site of the Phra Puttamingmongkol Akenakkiri Buddha, known as The Big Buddha in Phuket and some of the construction Site of Wat Karon.
All shots were taken without a flash, just using available light. I used my NIKON D200 DSLR with a NIKKOR AF-S DX VR 18-200mm, f 1:3,5 - 5,6 G ED tele zoom lens. I did the B&W conversion and the finetuning in Apple Aperture 3.

Enjoy, Alfredo Briccola

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Sonntag, 6. Juni 2010

Wrooooooom! Part #1

A few shots from my recent work.
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Motorsport racing on round circuits in Switzerland is officially not allowed since 1955. Since then, a lot of small and officially granted events, e.g. mountain races are held here instead, like the most famous of all, the «Klausen Memorial». Other and smaller events like the «Oldtimer Classics Hittnau» or the «GP-Mutschellen» are typical gathering occasions for motorsport enthusiasts who like to feel the roar of powerful engines from the past and from today and want too see them in action.
Shooting on such events results in a much more action feeling in the pictures than shooting on typical old-timer or car shows, where the machines are just displayed with a crowd of spectators around.

I shot this series of pictures at the «Oldtimer Classics Hittnau», Switzerland. It was a lightly rainy day, but the cloud cover was an advantage to my pictures, because it brought a very smooth light on the metallic and lacquered surfaces.

I had a press accreditation and therefore it was possible to shoot without any crowd of spectators that usually obstruct the pictures.


























My «Wrooooom» pictures were shot with a NIKON D200 DSLRs with NIKKOR AF-S VR-I 70-200mm G lens. The fine tuning has been made in Adobe Photoshop CS6 and Apple Aperture 3.

Enjoy, Alfredo Briccola

Legal: All pictures in the «Onehundred ISO Photography» Blog are property of Alfredo Briccola. It is strictly not allowed to copy, alter or use this pictures for print, electronic media or other media without the permission of the creator.