News Archives - Luigi Barbano Photography

Feb 10

by Luigi Barbano in BlogUpdates, ethic, FineArt, News, Uncategorized 0 comments tags: B&W, Black and White, fine art, fine art printing, Luigi Barbano, photography

Black and White Tales – Print #5

A day in Cologne, Germany. . . . Stay tuned for the next tale!

Feb 04

by Luigi Barbano in BlogUpdates, Film photography, FineArt, meditations, News, Uncategorized 0 comments tags: B&W, Black and White, film, fineart, italy, Luigi Barbano, Mantova, photography

Black and White Tales – Print #4

Fourth week, another black and white print and another short tale. What is luck? . .

Jan 26

by Luigi Barbano in Black and White Tales, BlogUpdates, Film photography, FineArt, News, Uncategorized 0 comments tags: B&W, B&WTales, Black and White, black and white tales, filmisnotdead, fine art, Luigi Barbano, photography, print

Black and White Tales – Print #3

New weekly print and tale, this time something more deep and personal. . . . If you enjoyed the video don’t forget to subscribe to my YouTube channel.

Jan 20

Black and White Tales – Print #2

Second week, second print. Enjoy the tale. . . To see the original image click here. .

Jan 12

by Luigi Barbano in Black and White Tales, BlogUpdates, Film photography, FineArt, News, Uncategorized 0 comments tags: Black and White, black and white tales, fine art, inkjet printing, Luigi Barbano, photography

Black and White Tales – Print #1

Here we are, with the first print for the Black and White Tales series. Enjoy the video and check the image below. . . .

Jan 07

by Luigi Barbano in Black and White Tales, BlogUpdates, Film photography, FineArt, News, Uncategorized 0 comments tags: creative process, fine art, fine art printing, inkjet, lack and white, limited edition, Luigi Barbano, new year resolution, photopgraphy

Black and White Tales – Introduction

A new year and a new decade is here. The new year always brings new year resolutions and new projects.I know that the resolution to go to jog at 6am every day would have lasted no more than 20 minutes, so I decided for something more comfortable! Black and White Tales is my new project. . . See you next week and don’t forget to subscribe to my blog or to my YouTube channel to receive the updates on the project.

Oct 16

by Luigi Barbano in BlogUpdates, FineArt, IR Photography, News, Uncategorized 0 comments tags: B&W, Honorable Mention, Luigi Barbano, photography, Photography prize, Spider Award

Honorable Mention at the 14th B&W Spider Award

14TH ANNUAL BLACK AND WHITE SPIDER AWARDS HONORS PHOTOGRAPHER LUIGI BARBANO LOS ANGELES October 16 2019 – Professional photographer Luigi Barbano was presented with the 14th Annual Black and White Spider Awards Honorable Mention in the category of Fine Art, with the image “Asymmetric Emptiness” at a prestigious Nomination & Winners PhotoShow streamed Saturday, October 12, 2019. Luigi Barbano also received two Nomination Awards in the Still Life category with the images “…and there was Light” and “WWI Love Story” The live online gala was attended by industry leaders and the photography community from around the globe who logged on to watch the climax of the world’s premier event for black and white photography. 14th Annual Jury members included captains of the industry from Musee de l’Elysee, Lausanne; The Guardian, London; Contrasto Galleria, Milan; Travel/Discovery Channel, New York; Harper’s Bazaar, UK; Portuguese Center of Photography, Porto; Aeroplastics Contemporary, Brussels; Silvan Faessler Fine Art, Zurich; ADK Creative One Inc., Tokyo; Galerie Hubert Winter, Vienna; Conny Dietzschold Galleries, Sydney; and Pereira O’Dell in New York who honored Spider Fellows with 758 coveted title awards and 909 nominees in 32 categories. “I have been a juror of many photography contests throughout my professional […]

Apr 12

by Luigi Barbano in BlogUpdates, Books, Film photography, FineArt, News, nudes, Uncategorized 0 comments tags: aviation, CarbonCub, Christ of the Abyss, Clearwater, clearwater Beach, Fascism, italy, novel, photography, romance

Lasting Photographs.

“Almost eighty years and an ocean separate John Ragnar, a pilot with a mysterious past, from the photographs he found in a box on the beach in Clearwater near a diver in coma. The desire to give a voice to the nude young woman portrayed in the Italian Riviera, will bring John in a journey of discovery of terrible times and the power of romance.” Yes, I did it, I wrote a novel. Lasting Photographs In the past years I had the time to immerse myself in my family archive and I had a confirmation of the importance of photographs and the stories around the images. Real printed images that I was able to see with just my eyes and a simple source of light. But sometime we find images and there is nobody around to tell their stories. Sometime is just too late in time, and sometime the image traveled far away from the people who knows the story. On the antique markets we often find old photographs, most of the time of people we don’t know, and we will never know who they were and how was their life. All this made me think about the importance of […]

Mar 12

by Luigi Barbano in BlogUpdates, Fujifilm, News, Uncategorized 0 comments tags: digital camera, dream camera, Fuji, Fujifilm, photography, X-Pro, X-Pro3

Dear Fujifilm, will you make me happy?

Dear Fujifilm, I think you are one of the best manufacturers of cameras and lenses. The quality of the products in one reason, the other is that you listen to the users when you update your products. So, the question is, dear Fujifilm, will you make me happy with the XPro-3? Some years ago, after I started using the X-Pro1, I wrote an article saying you were one step away from my dream camera. Partially you satisfied me with the firmware options of the X-Pro2 but still something is missing for me. I am satisfied, I sold all my Canon and I have no regrets but a tilt and shift wide angle. But something is missing from my ideal small format camera, not in the quality of the images produced but in the handling. So here my hopes for the X-Pro3 to make it the perfect camera for me and I’m sure a lot of other users. The most important is the last, so keep reading. First of all, keep the hybrid viewfinder. It is the essence of the X-Pro series and I really don’t get why people happy just with the EVF don’t buy the X-E or the X-T… […]

Mar 06

by Luigi Barbano in BlogUpdates, Film photography, Fujifilm, News, Portfolio 0 comments tags: Model, Pentax 67

Film, digital, a beautiful model and a foggy day

A couple of weeks ago I had scheduled some pictures, just for fun, with a local model. Nothing special and elaborated, just an hour outdoor to know each other professionally and start eventually to think about other projects. It was the only cold and foggy day in a beautiful italian spring and, to be honest, I was almost tempted to reschedule. Instead I carried in my bag my beloved Fuji XPro-2 and, to have some fun, my Pentax 67 with a couple of Ilford HP5+. The model, Anca Dina Serban, was great and the diffused light, coming from the arches of the colonnade of the church front porch we used as set, was the equivalent of a huge light diffuser. As usual I found a lot of differences between film and digital. The response curve to the light is one, but most of all is my attitude different when I have in my hands a film camera with a big focusing screen.With film all become simple. I measured the light on the model cheek at +1 with the Minolta Spotmeter and did not worried anymore about the exposure. The big focusing screen, without disturbing elements allowed me to focus in […]