Urbanautica: the special interview with Belgian Photographer Dieter De Lathauwer

The words and images proposed this week by Urbanautica for Manfrotto School of Xcellence, are taken from the special interview with Belgian Photographer Dieter De Lathauwer.  Graduated as a photographer at the Academy of Arts in Ghent, De Lathauwer consider photography as a method, as a means of spending time and forcing himself to look [...]

Urbanautica: The Dawn Roe’s beautiful research ‘Goldfields’

This new chapter of Urbanautica for Manfrotto School of Xcellence is taken from the feature on Dawn Roe’s beautiful research ‘Goldfields’. The American photographer received her MFA in Studio Art from The Illinois State University College of Fine Arts in Normal, IL in 2005 and her BFA in Photography from Marylhurst University in Portland, OR in [...]

Portrait Lighting Basics, Part 5: Working with On-Camera-Lights

The ‘classic’ and most common kind of an on-camera-light is the shoe mount flash used in still photography. This tutorial concentrates on it’s equivalent used primarily on video cameras. Unlike a flash light, it irradiates constant light. There are different types of on-camera-lights concerning the lamp, these are the most common ones: Halogen lamps Before LED [...]

Melissa Mercier: Hylophobia- Fear of forests

Once in a while, a fashion piece that is so beautiful, charming, gorgeous, irresistible…. is created and when you see it for the first time, your heart stops and butterflies show up in your stomach. That’s it, you are in love! That’s what happened when I first saw this Obakki Acadia coat on the runway [...]

Melissa Mercier: Botanophobia- Fear of plants

I grew up in a town with lots of corn fields, but it’s not until I walked right into one for this self portrait that I realized how tall this plant can get. From further away, this crop was absolutely gorgeous having the perfectly straight golden row of barley contrasting next to it. For this [...]

Christian Berges: Portrait Lighting Basics, Part 4:Working with Available Light.

Unless you are working in a studio, where you can set up your lights starting in absolute darkness, you’ll always have to deal with the available light you find on location. It can disturb your visual conception, but it may also help and inspire you. Perhaps there’s a window letting in the soft, diffuse light of [...]

Bruno D’Amicis and his book “The last stronghold”

After three years of work and more than two hundred days spent in the field, the new book about the project to save the endangered wilderness of Tichá Valley in the Slovak Tatras is finally out! “The Last Stronghold” is a large-format book presenting the unique pictures of the Italian wildlife photographer Bruno D’Amicis and [...]

Stefano Pesarelli – Emerald season

  The South Luangwa national park in Zambia, during the rainy season, between December and March, offers unmatched views, lights and colors simply perfect to photographers. Animals are often more relaxed and less busy in the search for water because water is more traceable. These factors made it a perfect scenery for a nature photographer. [...]

Congratulations to Milko Marchetti

Manfrotto School of Xcellence congrats with Milko Marchetti for the winning photos “Spinnennetz im Tau” which has participated to the Competition of nature Photography “Glanzlichter 2011” – Nature as Art. Glanzlichter is one of the most prestiguous photographic competitions in Germany concentrating on Nature and Wildlife photography.    

Jose Antunes: Wild Boars, take patience and a tripod

Unknown to many, wild boars roam free just some 50 kilometres from Lisbon, the capital of Portugal. Photographing them can be a challenge but it’s not impossible, even for an amateur with a compact camera. Let’s be fair, the best way to photograph wild boars is with a long lens, some patience and some form [...]

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