Andrea Monti, Author at 35mmc

20 February, 2025

5 Frames with various cameras – Ferrari On The Road(s)

By Andrea Monti

Sports car photography usually happens in specific settings such as motorshows, official events, race tracks etc., where lights, crowds, fences and limited access to restricted ...

20 January, 2025

A Japanese Luthier and a Fingerstyle Player from My Home Region (and My Past) – A One shot story

By Andrea Monti

I took this photo at GuitarPlanet, in the Ochanomizu district of Tokyo, because I was intrigued by the different bracing of the guitars’ lower backs. The picture in itself...

18 January, 2025

Mir-20 20mm 3.5 on a Pentax K1-II – A Field Test of the

By Andrea Monti

Photographing with a 20mm lens is quite demanding on the eye, as the composition has to take into account many more objects than with a normal prime or telephoto lens. As a resu...

3 January, 2025

One Shot Story: Behind the Fence

By Andrea Monti

There is nothing special about this photo in itself, but when placed in context, it changes the way we may look at it. The photo was taken in the fishing neighbourhood of my hom...

22 December, 2024

7Artisans 35mm 0.95 – Testing this Fujifilm X Mount Lens in a Demanding Environment

By Andrea Monti

So far I have been very happy with the 7Artisans 35mm 0.95 in X-mount, but I have only tested it in non-demanding conditions. Although the results were promising at first sight,...

21 December, 2024

One Shot Story: (Un)Available Coin Lockers at Shin Osaka Station

By Andrea Monti

コインロッカー, the coin-operated lockers, are fundamental to travel around Japan: this is the first lesson any first-timer to this Cou...

19 December, 2024

A Night at the Opera – Plays and Opera Photography

By Andrea Monti

This is an abbreviated version of a talk I gave to a local chapter of the Italian Federation of Amateur Photographers (FIAF) on the challenges of photographing in a Teatro all&#...

16 December, 2024

Why You Should Only Shoot in Your Backyard (or ‘The Art of Belonging’)

By Andrea Monti

What do these pictures have in common (apart from having been taken in various places in Japan)? No, they don’t have the same look and feel, composition or use of light, n...

David Smith on Don’t Take It So Seriously – Putting the Funny Back Into Photography
Thanks, Michael! I'm happy the photos put a smile on your face.
Michael Keppler on Don’t Take It So Seriously – Putting the Funny Back Into Photography
Wonderful article and even more wonderful and funny pictures - and you really put a smile on my face today…
Tony Warren on A personal view of the CCD versus CMOS debate.
Checked on Hamish' article. Interesting how partisan things can get sometime and he is pleading for more forbearance. Here here.

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