Hi PROXIMO here . I live in Italy, in a city in Tuscany called Pietrasanta ( in the Versilia area ), which is within a step from the seaside;just about fifty miles from Florence. I'm a designer in marble works and I'm very passioned about astronomical photography ,reading and music. I approached photography late, around when I was 25. I started directly from astro photography . I began with an old olympus OM-1, 'till when, one fine day, I came across in a Nikon FM2 SLR camera...It was love at first using! I really got good time ,in those days, with it and my telescope. My firs experiences in the astronomical photography was not so good ,and those first results really frustrated me! I spent four years under the night sky before reaching decent results. Those first experiences led me to a new approach to the photography ,technical and expressive, and led me to the knowledge ,step by step, of the "tradictional photography. Recently I turn from the analogic photography to the digital ( which I distrusted till that moment )...I have to tell you the truth..I found it very funny and this new rush led me to a new inpirations. Now ,for the astrophoto, I generally use a MEADE Schmidt Cassegrain 8" reflector telescope (F2000mm f/10 ,that I use to reduce to f/6.3),one F 800mm refractor ,and a russian made F 1000mm catadioptric that I use also as guide instrument.
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Comments (9)
TwoPynts
Like scenes from an artsy music video. I can almost hear the voice of Sting. ;)
jmb007
beau travail!
inshaala
Can I assume that the "effects" are all in-camera and this is a simple scan? On the dyptich - a nice concept, although if simplicity in comparison was the idea was there a conscious decision to include the tracks in the second? Take the second as a rhetorical question if you wish ;)
paul leatham
I really like your work. I'd be very interested in knowing if these are scans of the negs or prints? That isn't a rhetorical question, I really would like to know :-)
PR0XIM0
@ Kort : You're right! It makes me think to a mix between " Be still my beating heart " and "Desert rose " :) @ inshaala ; paul leatham : Yes, this is a simple scan and I got the effect scanning two negatives in sandwich. This dyptich is part of a little serie called, just, " Tracks" :)) There are rounded tracks also in the first image but they are barely visible in this little format. This work is, first of all, a dialogue ( and so I chose the dyptich presentation) between the environment and the human figure, which is always present, albeit in different ways. He's tiny for conceptual reasons: at first, although small, his mere presence, the human figure can "crush" the environment and to stop the natural apparent regularity; and for second, for to get the de-personalization of the uman figure. The de-personalization is used at existentiala level ; man is a rational been and, apparently, he own the knowledge, but in many cases he's not aware of the most intimate and innate tying him to the environment. In some ways modern man is only a mere spectator of his current inability to establish a mutual exchange with the environment, to which he belongs. Thank you so much for interest :)
MOSKETON
FANTASTICOS TIEMPOS, LOS DEL TRI-X.
FriedaFelicia
Wonderful work. I really like the minimalistic beauty of these two shots. Excellent presentation as well. Favorites for me.
lior
Excellent light settings
danob
Very artistic and nice conceptual work