About Me
Hi, my name is Giuseppe Sapori, author of this website, created by yours truly to show my work, my travels, my blog news and the techniques I use in my photos.
I was born and I live in Rome – Italy, a fascinating city full of history, culture and art. However I call myself a lover of travel and adventures, over the years I have developed a keen interest in the discovery of new places especially for city art or places of natural beauty. My intent is to continue to travel, and allow me to do it more often, photograph the world, discovering places increasingly fascinating and document them here, this site will be my photo diary to share with you suggestions, experiences and photographic tutorials and advices.
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Road to the Castle – Rocca Calascio Startrail
For this post I propose a startrail from the castle of Rocca Calascio. A splendid location surrounded by nature which is one of my favorites for taking night photos I usually start taking this kind of images when the visibility of the milky way starts to decrease, in fact the lighting that is in the scene is given by the rising of the moon that has irradiated the whole scene in front of me with the castle in the background To capture this shot I made several exposures, mainly a very long one for the sky and one with ISO 6400 for the background, I then combined both shots in Photoshop WORKFLOW EXPLANATION I started working on the startrail image to look better, so I increased contrast, decreased luminosity, increased whites and decreased shadows, after this with the help of luminosity masks I blended the image of the castle through the startrail sky image Once obtained the complete image I used the dodge and burn tool to ligthten some highlights around the castle and darkening some...