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MAXXI RELOADED

Olympus OM-D E-M5 - Panasonic Leica DG Summilux 25mm (50mm eq.) w/polarizer
1/125" f7.1 ISO 200
In-camera monochrome (red filter) - Slightly tweaked out-of-camera jpg

Let ME say it before YOU say it: I have already shot Zaha Hadid's MAXXI* Museum in Rome so many times. Yet I can't help going back there with a camera. There are subjects one never gets bored exploring. It's instructive and challenging in the meantime. Moreover I'm in a quasi-monochrome mood lately, so there is plenty of new (to me) aspects of that building to find, capture and render.

Nonetheless I have tons of backlog of unselected and unedited photographs sitting in my hard drives. Many of those (some dates back to May 2011) don't belong to this new stream of mine, therefore this summer I'll be posting a mix of not-so-new and new-new works. My blog will look a little less consistent and your humble will be a happier man.

*For those who wonder, MAXXI is the acronym for Museum of the Arts of the 21 (XXI in Roman numerals) century. It should be compulsorily included in all tourist itineraries of Rome, even the shortest ones. Especially if you are a photographer. And I know you are.

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Olympus OM-D E-M5 - Olympus M Zuiko 45mm (90mm eq.)
1/1250" f6.3 ISO 200
In-camera monochrome (red filter) - Perspective corrected and slightly levels-tweahed out-of-camera jpg

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Olympus OM-D E-M5 - Olympus Zuiko 45mm (90mm eq.)
1/1250" f6.3 ISO 200

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Olympus OM-D E-M5 - Olympus M Zuiko 45mm (90mm eq.)
1/2500" f7.1 ISO 200
In-camera monochrome (red filter) - Perspective-corrected out-of-camera jpg

AN AMERICAN (ARCHITECT) IN ROME

Olympus OM-D E-M5 - Olympus M Zuiko 45mm (90mm eq.)
1/4000" f6.3 ISO 200
In-camera monochrome (red filter) - Cropped out-of-camera jpg

ENJOY THE SHOW

Olympus OM-D E-M5 - Olympus 45mm (90mm eq.)
1/500" f11 ISO 200 - Slightly straightened and levels-tweaked out-of-camera jpg

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Olympus OM-D E-M5 - Panasonic Leica Summilux 25mm (50mm eq.)
1/320" f6.3 ISO 200 

SOME LIKE IT VERTICAL

Olympus OM-D E-M5 - Panasonic G Vario 14-45mm at 25mm (50mm eq.) w/polarizer
In-camera monochrome (red filter) - Slightly level-tweaked out-of-camera jpg

FAIR AND SQUARE

Olympus OM-D E-M5 - Panasonic Leica Summilux 25mm (50mm eq.)
1/60" f3.5 ISO 1000 

AS IT IS

Olympus OM-D E-M5 - Panasonic Leica Summilux 25mm (50mm eq.)
1/300" f7.1 ISO 200
In-camera monochrome (red filter) - Straight out-of-camera jpg

Tonight Photoshop crashed in my computer, so I'm forced to post this new photograph as it came out of my Olympus OM-D yesterday morning, uncropped, unstraightened, untweaked: what you see is exactly what I got. And since I won't have time to fix my computer for a couple of days, or maybe more, selecting the next photographs to be posted will be an exciting new game.
In the meantime I could take the chance to try a new photo editor, which has to be free or not-too-expensive, and allow full lens correction and perspective straightening, along with the usual levels and curves tweaking. And not require to import all my photo library in a new location: I want my files to remain in the folders I create every time a new batch of photographs is downloaded from my memory cards. Any suggestions?

RENZO PIANO'S AUDITORIUM IN ROME

Canon G1X at 34.7mm (62mm eq.) - 1/125" f5.6 ISO 100

THE MICROSOFT BUILDING IN ROME

Olympus OM-D E-M5 - Panasonic Vario G 14-45mm at 45mm (90mm eq.) w/polarizer
1/160" f8 ISO 200
In-camera monochrome (red filter) - Out-of-camera jpg

NO RIGHT ANGLES

Olympus OM-D E-M5 - Panasonic Vario G 14-45 at 40mm (80mm eq.) - 1/500" f6.3 ISO 200

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Canon G1X at 16.8mm (29mm eq.) - 1/80" f5.6 ISO 100

A DASH OF TECHNIQUE

Olympus E-M5 - Panasonic Lumix G Vario 14-45mm at 45mm (90mm eq.) w/polarizer - 1/250" f8 ISO 200
in-camera monochrome (red filter) - out-of-camera jpg

PhotoGraphia regulars may notice that I started captioning my photographs using their main exif data. I don't think my previous posts were lacking anything, yet I'm currently in a more "photography-oriented" mood than in the last few years and, consequently, I'm interested in this aspect of the imaging process a little more than usual. Things change.
Therefore you can expect a dash of technique will be added to my next posts every now and then. I'm quite sure this will please most readers, while those who don't care won't be bothered at all.

By the way, my new Olympus OM-D E-M5 is an awesome camera. More on this matter in the next few weeks. In the meantime I'd like to know which manual-focus lenses, in your experience, better match the 16 megapixel Micro 4/3 sensors, both Olympus and Panasonic, in terms of sharpness, resolving power and microcontrast. My current tests deliver unexpected results.

DODHO MAGAZINE

This is not the first time a portfolio of my images is featured by a photography magazine, either on paper or online. Nonetheless I'm particularly happy to point this one to PhotoGraphia readers' attention since it's a relatively newborn one, it's 99% focused on photographs (text is reduced to a few introductory lines), it's beautifully designed and it's totally free (and advertising-free too!). And, most importantly, the selected authors -despite their different subjects and techniques- have a lot in common. Click on the link below to get the pdf file or visit dodho's website. Enjoy.

Download Dodho Magazine Issue 3