Although only rather recent photographs are showcased in my Fine Art Photography Gallery, my first photographs actually date back to my childhood. My grandfather had offered me a Chinon reflex camera (that was around mid-late seventies) which I used to make architecture photography projects, taking pictures of baroque-style places in Rome (I was living in Rome at that time). Later, I had gotten the habit of jumping into my father’s 2CV car, late at night, with a tripod, to take pictures of the Roman salient places, like Il Quirinale, Il Colosseo, La Fontana di Trevi, Piazza Venezia, The Vatican and so on.
My switch to the digital era was roughly ten years ago, when I first used a Nikon Coolpix E990 compact camera (it was of an astounding quality for the time). I happily did a number of projects with it, mainly involving static scenes. Some day, however, I actually started suffering because of its slowness to actually release the shutter after pressing the release button. Indeed, I had started to get interested in macro-/micro-photography of scenes eminently not static.
My first digital single lens reflex camera was Nikon’s D80. It took me one full year to acknowledge that it was a pretty bad camera choice. Its CCD sensor was so bad that even at 400 ISO it would produce a noisy output for darker zones in an overall bright scene.
Because I am fond of overall dark scenes, I had to switch to a much less noisy camera. That was Nikon’s D700. I have been very happy with it and, boy, still am I !
The photographs in my Fine Art Photography Gallery were shot with either the D80 (not much of them) or the D700 (most part).