p.1 #1 · Cinque Terre & Tuscany 2024: a 4x5" Portfolio and a story
In October 2024, my wife and I spent ten days in Cinque Terre & Tuscany between Workshops and personal work. We have been traveling to both these destinations so often in the last decade that they always felt like home to us. We loved Tuscany so much that in 2023 we made it our actual home.
Both destinations are world-famous, beautiful and charming, but to us they are much more. Cinque Terre are five villages clinging on a rocky coast on the Ligurian Sea. As a teenager, I spent my summer holidays there for years, which makes them very close to my heart, and I know them like the back of my hand.
In Cinque Terre, besides photographing the famous village views that everyone knows and comes for, I always had a lot of fun in finding and portraying the more secret corners, those that nobody ever goes to. If one cares to look, Cinque Terre offers amazing rock formations, minimalist subjects and more, and after having gone there for ages those are the ones that I enjoy photographing the most these days.
Tuscany is arguably one of the world’s most beautiful regions, known for its quintessential, iconic Italian landscapes, its man-made history and – just to name one thing - for having gifted the world the Renaissance. Out of all the diverse beautiful areas of Tuscany, we decided to focus on the northern seaside, close to Liguria, and on Val d’Orcia inland. Val d’Orcia is where we made our home, and I enjoy keeping exploring it and finding new, unknown locations to photograph.
In October 2024, for the first time I tried my hand at these landscapes with a 4x5” camera, back then my Arca-Swiss F-Line, and I truly enjoyed how the meditative feeling coming from the medium perfectly complemented the kind of landscapes and weather.
All photographs taken on Ilford FP4+ except for the second from the top (Fomapan 200 Creative), both film exposed at 100 ISO, developed in Pyrocat-HD for 12 min 30 sec, 10 inversions at start followed by 3 inversion per minute. Scanned on an Epson V850 Pro and Vuescan.
p.1 #5 · Cinque Terre & Tuscany 2024: a 4x5" Portfolio and a story
Great shots! I hadn’t read at first what you wrote and just looked at the images and said to myself, “Wow, these look great, they really have a film look to them!” And now I know why! Beautifully seen and composed.
p.1 #8 · Cinque Terre & Tuscany 2024: a 4x5" Portfolio and a story
Have you considered using your gfx100rf to take digital images of your negs ?
I am experimenting with a couple of configurations. If it works, you could creat scans equal to high end drum scanners.
p.1 #9 · Cinque Terre & Tuscany 2024: a 4x5" Portfolio and a story
junglialoh wrote:
Incredibly well decorated aesthetic work - marvelous scenery capture
Thank you very much, so glad you enjoyed them!
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Treedog wrote:
Marvelous and otherworldly pics. Thanks for sharing your work.
Thank you very much indeed, happy you liked them!
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Odyssey1812 wrote:
Vieri, I live the mood of these images and that you shot them in film.
Thank you so much, glad you enjoyed them and film is such an inspiring medium, I love working with it!
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adventure_photo wrote:
Great shots! I hadn’t read at first what you wrote and just looked at the images and said to myself, “Wow, these look great, they really have a film look to them!” And now I know why! Beautifully seen and composed.
Thank you very much indeed, glad you enjoyed them and the film look!
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krug wrote:
Atheistic ? - perhaps or maybe just celebrating the 'spirit of the place' ? .... but definitely pleasingly aesthetic.
But whatever words are used - they are superbly envisioned and processed .
Thank you so much, glad you enjoyed them!
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Bingo123 wrote:
Have you considered using your gfx100rf to take digital images of your negs ?
I am experimenting with a couple of configurations. If it works, you could creat scans equal to high end drum scanners.
No, I haven't. I use my GFX100S II with a Fujifilm 120 Macro to digitise my negatives, details in the article linked above, and I love the results. I am curious about how the GFX100RF with its wide angle would fare with your digitising setup!
there's lot of room to crash, here in Tuscany, although maybe not necessarily at my place!