Rome. High on the Aventine hill in Piazza dei Cavalieri di Malta (the Square of the Knights of Malta) is the knights’ private garden and the way into the garden is through a huge entranceway with a locked wooden door. There is a tiny keyhole in the center of the door through which one is able to view an arbor way of trees, which frames the Dome of St. Peter’s in the distance. (text from thetravelzine.com)

This picture was realized overlapping two frames, made with two different exposure timing: 1/15 seconds (for a good exposure of the garden) and 1/100 seconds (for a good exposure of the dome). I fixed the aperture to the same value f/4,9 to obtain the same field dept. In computer post-production I overlapped the two frames only in the central zone with a feather on the levels. Finally I applied the unsharp mask.

This is a picture of St John in Lateran, the first cathedral of Rome, where Emperor Constantine allowed the Pope to set up the episcopal chair after 312.
I’ve taken this photo last sunday, when I passed by the church while I was sitting on the rear seat of my brother’s car.

Yes, I know! I’ve currently the tendency to shoot pictures from moving means of transport. But I do it also to have speedly different points of view.

After the shooting, I’ve applied a number of graphical correction as the Curves adjustment, the highlight level and the unsharp mask. Doesn’t the result seem to have an atmosphere of a panting, now?

Why to shoot with flash when the subject is far away?

Tonight, in a rainy day, I shot a picture of the Altare della Patria (Altar of the Fatherland) also known as Monument to Milite Ignoto (Unknown Soldier), placed in the centre of Rome.

The only usefulness to make a photo with flash is to give more emphasis to the raindrops. In fact, the light of flash is reflected back to the camera lens and you can see the raindrops as points (for the farther ones) or as long wakes (for the closer ones). The exposure is of 1/60 seconds.

In computer graphics elaboration, I regulate contrast, the horizontal line and I add a little magenta dominance to give a more lyric appearance to this picture.

How do the passage between day and night conditions the life of the people? And how do it conditions the atmosphere and the light of a picture?

All the answers are reassumed above in an only image, result of a superimposition of 4 photograms shot through the twilight, between 5 pm and half past 6 pm.

What do you want to know about me? First I’m a student of Astrophysics and I attend the Rome’s University “La Sapienza” .

In this cold morning of Rome (3°C), I had to go to study for the Astronomy’s exam, and I stopped my walk just for a moment, only to shot this picture of the Minerva’s statue into the University.

There is the “Biblioteca Alessandrina” (Alexander’s Library) on the background.