Photographer Francesco Francia (Italy) (Repost from March 2020) Can you tell us a little about you? Hi! I am a fashion photographer, a portrait photographer and I deal with advertising campaigns for companies. I specialize in lighting for photography and I teach lighting in various academies in Italy, including Roma film academy (Cinecittà) and Adams Experimental Center of Photography in Rome. I am an ambassador for Elinchrom (one of the most important companies for the production of illuminators in the world), Desisti Linghting and master photographer for Nikon School. How and when did you get into photography? I started taking photography at the age of 20, for a challenge with my father. he was an amateur photographer but he didn't want to teach me how to use the camera because he didn't have time and it was "too complicated". I started secretly studying sensitometry and analog photography, specializing in portrait and lighting. after 3 years I had my first cover for a photography magazine (PHOTOGRAPHING) found on the table in my father's bathroom, where he used to read photography magazines. What does photography mean to you? My passion and my biggest obsession. I began to be obsessed with the perfect lights of playboy america. I am so passionate and specialized in lighting technology that I quit my job to be a photographer. For 4 years now I have been the official photographer of Playboy Italia. Please briefly describe your photography style for our readers. It is difficult to explain my style because working with advertising photography I specialized in versatility. They are able to do different styles: from the portrait set with simple lights to the beauty photography with 15 illuminators. I do a different style when I shoot glamor than a more refined cut when I take fashion photography. If you jump on my site (www.francescofrancia.com) you can think that they are different photographers to shoot. One thing that characterizes my photographic work, however, is precisely the use of light to limit intervention in post production as much as possible. Often I do not use post production in photoshoop at all and publish photos as they are processed directly by the camera.
Models: Kristine Ciematniece Lighting: led fresnel de Sisti Piccoletto - 226 -
