With a 365 the photographer publicly takes the responsibility of taking and publishing one shot each of the 365 days which make a year. It’s a tough project, which forces consistency and dedication.
I wanted my 365 to be like a diary of my life and my ideas, so I needed a camera to always bring along, wherever I had to go, whatever I had to do. It wasn’t easy since quality and compactness are not exactly synonymous in digital photography.
Finally, for my thirty-third birthday I bought myself a Sony NEX-7, a great little professional system. With it I started my own 365 project (actually a 365+1 project, since 2012 is a leap year), which will end when I turn 34. I made the rule that every picture in the project must be taken with the NEX-7. Each photo gets published along with a short story on the project blog.
01 Feb
356/365(+1), a photo by Luca Rossini on Flickr. Lens: Voigtlander color-skopar 35mm f2.5 Camera: NEX-7, ISO1600, f2.8, 1/30, raw A group of American girls enjoying their sushi dinner at Somo, the fanciest Japanese restaurant in the city. The place is located in Trastevere, an area which is densely populated by foreigners, especially Americans, so this […]
31 Jan
355/365(+1), a photo by Luca Rossini on Flickr. Lens: Voigtlander nokton 50mm f1.1 Camera: NEX-7, ISO1600, f2.8, 1/80, raw It was day nine of the project when for the first time I brought my NEX-7 to the Foro Italico, the city’s athletic field. I wanted to celebrate the place which gave birth to my former […]
30 Jan
354/365(+1), a photo by Luca Rossini on Flickr. Lens: Voigtlander color-skopar 35mm f2.5 Camera: NEX-7, ISO1600, f2.8, 0.4s, raw “Maybe I feel overwhelmed, or maybe I just need to lower my head and start working to sort everything out. Because deep down I know that eventually everything will be fine. I just need to put […]
29 Jan
353/365(+1), a photo by Luca Rossini on Flickr. Lens: Voigtlander color-skopar 35mm f2.5 Camera: NEX-7, ISO1600, f2.8, 0.4s, raw Almost a full moon. My moon calendar reports 97% of surface visibility. Still a lot of light. And behind this thin layer of clouds that 3% doesn’t make such a big difference. So, after all, I’ll […]
28 Jan
352/365(+1), a photo by Luca Rossini on Flickr. Lens: Voigtlander color-skopar 35mm f2.5 Camera: NEX-7, ISO1600, f2.5, 1/30, raw Since last June we live on via Portuense, the classic large and busy city road. But we live in Rome. Which means that the road we live on is a little less than two thousand years […]
27 Jan
351/365(+1), a photo by Luca Rossini on Flickr. Lens: Voigtlander color-skopar 35mm f2.5 Camera: NEX-7, ISO1600, f4, 1/30, raw 4:20 I love this gate. I wish it was the door to my photographic studio. Behind the thick iron gate there’s an old ex-industrial storehouse, a barrel vault made in grey bricks that look like the […]
26 Jan
350/365(+1), a photo by Luca Rossini on Flickr. Lens: Voigtlander color-skopar 35mm f2.5 Camera: NEX-7, ISO1600, f4, 1/30, raw Massimo Troisi has been one of the greatest Italian comedians of all times. For the boys and girls of my generation, Massimo Troisi has been almost a hero, he was some sort of moral model, summed […]
25 Jan
349/365(+1), a photo by Luca Rossini on Flickr. Lens: Voigtlander color-skopar 35mm f2.5 Camera: NEX-7, ISO400, f4, 1/40, raw I’m stuck in traffic on the way home. I’m stuck in traffic because of (another) strike in the public transportation. This city is a mess. The lots and lots of cars crossing its roads daily make […]
24 Jan
348/365(+1), a photo by Luca Rossini on Flickr. Lens: Voigtlander color-skopar 35mm f2.5 Camera: NEX-7, ISO400, f4, 1/40, raw The courtyard, finally open. Wide, empty, and dark. Working from home in the morning, working from the office in the afternoon, back home in the evening, the shot in the courtyard, then quality time with Agata, […]
23 Jan
347/365(+1), a photo by Luca Rossini on Flickr. Lens: Voigtlander color-skopar 35mm f2.5 Camera: NEX-7, ISO1600, f3.5, 1/60, raw My sister’s kitchen. Not much else to say. I spent the day working at home, mostly on photography related tasks, but it hasn’t been a very productive day. The fact is that I went to […]