Spring break photos- Katrina Officer

Here are a few digital photos I took while in Santorini over spring break:

 Waves crashing on the black sand beach

 Restaurant overlooking Ammoudi bay

Sunset over Oia village

Post a couple of pictures, digital taken during the spring break

Post a couple of pictures, digital taken during the spring break, even digital!
Meeting point at Fiorentini.

Just to remind my exhibition! I wait you there if you are in Rome

Press Release

Galleria Monty&Company

Via Madonna dei Monti, 69, 00184 Roma

Side By Side

Irmela Heimbacher is pleased to invite you to the opening of the exhibition of Ali Assaf and Serafino Amato on the 19^th of March at 6pm.

This will be the first of a series of four exhibitions, entitled SideBy Side, in which the works of two artists from different background and  nationality will dialogue together.

Ali Assaf - Serafino Amato, 19 March - 4 April 2014

Myriam Laplante - Georgina Spengler, 11 - 29 april 2014

Peter Flaccus - Giuseppe Amalfi, 6 - 16 May 2014

William Pettit - Jochem Schoneveld, 20 - 30 may 2014

“they know, they choose […] each other, to knit together their languages which resonate in different forms, languages which become related.”

Serafino Amato, who has coordinated the series of shows, writes:”...the world of cinema, of art...” thats how they call them, as if they were separate worlds.  Maybe in some cases they really are worlds that turn inscrutably.  In fact, “the finance world” is such a case.  It conditions us while remaining like a comet ready to crash.

The world of art...and I think of a planet with few inhabitants, orbiting in the realm of the human for some, in reality for others, in the metaphysical for others still.  An artist in his lifetime meets and recognizes few others like him and he remembers each one, and if his memory is good he remembers their appearances and their restlessness.  This group of persons, us, we recognize each other for what we are, whether we deal with the human, the real, or travel on the abstract or metaphysical.

Myriam L, Georgina S, Peter F, Jochem S, William P, Ali A, Serafino A, Giuseppe A, inhabit territories where only a feeling of diaspora makes it possible to create new existential plots, this being the only bitter possibility to meet between artists...still.

Born in 1950 in Bassora (Iraq), Ali Assaf lives in Rome from 1974.  He has been showing his work from the end of the seventies in Europe, North Africa and the Middle East.  Artist and organizer of cultural events, his work concentrates such contemporary problems as: identity, immigration, exile,

and reflecting upon the role of the artist.

For this occasion, Assaf will show for the first time in Rome “Narciso”, which was shown at the Venice Biennial in 2011.

Born in 1958, Serafino Amato developed in the field of experimental theater in the eighties and then went on to dedicate himself exclusively to photography.  He has shown in Italy and abroad.  Since 2000 he has also begun working with video.  In 2008 he published with Lorenzo Pavolini,  “Ecatombe – i girini della storia” and in 2012 “Fogli dei giorni – leafing through the days”.  In side by Side he is presenting the video:  “Annibale e Amilcare il disegno delle linee”... videotrailer for an unpublished manuscript.

Galleria Monty&Company, Via Madonna dei Monti, 69, 00184

hours:from Tuesday to Saturday from 16:00 to 20:00 or by appointment

Info: artstudio@montyecompany.com   39 328 7623389  www.montyecompany.com

Kelvin degrees of Photography--Tracey Hummel

                                  This scale measures light and temperature through Kelvin.

ISO- Katrina Officer

ISO is the level of sensitivity of your camera to the available light. The lower the ISO number, the less sensitive it is to the light, while a higher ISO number increases the camera's sensitivity to the light. The sensor on a camera gathers the light and transforms it into an image. The base ISO is usually 200. Manipulating ISO is helpful in capturing motion photography. If, for example, you want to take a picture of birds in flight, you can switch from ISO 100 (1 second) to ISO 800 (1/8 of a second). The higher sensor at ISO 800 allows the camera to fully capture a photograph. If you tried to take this picture at ISO 100, it would have ended up blurry because the birds are moving faster than the shutter speed. Low ISO is good to use when there is a lot of light and/or little motion. 

Kelvin degrees- Katrina Officer

Kelvin degrees is a measure of color temperature. The color of the light emitted by a flash is rated at 5500 degrees; it is designed to imitate noon daylight. If the flash produces light that is 6000 degrees Kelvin, it  has a slight bluish tinge. If it is rated at 4800 degrees, it is slightly warmer, or more yellowish, than white light. - http://www.betterphoto.com/article.asp?ID=24

Making the Most of Natural Light---Tracey Hummel

I thought this was an interesting website that talk about capturing natural light at different times of the day.


http://www.cambridgeincolour.com/tutorials/natural-light-photography.htm