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The beauty of Florence

Florence as you’ve never seen it before!

The beauty of Florence

Firenze è una piccola città, ma racchiude tesori inestimabili che tutto il mondo viene a visitare
in ogni stagione dell’anno, specialmente a Primavera.
Oggi, a causa del lockdown voluto dal Governo Italiano per contrastare il Covid, è una città praticamente deserta.
Ho voluto realizzare un servizio fotografico che raccontasse questi giorni, unici, da un punto di vista diverso… il mio.
Mi ha accompagnato la mia compagna che con me ha respirato questa surreale atmosfera, intrisa di incredibile melanconia.
Eppure, allo stesso tempo, ci è sembrato un privilegio: la sensazione di avere la città solo per noi.
Abbiamo notato particolari che normalmente non avremmo colto: i colori abbaglianti delle facciate delle chiese dai marmi bianchi, ma anche la polvere sulle vetrine dei negozi abbandonati, immobili con la posta a giacere all’interno.
Si cammina distanti con la mascherina sul viso, come se la paura fosse ormai addosso e dentro ognuno di noi.
Una giornata di sole caldo illumina le strade e le facciate dei vicoli.
A volte ho come la sensazione di vivere un momento irripetibile, che da una parte
mi angoscia e dall’altra mi rapisce per la bellezza di Firenze che i miei occhi vedono e il mio obbiettivo fotografico immortala.
Non voglio dimenticare queste sensazioni, anzi, vorrei portarle con me come un viaggio in un paese straniero.
Così le racconto a voi, pur sapendo che ognuno le vivrebbe in maniera diversa.
Perché siamo unici e irripetibili, questo si sa.
Ho realizzato queste foto con la Leica Q
Lente: 28 mm f.1.7

The beauty of Florence

Florence is a small city, but it contains priceless treasures that the whole world comes to visit
in every season of the year, especially in spring.
Today, due to the blockade wanted by the Italian government for contrast, Covid is a practically deserted city.
I wanted to create a photo shoot that told these unique days from a different point of view … mine.
My partner accompanied me who breathed me this surreal atmosphere, imbued with incredible melancholy.
Yet, at the same time, it seemed to us a privilege: the feeling of having the city alone.
The beauty of Florence
We noticed details that we would normally not have caught: the dazzling colors of the white marble facades of the churches, but also the dust on the windows of abandoned shops, motionless with the mail to lie inside.
You walk away with the mask on your face, as if fear were already on you and inside each of us.
A warm sunny day illuminates the streets and facades of the alleys.
Sometimes I have the feeling of living an unrepeatable moment, which on the one hand
anguish and on the other hand kidnaps me for the beauty of Florence that my eyes see and my photographic lens captures.
I don’t want to forget these feelings, on the contrary, I would like to take them with me like a trip to a foreign country.
So I tell them to you, even knowing that everyone would experience them differently.
Because we are unique and unrepeatable, this is known.
I made these photos with the Leica Q
Lens: 28 mm f.1.7
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CERTIFIED BY LEICA

 

CERTIFIED BY LEICA Elena Foresto

 

A few days ago I was in Milan, invited by Leica Camera Italia for a new project.

The idea is to gather, present and share the best Italian professional photographers who have chosen not to compromise and develop

their professional activity and their artistic dimension having quality as their first critical factor.

There have been many candidates but the group is currently small.

 

PHOTOGRAPHY AT ITS HIGHEST EXPRESSION

In our view, the strength of a professional network is not measured in a quantitative sense. Instead, it is based on a common vision,

artistic and managerial approach to the profession, the shared desire to offer its customers not something more but something better, different,

with the desire to stand out because of who you are, without homologate to trends or fads.

The Certified by Leica photographers share these values ??and this approach and represent a sound choice for both business and private clients.

 

THE NEW LEICA NETWORK FOR PROFESSIONAL PHOTOGRAPHERS

Thinking that such a famous brand, indeed the most prestigious both for its history, innovation and the advanced technology of its products, has chosen me to represent it makes me feel “important”.

I really believed in this radical choice of changing my photographic equipment, I also had to change my photographic style because the mirroless have a clear setting compared to the traditional reflex.

 

During these days in Milan, Toni Thorimbert, the famous fashion photographer, came to visit us and told us about his experience in choosing the Leica brand,

he has been identified as “crazy” or “strange”, and these are sensations or perceptions that I can also relate to in my field. I’m proud to go outside the box and not to conform, this is also part of being Leica.

The project includes many new ventures, such as exhibitions and workshops at the Italian Leica Stores; I already have a reportage exhibition on the last trip to Oman scheduled for November.

For now I will try to concentrate on the wedding season, always accompanied by my extremely reliable Leica.

 

 

CERTIFIED BY LEICA/ITA

IL NUOVO NETWORK LEICA PER I PROFESSIONISTI DELLA FOTOGRAFIA

Qualche giorno fa sono stata a Milano, invitata da Leica Camera Italia per un nuovo progetto.

L’idea dei Certified by Leica è quella di raccogliere, presentare e condividere i migliori fotografi professionisti italiani che hanno scelto di non scendere a compromessi

e di sviluppare la propria attività professionale e la propria dimensione artistica avendo come primo fattore critico la qualità.

Ci sono state molte candidature ma attualmente il gruppo è ristretto.

 

LA FOTOGRAFIA NELLA SUA ESPRESSIONE PIÙ ALTA

Nella nostra visione, la forza di un network professionale non si misura in senso quantitativo. Si fonda invece su una comunanza di visione, di approccio artistico e manageriale alla professione,

al desiderio condiviso di offrire ai propri clienti non qualcosa di più ma qualcosa di migliore, di diverso, nella capacità diffusa di volersi e sapersi affermare per ciò che si è, senza omologarsi a trend o mode passeggere.

I fotografi Certified by Leica condividono questi valori e questo approccio, e rappresentano una scelta sicura sia per la committenza business che per quella privata.

 

Pensare che un brand così famoso, anzi sicuramente il più prestigioso sia per la storicità che per l’innovazione e la tecnologia avanzata dei suoi prodotti, abbia scelto me per rappresentarla mi fa sentire che posso fare la differenza.

Ho creduto molto in questa scelta radicale di cambiamento dell’attrezzatura fotografica, ho dovuto modificare anche il mio stile fotografico perché le mirroless

hanno una diversa impostazione rispetto alle tradizionali reflex.

 

In questi giorni a Milano è passato a trovarci Toni Thorimbert, famosissimo fotografo di moda additato come “pazzo” o “strano”, che ci ha raccontato la sua esperienza nella scelta del brand Leica:

sensazioni o percezioni che ho riscontrato anche nel mio settore.

Sono felice di uscire fuori dagli schemi e dal coro, essere Leica è anche questo.

Il progetto prevede molte nuove iniziative, come ad esempio alcune mostre e workshop presso i Leica Store italiani; ho già in cantiere una mostra di reportage sull’ultimo viaggio in Oman, prevista per il mese di novembre.

 

Per ora cercherò di concentrarmi sulla stagione di matrimoni, sempre accompagnata dalle mie affidabilissime Leica.

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Album of the Year 2018

Album of the Year 2018

Justina & Marc

This year I decided to change, I decided to propose something different from the last years of participation in ANFM.

I made a full color album after the last 4 years of black and white. I decided to insert only one photo per page because I wanted this one to tell that moment, so that the viewer could relive the marriage even if it was not present, a story.

Storytelling is the act of narrating, a discipline that uses the principles of rhetoric and narratology.

The term storytelling refers to the various types of narrative works, both audiovisual works and both literary works.
This is the exact definition. I wish there was this narrative in my photographs.

I hope you too can see what I see.

I thank the “family” of ANFM that every year stimulates me and always gives me new visions to improve and learn.
This wedding album was made in Tuscany, Borgo di Castelvecchio.

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Wedding photography is like a dance

Wedding photography is like a dance

 

The winter period is always the ideal moment for a comparison with your work as a wedding photographer in Italy.
This is why I made a photo slideshow with some of my wedding photographs.

I chose a music to which I am very attached, René Aubry wrote the soundtracks of the dance performances for Pina Bausch.

Wedding photography is like a dance, a succession of emotions with a pressing rhythm;

a concentration of emotions in a single day, in which the wedding photographer as the choreographer can never be distracted so as not to miss the significant moments.

I hope this video captures these important moments and gives you emotions, like the ones I hear every time I take my camera.

 

 

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Wedding Cake Photos

Wedding Cake Photos

Wedding Photographer in Florence: Elena Foresto Photographer

Melanie Secciani for Wedding Cakes in Tuscany

Venue: Four Season Florence

Flowers: Vincenzo Dascanio

I made this photo shoot for the famous Wedding Cake Designer Melanie, I often worked with her for weddings and events in Florence.
On this occasion I was able to photograph a special cake, very high, and very difficult in its implementation.

More than 8000 sugar flowers handmade have adorned the cake almost 2.50 meters high. The wedding was held in one of the most exclusive locations in Florence, the Four Season.

An incredible set-up for the floral decorations by Vincenzo Dascanio.

Candlesticks and mirrored tables in the dining room with antique dipindi. Infime a terrific live music to accompany the guests.

Wedding Photographer Elena Foresto has achieved just the pictures for the amazing cake for the bride and groom.

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Leica SL – Review

Leica SL – Review

Typ 601

24-MP-CMOS-Sensor (24 × 36 mm)

Full Frame (24 MP): 6000 × 4000 Pixel, APS-C (10 MP): 3936 × 2624 Pixel

Leica Vario-Elmarit-SL 24–90 mm f/2.8–4 ASPH

ISO 50–ISO 50000

Continuous fast F (11 fps)

Shutter mode: 1/8000 s

Video: 4K (4096 × 2160) @ 24 fps; 4K (3840 × 2160) @ 25 and 30 fps; 1080 @ 24, 25, 30, 50, 60, 100 and 120 fps; 720 @ 24, 25, 30, 50, 60, 100 and 120 fps

Monitor: Touch

Wi-fi and Gps

Imaging quality, performance, and versatility: the record values achieved by the Leica SL deliver clear proof that the mirrorless full-frame camera is the technology of the future.

An outstanding performance profile is not the only thing that speaks for the Leica SL.

The professional character of the camera is also defined by a control concept reduced to essentials, excellent handling, and extremely rugged resilience.

The Lica SL can be a professional mirrorless also suitable for weddings?

With this camera you start with a great revolution that is the electronic viewfinder with excellent levels both in the resolution is in the image refresh rate.

No more waiting, the picture is clear, sharp picture in the viewfinder. This allows to evaluate the picture, especially in low light. that in the first reflex was not possible.

Another point is the autofocus is fast! I often understood to frame the subject and just overflow the shutter button, the picture is already visible in the viewfinder, in perfect focus. This speeds up recently, for a mirrorless was unthinkable.

The sensitivity of a photographer is subjective. The tool that we use must have discrete caretteristiche, especially in wedding photography.

The Leica SL, is a very versatile tool, also for the perspective from which it was born: Vario-Elmarit-SL 24-90mm f / 2.8 to 4 an aspherical zoom.

This optic is made up of 18 optical elements in 15 groups and weighs 1,140 grams. It incorporates an optical image stabilization system with an effect equivalent to 3.5 stop.

This zoom is definitely weighed in the case of long and tiring days like weddings, advice to use a side strap or as I use, a double belt with 2 cameras attacked, my two camera bodies to balance the weight on your back.

Having too many Canon lenses, I bought an adapter that works perfectly (even autofocus) but only with optical “Series L” (red piping).

A very positive aspect and detail of Leica SL is simple, practical, almost no written, the only is the on-off button.

The four buttons on the back if you press them a little longer, do you direct access to shortcuts on the favorite features (for example, I personally have set: ISO sensitivity, Color Temperature, the focusing methods (MF – AFs – AFc).

The Leica was built in solid aluminum, very sturdy, with metal details, the p machine protected from the weather.

Very interesting is the rear display with touchscreen function, allows you to navigate through the images and enlarge the picture taken like a Smartphone,  the same also function to focus selectable by touching the screen.

 

Elena Foresto Photographer - LEICA

 

The EyeRes Viewfinder

The next generation of viewfinder technology

The Leica SL is the world’s first camera conceived for professional photography to feature an electronic viewfinder.

With a latency time below the threshold of perception and a resolution of 4.4 million pixels, this EyeRes viewfinder developed especially for the Leica SL offers an entirely new visual experience.

As its image can be electronically brightened, the EyeRes viewfinder is superior to optical viewfinders in low or unfavorable light.

 

Elena Foresto Photographer - LEICA SL

4K Video

For moving and moving pictures

The Leica SL is much more than a professional still-picture camera with video recording capability: it fulfills even the most stringent demands of moviemakers as a fully fledged video camera.

This begins with a clear and simple handling concept that clearly separates still and motion picture functions and ends with HDMI 1.4 output.

This allows professional videos to be output in 4:2:2 10-bit format with 4K cine resolution and the production of professional videos in combination with an HDMI recorder.

Elena Foresto Photographer - LEICA SL

 

High-Speed Autofocus

Faster than any SLR system

Capturing the ideal moment is not only essential in sport photography.

In combination with the LEICA APO VARIO-ELMARIT-SL 90–280 mm f/2.8–4, the Leica SL has the fastest autofocus of any professional camera – including SLRs.

The full travel of the lens, from infinity to its closest focusing distance, takes place in less than 110 milliseconds.

Elena Foresto Photographer - LEICA SL

 

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English Wedding Photography in Tuscany

English Wedding Photography in Tuscany

Sarah & Ian

Elena Foresto Destination Wedding Photographer
English Wedding Photography in Tuscany
Wedding Photographer in Tuscany
Luxury Wedding Photography

Venue: Castello di Oliveto Medieval Castle in Tuscany

Wedding Planner: Wedding in Tuscany by Imperial

If you want to see the entire photo service: https://www.elenaforesto.com/stories/english-wedding-photography-in-tuscany/

The protagonists of this marriage are two English guys who decided to get married in Tuscany.

Along with the bride and groom were many of their friends, the bridesmaids and the best friends of the bridegroom.

Obviously even their closest walls. All together to celebrate. An excellent organization thanks to Gillian that he thought of all the details for even the appearance of wedding photography.

There was a fantastic bus Volkswagen, in vintage style. The groom and his witnesses had worn cufflinks in the shape identical to the van.

We also see the pictures of the wedding as you are all a blast! Immediately after the ceremony to refresh the hot summer day, there was ice cream, the kids immediately took the chocolate.

We finished the photographic record of the marriage with the launch of the bouquet that is finished in the incredible Villa hedge that houses the English marriage, background unmistakable towers of San Gimignano.

Elena Foresto Photographer English Wedding

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Lebanese Wedding in Florence

Lebanese Wedding in Florence

Ralph and Mira

Photographer: Elena Foresto

Filmmaker: Luigi De Gregorio

Venue: Four Season Florence

Stazione Leopolda – Pitti –

If you want to see the entire photo service: https://www.elenaforesto.com/stories/lebanese-wedding-in-florence/

Elena Foresto Lebanese Wedding Photographer

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Jewish Luxury Film

Jewish Luxury Film

Benjamin and Tara

Wedding Film in Florence

Elena Foresto Filmmaker

David Bastianoni Photographer

On 4th September 2016 I made a video for a luxury Jewish wedding for my bride and groom, Benjamin and Tara.

The location for was the Four Seasons in Florence and the marriage ceremony took place in the historic Synagogue of Florence. With the help of my second filmmaker Alessandro Ghedina, we followed every moment of the couple.

The men were handsomely dressed in black tie tuxedo and with the “mosaici” colours of the Synagogue that filtered through the windows the result was very cinematic.

The cocktail reception was held in the gardens of the hotel where the couple took had their photo shoot and afterwards everyone sat down for dinner outside.

Guests were in for more surprises throughout the evening with a majestic firework show accompanied by a string quartet. The evening ended with an incredible live concert and traditional Jewish dancing.

You can also see this page: https://www.elenaforesto.com/stories/jewish-wedding-filmjewish-wedding-film/

JEWISH LUXURY FILM Elena Foresto Photographer

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Album of the year 2016

Album of the year 2016

Elena Foresto Photographer
Destination Wedding Photographer
Italian Wedding Photographer
Luxury Wedding Photographer

With this album I participated in the 2016 ANFM competition.  I tried to tell a story, the beginning of a journey of two people and two hearts, a marriage, the emotions and atmosphere.

Special thanks to Serena Fineschi for her moral and structural support.

Wedding in Zermatt, Switzerland.

Mount Matterhorn in Switzerland is the background for this couple, that moved to the charming town of Zermatt.

Wedding participants came from all over Europe to share this special moment with Patricia and Raul.

The beautiful  Hotel “Il Cervo”  with its spectacular view over the Swiss Alps was the perfect backdrop for the preparations and dinner.

A natural scenery admired throughout the world.

If you want to see the photo shoot: https://www.elenaforesto.com/stories/wedding-photographer-in-zermatt/

ALBUM OF THE YEAR 2016 Elena Foresto Photographer

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