Drifting - The movie

Hi everybody!

I'm thrilled to announce the first trailer of the movie Drifting, which will come out soon! Drifting is a collaboration between singer/songwriter and composer Simona D, Jason Verga [Brando from the neck down (2004), The mooch (2008), Consequence, Ed, White Embers (theater), The Refuseniks Trial (theater)], and myself. Ballet dancer Michele Moreno, whom I photographed in a couple of occasions (see Ballerina, and this image gallery) is also part of the great cast! Original music by Simona D and John Maida.

'Drifting' will take you into the creative life of four artists with different backgrounds and one common path that will bring them eventually together.

The sense of sadness and desperation caused by the struggle of expressing one's talent will be fulfilled by a surprise event that will change the characters' lives.

Fluttering in a world of imagination until the day inspiration will be transformed into reality.

Drifting is a story about life, art and dreams. Here is the trailer of Drifting (make sure you watch it in HD!). 

Check out www.drifting-movie.com, Drifting's official web page where you can find out more about the movie, the cast, and visit Drifting's blog which will be launched soon featuring behind the scenes, and other cool stuff!

Hope you enjoy the trailer!

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It's cold in New York!

Hi folks!

The other day I felt like going for a walk in Central Park. It was cold! Most of the snow has already melted. This year I didn't feel like getting up at 5 am to see the first snow. I remember last year though, got up at 5 am, and knew I was going to find all of Central Park covered in snow. Freezing but beautiful! I took that pano (about seven images stitched together in Photoshop) above that morning at around 6 am. It was worth getting up that early! If you'd like to see the panorama of the snow fountain in a larger size click here.

Above is another image from last year, It was snowing, and snowing and this corner of Central Park looked just so wonderful with the glow of the lights of the Plaza Hotel and the other lights. Winter wonderland in Manhattan..

The following image was taken two days ago when I entered Central Park from the West Side on 72nd Street. Every time I walk by there are people paying an homage to John Lennon.

I promise I'll try to blog more often!

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Juliana+Norbert ..Just married!

 
Juliana + Norbert from Giovanni Ferlito on Vimeo.
 
Back in August I photographed Juliana and Norbert to celebrate their engagement (see blog post 'Juliana & Norbert). They got married in September, and I had a chance to film their special day.. This is my first attempt making a wedding video. I used my Nikon D3s, a couple of lenses, a tripod, and a Glidecam; for some of the audio I also used a Zoom H4n.
 
What a wonderful day!
 
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Jessie + Matthew

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Beautiful day today for an engagement photo shoot!
Today I had a real blast photographing Jessie and Matthew around the streets of Soho, and Washington Square. It was the perfect autumn afternoon in New York.
This is the little Italian Restaurant where Jessie and Matthew got engaged, 'Il Buco'!

HDR Flatiron

Yesterday, I was around 23rd Street in Manhattan to get a bite at the new Eataly that just opened a few days ago. In my previous blog posting I briefly mentioned HDR photographer and artist Trey Ratcliff, and his blog, his has some really cool HDR photography. Check out his portfolio!Summer is ending and Fall is getting closer, and that cloudy sky that day just inspired me for some HDRphotos.

Thanks for reading, and please, feel free to leave a comment! ciao

Forever skies

I just tweeted this out.. I thought it was so unique - I wanted to share it with you here. I actually found this video on Trey Ratcliff's blog, he's an amazing photographer specialized in HDR photography. You can see his work here!

[vimeo http://www.vimeo.com/13002275 w=588&h=331] Lilac Wine from Matthew Landa on Vimeo.

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Juliana & Norbert

Juliana and Norbert are getting married next month.. Central Park is where Norbert asked Juliana to marry him.

I spent the whole afternoon and part of the evening with them, and I had a blast photographing them! These are some of the images from that day. I would be really happy to read your comments.

 
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Marine's creed

 

This is my first attempt making a short video with my new Nikon D3s. I just played around a little.. I would love to hear what you think!


 
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Manhattan skyline!

 

 
Last night I took the ferry, and went to Hoboken! Here are a couple of shots of Manhattan's skyline..
 
The wide pano of Manhattan's skyline was created merging 19 images that were shot vertically. The lens used is a Nikon 70-200mm f/2.8 VRII, with D3s body, and of course, a tripod.

 

The image above is a five exposure HDR, created in Photoshop CS5.
 
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Marine's creed

>Good morning everybody! This morning I would just like to quickly post this short video I shot a couple of days ago using my new Nikon D3s. I played a little with the new video feature..
In the end I edited everything in Premiere Pro CS5 and added some music.
Here is what I came up with.

You're very welcome to leave comments, I would love to hear from you what you think.

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TimesSquare_TimeLapse

>Spent a couple of hours yesterday in Times Square, and played a little doing some Time Lapse experiments. Nothing too special, but planning for something much cooler!

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First blog from an iPad!

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Here at the Apple Store on 5th Avenue posting my first blog from an iPad.
I'm trying to figure out whether I could entirely create a blogpost from an iPad.
I like it so far! It's pretty easy to access my blogger setting page, type, link to other web pages, post videos, etc.

Here is a link to photographer/director Michael Grecco's footage of a photo shoot he did with legendary film director Martin Scorsese. Let's see how this works with this blog post.

I think it worked pretty well!

Looking forward to getting the iPad!

Thanks for reading,

Giovanni

Photo shoot Updates

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Been shooting more than usual lately, experimenting, trying new things. Had a great session with beautiful and talented ballet dancer Michele Moreno.
The images were made in a dance studio in the heart of the Theater District, right next to Times Square in New York City.
I mainly used window light, and a new light modifier, the Photek Softliter II 60", I was looking forward to use.
In the following days I started working on a couple of images, and posted some on my page on Facebook.
I happened to visit renowned photographer Joe McNally's page on Facebook. I then decided to post one of my images on his page asking for a comment from Joe McNally or just anyone else who visits his page.
Oh Lord, I had the great honor to get a comment on my photo right from Sir McNally.

 
This will for sure give me a lot of input for creating more and better.
I must say, he made my day!

The image above is a composite of seven images made into a sequence shot at the Skate Park at Chelsea Piers in New York City. The rollerblader in the photo is Tadd Labozzetta.
I had a blast spending the afternoon at this Skate Park, a creative and fun place to be.

I'm planning to go back to the Skate Park and make more images, get more contacts with skaters, and
rollerbladers.

Had also a chance to take a few shots of Parkour guy Milton. Really cool stuff!

Thanks for reading!

Ballerina

 

 
Here is a preview of yesterday morning's photo shoot with beautiful ballerina Michelle. After today's massive headache (probably due the lack of sleep..), I took a look at the images shot yesterday. I quickly selected a couple, and decided to post them here on my blog.

If you like to see more images go here.

I would love to see any comment!

Take a look at this! Sting and ballerina Alessandra Ferri..

Inspirational photographer Joyce Tenneson.

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Today I had a chance to attend a seminar and lecture where Joyce Tenneson, one of the most respected photographers of our time, presented her latest book entitled The View.
Tenneson has asked photographers around the world to submit photographs of a view that has somehow, and for some unknown reason, become unforgettable and meaningful to them in a deep way. Rather than simply beautiful landscape photographs, Tenneson is seeking to uncover something about universal perception - what it is about certain places or photographs that for some mysterious reason, speak to our heart in poignant manners.

Several years ago, Tenneson started investigating whether or not there had been any research done on why certain locations strike awe in the viewer, and why these locations are different for each person. For example, why is one person inexplicably attracted to the desert, or the mountains, or the ocean and what are the psychological forces behind this attraction? Tenneson found there was very little research that shed light on this phenomenon. This inspired her to organize and edit a book that includes not only photographs, but also short statements from each photographer describing the personal significance of that particular view. She plans to have the View Project expand to an interactive website where people from around the world can submit photos and share views that have deeply affected them as well.

I found it very inspirational, and a great chance to learn from a great photographer and a great person.

CREATIVELIVE.COM: worldwide free creative education

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Hello Friends! I'm happy to announce today that over that past year Chase Jarvis has been working together with super-tech friend Craig Swanson to bring you the world's first LIVE creative education internet channel. And the best news? It's FREE. That's right, it's free to watch any and all live feeds from some of the world's best creative instructors. Tune into creativeLIVE.com and check it out. Calendars, courses, archives and more.

On the photography side of things, It'll be exciting to see in quarter one featuring Vincent LaForet, David DuChemin, Zack Arias, Scott Bourne, Art Wolfe, and many others. Wanna learn how to have vision in photography? They've got the instructor. HD Dslr Cinema, they've got it. Lighting? They've got it. Software? They've got that too. And if they don't have it? Tell them and if there's demand, they'll create it for you.

Chase Jarvis is not an instructor, but it's been a huge goal for the past year to connect the community with many of his friends who ARE instructors and ARE amazing at what they do. The goal here is to help democratize creativity.

In addition to all the photography gurus and course, they've got design classes, painting and other fine art classes, and programming classes up the wazzu. You'll find classes in Adobe CS5 (that's right the NEW Abobe suite), Aperture, Lightroom, FINE art iPhone programming, Android programming, HTML programming and more.

How can they give away many of the world's best instructors for free? Well, here's how: You only pay for classes if you want to see them beyond their original LIVE performance. If you miss some classes, see something in the archive you like, or want to download it and put it on your iPod, iPad, or wherever, you can pay to download the class for a fee that's minuscule in comparison to what that instructor normally charges. No streaming, no bologna. You get the file. They use money from downloads to pay the instructor and cover their time and costs for producing and distributing the content.

Chase and his friends are looking to help make the creative world a better place. A rising tide floats all the boats.

To check out calendars, classes and more, and to register for email/rss updates, please visit creativeLIVE.com.

Thanks Chase!

Marie & Nate's wedding

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I had a blast last Friday working with great New York wedding photographer Gulnara!
It was my first time working with her as an assistant..

Great learning experience!

I actually also had a chance to take a few shots!

It has just been a great pleasure.
Marie & Nate make a beautiful couple!

You can see more images of the wedding by clicking here.

Congratulations again to them!