A View Through the Lens
Photography in Spoleto
Something uniquely special about the town of Spoleto is the large amount of educational opportunities for photography students to take advantage of; old ruins leaning up next to modern stores and shadows running long across cobblestone streets can truly provide opportunities for students to experience the world in a different light. This week, students focused on understanding certain functions of their camera, specifically aperture, and discovered how certain apertures and camera angles could change the focus of the environment around them and contribute to composing a well thought out photograph.
Students were taught to take pictures at varying angles |
By clicking through various aperture modes and experimenting with a change in focus and lighting in each mode, students began to realize that setting the correct aperture was a key component in choosing the lighting for their photographs.
Piero, a nephew of one of the nuns at the convent, eagerly volunteered to model for our photographers. |
As students began to see the small town of Spoleto in a different light, they began to realize how photography captures a single moment in time and space. That a picture isn't just a simple record of a certain street corner or fountain, but can capture the emotion, the feeling, of a specific time and place in its entirety.
Serafino instructs the students as they capture Piero (as a model). |
New friends were made - both canine and human. |
“Working with
the students is a kind of gift. They are clever and interested in photography
and photography language. I told them the first day of class this. Photography
is a sort of trip through Time and Space. This is the topic of this course: search
new connections between things in a new perspective. Every day I try to
organize photo sessions in different places with Spoletinis .Today we took
pictures in a hotel, a couple of days ago we took pictures of Piero, our
Italian mascot. We try different places and different lighting. I find that all
are not beginners. I can talk about concepts not really easy to understand…categories
like, time –vs- space, real- vs- unreal and metaphors of visions. I think, at the
end of the course they will be aware that photography is not only an aesthetic category
but a real language with its’ own rules.”
– Serafino Amato, professor of the photography class
Until the next time, arrivederci!
More photographs of the Photography class can be found on our SmugMug site.
Visit Serafino's professional web site www.serafinoamato.it
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