The photographer's eye is a curious eye that pays attention to detail, it is almost a lifestyle that leads you to see everything differently. Everyone knows how to take a picture but if you connect your mind, eyes, heart and soul, the result is certainly better.
1. Tell us about your background and journey.
My name is Giulia Angelica Vicenzino, I'm 27, I'm Italian and I live in Friuli Venezia Giulia. My father has always been a big fan of photography, he still jealously keeps his analogue FujiFilm and the jump to digital was traumatic for him.
I probably inherited the photographic streak from him and I discovered and nourished it from an autumn shot dated 2018, from there my study path began on what I already felt mine.
2. How and when did you realize your passion for photography?
I mentioned it before, it all started with the photo that you can find on my Instagram profile "Sulle ali della fotografia " with the title "La mia grande bellezza".
It is an autumn shot taken at the Fusine Lakes, in Friuli Venezia Giulia. It was that photograph that made me understand that by studying and applying myself I could give myself and give emotions through my photos.
Instagram has been a springboard for me, even if growing in terms of following is a bit more difficult now than it was years ago: the secret is to believe in a dream.
3. What are some tips you would like to share with amateur photographers?
If it is a passion that you feel yours do not give up, cultivate it.
For those who are at the beginning, I can advise you to study the basics, perhaps by attending a basic course or following tutorials on YouTube, to always shoot manually, it allows you to have full control over every shooting parameter and in Raw format.
It is a file raw and must be developed with Camera raw, Lightroom or similar and then move on to more detailed modifications in Photoshop without any loss of quality. The Jpeg is an already modified file and does not allow a wide processing like the raw.
With the advent of digital, many photos remain segregated within external memories or in the PC and this is wrong, photography is communication, it is a world language that does not need translation. Do not be afraid of comparison and publish the photos, do not keep them in the hard disk.
4. What are the important skills one should have to be a successful photographer?
The photographer's eye is a curious eye that pays attention to detail, it is almost a lifestyle that leads you to see everything differently. Everyone knows how to take a picture but if you connect your mind, eyes, heart and soul, the result is certainly better.
Knowing how to communicate beyond the shot is important. It is not enough to publish a photo, people want to read what you felt in that shot, the reason for a color choice or simply the emotions you experienced.
Bringing something new to the public is not easy because it will certainly be something already seen, like my project born in time of lockdown that you can find on Instagram “Fotografie al carboncino”.
Never give up if you believe in what you do. Even in photography, luck is always welcome, hahaha. I have some proof!
5. What are various opportunities available for aspiring photographers?
With the advent of digital, entry level or compact camera bodies at an affordable cost to all, increasingly high-performance smartphone cameras, we are all becoming "photographers".
Even on social networks such as Instagram, 500px, YouPic and Facebook, the invasion of photos is daily, the real goal is not easy to achieve, it is to get noticed among the tide of photos circulating on the net. Participating in photographic competitions and making exhibitions is also a way to make yourself known.
Never give up and small and big satisfactions will come.
6. Which is your favourite book and why?
I'm a big book eater, I have a full house. The free one that touched me the most is entitled "The bride of Auschwitz" by Millie Werber. It is a true story of Millie and Heniek, where love prevailed despite the brutal circumstances in which they met.
Authentic love is everywhere, it is the engine of the world but I believe it is being lost ...
Interviewed By Laharika Shada
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