Nice to meet you, I'm Gianluca from Italy

[Gianluca Drago]

Thanks for letting me join this forum. I feel obliged to introduce myself briefly. I'm not a professional photographer, but I'm not an amateur either given my age. Today I go around with a compact camera in my backpack, a four-thirds one because that's all I need for the objectives I've set myself, which at the moment are to document the state of the artistic works of the Twentieth century that still barely survive in the streets and squares of my hometown.
I take the photos in digital RAW, develop them in Darktable and publish them on a static, anti-social site which I hope will be useful so that my fellow citizens realize that they have an artistic heritage to be known and protected.

That's all.

 

[Stevenson Gawen]

Welcome Gianluca! Reading your introduction, I'm thinking you might be interested in @Julian Tanase's work - he uses film, but does really interesting work around the street/documentary/travel themes in Central Europe.
He has an excellent site here www.juliantanase.com

 

[Gianluca Drago]

Thank you for the heads up. I got a taste of his work in the morning today and I'm willing to dig deeper.
Best regards.
Gianluca

 

[Pete Askew]

Welcome to RPF, Gianluca. That sounds a very worthwhile activity and I'm looking forward to seeing you work and being inspired.

 

[Gianluca Drago]

Welcome to RPF, Gianluca. That sounds a very worthwhile activity and I'm looking forward to seeing you work and being inspired.

@Pete Askew thank you for your warm welcome. I'm not an real photographer and I'm not sure I could post anything interesting here, but I'm glad I had the opportunity to know this interesting site and forum. For me it's gold.

 

[Stephane Tougard]

Hello Gianluca

Welcome, look forward to seeing your work.

 

[Pete Askew]

Well although you may claim not to be a real photographer I think the images you have shared prove that you most certainly are! And anyway the name of the forum derives from the fact that one must use one's real name to be involved in RPF. The original founder, Hamish Gill, wanted to create a forum that lacked the conflict that seems so often to accompany action of forums where people 'hide' behind an anonymous 'handle'. I think he has been prove right!

 

[Julian Tanase]

Welcome, Gianluca, looking forward to see some of your work. All the best for now !

 

[Ibraar Hussain]

Ciao amico!

 

[Gary R. Smith]

Welcome Gianluca! Just so you know: you are no longer "the new guy"

 

[Gary R. Smith]

I'm not a professional photographer

You'd never know that based on the photos that you've posted here over the last 2 years. How are you getting along with that new camera (and did you keep the LX100)?

 

[Gianluca Drago]

I play with photography, I always just play and try to learn a bit more every day, but Thank you! The new camera is excellent and I'm trying to tame it, but the process will need some time. As I told you the LX100 is still family.

The new camera is very powerful, and I don’t think I’ll be able to make the best possible use of all its capabilities. But the zoom lens I bought (second-hand) with the camera really is extraordinary: extreme sharpness, fantastic colour rendition, almost no distortion or chromatic aberration, parfocal… It’s the Panasonic Leica DG 12–60mm f/2.8–4.0.

I find it extremely unfair to have finally retired, to have a new camera, and yet to be almost unable to leave the house because of weather so harsh as to be unbearable. Even the wolves have come down into the valley.

 

[Gary R. Smith]

As I told you the LX100 is still family.

I know that I asked previously but I didn't recall you answer. Glad that you kept the LX100. I regret selling mine.

I have a variety of Pana/Leica, Lumix and M.Zuiko lenses for my mFT bodies. I started with Lumix before I added the OM-1. The PL 14-140 is usually mounted on my gx9 and I like the results quite a bit.

Enjoy your retirement. I retired at the beginning of the Covid pandemic and seem to have spent the last 5 years doing minimal travel.