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Wedding Tuscany Movie

Daria & Paolo

Abbey of San Galgano, Wedding in Tuscany

Wedding Tuscany Movie

Venue and WP: Villa Podernovo

 

In the splendid setting of the Abbey of San Galgano, a romantic and evocative, exciting and rich in nuances wedding was celebrated.

A couple that I would call “European” because they had different origins and all mixed up among the guests, this made the wedding movie very contemporary.

 

A romantic style wedding also a little vintage in the colors and shades of the clothes.

An attention to detail, the very special flowers, the table setting for dinner was warm and elegant, all accompanied by a wonderful sunset in late August on the hills of Tuscany.

 

It is also a charming villa for weddings in Tuscany, an ideal venue for intimate, romantic and festive rural-chic wedding celebrations

near the Abbey of San Galgano: Villa Podernovo is an 18th century Tuscany holiday villa near Siena, in the Tuscan countryside.

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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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Album of the Year 2017

Album of the Year 2017

Elena Foresto Photographer

Elena & Irene

Wedding in Florence

This is a project that I care a lot about. I chose this wedding for the ANFM album of the year 2017 competition, for many reasons: the link with the brides Elena and Irene, the background of Florence, and above all because in some way this day has changed my life.

A special thanks to Serena Fineschi who made what I had in my mind possible.

Thanks to all the people who made me cry, during the marriage for the emotions they gave me.

wedding photographer in florence

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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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Wedding in Versilia

Wedding in Versilia

Elena Foresto Photographer

Italian Wedding Photographer

Alessia e Iacopo, Forte dei Marmi – Lucca-

In the warm end of August a tender, loving couple decides to get married between the hills of Versilia, a popular beach location on the Tuscan coast.

The gentle shades of olive trees, surrounding the magnificent garden of the church, are the perfect place for the ceremony.

The reception was held in Villa Paolina, with breathtaking views of the sea and the hills. The feeling of happiness and joy was embracing everybody.

You can also see this page with the photo shoot: https://www.elenaforesto.com/stories/wedding-in-versilia/

WEDDING IN VERSILIA Elena foresto Photographer

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