Ralph and Mira
Photographer: Elena Foresto
Filmmaker: Luigi De Gregorio
Venue: Four Season Florence
Stazione Leopolda – Pitti –
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Spetember 2021
Thomas & Charlotte
Photographer: Elena Foresto
Second Shooter and drone photos: Simone Olivari
Flowers: Flowersliving
Light: Kaleydo
I did not know the Wedding in Vicarello Castle , the first time I received the request for a wedding photo reportage.
I went to Google for information on the estate, tried to understand where it was and what it was like.
The Instagram page is very curated and I have discovered a wonderful place.
When we arrived on the day of the wedding, it was early.
We had time to get to know the small village well, also to know the history of the birth and growth of the village.
Vanessa showed us the inside and told us how the idea for this incredible place was born.
The family behind all this, the hospitality and the wise management.
A notable part is the “small gallery” of pieces of art scattered in almost all the suites of the Castello di Vicarello.
Not only of the hotel but of everything related to a real estate.
The production of wine, for example, the pride of the family, one of the sons takes care of this part, with impressive care, of the impeccable and also very particular vineyards, with the arch shape.
After some time we finally meet the newlyweds who are really very nice, throughout the Castle there are the guests of the couple who take time before the wedding, using the two swimming pools of the estate.
Let’s start with the photos of the invitations and with some accessories of the newlyweds.
Each accessory is beautiful, like Van Cleef’s earrings in bright green in its foamy four-leaf clover shape. Green like Manolo Blahnik’s silk shoes. And to finish off Cartier wedding rings with the classic three golds.
The hot day starts early, and the preparations for the ceremony are now at the end.
The bride and groom go out and in the garden in front of all the guests they declare themselves.
Finally the party begins and everything is very well cared for. The outdoor wooden tables are sprinkled with a thousand flowers and the small lights and candles illuminate the evening.
With a dance stroke we leave the Castle and its guests to return home, as if we had lived in a fairy tale for a day.
Thanks to Simone for the incredible photos he took with the drone and Rita’s attention to detail who gave us a hand throughout the day.
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Great Beauty Wedding in Rome
Giulia and Markus
Wedding Planner: Diletta Alliata Events
Second Shooter: Simone Olivari
Thank you: Leica Camera Italia
The city of Rome has always been a great love for me. The eternal city, where everything is opulent, majestic, historical.
I have many memories related to the city, which has always excited me for its Great Beauty Wedding in Rome and for the emotions that assail you in every corner of the streets.
With this load of emotions I met the protagonists of this story: Giulia and Markus. A mixture of backgrounds, exactly as I like it, have given me the opportunity to read and write their emotions.
For this special occasion I decided to shoot with three different Leica: in addition to my SL and Q I also brought an M.
The director of the cameras, the most difficult, the most historic. Like the city of Rome.
Markus, the groom, is a great photography enthusiast, especially of Leica. An incentive to do even better.
Suggestive was the choice of the Orthodox church with an incredible view over the whole city.
After the ceremony full of Russian Orthodox colors and songs, we moved to Rome for some photos. Inevitable, a small ride in the city center. Wedding photo in Rome!
In the background the Castel Sant’Angelo and the newlyweds in the foreground.
Towards evening a castle opens in front of my eyes surrounded by greenery and in the fall of the fog, it enveloped the happiness of the spouses and undoubtedly mine too.
As every time this city has welcomed me and displaced me, it has made me feel an integral part, as if in a past life I have lived in Rome.
Grazie Roma.
La città di Roma è sempre stata per me un grande amore. La città eterna, dove tutto è opulente, maestoso, storico.
Ho molti ricordi legati alla città, che mi ha sempre emozionata per la sua “Grande Bellezza” che per le emozioni che in ogni angolo delle strade ti assale.
Con questo carico di emozioni ho incontrato i protagonisti di questa storia: Giulia e Markus.
Un misto di provenienze, esattamente come piace a me, mi hanno dato la possibilità di leggere e scrivere le loro di emozioni.
Per questa occasione speciale ho deciso di scattare con tre Leica diverse: oltre alle mie SL e Q ho portato anche una M. La regista delle macchine fotografiche, la più difficile, la più storica.
Come la città di Roma. Markus, lo sposo, è un grande appassionato di fotografia, soprattutto di Leica. Un incentivo per fare ancora meglio.
Suggestiva è stata la scelta della chiesa ortodossa con una incredibile vista su tutta la città.
Finita la cerimonia carica di colori e di canti russi-ortodossi, ci siamo spostati per qualche foto per Roma. Immancabile, un piccolo giro in centro alla città.
Wedding photo in Rome! Di sfondo il Castel Sant’Angelo e gli sposi in primo piano.
Verso sera si apre davanti ai miei occhi un castello immerso nel verde e nel calare della nebbia, avvolgeva la felicità degli sposi e indubbiamente anche la mia.
Come ogni volta questa città mi ha accolto e spiazzato, mi ha fatto sentire parte integrante, come se in una vita passata io abbia vissuto a Roma.
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Venue: Villa Corsini a Mezzomonte
Wedding Planner: Bianco Bouquet
Wedding Cake: Tuscan Wedding Cakes
Photographer: Elena Foresto
Second Shooter: Simone Olivari
No matter how focused you are, I don’t have to know all the details of your person, I just have to perceive the feeling that captures my heart, it is your imperfections that make you perfect.
Always and only you.
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Natalie & Orjan
August 2018
Photographer: Elena Foresto
Wedding Planner: InItaly Wedding
Venue: Hotel Luna Baglioni
A small marriage between an English opera singer and an industrialist.
Few guests but many children have been the setting for the wedding on the terrace of the famous Hotel Baglioni, which enjoys an incredible view of the canals of the Venice lagoon.
A very special ceremony with the use of colored sand for every moment of their life.
With the emotion still in the eye a tour in “gondola” from tradition among the small canals of the city on the sea.
Among the historical buildings of the city of the “Doges”.
The conclusion of the dinner is always on the terrace, but with the lights of the illuminated historic churches and the typical carnival masks on the faces of the spouses.
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Melanie Secciani for Wedding Cakes in Tuscany
Venue: Four Season Florence
Flowers: Vincenzo Dascanio
I made this photo shoot for the famous Wedding Cake Designer Melanie, I often worked with her for weddings and events in Florence.
On this occasion I was able to photograph a special cake, very high, and very difficult in its implementation.
More than 8000 sugar flowers handmade have adorned the cake almost 2.50 meters high. The wedding was held in one of the most exclusive locations in Florence, the Four Season.
An incredible set-up for the floral decorations by Vincenzo Dascanio.
Candlesticks and mirrored tables in the dining room with antique dipindi. Infime a terrific live music to accompany the guests.
Wedding Photographer Elena Foresto has achieved just the pictures for the amazing cake for the bride and groom.
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24-MP-CMOS-Sensor (24 × 36 mm)
Full Frame (24 MP): 6000 × 4000 Pixel, APS-C (10 MP): 3936 × 2624 Pixel
Leica Vario-Elmarit-SL 24–90 mm f/2.8–4 ASPH
ISO 50–ISO 50000
Continuous fast F (11 fps)
Shutter mode: 1/8000 s
Video: 4K (4096 × 2160) @ 24 fps; 4K (3840 × 2160) @ 25 and 30 fps; 1080 @ 24, 25, 30, 50, 60, 100 and 120 fps; 720 @ 24, 25, 30, 50, 60, 100 and 120 fps
Monitor: Touch
Wi-fi and Gps
Imaging quality, performance, and versatility: the record values achieved by the Leica SL deliver clear proof that the mirrorless full-frame camera is the technology of the future.
An outstanding performance profile is not the only thing that speaks for the Leica SL.
The professional character of the camera is also defined by a control concept reduced to essentials, excellent handling, and extremely rugged resilience.
The Lica SL can be a professional mirrorless also suitable for weddings?
With this camera you start with a great revolution that is the electronic viewfinder with excellent levels both in the resolution is in the image refresh rate.
No more waiting, the picture is clear, sharp picture in the viewfinder. This allows to evaluate the picture, especially in low light. that in the first reflex was not possible.
Another point is the autofocus is fast! I often understood to frame the subject and just overflow the shutter button, the picture is already visible in the viewfinder, in perfect focus. This speeds up recently, for a mirrorless was unthinkable.
The sensitivity of a photographer is subjective. The tool that we use must have discrete caretteristiche, especially in wedding photography.
The Leica SL, is a very versatile tool, also for the perspective from which it was born: Vario-Elmarit-SL 24-90mm f / 2.8 to 4 an aspherical zoom.
This optic is made up of 18 optical elements in 15 groups and weighs 1,140 grams. It incorporates an optical image stabilization system with an effect equivalent to 3.5 stop.
This zoom is definitely weighed in the case of long and tiring days like weddings, advice to use a side strap or as I use, a double belt with 2 cameras attacked, my two camera bodies to balance the weight on your back.
Having too many Canon lenses, I bought an adapter that works perfectly (even autofocus) but only with optical “Series L” (red piping).
A very positive aspect and detail of Leica SL is simple, practical, almost no written, the only is the on-off button.
The four buttons on the back if you press them a little longer, do you direct access to shortcuts on the favorite features (for example, I personally have set: ISO sensitivity, Color Temperature, the focusing methods (MF – AFs – AFc).
The Leica was built in solid aluminum, very sturdy, with metal details, the p machine protected from the weather.
Very interesting is the rear display with touchscreen function, allows you to navigate through the images and enlarge the picture taken like a Smartphone, the same also function to focus selectable by touching the screen.
The EyeRes Viewfinder
The next generation of viewfinder technology
The Leica SL is the world’s first camera conceived for professional photography to feature an electronic viewfinder.
With a latency time below the threshold of perception and a resolution of 4.4 million pixels, this EyeRes viewfinder developed especially for the Leica SL offers an entirely new visual experience.
As its image can be electronically brightened, the EyeRes viewfinder is superior to optical viewfinders in low or unfavorable light.
4K Video
For moving and moving pictures
The Leica SL is much more than a professional still-picture camera with video recording capability: it fulfills even the most stringent demands of moviemakers as a fully fledged video camera.
This begins with a clear and simple handling concept that clearly separates still and motion picture functions and ends with HDMI 1.4 output.
This allows professional videos to be output in 4:2:2 10-bit format with 4K cine resolution and the production of professional videos in combination with an HDMI recorder.
High-Speed Autofocus
Faster than any SLR system
Capturing the ideal moment is not only essential in sport photography.
In combination with the LEICA APO VARIO-ELMARIT-SL 90–280 mm f/2.8–4, the Leica SL has the fastest autofocus of any professional camera – including SLRs.
The full travel of the lens, from infinity to its closest focusing distance, takes place in less than 110 milliseconds.
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Wedding Photographer in Florence
Location: Four Season Florence
Stazione Leopolda – Pitti –
Wedding Cake: Melanie Secciani Tuscan Wedding Cake
The Wedding Photographer in Florence Elena Foresto, wanted this marriage with Ralph and Mira, highlight the beauty and luxury of the couple and the guests.
A Lebanese wedding with 600 guests from around the world. The getting ready takes place at the Four Seasons in Florence, in the city center.
While the real party propia in one of the coolest location in Florence: the Stazione Leopolda. An old train station, now transformed into a location for events, management is of Pitti, which often uses to fashion events.
The incredible dress of the bride is completely studded with precious and Peter made a great Lebanese world-renowned fashion designer.
The wedding photographer in Florence has developed a photo service with the help of two other photographers. A photographer professional Italian weddings that dealt only the arrival of the guests.
A wedding photographer who was in charge of preparing a live slideshow of pictures of the preparation and celebration.
The photographer Florence Elena Foresto weddings took in the main hall, table service was luxurious, lively choreography by jugglers and acrobats brightened the evening, there were people on stilts and those circling hanging from the ceiling of wheels suspended.
An incredible spectacle. This show was accompanied by a very famous DJ, also from Lebanon.
The photo shoot of this marriage ended with the dances of the couple and all the guests.
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Wedding Film in Florence
Elena Foresto Filmmaker
On 4th September 2016 I made a video for a luxury Jewish wedding for my bride and groom, Benjamin and Tara.
The location for was the Four Seasons in Florence and the marriage ceremony took place in the historic Synagogue of Florence. With the help of my second filmmaker Alessandro Ghedina, we followed every moment of the couple.
The men were handsomely dressed in black tie tuxedo and with the “mosaici” colours of the Synagogue that filtered through the windows the result was very cinematic.
The cocktail reception was held in the gardens of the hotel where the couple took had their photo shoot and afterwards everyone sat down for dinner outside.
Guests were in for more surprises throughout the evening with a majestic firework show accompanied by a string quartet. The evening ended with an incredible live concert and traditional Jewish dancing.
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Benjiamin and Tara
Wedding Film in Florence
Elena Foresto Filmmaker
On 4th September 2016 I made a video for a luxury Jewish wedding for my bride and groom, Benjamin and Tara.
The location for was the Four Seasons in Florence and the marriage ceremony took place in the historic Synagogue of Florence. With the help of my second filmmaker Alessandro Ghedina, we followed every moment of the couple.
The men were handsomely dressed in black tie tuxedo and with the “mosaici” colours of the Synagogue that filtered through the windows the result was very cinematic.
The cocktail reception was held in the gardens of the hotel where the couple took had their photo shoot and afterwards everyone sat down for dinner outside.
Guests were in for more surprises throughout the evening with a majestic firework show accompanied by a string quartet. The evening ended with an incredible live concert and traditional Jewish dancing.
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