The iPhoneography Showcase of Mauro Ballabeni
Friday, April 2, 2010 at 2:00PM | Glyn Evans About me: My name is Mauro Ballabeni and I divide my living and working time between Bologna and Reggio Emilia (Italy). I am a Graphic Designer, Freelance Art Director and… iPhoneographer.
My main interests have always been art and photography. My love for photography was born many years ago among the timers, trays and acids of the darkroom. For many years I printed my own negatives in both black and white and colour. For me, photography meant research, experimentation and passion. I have always been attracted to minimalist compositions and to the enhancement of colour, and now I find I am able to carry on this fascinating pursuit with the iPhone. Using the iPhone as a camera has been a revelation to me. I always used only reflex cameras and quality lenses, but these never inspired me as much as the iPhone, which I have been using now for over a year. It’s like having a darkroom in your pocket!
With its self-evident imperfections, the iPhone impels you towards research and creativity. I really like the features it has for manipulating and altering images. I love trying out the various applications available in the App Store. To be honest I don’t think there is one ideal photographic app, but by using a combination you can achieve unique and unexpected results. At this moment I have around seventy photographic apps on my iPhone. My favourites are the ones that let you work on the images in layers to enable you to create textures and montages. All the images on my flickr photostream were produced exclusively on an iPhone from photos taken with an iPhone.
All the talented iphoneographers I met on twitter have been a further source of inspiration for research and experimentation and I’d like to thank them all by providing this link to my twitter-list: http://twitter.com/#/list/mauroballabeni/iphoneography
Created with Admarket's flickrSLiDR.
If you would like to showcase your iPhone photos here on the iPhoneography blog, then send me an email with a link to your Flickr account and a short bio about yourself and your iPhoneography, and if suitable I will post your showcase.
Reader Comments (18)
Congrats on the feature Mauro!
Funny, I can't view the images on this post from my iPhone because it is flash. Maybe consider a JavaScript slideshow viewer. No worries though, I clicked through and viewed his work on another site. Great photos.
Thanks a ton nique!!!
Congrats Mauro! Love the way you see things, and the fact that you're a Graphic Designer too :)
@James Campbell - Thanks!!!
@Morgan - Thank you... colleague! :)
Beautiful work!
Thanks Charlotta!
Congrats Mauro! Your work is exceptional!
I love the new way you showcase artists on here, that image slideshow is amazing =]
Looks awesome! Congrats buddy !!!
=)
SCW
Fantastic work Mauro! Can't view it on my iPhone, but checked it out on Flicker. Nice.
Bravo Mauro, sei un veri artista della fotografia!
Mauro your work is very striking. I like it very much. As you mention, the ability to manipulate with the Apps is exciting. Any chance you can let us know which apps you use?
@greg - @Kristin - @Max
Thanks!!!
@scw
Thx bro :)
@Jaime Ferreyros
Ti ringrazio Jaime per i commenti sempre molto gentili e incoraggianti ^^
@Charles Maclauchlan
Thanks for your nice comment!
My favorite photo apps are: Photogene, DXP, TiltShiftGen, FotoMuse, Touchup, iFlashReady, Photo fx, Hipstamatic and PhotoForge...
Wonderful work.
Congrats Mauro!! I have always enjoyed your pictures and the inspiriation I get from them!
@Graham McArthur - @mztania
Thanks so much :)))
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