I recently purchased the photography book, Capri Dolce Vita. The book made me very nostalgic of my time traveling to Capri about sixteen years ago when I used to work on cruise ships. After looking at the images, I was quickly reminded that I had taken very similar but not as good photos. I really wanted to compare and contrast my photos to the ones in this book to get a better understanding of why mine weren’t as good. Obviously, the answer is because at the time, I wasn’t experienced at all in taking photos. However, there were some similarities. This was my first digital camera and my first time shooting lifestyle and landscapes for fun.
Not all the photos here or in the video are from Capri. Many of them are from other Italian coastal cities. Portofino, Sorrento, Venice, Genoa, Taormina and many others. Overtime, I could tell my images were getting better from city to city. The only way to get good is to keep shooting.
In 2007, as a first time photographer. I only knew to take wide angle, landscapes. It wasn’t until maybe a few months in did I realize to capture closeups and more detail shots.
At the time, I was shooting in .jpg’s and in monochrome which baked in the black and white look without the ability to have a color image as an option. It was fun to shoot in monochrome because it made me very intentional about what I wanted to capture in color versus black and white.
These photographs will always serve as personal memories more so than any artistic endeavor. However, it’s been fun to dissect these in comparison to legit photographers.
