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LeLedigitalartist

Digital Tech, Graphic Designer, Photographer, Retoucher

My work as photographer and digital artist started in 2011. I've been quite lucky since my girlfriend Danielle Fiore is an alternative model and her father is a photographer. I took fashion, beauty and glamour shots but in the end I chose the alternative scene, in which I'm more involved. Step by step I found and improved my own skills with Photoshop and since the town where I live is not rich of locations, I started with digital artworks. I had lot of interesting collaborations, the most important is the one with the horror metal band Cadaveria for KARMA (dvd). I'm focusing a lot on the Digital art world and on photomanipulation, since in Italy this kind of art is not known at best. I've made many different kind of digital art:
historical, fantasy, horror, fashion and portrait, but my favourites are : Medieval, Victorian, Roman. When I take some shots with a model, I all ready know what I want, in fact all my shootings are very quick. I prefer to spend on Photoshop about 3-4 hours to make a retouching or to create the ambient, but I want a perfect picture on camera. I made a different photographic exhibitions in Italy. At the moment I'm a Teacher and I made many Workshops about Photoshop and retouch. I've a Youtube Channel where I publish my video tutorials and I've some publications on online magazines and blog.

Gear Bag

Canon 40D