Danilo Piccioni is an internationally acclaimed photographer and instructor of photography as well as an expert in Photoshop; he teaches Digital Painter and conducts photography workshops around the word.
He holds a degree from the European Institute of Design in Rome and has studied and speaks several languages.
After freelancing as an illustrator and graphic artist between Rome and Milan for many years in publishing and advertising, he freelanced for magazines. doing photo-retouching for covers, making illustrations and caricatures for articles, and doing photo manipulation. He won an award for best satirical illustration of the year for QSF Magazine. Meanwhile, he won a contest for best illustration for a CD cover, published and sold nationwide. He designed and published a line of 12 greeting cards.
Back in Rome, he collaborated with a travel magazine as a freelance photographer on assignment. He continued to do occasional Web sites, graphic design and illustration, as well as wedding photography. He was offered a contract with a major Stock Photography company in the U.S. and has won numerous photography awards in international competitions.
He now lives in Greater Vancouver, Canada, where he had a solo show at the Place des Arts gallery.
Danilo is a lead instructor for several courses at Perfect Picture, renowned photographer Bryan Peterson's online school of photography. He is writing a book devoted to helping photographers make better use of Photoshop. He leads numerous courses and photography workshops in the field; he also runs his owns photography business, doing weddings/portraits/studio and commercial work. Danilo is the featured photographer for the November 2007 issue of Soura, number one fine art photography magazine in Dubai.
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And now, Danilo is writing photoshop tips and techniques articles for Soura Magazine.
This is a brand new gallery with no photos.
I am always seeking perfection in my attempt to tell a story in just one frame. As a man, I never really had much interest in reading text; to me the images that illustrate an article or book are the only important thing to focus on. Perhaps Mother Nature sought to compensate for my dyslexia by blessing me with a greater visual imagination.
As a viewer, I love to see how other photographers interpret reality, offering us their unique perspective and point of view to arouse our human curiosity and help us all to develop our creativity by using our imagination.
As an artist, I pay as much attention as possible to details, lighting, colors and texture and include the environment, where the subject of my photograph lives within the frame. I love using my wide-angle lens; I like to make a statement by enlarging a detail in my imagery by deforming the size of objects with this lens, making them appear larger than they really are. It is like underlining a sentence in a book, making it stronger, bolder.
As a photographer, I am obsessed with the idea of being able to tell a full story in one frame only. Too often our minds are influenced by what the narrator or the journalist is telling us; I want individual viewer to be less passive and able to create his or her own vision of reality. That‘s when I feel my mission has been accomplished, because my task is reporting the truth to viewers and at the same time leaving them enough space and freedom to create their own story through their imagination, with my imagery.
Danilo Piccioni
