With the pandemic, restaurants have had to re-invent themselves and Donato has extracted this amazing idea from his hat: Cooking Classes & Wine Tasting.
As a photographer and videographer of the Donato Restaurant Group I have been invited to all of them and I must admit that they are not only well prepared but also super fun!
This work becomes more interesting every day and now I too can make an excellent Carbonara.
This is the link to the classes if you want to see what it is and learn the tricks of Italian cuisine from two excellent chefs: https://donatoonlinestore.com/collections/cooking-wine-tasting-virtual-classes
Read MorePhotographing a special event is always an immense pleasure. This evening at Donato Enoteca the customers tasted an exceptional wine and its perfume spread throughout the room. Excellent wine paired by a menu created for this night by Chef Donato and Chef Gianluca.
Read MoreIt is interesting to photograph the new dishes included in a menu. The new colors, the new perfumes, the arrival of the first heat and the new raw materials available, all help to create new interesting dishes. Chef Gianluca in this is a true master! Look!
Read MoreToday I used a soft, beautiful bokeh in this images of cocktails. [Bokeh is the out-of-focus area on an image with shallow depth of field.]
The effect is like a backdrop for my focal point. It allows the viewer to focus on the most important part of my photo, the drink, and makes the subject pop!
Cosa ne pensi? Funziona?
Read More“To take good photos at the desserts I need to know its taste because the trick is to photograph their perfume and their goodness!!!”
Try it yourself: sometimes you can convince the chef! :)
Read MorePhotographing an interesting event about "Future batteries".
Greenest batteries for small devices, IoT and wearables.
With THX Design Group Italia & BlueThink
Read MoreA beautiful bar to photograph but it's raining. What do we do? Let's wait? Do we postpone the photo shooting? They put rain for 10 days. We have to photograph today. I wait for the sun to come back because the forecasts say that today there will be the sun!
Read MoreRitrarre uno sguardo, un'espressione, un istante!
Read MoreAdoro giocare col vetro e con la luce; con i sapori ed i colori. Adoro fotografare nelle giornate di sole circondata da persone splendide!
Read MoreVirginia Iris McVeigh is the bartender at Terun Pizzeria - Palo Alto. She smiles as she shows me how to prepare some of her new cocktails. Professional and precise. Slight and a little shy.
Read MoreA new menu is born! They need new photos! Chef Gianluca works fast to show me his new dishes. His passion for food makes me fall in love with every dish. Here you can see some of his creations!
In Berkeley it has been raining for days, but inside this restaurant it is pleasantly worm.
In order not to disturb customers, I choose a corner near the window where I place my portable photo studio but then I can never stand in a corner!!!
Read MoreToday I photographed the new menu created by Chef Gianluca Guglielmi for Donato & Co - Berkeley. For these photos I wanted to create a melancholy appeal. I wanted to realize images that make you feel like you are inside an Italian trattoria. You are sitting at a table and the chef comes to drink a glass of red wine with you. Listen to Italian music together and talk while you savor his new dishes.
The rainy day has certainly helped create this particular mood!
This type of photography has several names - Dark and Moody or Chiaroscuro.
I thank Klo who has kindly posed on this beautiful Californian rainy day.
Read MoreIt's time for new photos even at CENTO Osteria. A new menu, full of Italian delicacies, is ready! Pizza, pasta, panini, charcuterie and more!
Below only some shots.
Read More An evening with Jacopo di Battista and the wines of Querceto di Castellina plus the Tuscany menu prepared by Chef and owner Donato Scotti.
Located between the towns of Castellina and Radda in Chianti, the Querceto di Castellina make some of the best Tuscan wines today.
Read MoreI rarely show photos of my clients, but this time the subjects are also a dear friends, I will make an exception! During a dramatic day, where the ash caused by the fires beyond the bay obscured the sky and the very few people in the street wore masks, the amazing friend and beautiful kids posed for me!
“A giro siamo solo noi!” - Only the four of us around!!!
Read MoreToday, I photographed dishes showing love for raw materials and composition. VINA Enoteca - Palo Alto
Anche l’occhio vuole la sua parte!
Read MoreToday I photographed for an Italian restaurant inside an old Stanford facility. A very beautiful place both for its architecture and its design. VINA Enoteca!
To better describe the restaurant, I preferred to take pictures at three different times of the day.
My first photo shoot was early in the morning, when in the restaurant there are only me and the owner, with the light still unripe in the morning. A second shoot in the afternoon, after having served lunch. The sun has turned and the lights are completely different both outside and inside the location. A third shoot in the evening, when the sun sets low and the artificial lights light up. Photography in this time is wonderful and at the same time complex. Customers are seated both on the patio and inside, and the restaurant has a romantic and welcoming mood.
Read MoreOne of my favorite events to photograph not only because I have the opportunity to photograph friends but also because it is an opportunity to taste good Italian wine!!!
Read MoreToday I had the pleasure and the honor of observing how a Christian porcelain dish is born. Concentration, slow movements, precision, all necessary elements to obtain a piece of exceptional beauty. Christian says that making these unique pieces in porcelain relaxes him.
I watch him in his studio, with the music and the sun surrounding us and take some pictures. The light is perfect. I think that very beautiful pieces will come from here!
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