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Michele Mescolin

@kimimesco

Landscape photographer based in Italy

My passion for photography started more or less 3 years ago, when I was 21. However, now I thought about it, I have unknowingly always practiced it. As a child, I was always ‘the photographer’ on holidays or at birthdays of friends and family. I had fun doing it and I liked having a task in that kind of situations. I was hiding myself behind objects while trying to photograph the people; I didn’t want them to know that I was photographing them so it was kind of an individual hide and seek game. Later on though everyone started to expect that I would ‘be the photographer’, so it felt like an obligation and I preferred to have fun at the party rather than shooting all the time. 

Nevertheless, that didn’t take away my interest in photography. I bought my first GoPro about five years ago to take photos during my holidays with friends. Soon I saw on Instagram that there were photographers out there obtaining spectacular photos with the same camera, unlike mine, which were horrible.That was the moment that I began to take photography more serious: I also wanted incredible photos with my GoPro camera, just like these professional photographers. So I started to study the basic techniques, to look for compositions different from the classics, and to learn about the editing. I received my first camera for Christmas 2017, a Nikon D5300 with a 18-105 zoom of the kit.

"From there I began to really delve into photography; traveling more, shooting more, experiencing every shot... It became a drug, it made me feel alive. Soon I felt that my Nikon wasn’t good enough for my work, so I upgraded my equipment from amateur to professional."

I have been improving a lot over the past years; my studies in Product Design at the Academy of Fine Arts in Verona helped me a lot to boost my photography skills. Studying and practicing design and art every day for years made that I developed an aesthetic taste. Obviously the continuous study of magazines and books contributed to my improvement as well, and without admiring and discovering new international and emerging photographers I wouldn’t be where I am now either. But in the end, what is most important, is taking your camera and going outdoors to practice yourself. Continuous improvement is key for me: I do not consider myself a photographer until I have passed my idol.

"Because of my studies I have a remarkable interest and love for architecture and the cityscape."

I think that touching different styles of photography is fundamental. First of all in terms of job opportunities, because it expands the possibility of offering the customer a greater variety and therefore the possibility of having a higher number of customers with always different and stimulating objectives. Secondly, practicing other styles of photography develops a certain sensitivity. It expands my imagination and my ability to compose a picture that requires that particular style. So in the end every little detail of each of them can be combined in one click, to make it as effective as possible.

For example, I have always taken pictures of landscapes and to regain the money spent on the equipment I started working in discos at night every week. This requires a very fast and precise type of photography; every second can make the difference between a horrible or a common photo and a photo with an incredible emotional charge. Later I started with commercial photography. I got my first collaborations thanks to my photos on Instagram. I offered photographic services for companies in the food and tooling sector.

"At the same time, I began to study architecture, and consequently I began to bring out the perfection of straight lines and symmetry."

Then, this Spring I will be the photographer during a holiday for students, organized by a travel agency. I will practice the reportage format of photography: I have to take pictures every second, document every part and activity of the holiday. At the end of the journey I have to collect the best moments of the students, their smiles, their tears, the love, the fun… putting it together in a meaningful album. This temporary job allows me to touch again upon a new style of photography. It’s very inspiring for me, because I am forced to extend my set of skills.

Michele Mescolin
"Despite the fact that I tried a lot of different things in photography, I still prefer landscape and travel photography."
Meet Michele Mescolin

I have always been a nature and animal lover, and this new passion of mine brought me more frequently to my favorite habitat: the mountain. I think I inherited this love from my grandfather, who was born and raised in Cortina, Italy. I am quite lucky myself too, because I live in Padua (Veneto) and within only a few hours I reach one of the most beautiful mountain ranges in the world, the Dolomites. I often head to the mountains to ski, but since photography came into my life I go there as well to hike and do trekkings together with friends whom I got to know through social networks.

"United by the same passion, we explore and discover enchanted places together, witnessing incredible sunrises and sunsets."

The beauty of the mountain is that it’s always surprising, each season the mountain offers different colors that in turn evoke different emotions, and there are endless viewpoints always providing new perspectives. Also, in between those mountain peaks and valleys, there are lakes, acting as a mirror, reflecting magically and peacefully the beauty of our Planet. Photography has accentuated my love for nature, making me establish an almost surreal relationship with the places I visit, contemplating what I see.

When it comes to planning a trip, I obviously do research to see what would be the main places I want to visit and how to reach them. Besides that though, I don’t like to plan my trips too much. I like to act on the spot, discovering and planning the details of my trip once I am there. I like to explore nature as it is and see what it has to show me. What I do prepare though is my backpack and my gear, and that depends on where I planned to go. Mostly I bring a 24-70 f 2.8, a zoom that can take every kind of picture.

"To try to capture the imposing landscape of for example the Dolomites, it is obligatory to have a wide angle lens."

For now I have a Tokina 11-16 f 2.8, but I will buy something more pro soon. As for the camera body, I always carry my old Nikon D5300 SLR, in memory of the old days, while my main is the Nikon D750. Maybe you wonder about the tripod, but to be honest that’s not something I take with me by standard. I hate being bound in composition because of the tripod and it is an extra burden on my shoulders when hiking. I want to be free to move when I take pictures because I love to shoot instinctively. What I do carry with me though is the PC with hard disk, SD and spare batteries of my camera.

"At the end of the day, I really enjoy editing the pictures taken that day. It’s a way to relax and a perfect ending of a long day outside."

With my edits I try to do something that differentiates me from any other photographer. I don’t like to totally change the colors and weather conditions of the place to adapt it to my gallery or style. I believe in adapting my style to the shooting conditions. I want to capture the magic and wonders of the landscapes I explore and show them as they are. I feel like if I change their nature, I fail in my goal.

"I want to tell stories and arouse emotions and sensations when I share my photos with others, but I want them to see the natural spectacle I had seen, not something totally different."

I want them to get excited, to be surprised, to give them the opportunity to see what I saw at that moment. At the same time I try to be an inspiration for photographers who just started to discover the infinite and exciting world of photography. In addition, being my work strongly linked to the environment, I often use my visibility and my work to spread a message, a complaint, a criticism or an event, in order to inform people about the successes and failures of human when it comes to nature.

"The world needs artists to inspire, amaze and excite people every day through their works, showing them what’s to be protected and to be appreciated."
"On the other hand, photography, like any kind of art, is an expression of oneself. It makes you rediscover yourself, it reveals the most hidden and profound you, really showing who you are."

In my case, photography has become an outlet, a necessity, a discovery, love. Fortunately I have a very important person next to me who shares my passion that has become a job, supporting me in my projects and getting excited by my enthusiasm. Being able to positively influence the most important person of my life in what I love to do, is something unreal, indescribable. In fact, we are about to start an ambitious and long project that will lead us to discover the Dolomites in all their magnificence through the aforementioned “mirrors of the world”; a project that I hope to be lucky to tell you about in a future article/story.

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