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Guides to photographing Rome

Where to go, at what hour, in which light and with which settings. Not lists of monuments: real spots, with the direction they face.

Marco Carotenuto writes these guides from the scouting and the workshops he runs in Rome every week. Each guide gives the locations with their orientation, the useful time window and the starting settings. They are free and require no sign-up.

These guides are written in Italian and are not translated yet. The text below is in Italian.

Where to shoot

The places, with the direction they face and the hour they work. Orientation matters more than the monument: the same spot at dawn and at sunset is a different photograph.

How to shoot

Settings and method, applied to the light of this city: travertine, the warm lamps of the alleys, the contrast along the river.

Rome is learned by walking it

These guides come out of the workshops. If you want the version with me alongside, the dates are here.