Elia Locardi (born 1980) is an American photography professional specialized in travel photography, landscape photography, aerial photography and videography. He is best known for his recreations of color images of renowned landscape and travel subjects from dozens of countries, which have been said to "portray the world in bold, vivid color, and bring landscapes and moments to life in ways that immerse the viewer". Locardi is also a well known photography blogger, educator, speaker and entrepreneur.
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Education and career
Locardi graduated in media art and animation from the Art Institute of Ft Lauderdale in 2002. After a decade working in the media arts and animation industry, and travelling, Locardi launched a career in photography. His photographic themes have been natural landscapes, cityscapes, ancient architecture and world heritage sites. His work has been published in National Geographic, Digital Photo Magazine, Digital Camera Magazine, and Professional Photographer Magazine. Likewise, Locardi's drone pictures and footage have been praised in specialized online and book sources.
Together with his wife Naomi Locardi, in 2010 he founded a photography-oriented website Blame The Monkey, an American blog focusing on travel photography inspiration and education. The blog shares stories of the photographers' experiences being global nomads living on the road and the techniques used in the creation and postprocessing of travel photography images. The blog also shares online educational resources in the form of photography tutorials. Blame The Monkey was voted "Best New Blog for Photographers" by Scott Kelby, in his roundup of 55 best of things in 2011.
Locardi has created a digital processing method he calls "Advanced Dynamic Blending." Using multiple exposures over a long time span (up to several hours), he is able to capture the full dynamic range of light in a scene.
Alone or in association, Locardi has participated in the development of tutorials and other educational material on photography and postprocessing techniques as applied to travel, landscape, cityscape, desert nightscape, and astro-photography, among others.
He was still photographer for the documentary film How I Became an Elephant (2012), and worked capturing aerial drone footage for a documentary film on Bhutan's annual Tour of the Dragon bicycle race (2015).
Locardi has been an invited speaker at Photoplus Expo (NYC), Photokina (Germany 2014, 2016), InterBee (Tokyo), PNE (Beijing), Gulf Photo Plus, Out of Chicago Conference, and South Carolina ASMP, Southeastern Film & Photo Conference.
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Awards
- 2014: Locardi was voted ninth in USA Today 10Best's "Top Travel Photography Bloggers" in a Readers' Choice Poll.
- 2016: Chosen by Scott Kelby as one of five best photography workshop teachers.
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