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I frequently, for lack of a better word, get "accused" of being in publications that I have never been in. This is image is the one I am frequently been told was there favorite National Geographic cover. I have always wanted to be a National Geographic photographer....
Again the story behind the image is different than the image portrays. I was at a used camel lot (I'm not making that up) photographing camels. I saw this man I looked at him, held my camera up which is the universal sign for "can I take a picture of you?" he waved is hand in a "no" gesture. As I turned away a large male camel and I were face to face. The Male camel was in "ready to rut" mode and proceeded to slime me with the foulest smelling slime/goo/slobber/goo I have had the misfortune to ever smell. Let alone be coated with. Apparently female camels find this 'scent" attractive. This was the Bedouin who had just turned me down for a photograph's camel who has now just confused me for a girl camel.e rushes over shoos the horny beast away and looks at me now covered in camel goo, which is dripping off my nose, glasses, camera. Trying to stifle a laugh, he gives me a nod that is now "ok" to take his picture. This is tat picture. I had to be hosed down from head to toe before I could get back on the bus.
This image was captured during my American Photo Mentor Trek workshop to Egypt. with a Nikon D2x camera at 200iso with a 70-210 mm VR II lens using the Nikon electronic file format (.Nef) Shot on Lexar 16 gigabyte Flash media.
File was post processed using capture NX software. All additional post work was done in Photoshop CC using Nik Collection by DxO Color Efex Pro plugins.
Final file is stored and scaled using Perfect Resize (Genuine Fractals.)
© Vincent Versace 2020
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Georgia randomly talking to herself: "I bifurcate. One moment I was glad to break away from Russell. But now I question myself -- why the heck am leaving him? Leaving ... is that the same as running away? (I think the creep with the camera has been taking my photos. Doesn't he know that it is illegal to do that? Or is it? How does he know what I'm thinking? I digress...) It feels like it's going to rain outside. Why do people talk about the weather when there is nothing else to talk about? When is Mayer going to make another album? I can't wait. Am I there yet?"
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This is from my most recent trip to Myanmar. Just before the pandemic ended my travel plans for awhile... I traveled 36 hours of flying (not including layovers) then 16 hours by 4 wheel drive to travel 58 miles in to the mountains of Nagaland to attend the New Years festival. This image was captured whilst standing in the shade of one hut watching the man in the other hut watching what all the commotion was from the visitors that drove two hour drive by 4 wheel drive to see his hut.
Shot with the fabulous Z6 28-300mm Nikkor f series lens with the FTZ adaptor. Post processed with Capture NXd and the NiK collection colorefex Pro in Photoshop CC
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Quarntine whilst Server Surfing....
I found this image I shot with a D7200 and the 28-300mm Nikkor Street Sweeper.
Images post processed in Capture NX-D, then combined using HeliconFocus, then worked on in Photoshop using Colorefex Profrom DxO Nik Collection. Scaled using onOne's Perfect Resize.
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So I am organizing my studio (the never ending quest...) and I came across one of my old working headshot portfolios from way back in the day when there was some art involved vs. today where it has evolved to something that is a cross between a passport photo and a yearbook picture. This is of the Spanish actress Issabela Camil first "Hollywood" headshot session.
I shot this with a Nikon F5 a Nikkor 70-200mm lens, a Westcott Sunlight reflector, and Iford HP5+ rated at 200iso
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What type of light do I like to shoot? Available light, and by available light I mean any damn light that is available!
- W. Eugene Smith
This is an image from my last trip to Cuba. This is another image of the dancer Indira. It is a joy to work with Cuban dancers.
I don’t speak a lick of Spanish, unless you count knowing how to ask where the rest room is and how to order my favorite rum. For me photography has always been about slowing down to the speed of life.
Unbeknownst to Indira I matched my breath rhythm to hers and then slowly lowered the pace of our breaths. Somewhere between here and there this is where we found ourselves.
shooitng the Z9 in silent mode with a remote trigger allows for a place when the camera is not I th way. This is an extremely powerful tool because the shutter click gives up the most that the camera has taken a picture. Without that click, that simple little sound, the subject frequently forgets that there is a camera taking a picture.
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I find the stage and the players come.
-- Robert Doiseau
Ansel Adams was famous for never taking a picture of something he could not drive to. He went so far as to have a platform built atop of the roof of his car. I know these two statements to be true because when I was photographing the San Francisco Presidio project for a year and a half, I did portraits of Ed Wayburn. Ansel’s driver back in the day. But that tale is for another time.
I took the trolley, or one just like it, that is the subject of this image to shoot the view from the top of one of the six hills of Lisboa, specifically Miradouro das Portas do Sol. Which means "the view of the door of the sun. Well with a name like that AND there is a trolley to it.... I'm good.
So I get to to the top and there is a cafe with a bar and it serves snacks and has tables. I am really good. I order a pingato, a "snack" and a 10yr Graham's tawny port and grab a chair, as I look up the street i see that i have found the stage. So I set up my tripod and camera plant my self and wait for a trolley in the fog. Based on prior experience why I never take pictures of trolleys in Portugal that I can't find the perfect stage picture sit, have a snack, a coffee and an aged port whilst waiting for the players to arrive. I learn from the masters
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I am in Cuba (again) this time with the Nikon D5. this is the start of the ballet shoot. This is one of the ballerina warming up.
So so if you want to know why I choose to light with a thermonuclear device instead do a battery powered light source. Now you know.
However...... There is no image I cannot capture. The ability of this camera to shoot in lighting conditions so dark that you have to to image that there is light to provide illumination. Spot on color, speed touch screen focus in live view. Whoa..... Because of the D5 I AM: A Super Hero.
Nikon D5 camera, 28-300mm lens. Post processed in Photoshop CC 2015. File raw processed in Capture NX-D.
© Vincent Versace 2016
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This is from my latest trip to Cuba.
I frequently get asked when do you know an image is meant to be a black and white image? I have heard a lot of long winded silliness about the math of it. the short answer: when the color of the image becomes a distraction to the gesture of the image.
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WHAT A WEEK I JUST HAD!! IMAGE 2\
From the "I taught my first time out Backyard Fine Art Class via Zoom" collection. A four camera Zoom shoot done as a one man band. Up at 5am every morning. Nine different setups, Focus shift capture (which this is) using the 105mm.f2.8 S Micor Nikkor. If Forrest Gump owned this lens he say "IF Jenny was a lens she' be this lens". Holy tack sharp glass batman!
But what a blast I had!! What a bunch to troopers the class was talk about commitment!
I can't wait to teach this class again (the up at BMNT I could do without) but watching the students get it was something I live for.
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From my most recent trip to Cuba
Art is not a reflection of reality, it is the reality of a reflection. -- Jean Luc Godard
I shot this image whilst walking down the mountain to see the sunrise over the Vignales valley in Cuba. It was a 2 mile walk with an 800 meter almost 90 degree upward "hike" with two cameras, four lenses and a tripod in 80 degree heat (and the sun had not risen yet). I was soaked in sweat and not caffeinated at all at this point of the journey down the mountain.
In a moment of pause (to catch my breath) I stopped and just took in the wonder of the calm of the moment. In that momentary pause this image took me.
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Another in the "When I was a kid my father would tell me stories about being akid growing up in New York City. So everytime I go to NYC I always make it a point to find the echo of his memories still living in the city. " Series
The Chrysler building. The most beautiful building in the world. Period. If you don't agee with me then I know someting about you. This may not be the most beautiful picture of the Chrysler Building.... fair enough. But if you don't think i's the most beautufl building in the world-Like I said.... I know something about you.
(that's me a SF boy being all New Yorky)
This image was capture using Kolari Vision's new in batonet mount filter system for IR. This is the 720mn filter. I have to say I am more than impressed
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You can fail at what you don't want. So you might as well take a chance on doing what you love.
- Jim Carrey
I live for the moments where I get to be a witness to someone becoming lost in a moment. I am invisible, the world around this dancer is invisible and the only moment that is- is the eternal moment that is being completely in the moment of following one’s hearts passion.
Never settle for your plan B. Always go after living for your Plan A.
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Is he walking away from his old life? Or walking towards a new life? Or maybe the world is passing by like a flat airport escalator and he is still on the same place.
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I am in the process of keywording and captioning my images for my new website.
I now know what purgatory feels like.
Light travel an inch every two minutes.
Walking the streets of Yangon, The sun was just starting to set, I saw the sunlight hit a window across the street and hit the street where this woman was sitting selling fruit. I did a quick calculation an between 15 and 25 minutes would put the light where I needed it to be.
This is a color capture captured with a Nikon D70. This is also one of my most favorite images
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Rework of March 4, 2013 post.
Anilao, Iloilo, Philippines
Copyright 2013 Rob Castro
Esteban, the man at the rear, seems to have received the raw end of the deal after losing to Boy Botong in game of rock-paper-scissors. Now he gets to carry the heavier side of the load. What Esteban didn't know was that the boy was ranked No. 2 in the World's Hand Game Competition.
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"Are you ready for them Chinese donuts?"
They call it the Chinese Manhattan. Downtown Flushing in Queens is where the action is. It's crowded. It's dirty. It stinks. But it makes for great street photography location. In Mandarin, Flushing is known as "Falasheng", which is a type of walking stride when one has consumed too much alcohol. No, just kidding.
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Another of the image from my "2_DO" image drive
Shot with a Nikon D500 modified by lifepixel to shoot IR 18-300mm t Nikkor lens.
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So you think you can tell heaven from hell?
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"I fall in love a thousand times a day, usually for a 125th of a second. I don't belive in long exposures or long relationships."
--Jay Maisel
So that you know I am front loading my images to social media with the dancers and musicians. I promised I would do their images first..This image is of the Ballet dancer Maripaz Laguna
Shot with the AMAZING Z9. The Z9 is more camera than I am photographer.
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SERVER TRAVELING : The Fine Art of Time Travel
This is a misplaced image. It was processed to be worked on. But wound up in a folder labeled FLOWERS_MAYBE_2_DO. I do remember freezing my ass off being rained on and it was one those rare moments at tunnel view where no one was there because they were shiner than I was. There was a brief moment of a break in the clouds. the sun hit the water fall and then the water really fell from the sky. I was complaining to my self at the the time. I can promise you I will never complain again . I sooooo look forward to being able to be somewhere else as I am sure we all do than the post stamp of a piece of land that is my current lil'slice of heaven.
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From my most recent (hopefully not my last) trip to Cuba
I was just walking down the street and being taken by a one moment of another beings life, when a little boy was playing hide and seek and zipped around the corner to see if he was being followed. He did not see me because he thought I was too busy seeing something else. He took me alrifgt. I slowed down to the peed of life and let him hide in my camera where he took the shot by taking me.
Shot with the Amazing Nikon Z50 70-250mmDX Z mount Nikkor lens
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At the dinner table no one ever gets old.
-Italian Proverb
Another in the drive by shooting series. I shot this on the way home from one of the most spectacular days/meals I have ever had. I am in the Douro valley this is from the road just before I turn off to go to the hotel that I was staying at.
This was the dessert. the whole day was timeless
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Post Cards from the vacation that is my life. the "I have been some remote placeless but....... " section
So here I am spending the day organizing 180TB of drive. Sorting through the 16TB of Myanmar images. Looking at the 2_DO folder. From a kinder gentler time. I look forward to the day I can be taking like this again.
From a kinder gentler time. I look forward to the day I can be taking like this again.
Shot with the fabulous D200 70-210mm F series. Post processed with Capture NXD and the NiK collection in Photoshop CC
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This is an image from my Dec 2015 trip to Santiago De Cuba, A simple plains is the most difficult thing to achieve.
Shot with the Nikon D750 and the 28-300mm Street Sweeper Nikkor
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Art is long. Life is short.
—Hippocrates
I am going to go a little way out to come back to the point of the thought that goes with the image.
I shot this image in a place you can no longer go, The Rahkine region of Myanmar. I was on assignment for American Photo magazine, We were in a boat on the Irrawaddy river during Monsoon season we were hit with a burst of rain so strong that we frantically had to get to shore so we would not sink, we ran to first hut we could find where a family was huddled in the same situation we were.
The composer Ryuichi Sakamoto passed away on the day I “re-found” this image in one of the, come to find out, Numerous “2_DO” folders I have created over the years that I have forgotten about creating. I happened to be listening to Ryuicihi Sakamoto’s album Coda, a piano treatment of the soundtrack he composed for the movie Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence.
Track 13, Last Regrets, and perhaps my favorite track on the album, had just started as news of Mr. Sakamoto’s passing came up as an alert. The first record I ever owned was Meet the Beatles. The cover just blew m away at the tender age of 6. I drove my parents crazy about only wanting to wear turtle necks and I particularly drove my father nuts by always wanting to have him play the album. Repeatedly. But I digress….
I’ve been fascinated with the light play of the portraits of the Beatles in the cover art. I believe the music I listen to influences the quality of the images I post process. I believe that we should acquire knowledge not as absolutes but as grains of thought that find each other through the course of human events that coalesce in to a beach of creativity.
Art is long. Life is short was Ryuichi Sakamoto’s favorite quote. Coincidence is God's way of remaining anonymous.
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Quarantine traveling on my server...
I have been some remote placeless but.......
This is from my most recent trip to Myanmar. I traveled 36 hours of flying (not including layovers) then 16 hours by 4 wheel drive to travel 58 miles in to the mountains of Nagaland to attend the New Years festival. This image was captured ioutside a hut that was another two hour drive by 4 wheel drive.
Shot with the fabulous Z7 modified for Infrared 24-70mm f4 s series. Post processed with Capture NXD and the NiK collection Silver Efex Pro in Photoshop CC
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Another infrared image from my latest trip to Cuba working on my Cuba: Turning the Last Page of 1962 book project . This image was shot with a Nikon Z7 modified by lifepixel.com to shoot infrared and the the 24-120mm with the FTZ adaptor. This other corner of the street where I stayed for this trip. I was on my way to caffeinate and I almost was a hood ornament. Once again proving I shoot before I look.
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Shot this image in class yesterday at the Palm Beach Photographic Centre's Backyard Fine Art class I am teaching this week. It is a near focus (which means that the nearest object is at the very edge of the beginning of focus for the 85mm f1.8 Nikkor S lens. It was shot using a Nikon Z9 in focus shift mode. One pass at f 1.8 and one pass at f5.6, which is critical aperture for this lens. I use two white balance presets, cloudy and incandescent . Cloudy produced a warmer image incandescent a cooler image. I also shot set one stop unde. I then stacked the images in Photoshop (I used 20 out of the 75 I shot per) mixed this cocktail up, shaken not stirred ansd this is the outcome.
Cool...huh
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People tell me that my playing is great. That it reminds them of the master Django Reinhardt. What do they know about Djanjo? These people don't know stuff. I tell folks that I play 8 hours a day to get my chops. The truth is I don't practice. I improvise. I make things up as I go. Right now I don't even know what key the band is playing. Nobody cares. Because the truth is Nobody listens. We are just background noise providing some contrived ambiance to this place. You really don't need to like me. I get it.
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"There are times in life when people must know when not to let go. Balloons are designed to teach small children this."
-Sir Terry Prachett
The Morro in the morning. I shoot this view (same with the Golden Gate Bridge when I visit home) every time I come to Cuba. Sometime the more things stay the same the moree they change.
There is no camera system that is a better or more powerful one than. the Z9.
Shot with the AMAZING Z9. The Z9 is more camera than I am photographer.
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Ambedo (noun): A kind of melancholic trance in which you become completely absorbed in vivid sensory details—raindrops skittering down a window, tall trees leaning in the wind, clouds of cream swirling in your coffee—briefly soaking in the experience of being alive, an act that is done purely for its own sake.
THis trip was bitter sweet s I have sad at the beginning. I photographed this woman walking down the street in 2018. I photographed her on the trip in 2022. It was a pure moment of Ambedo.
An island of light still lingering in the ever encroaching sea of darkness.
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Shot with the AMAZING Z9. The Z9 is more camera than I am photographer.
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"I go and get the camera and do it. Photography is a medium in which if you don’t do it then, very often you don’t do it at all, because it doesn’t happen twice.”
– Paul Strand
Something I just do, or I should say I do now and for a long time, is when I am in the field I always take a picture out the window of where I am staying. It's something my mentor, Jay Maisel alays does when he travels. I thought at the time "well why not" and for a long tmefelt a little silly doing it for doing it's sake. Then As I got my head out of my butt about it I really started to see the world. When I didn't do it I'd spend the day tinking about what I saw and thought I'l be sure to do it tommorw but the image never came back and all I had of the prior morning was a cyberchrome.
So this is a shot on the first day out my window playing with all my new toys in cuba befor my foirst cup of coffee. I have seen this view over the course of 15 years and I am amazed that the image shows up everytime and I was simi-conscious enough to let it take me.
There is a powerful advantage to a camera that can focus at the speed of life and that is more silent than a breath held expectant. You can truly create a place when the spirt of the subject can hide in your camera.
There is no camera system that has a better or more powerful one. This image was was shot using highlight center metering.
Shot with the AMAZING Z9. The Z9 is more camera than I am photographer.
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Sooo back to the dancers and musicians part of this broadcast..... (from my last trip to Cuba with Palm Beach Photographic Centre's Cuba workshop)
This image is of the singer Miguel Currillo Tavin of Stepteto Habanero.
There is a powerful advantage to a camera that can focus at the speed of life and that is more silent than a breath held expectant. You can truly create a place when the spirt of the subject can hide in your camera/
There is no camera system that has a better or more powerful one. This image was was shot using highlight center metering.
Shot with the AMAZING Z9. The Z9 is more camera than I am photographer.
The BW Version.
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WHAT A WEEK I JUST HAD!!
I taught my first time out Backyard Fine Art Class via Zoom. A four camera Zoom shoot done as a one man band. Up at 5am every morning. Nine different setups, near focus (which this is) using the 105mm. f1.4 Nikkor.
We also did Macro with the new 105mm 2.8 S series lens (WHAT PIECE OF GLASS THAT IS) extension tube shooting using promaste extension tubes with 85mm 1.8. S series lens as well as the 105mm macro and then with a Novoflex Mini II bellows for the Nikon Z camera and then using heliopan Clusuplenses with the 70-200mm 2.8 S series lens.
But what a blast I had!! What a bunch to troopers the class was talk about commitment!
This is the image in which the class partcipated in setting up, and saw through from set up to full compleation.
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In music I still prefer the minor key, and in printing I like the light coming from the dark. I like pictures that surmount the darkness, and many of my photographs are that way. It is the way I see photographically. For practical reasons, I think it looks better in print too.
—W. Eugene Smith
I apologize for being a little bit more intermittent that I would like with post processing and posting images. The Monsoons that have pummeled us with 4 trillion gallons of water, the equivalent of 12 inches of water distributed over the surface area of the state of California have had an effect on my studio. That and an dealing with the aftermath of incompetence of the contractor that built it have had me otherwise occupied.
This image is from March trip to Cuba, I originally processed this image in color, but something about it the roadmap of life that was /is etched on this man’s face is more black and white, not matter how colorful the experience he had to have had for those moments to be etched.
I needed a pause from dealing with soaked carpets and wet cardboard. This is the outcome of a few hours from the soup that is currently my studio.
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CATS!!!
This is from my latest trip to Cuba. I admit it I see a cat I will try to photograph said cat. Even in Infrared.
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“I am not interested in shooting new things – I am interested to see things new.”
— Ernst Haas
Another in the "View with a Room" series pre caffine consciousness capture.
I bit the bullet and modified a Z9 for infrared. I did a full spectrum conversion and then am using the bayonet filters from Kolarivision. Which means I can have my cake and eat it too. THe first element of the lens dictates everything that is going to happen from the quality of the light and resolution of thar light. So putting the IR filter at the end of the light path is far better than putting a filter in front of the lens. a full spectrum conversion allows me to bring my camera back to visible spectrum with a different filter as well as having every flavor of IR....coool....
There is a powerful advantage to a camera that can focus at the speed of life and that is more silent than a breath held expectant. You can truly create a place when the spirt of the subject can hide in your camera.
There is no camera system that has a better or more powerful one. This image was was shot using highlight center metering.
Shot with the AMAZING Z9. The Z9 is more camera than I am photographer.
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DANCERS!!!
I love photographing dancers, especially Cuban Ballet Dancers. The lovely Brenda Delgado This is from my latest trip to Cuba.
I shot this with the brand new Nikon Z6 and my brand spanking new 8mm f1.8 S series lens.
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Why the best light is available light and by available light I mean any damn light that is available.
-- W. Eugene Smith
Well W. Eugene your approach to lighting works for me.
This image is part of a greater project, a book serries titled "Turning the Last Page." The title of the Cuba project is "Cuba: Turning the Last Page of 1962."
The camera was the fabulous Nikon D810. The lens was 105mm lens. To make sure we are all on the same page, there are always two aspects to every shoot. "The Shoot" itself and the post processing to final art. This image contains both aspects and is the outcome of the post processing this is a copy of that final file.
For "the shoot" aspect of this project no artificial light, no make-up on the subjects, no reflectors or diffusers all of the images are spontanious none of the subjects are posed. So what you are seeing is (from the shoot aspect) just the lens. Just the camera. Just the light that was there. Just the subject
My goal every time I shoot is to be the weakest link in the entire project.
As to this image I frequently feel like this when I am there with a camera.
I have always held that the lens is the brush, the camera sensor is the canvas. I have also held the that the beauty of a lens is not in how well it handles focus but rather how well it handles from in focus to blur.
There is no image I cannot capture. There is no image in which my vision of the image and the beauty of moment that took me that is not enhanced by the beauty of the glass and lens design of the Nikon system.
So you want to know why I choose Nikon? Now you know.
Because of my Nikon camera- I AM: A Super Hero. Because of the Nikkor lenses I AM: A Super Hero with tack sharpnes at point of focus and beautiful Bokeh every place else in the image.
© Vincent Versace 2023
For consideration only, no reproduction without prior permission.
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Post Cards from the vacation that is my life. the "I have been some remote placeless but....... " section
This is from my most recent trip to Myanmar. I traveled 36 hours of flying (not including layovers) then 16 hours by 4 wheel drive to travel 58 miles in to the mountains of Nagaland to attend the New Years festival.
This was shot after the sunset at a rest stop (someone's house on the side of the rut...I mean road) inside the back of the house. I was playing run and hide whist I photograph you with children.
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I have been some remote placeless but.......
This is from my most recent trip to Myanmar. I traveled 36 hours of flying (not including layovers) then 16 hours by 4 wheel drive to travel 58 miles in to the mountains of Nagaland to attend the New Years festival. This image was captured just inside a hut that was another two hour drive by 4 wheel drive.
Shot with the fabulous Z7 modified for Infrared24-70mm f4 s series lens at 160iso. Post processed with Capture NXD and the NiK collection Silver Efex Pro in Photoshop CC
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I just got back from Cuba. It was my first trip out side of the USA in over two years. This image is of the dance Grettell Lastre Casuso. It was a bittersweet trip. I will post the images as I process them. I shot almost 12,000 frames.
Shot with the AMAZING Z9. The Z9 is more camera than I am photographer.
The BW Version.
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From the "TO_DO" archives....
When you are stuck in airports because of weather delays you can either bemoan your fate or you can post process pictures...
so here is more of my "Street walking" photography, seeing the world at eye level and at the speed of life.
As I have stated before I am the world's foremost expert on photographing "encrusted" children. Best dirt, snot or in this case Acadia wood that is made into a sunscreen that the parents make into playful designs. If you are a kid and you have schmootz on your face..... Non better than me to to photograph ya'
Myanmar (Burma) during a Palm beach Photographic Centre workshop.
When you see the moment and the moment takes you...take the moment.
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“The eye should learn to listen before it looks.”
— Robert Frank
Sooo back to the dancers and musicians part of this broadcast..... (from my last trip to Cuba with Palm Beach Photographic Centre's Cuba workshop)BUT IN INFRARED!!!
This image is of Stepteto Habanero.
Yup I bit the bullet and modified a Z9 for infrared. I did a full spectrum conversion and then am using the bayonet filters from Kolarivision. Which means I can have my cake and eat it too. THe first element of the lens dictates everything that is going to happen from the quality of the light and resolution of thar light. So putting the IR filter at the end of the light path is far better than putting a filter in front of the lens. a full spectrum conversion allows me to bring my camera back to visible spectrum with a different filter as well as having every flavor of IR....coool....
There is a powerful advantage to a camera that can focus at the speed of life and that is more silent than a breath held expectant. You can truly create a place when the spirt of the subject can hide in your camera/
There is no camera system that has a better or more powerful one. This image was was shot using highlight center metering.
Shot with the AMAZING Z9. The Z9 is more camera than I am photographer.
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We all have a bit more time on our hands they we are used to or would like I suspect. So I have been playing with focus shift, the 105 f2.8 macro on my D780. I have made a discovery and have an epiphany on how to build images. AND yes I am going to play coy..... Shot with my Nikon D780, Nikkor 105mm f2.8 Macro Lexar XQD card, Using focus shift generated capture. Images post processed in Capture NX-D, then combined using HeliconFocus, then worked on in Photoshop using Colorefex Profrom DxO Nik Collection. Scaled using onOne's Perfect Resize.
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Another thing the dress rehearsal for the Zombie Apocalypse has afforded me is a world where there was no traffic in the middle of the day in Los Angeles. This is a view that you only really get to see but really cannot photograph. The reason is I am in the middle of one of the really busy cross roads with a tripod. Three cars in a half hour. I shot this on my birthday, I have been looking at this view for a really, really, really really, long time. I have tried to shoot this image for a really, really, really really, long time. IR Z7, 80-400mm Nikkor, FTZ adaptor.
Capture NXD, Photoshop CC, SilverEfexPro by DxO.
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