From my "2_DO" folder collection Cuba section:

I have a very large folder of "TO_DO" images spanning all the years I have been shooting.

Boxers and dancers are an incredible fascination of mine in that the both train at the same intensity and passion. Both require a fluidity of motion that is beautiful to watch.

As you know I am fascinated with bokeh and the combination in focus to blur.

Shot with a Nikon Z7 and the 85mm S series lens at f 1.8. Raw file converted in Capture NX=D then post processed in Photoshop CC using Nik Collection by DxO Colorefex and Sharpener Pro plug-ins.

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This image "If I were a Raindrop" and "Paris in Snow" are probably my most iconic images. I shot this image during my San Francisco Presidio project. I had been cooped up during two week rainstorm. This was the firs moment of not raining. I literally tripped over a tree root and shot this whist falling into the mud.

I thought that the raw file for this image was lost to me for forever.... Had a hard drive go tits up, back before I knew about backing everything up and back before I could afford a lotta hard rives. I came across it being misfiled in another image's folder whilst going through my file spring cleaning of my 48TB server. Trust me it is a mind numbing eye crossing endeavor. I have always wanted to redo this image. Bu all I ever had was on copy of it as a flattened tif done with the knowledge base of 18 years ago (back when I knew considerably more than I now know I know today) The reason I am beside myself reliving the glory days of yore is Epson Legacy Etching paper and the P9000's new inset. The problem is the file I had was unprintable because of the quality of the paper and printer head and gamut of the ink. I simply did not have enough data. I spent three days on this file from RAW to final print file to get it the way I have always believed it should truly look. It will replace the one I currently have (44x36) hanging over my bed in my bedroom. The colors I was able to pull from the file using picture control in NXD as well as having a much better understanding of how things work.... I would recommend that every one revisit some of the old chestnuts of one's career and take the file out for a spin

Capture NXD, Photoshop CC 2017 Nik collection by Google onOnesoftware

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DANCERS!!!

I love photographing dancers, especially Cuban Ballet Dancers.This is from my latest trip to Cuba. We were on our way back from shooting dancers leaping in the street and the lights was right, the background screamed 105mm f 1.4 and the lovely MariKarla Laguna was hanging out in the shade. It amazes me what passing clouds can do tho change the light.

Shot with the Amazing Nikon Z7 using the FTZ adaptor and the 105mm f 1.4 Nikkor lens... See More — with Maripa Laguna.

Shot with the Amazing Nikon Z7 using the 105mm f 1.4 F series Nikkor lens

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From my latest trip to Cuba.... Street Scene

I shot this with the Nikon Z7 and the 70-200mm f4 lens.

The Z system is simply best of class. The quality of the file and the perfection of the color coupled with the new lenses sharpness, just a joy to shoot. Enough with the commercial...

I have walked down this street over the past 10 years, I average 10 to 12 miles day (thank god for the healthcares program on my iPhone I suppose) I look up and around

then I was taken.

I try to create images that put the viewer in the same place the moment I was taken by the moment.

An interesting plainness, which is the most difficult thing to achieve.

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i shot this with the Nikon Z7ii the 105mm f1.4 using the FTZ adaptor. I used the Focius Shift funtionaliity to shoot one set of images at f 1.4 and then a second set at f 14. I post processed both sets twice in capture NXD one at N exposure and then again at N- (2/3 stop) under. Vivid as the Picture cintrol setting in NX-D. Both times using 32 images which I assembled in Heicon Focus then did the final aesthetic editing in Photoshop using NiKcollection by DxO plugins.

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This is an image from a prototype Z7 using Focus Shift capture (65 images.) Shot RAW+JPEG Fine Adobe RGB . File type for this experiment was jpeg, Lens was the 60mm Macro using the FTZ coupler.

Image stacking was done with Helicon Focus, type C render. Resized and color space converted to sRGB in Photoshop CC 2018. No other post processing magic. So this is color out of the camera.

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The Princess Guide!!!

the lovely Ebony is by far the best fixer I have ever had the privilege to work with.

Shot with the Amazing Nikon Z7 50mm f 1.8 S series Nikkor lens

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From my latest trip to Cuba.... Street People just hands

I shot this with the Nikon Z7 and the 70-200mm lens.

The Z system is simply best of class. The quality of the file and the perfection of the color coupled with the new lenses sharpness, just a joy to shoot. Enough with the commercial...

The Black and White version

I was walking down the street after walking the streets, 12 miles by this point (thank god for the healthcares program on my iPhone I suppose) It was hot, humid, I was hungry and thirsty and done.

I was ASO (All Shot Out)

And then I was taken. I try to create images that put the viewer in the same place the moment I was taken by the moment.

Then I was taken again by this moment

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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

Central Park.......

When was a very young boy my father and I would go to Little Italy (now referred to as REALLY little Itay) in NYC and by cheeses, salami, mortadella etc. a loaf a bread and White Rock Cream Sodas and have a picnic lunch in the park. This is one of the views I remember from one of the "secret" uich spots.

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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I shot this image of the 1955 mercedes convertible front headlight at the Saratoga Racetrack on my way back from the annual PPSNTS weeklong workshop at Hobart College. I was teaching and doing a "road trip" with Rick Friedman.

Image was captured with a Nikon D500, 18-300mm lens. RAW conversion with Capture NXD. Post processing dane in Photoshop CC2018 and the NiK collection by DxO.

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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

I went to the 194-1965 New York World's Fair. We went every weekend it was open. My father had designed the hydraulic system used on the AMF Monorail and he was working on the Crawler and Saturn 5 projects.

PanAm flew A a twin propeler helocopter from the roof of the PanAm building to the Fair and back. I got to do that ride. Yeah it's the "MetLife"" Building now. But it will always be the PanAm building to me.

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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From my most recent trip to Cuba. Dancers....

Captured with the AMAZING Nikon Z7 (modified to shoot infrared by Lifepixel) with the FTZ adapter and the 24-120mm Nano coated Nikkor lens.

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I am in the middle of doing post work on an architectural shoot. (My ego thought I could process the files faster than reality seems to be saying) so to take a break I going through my server and looking back at shoots I've done. (apparently I need more of a social life...) Right now I am in the Burma section. I shot this a few years back in Mandalay, Myanmar. Just as the sun was rising Nikon D3x the 28-300mm. .

Capture NX-D for Raw Processing, Niksoftware collection by Good, Mcphun & onOne with Photoshop CC 2017 for image editing.

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I took this image a few years ago. Jed Best was also at the meal. We were having lunch we had just spend a few hours smoking cigars and telling lies. What photographers of a certain aage do. So back to lunch, I was screwing around with the focus of the camera when jay turns to me and say" You gonna take the fucking picture or watch TV" I may have pressed the shutter but he took the picture. The impact that this man has had on me as an artist truly has no measure. When the film shoot wraps this weekend the first place I am going on Sunday is to Jay Maisel's studio to smoke cigars and tell lies.

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Continuing on the first level edits, the first 1600 images reviewed. From my latest trip to Cuba working on my Cuba: Turning the Last Page of 1962 . This image was shot with the Nikon Z7 and the the 24-70mm s Series lens.I have waled by this building just about every day on every one o f the 15 trips I have done so far on this project. Never was taken to capture an image of this building before this moment.

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This is from my latest trip to cuba. it was tromping through the tobacco fields of vinalas valley. When I cam across this Ox an cart, trees road, trees and clouds. this was shot with my Z7 modified to capture infrared with the 24-70mm S series lens.

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From my most favorite Gig I have ever had was this trip to India.

I had just landed in Mumbai, Hawaii (two week gig), to LA, LA to Frankfurt, Frankfurt to Mumbai. You know the direct route. Get picked up after several hours in customs hell explain why I have so much camera gear. Get out a little ride hard put a way wet. BAM car races straight from the airport and BAM i am in the middle of the Genish festival.

Another moment of:

A lesson I learned from Jay Maisel, Accept the gift people give you when you have the camera in front of your eye.

A lesson I learned from Viola Spolin- In absolute spontaneity you get absolute truth. You can only be one way when you are spontaneous and that is truthful.

Shot with a Nikon D800 modified by lifepixel to shoot IR 24-120mm Nano coat Nikkor lens.

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Street walking with the fabulous Z7 and the 24-70mm s series lens. I am going to Cuba in Feb and March. If you want to come on thither trip sign up at palm bech photographic center's website. workshop.org

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This is from my latest trip to Cuba. Walking the streets of Havana.

Z7, 70-200 f 4.5 Nikkor lens using the FTZ adaptor

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From my latest trip to Cuba.... Street People

I shot this with the Nikon Z7 and the 24-70mm S series lens.

The Z system is simply best of class. The quality of the file and the perfection of the color coupled with the new lenses sharpness, just a joy to shoot. Enough with the commercial...

BLACK AND WHITE VERSION

I was walking down the street after walking the streets, 12 miles by this point (thank god for the healthcares program on my iPhone I suppose) It was hot, humid, I was hungry and thirsty and done.

I was ASO (All Shot Out)

And then I was taken. I try to create images that put the viewer in the same place the moment I was taken by the moment.

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I shot this image whilst on assignment for American Photo Magazine to shoot and write an article about the opening up of Myanmar. I shot this image 4;30am Nyaung Chaungtha along the Irrawadddy river. The plan was to travel up river during monsoon season to a remote village. The trip took three days. D3 auto Iso and the 28-300mm lens. This is another from the review process of my server and and trying get to all the files I have decided to work on during the first edit but have never gotten to. Usually the amount of time I have to do any post on a gig is the flight back home and maybe there days after I hit stateside before the next adventure takes me. I decided to take this summer to try and catch up on images I have always wanted to process.

Image was post processed with Capture NXD, Photoshop CC 2017, Nik collection by Google and onOnesoftware.

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This is the "official" vinniev headshot of the Nebelung Fur Gremlin , Gianni J. Cat. (I will admit he is my favorite of the two) The reason for the apparent stillness of a this other highly energized ball of fur that is either in motion or taking a nap in between inhaling food or pouncing on the other Nebelung Fur Gremlin , Valentino J. Cat is that I have the Nebelung fur gremlin memorized with his kyptonite. Boar's Head Honey Maple Glazed Turkey. In it's presence the wild Nebelung fur gremlin is rendered helpless. Pro Tip: Never enter the wild wilderness of a living room commandeered by Nebelung fur gremlins unless you armed with this. Your life and safety may depend on it.

Shot with a Nikon D850, 24-120mm nanocoated f4 @ 3600iso

Post processed with Capture NXD, Photoshop CC, Niksoftware OnOnesoftware.

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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.

There are approximately 95 Naga Tribes in Nagaland. They are a hunter gatherer / slash and burn culture. Up to 1985 they were headhunters and and practiced cannibalism. Which would give me pause if I was told they want me over for lunch. The New year's festival is in part a celebration to comrade the ending of those practices and the embracing of a more spiritual path.

Shot with the fabulous Z6 28-300mm F series with FTZ adaptor. Post processed with Capture NXD and the NiK collection in Photoshop CC#Nikon100 #nikonlove #lexar #kelbyone #photography#onOne @NikonUSA #mirrorless #Nikonz6 #NikonNoFilter #niksoftware#nikonUSA #Epson #wacom #xritephoto #onone #sunbounce#fineartphotography #DxO #iamgenerationimage #iamnikon #B&H #PhotogenicbyBenQ #lexarMemory #nikonLOVE @lexarmemory elite photographer #lexarmemory #nikonnofilter # #IR #Myanmar #burmabilezik — with Kyaw Swa Min.

Taking the new Studio NX software out for a spin!

The entire image was creatively edited in Studio NX using nothing but picture control (vivid) and control points. I only used Photoshop on this image to resize and change color spaces.

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IAs I work on my FOTOmentor award show "Post Cards From the Vaction that is my Life" I get to relive the best moments. This image is of the temple of 10,000 Buddhas It was shot with a D600. I completely forgot about this image. I was on assignment for American Photo to shoot a piece on Myanmar in infrared. So i really wasn't paying attention to the color stuff. The thing about working as a photographer when the art director and editor say we go all we need, you move on. So going back is a real luxury and treat

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DANCERS!!!

I love photographing dancers, especially Cuban Ballet Dancers. Especially leaping Cuban Ballet Dancers. This is from my latest trip to Cuba.

50mm f 1.8 S lens and the single hardstanding Oscar Treto Hevia.

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More form the archives....As I work on my FOTOmentor award show "Post Cards From the Vaction that is my Life" I get to relive the best moments. This image of an Alaskan Fjord is a two image handheld pain shot from a zodiac. I was on assignment for American Photo to shoot a piece on curse lines and what they offer. I know I know I have a tough job. So i really wasn't paying attention to the bird I was more about paying attention to not falling into the water.

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shot with the Amazing Nikon D850, 105mm f1.4 lit by a lume cube with the small grid auto natural light portrait picture control. Westscott 30" 6-in-1 reflector as a flag. The D850 is the most impressive camera on earth! The 105 is the prettiest lens I have ever shot this is an example of the focus shift functionality of the camera.

I processed this in Capture NX-D, Picture control set to vivid. that was all the color enhancement that was done to the image. In Photoshop I used the spot healing tool to address some of the "dents" to the Strawberries that I created when I dropped them during the set up. ( really should have bought the second quart...) Nik pro contrast, and a curve to darken the edges a bit more.

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I am the recipient of the Photo Mentor award for 2019. Sir Albert Warson won it last year, Walter Ioss, Howard Schatz, Elliot Erwitt, Joyce Tenneson, Gregory Heisler are some of the other recipients.

I guess it was a slow year so they picked me.

I am in the process of printing a 200 image show (44x36) and as I am going through my 96tb archive I come across stuff I have not looked at, that took me but when the go is up... we move on to the next job.

Shot his with a D3 at sunrise on my way up the Irwaddy river during Monsoon season.

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In a 10 day period I flew to SaltLake City, drove to Yellowstone, drove to Jackson Hole Wyoming, then to Moab then back to Salt Lake City then back to Moab then back to Salt lake City then flew to Los Angeles. I drove 2264 miles and spent 23 hours in a car. After that juggernaught I had a 21 hour turn around and flew to New York city for 7 days then back to Los Angeles (9 hour turn around and flew to Maine for a week.

This is an Infra red capture on the way to Jackson Hole from Yellowstone

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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

Central Park.......

When was a very young boy my father and I would go to Little Italy (now referred to as REALLY little Itay) in NYC and by cheeses, salami, mortadella etc. a loaf a bread and White Rock Cream Sodas and have a picnic lunch in the park. This is one of the views I remember from one of the "secret" uich spots.

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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DANCERS!!!

I love photographing dancers, especially Cuban Ballet Dancers. Especially leaping Cuban Ballet Dancers. This is from my latest trip to Cuba.

24-70 S lens.

AND yes some photoshop was involved......

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This is from my most recent trip to Cuba shooting for my "Turning the Last Page: of 1962" book project. I am working on three books in this series Cuba, Burma and India. I am fascinated by reflections and the abstracts that frequently occur in the objects tat are doing the reflecting. I was an absolute joy to be shooing in Cuba with the D850. I would have posted sooner, but my work laptop's hard drive decided that it was done working as I was waiting to board my flight to Havana. I have been on the road since the 8th. I have finally got my laptop to cooperate if I boot off of an external hard drive. Not the fastest way to post process a 45.7mp raw file....

the imaging pathway is as follows: Lightroom Classic was used as the browser to make selects, then using the open directly plugin for Lightroom the selected file was sent to Nikon Capture NX-D for raw conversion saved as a 16bit tiff in the Prophoto Colorspace. File was then post processed in Photoshop 2018 and the Nik Collection by DxO was used in conjunction with Photoshop to image edit this image.

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Thie first image from my dance with Promaster Z series extension tubes.

TI learned that when you use exertion tubes ALL lenses (even zoom lenses ) are primes. Who knew.... I used focus Shift capture to create one set of images at f1.8 and one set at f8 then combined the two to gt optimum Bokeh. too cool.

85mm 1.8 S series Nikkor lens. Lit with the light coming through my kitchen window. So Mother Nature was my gaffer.

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From my "2_DO" folder collection Burma section:

I am building, for lack of a better description, a hard rive farm to augment my 98TB server. Sooooo as I go through the existing drives a found a rather large folder of "tO DO' files from my trips to Burma (Myanmar).

In this case a file aI thought I lost I found! Always except the gift that traveling at the speed of life. What get's me when I look at the meta data is I hand held this at a 30 fo a sec. Vibration Reaction is an amazing thing...

Shot with a Nikon D800 24-120mm Nano coated Nikkor lens.

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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

An interesting plainess is the most dificult thing to achieve and a patern is intersting but a patteren interupted is more intesting.

Of the many things I have learned from Jay Maisel over the years those are etched in my soul.

You see I fall in love a thousand times a day. Generally for about 125th of a second. I don't believe in long relationships or long exposuers. Another thing I learned from Jay....

This image was capture using Kolari Vision's new in bayonet mount filter system for IR. This is the 720mn filter. I have to say I am more than impressed

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rom my latest trip to Cuba.... Street People: Man sitting in chair smoking cigar.

I shot this with the Nikon Z6 and the 24-120mm lens using the FTZ adaptor.

The Z system is simply best of class. The quality of the file and the perfection of the color AND having access to all my F series lenses just a joy to shoot. Enough with the commercial...

Photography for me has always been a gift. I believe you hoNinor the giver by receivikng the gift. Every image is one that takes me. I honor the moment by allowing myself to be taken. It is in the simplest of moments that the most precious of of is is held.

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From my most recent trip to Cuba

Plate 1 of a moment just walking down the street and being taken by a moment of another beings life.

Shot with the Amazing Nikon Z7 70-200mm f4 Nikkor lens with FTZ Adaptor

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DANCERS!!!

I love photographing dancers, especially Cuban Ballet Dancers. Especially leaping Cuban Ballet Dancers. This is from my latest trip to Cuba.

We were on our way back from shooting dancers leaping in the street and the lights was right, the background screamed 50mm f 1.8 S lens and the leaping Oscar Tuñon Mulas and MariKarla Laguna.

Shot with the Amazing Nikon Z7 using the 50mm f 1.8 S series Nikkor lens

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From one of my trips to Cuba.

I have been going to cuba for over 10 years. 16 trips. There is a melancholy beauty of urban decay.

This is why I am doing the last page project. To capture the echo of the moments of the past before they are lost to today.

Captured with the AMAZING Nikon Z6 and and my most favorite street shooting lens the 28-300mm Nikkor AKA "The Street Sweeper" using the FTZ adaptor.

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From my most recent trip to Cuba

One of the many cuban children not buying what I was selling.

Shot with the Amazing Nikon Z7 70-200mm f4 Nikkor lens with FTZ Adaptor

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Mum is the word today

I am working on coming up with a class on using Focus Shift and mixing multiple apertures and the power of control points in Studio NX. Here is the latest drive around the test track.

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This is the first "official" vinniev image of the Nebelung Fur Gremlin , Valentino J. Cat. He is moments away from pouncing on the other Nebelung Fur Gremlin , Gianni J. Cat who is preoccupied chasing a piece of plastic wrap from a gadget I just received from Amazon. The secret to photographic the Nebelung fur gremlin in the wild is to do it whilst they are preoccupied in the constant game of chase the imaginary moving invisible thing that only they can see or during a a game of "death from above or behind or from a hidden spot" with the other fur gremlin.

Shot with a Nikon D850, 105mm f1.4 @f2.8 9000iso

Post processed with Capture NXD, Photoshop CC, Niksoftware OnOnesoftware.

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From the "TO_DO" archives....

I love doing "Street walking" photography. Where I see the world at eye level and at the speed of life. IIt this case I am photographing a 8 pork powered scooter in 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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This image is of the actress Charlotte Taschen. The first "official" headshot done at my LA headshot studio (still under construction. Plan is to be done sometime in August) This image was captured with a D500, 18-300mm "DX Street Sweeper" lens. (Gotta say what a imaging combo the D500 and the 18-300mm make!) Captured to a 128 Lexar 2933x XQD card. Lit with Westcott highlighter reflector and diffused sunlight.

I won my Smitsonian Award for the photographic work I did (back in the day....) with actors. Sooting headshots has been one of my great photographic loves. I have missed it over the years. So I have decided to come full circle and go back to my great love...

Image was post processed with Capture NXD, Photoshop CC 2017, Nik collection by Google and onOnesoftware.

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More from the archives....As I work on my FOTOmentor award show "Post Cards From the Vaction that is my Life" I get to relive the best moments. This image of a blue Agave that I would see four or five times a day as I walked by it by my very first LA studio. I shot this with a prototype Nikon D1 and a 70-210mm D series lens back in the day. This was one of the test files used during the beta testing of Nikon Capture software to post process .NEF files. Keep in mind this is from in 1998.

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The one thing Cuba has in abundance is old iron. As someone who appreciates old iron (I own a 1964 R69s BMW motorcycle)and appreciates what it takes to keep vintage mechanical things running, I have developed a fascination with the art of it's design. UI shot this image for trips ago.

D850, 105mm Nano coated Nikkor lens

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this image is of the actress Charlotte Taschen. The first "official" headshot done at my LA headshots studio (still under construction. Plan is to be done sometime in August) This image was captured with a D500, 18-300mm "DX Street Sweeper" nano coated lens. (Gotta say what a imaging combo the D500 and the 18-300mm make!) Captured to a 128 Lexar 2933x XQD card. Lit with Westcott highlighter reflector and diffused sunlight.

I won my Smitsonian Award for the photographic work I did (back in the day....) with actors. Sooting headshots has been one of my great photographic loves. I have missed it over the years. So I have decided to come full circle and go back to my great love...

Image was post processed with Capture NXD, Photoshop CC 2017, Nik collection by Google and onOnesoftware.

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This is another one of the images from the 105mm f1.4 lens shoot. The camera was the fabulous Nikon D5.

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. Just the lens. Just the camera. Just the light that was there. Just the subject. Suffice it to say I was the weakest link in the entire project.

This is an image ofstraberries and blueberries that I purchased at the Portreo Hill Farmer's market in San Francisco.

The light source was sunlight coming through the windows a friend's 30,000 sq ft warehouse in SF.

All I can say is thank God for Nikon's amazing focusing speed on the D5 as well as group focus feature! And thank God for 12 fps and a 200 shoot buffer when shooting RAW in frame waster mode. Talk about being taken by your subject to take a photograph. I truly just held on and was pulled through the camera!

When asked what is the best light W. Eugene Smith said "Why the best light is available light and by available light I mean any damn light that is available." Works for me

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. I am by proclivity a zoom guy. For me to say what I am about to say means that one of these brushes will be staying home.This lens has a permanent place in my camera bag.

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 105mm f1.4.

This has to be the sharpest lens I have ever used. It is also has the most beautiful Bokeh of any lens I have ever shot with as well.

So you want to know why I choose Nikon? Now you know.

Because of the D5/D500- I AM: A Super Hero. Because of the 105mm f1.4 I AM: A Super Hero with beautiful Bokeh..

NOTE: I do indeed use Photoshop. It's true. Have been since version 1. when it fit on a single floppy disc. Most inspired piece of software ever written. I was employee number 2 of Niksoftware (colorefex, SilverEfex) and employee number 6 of Altamira Group (the inventor of Genuine Fractals) so yes I do also use plug-ins. So if you are viewing an image on my personal pages, website and sundry feeds they are all post processed if I put them up.

To be very crystal clear ALL of my images that I post on my personal web feeds are post processed.

So that this non issue is no issue these are my "FINAL" versions on my PERSONAL sites. Because it is my personal page I do reserve the right to delete comments from internet trolls.

I always make it a point, If you read the full description of any of my images, to always list the software and hardware used to produce an image.

Nikon D5 camera, 105mm f1.4 lens. Recorded to Lexar XQD media Raw conversion done in Capture NX-D. converted to a 16bit Prohoto colorspace .TIFF. Further post processing Photoshop CC 2015.5, Nik collection by Google, oNonesoftware ver.10.5. Wacom Cintiq 27QHD, Benq SW2700 monitor (for approval color)

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