Here is another image from the archive and one of my all time favorite images. as I work on my FOTOmentor award show. The was shot with a D300 as part of the release campaign advatorial. I was in Vietnam again during Monsoon season. A rainstorm of biblical proportion had decided it was time. I ran into a tea and snacks shop to get out of the rain. Camera was on the tripod so I decided to play with the "new" features. Which for me was live view. Set the camera up. and magic happened. The two kids had no idea I was actually taking a picture. I was allowed to watch the moment before the the straw was fired....

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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 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 lens at 160iso. Post processed with Capture NXD and the NiK collection Silver Efex Pro in Photoshop CC

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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 the image in color.

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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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 an image of the actor David Arquette, I shot this images in between takes of the movie Saving Flora. Mr. Arquette was one of the most giving actors I have worked with. He was always anticipating what I was going to need and showed up with the "goods" right when I realized I needed it. . Talented is an understatement. He was a compelling to watch act. Shot with a Nikon D5 and the 105mm f 1.4 lens #nikonambassador #105mmf14 @#Nikon100 #nikonlove #lexar #kelbyone #photography#onOne @NikonUSA #mirrorless #Nikonz7 #NikonNoFilter #niksoftware#nikonUSA #Epson #wacom #xritephoto #onone #sunbounce#fineartphotography #DxO #iamgenerationimage #iamnikon #B&H #PhotogenicbyBenQ #lexarMemory #nikonLOVE @lexarmemory elite photographer #lexarmemory #nikonnofilter

Second IR image I have ever shot with the very first Nikon Z7 Modified to shoot IR using the Enhanced Color conversion filter. 24-120mm with FTZ adaptor

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More from my way back in the day when there was some art and skill involved shooting headshots vs. today where it has evolved to something that is a cross between a passport photo, DMV and a yearbook picture rant.

This is the headshot of the actress Marcia Cross. If ever there wa a person that I hope gets everything they deserve it is her. The best way to describe her presence and spirit is "precious" and a "gift"

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I shot this with a Nikon F5 a Nikkor 70-210Dmm lens, a Westcott Sunlight reflector, and Iford HP5+ rated at 200iso. I reshot the negative with a bellows and the D810 and Silverfast software.

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From my most recent trip to Cuba. children!

Who said Ice cream needs to be eaten with a spoon. AND who said Ice cream was not meant be worn?

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

Three image pain of a sunset, the Malicon, Havana.

Shot with the Amazing Nikon Z7 24-70mm f4.5 S series Nikkor lens

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Doing the first level edits today of my latest trip to Cuba. This image was shot with the Nikon Z7 and the the 24-70mm s Series lens. I was just walking by and this car took me. I suppose I registered somewhere that the car was color coordinated to the building. I frequently do not realize what I have actually shot until I am sitting in front of the monitor in the studio. I feel like I have a hand on my back gently pushing forward when I shoot.

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As sit her listening to the dulcet tones of an Epson 9900 and 9000 printer printing image for my upcomingFOTOmentor award show "Post Cards From the Vaction that is my Life at the Palm Beach Photographic Centre I hear Jack Davis whispering in my ear..... I made it color just for you

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I shot this during the Presidio Project with a prototype Nikon D1x and a protype 80-400mm Nikkor lens. The were tearing down an old warehouse to put up some modern marvel that most likely looks like the inside of an old washing machine. It was the time of the dot com KAAABOOM right after the Dot com boom. I was commissioned by th rPresidio Trust to photograph the recently decommissioned San Francisco Presidio. The oldest military base in history. It was commissioned in 1776. I had just finished two gigs one as the Artist in Residence at Altamira Group (the inventors of Genuine Fractals, I was employee number 6) and the other ads the Advisor to the President of Kodak on digital imaging. I was hired by NiK Software (employee number 2) to be the test pilot for their soon to be released version 1 of the software. I was blessed to be offered the chance to photograph a recently minted national recreation area/park (the Presidio). What a far cry living a 1440 acre park in the middle of San Francisco. My studio was still up and running in Los Angeles and I was all over the place. But back to this image I had a two seater convertible at the time and as I was driving back to my house in the Presidio to beat the rain I ran over a nail and got a flat in from t of the image you see here. I shot this whilst waiting for AAA and in the rain. I came back two days later when there was sun (a rare area in SF) and there was no wall left.

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Street walking in Cuba.

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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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).

This IR image was shot from a speeding boat (speeding being relative) on Inlee Lake. One of my most favorite places in the world to be.

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

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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. This is the warrior Ko Khar Nuu ( San Pya village)

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I shot this image of the Shwedagon Pagoda, in Yangon Myanmar, at sunset with a D600 and the 28-300mm lens. It was the first day in Yangon on a workshop I was asked to lead for the Palm Beach Photographic Centre. This was the 141st image from the camera that I had literally received the day before I left for Myanmar. This was the camera that I discovered that from this point forward auto ISO was the wa yto go with street photography. I am going through a 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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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...

Iso here is more of my "Street walking" photography, seeing the world at eye level and at the speed of life.

IIt this case I am photographing a procession of "mini" monks or there morning walk for food from the residence of the village. Buddhist monks are not allowed to handle money and have to be given the gift of food to eat. A monk has three robes. The one he has on, the one he wore yesterday and the one he will tomorrow he washes the other two. In Thailand the monks wear robes dyed with saffron. In Burma the robes are dyed with Jackfruit.

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

Captured with the AMAZING Nikon Z6 and the best piece of glass I have ever shot with the 105mm f1.4 Nikkor.

In between takes.

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This is an image from my most recent trip to PBPW Cuba. The image you are seeing are 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 D5. The lens was 28-300mm "street sweeper" 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 linkn the entire project.

This image of Anthony was shot whilst walking through a neighborhood on the outskirts of Havana.

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."..... This approach to lighting 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.

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.

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 (unless otherwise noted) 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 angry photographic charlatan 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,28-300mm lens. Recorded to Lexarmedia Raw conversion done in Capture NX-D. converted to a 16bit Prohoto colorspace .TIFF. Further post processing Photoshop CC 2017, Nik collection by Google, oNonesoftware ver.10.5. Wacom Cintiq 27QHD, Benq SW2700 monitor (for approval color)

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rom my "2_DO" folder collection Cuba section:

Another child that is not buying the silliness of what I am selling....

Shot with a Nikon D500 18-300mm t Nikkor lens.

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Another image from external hard drive spring cleaning. Where the Buffolos roam, Yellostone National Monument and park. Nikon D610, 28-300mm Capture NXD, Photoshop Niksoftware.

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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.

I shot this the day before in Yangon at a local market.

Shot with the fabulous Z7 modified 8mm f 1.8 s series Nikkor lens. Post processed with Capture NXd and the NiK collection Silver Efex Pro in Photoshop CC

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AI shot this image of the Chrysler Building whilst speaking at Optix. When my father was alive everytime I went to NYC I would try and capture images that were the places he would tell me about his growing up in New York. Finding the past that isstill present today.

NEF RAW file was converted using Capture NXD, post processed in Photoshop CC 2018 using the NiK collection and Silverfexpro by DxO.

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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.

I am now crashing an elementary school and playing with the kids. I love the fact that there is still enough innocence left in the world that this can happen.

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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From the "2_DO" folder collection Cuba section:

I love going for the ride. I love honoring the giver by receiving the gift.

photography....just seeing the world at eye level and at the speed of life being taken by the moment and letting them moment of being taken be the cause of clicking the shutter. Once again I was taken by the absolute love of this moment.

Shot with the a prototype D5, 28-300mm AKA "Street Sweeper" lens. Raw processed in Capture NXD post processed in Photoshop CC with NiK collection software by DxO

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From my most recent trip to Cuba. Landscapes

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

A 45mp 12 IMAGE INFRARED HAND HELD PANO OF THE VINALES VALLEY?!?!?!

What do I have a digital deathwish? I am surprised I did not pass by my birthday doing the post processing on this. 85 inches x13 inches at 360ppi 16bit. OR 36gb of PSD. Whoa

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This is another image from my most recent trip to PBPW Cuba. The image you are seeing are part of a greater project, a book series 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 f 1.4. Arguably the best lens Nikon has ever made. Certainly the best lens I have ever shot with.

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 by a make-up stylist, in this case just the make-up the dancer chose to put on herself, no reflectors or diffusers all of the images are spontaneous 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.

This is an image of the Cuban Ballerina Klavdia. In this image, just like the previous one of the Elena , Klavdia was resting in a small window frame and I was out side on the even smaller balcony shooting towards her, in between rain showers.

The light source was ambient rainy daylight.

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."..... This approach to lighting 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.

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.

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 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.

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 (unless otherwise noted) 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 angry photographic charlatan 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 D810 camera,105mm f1.4 lens. Recorded to Lexarmedia Raw conversion done in Capture NX-D. converted to a 16bit Prohoto colorspace .TIFF. Further post processing Photoshop CC 2017, Nik collection by Google, oNonesoftware ver.10.5. Wacom Cintiq 27QHD, Benq SW2700 monitor (for approval color)

© Vincent Versace 2016

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From my most recent trip to Cuba.

"Light, Gesture and Color are the key components af ant photograph." Jay Maisel

I believe there is an additional element timelessness. The moments between moments.

Shot with the Amazing Nikon Z7 24-70mm f4.5 S series Nikkor lens

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Post Cards from the vacation that is my life. the "I have been some remote placeless but....... " section

This from my most recent trip to Myanmar. Soooo.... I shot this in Yangon just before r my journey to the outskirts of the absolute middle of nowhere. I have a series of exercises I run myself through before I enter "the hair ball" of a week long + street photography assignment. I do them to blow the rust out of the pipes so to speak. This is part of my defined area exercise. I pick four corners in a given space and then see how many usable images I can shoot in that area in a set period of time.

Shot with the Fabulous Z7 and the 24-120 Nano F lens with the FTZ adaptor.

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I spent the day at Jay Maisel's studio to smoke cigars and tell lies and more importantly laughing our asses off.

We also had Katz's Pastrami (Jay's favorite thing to eat)and Russ & Daughters. (my favorite thing to eat) for lunch.

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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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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.

This is an image of the News Building that I shot through the glass on my one and only day. off (so far) from the Feature film shoot I am the Stills/Set photographer for, Pinball.

I shot this whilst spending the day with Jimmy AtoZ (my new associate photographer in my classes) and Aymen Siam, who I mentor as part of the NYSalt program. Jimmy is a NYC native and well took me to some of the echo of New York places I only occasionally stumble upon. I call this the "dailey Planet" 'cuz everyone knows Gotham City is Ian NewellYork City...Sheeesh

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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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.

I am always looking for the echo of the past that is present today.

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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by kellydelay ift.tt/1stRyeD

"Light gesture and color are the key components of any photograph. Light and color are obvious but it is gesture that is the most important. There is gesture in everything, the key is to find the gesture that is the most telling"

-Jay Maisel

This is an image of a 3 minutes before the "official" state of mourning was over and Cubans could drink and smoke. The bars were already full in anticipation.

This is an image from my most recent trip to PBPW Cuba. The image you are seeing are part of a greater project, a book series 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 D5. The lens was 28-300mm "streetsweeper" 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 linkn the entire project.

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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."..... This approach to lighting 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.

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.

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 (unless otherwise noted) 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 angry photographic charlatan 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 28`300 lens. Recorded to Lexarmedia Raw conversion done in Capture NX-D. converted to a 16bit Prohoto colorspace .TIFF. Further post processing Photoshop CC 2017, Nik collection by Google, oNonesoftware ver.10.5. Wacom Cintiq 27QHD, Benq SW320 4k ARGB monitor (for approval color)

© Vincent Versace 2016

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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 have no idea where this is, other than somewhere between here and there in Myanmar. The big issue, at least for me when on assignment is you stop producing "product" when the editor or art director says "we're good" there are always more images that are great but do not fit the direction of the story and there is just so many hours in a day, and when you get "it's a wrap" you are off to the next gig. It's nice to take pause and se what is there that you saw but did not "see" for the purpose of the story.. D3x and the 24-120mm lens. This is the image in Chromatic Grayscale.

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. Converted with the Oz 2 Kansas BW conversion.

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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...

COLOR 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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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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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 image was capture during the first trip to Moab. It was a new moon, so the Milky Way was visible at 3:30am.

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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 between 4;30am and 6:30am in 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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My father was a New Yorker. I would every chance I could when ever I was in his city to capture images of the moments from the stories he would tell me about growing up in New York City. He passed away 10 years ago, I still love finding the echoes of hs memories.

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 Df camera,105mm f1.4 lens. Recorded to Lexarmedia Raw conversion done in Capture NX-D. converted to a 16bit Prohoto colorspace .TIFF. Further post processing Photoshop CC 2017, Nik collection by Google, oNonesoftware ver.10.5. Wacom Cintiq 27QHD, Benq SW2700 monitor (for approval color)

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Post Cards from the vacation that is my life. the "I have been some remote placeless but....... " section 2011 edition

(One of four images)

I was on assignment for American Photo magazine (back when magazines existed...) This is in a region in Burma that non Burmese (and even then it is strictly limited) can no longer travel to.

There is an old wives tale that the most beautiful women in South east Asia are from Burma specifically from the village I photographed this woman in. So hard core was this belief back in the day that the men of the village took to tattooing the faces of the women so no one would want to steal them. This was done with bamboo needle and ink at 13 years old with out any for of local anesthetic.

To get to this village this village we travelled 11 hours by car one one of the "Burma Super Highways" three hours by boat then 6 hours by car then 7 hour day boat during the monsoon season up the Irrawaddy river. Along the way we had to bail the boat out and head to shot when it dumped rain or we would sink ( this is also where I proved that a Nikon camera can indeed be pelted with 1.7 liters of water per hour....). All I know is that when we FINALLY arrived sat this village I was hell bent on photographing a tattooed face woman. I entered the village and it was completely empty. Only chickens and pigs running around.

As my angst, frustration and concern started to simmer to a boil of "@&$*%(!!" level expletives, I hear, flowing in the air around me, the is beautiful bell/bird song like voice in the most exquisite mix of births and brumes accented English say "Are you looking for me?" I spin around and all there is an empty village. the again I hear flowing in the air around me, the most beautiful voice " I cannot come down because I mail but you may photograph me if you would like to."

I would like to believe that my mother did not have any idiot children I said to my self "look up" and there above me had to be one of the most beautiful women I have ever seen. Stopped me dead in my tracks. Also keep in mind that the last white man to visit this village must have been during the British occupation. I eventually found my voice and said "yes I traveled here to photograph you" (I had no idea that I had travel here just to photograph this woman but it was as if she was notified via psychic link or carrier pigeon that I was on my way and on "official" American Photographer magazine business. She smiled, giggled a bit, I then lifted up my camera she made this face.

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CATS!!!

This is from my latest trip to Cuba. I admit it I am a cat lady. I shot this with thew 50mm 1.8 S series lens. A lens that truly blew me away. To be honest I have alway viewed a 50mm lens as an optical lens cap. I have learned the error of my ways. This is a breathtaking star lens with beautiful bokeh.

Shot with the Amazing Nikon Z7 70-200mm f 4.5 series F Nikkor lens

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DANCERS!!!

I love photographing dancers, especially Cuban Ballet Dancers. Ahora Pregunto y le Digo in natural light during practice for "the Nutcracker." This is from my latest trip to Cuba.

I shot this with the brand new Nikon Z50 50-250mm DX S lens. I decided to shoot all but one day exclusively with this camera in a real world situation, and nothing is more "real World" than doing street photography on the streets of Havana.

BW version.

Conversion done with Nik Collection by DxO using my multi SilverEfex Cord approach as outlined in my book "From Oz to Kansas"

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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 Frank who is considered to be one of the world's greatest motorcycle Mechanics. If only he worked on vintage BMW's instead of just Harleys and vintage Indians....

The llight source was sunlight reflecting off of concrete and the garage door was half way up.

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. (this image is at f2.8 I was still getting the hage of the lens, I had not yet trainde my self that is indeed f 1.4) 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)

© Vincent Versace 2016

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CAPE TOWN, SOUTH AFRICA - Friday 30 December 2016, a young girl does dance split jumps as the sun sets over Bikini Beach in Gordons Bay, a town 60km from Cape Town central in the Western Cape Province. (Photo by Roger Sedres/ImageSA)

The 105mm MC S lens for the Nikon Z series is truly a "Jenny" lens. Whoa. This is for my friends Paul Van Allen and Joey Terrill. I call this Focus Shifted Dalia Dalliance Extension Tube Bokeh Ballet.

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This is a 66 image focus shift capture from Jeff Mitchel's prototype Nikon Z7 full frame mirrioless camera using the FTZ adapter and a 105mm nano coated macro lens. (The FTZ "Adapter" would be better describe IMHO as a coupler. There to my observation no loss of functionality or quality from an F-mount mount camera to a Z mount camera when using it). The list of "cool" stuff that this camera can do is mind boggling. In addition to Focus Shift, you can preview the focus stack in camera and use it to determine how many files you actually need to shoot, instead of the pray and spray approach. I shot this as a jpeg because I do not have the updated software to read Z NEF files/. I also shot this in sRGB.

The focus stacked files were merged using Helicon Focus (the best software to do this sorta thing. Opened in Photoshop to resize the file.

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