I shot this image during my Palm Beach Photographic Centre's FotoFusion flower workshop. This image was captured with a Nikon D750 and a 70-200 f2.8 VRII lens. 100 ISO.

© Vincent Versace 2014

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From my recent PBPW Cuba workshop. Some more Chromatic Grayscale. I am absolutely fascinated by gesture. Jay Maisel said "Light, gesture and color are the key components of every photography. Light and color are obvious but it is gesture that is the most important, the most telling." Thank you Jay for teaching me one of the greatlessons of photography.

© Vincent Versace 2016

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I thought I was going to hate mirror-less shooting. I like looking through a lens and seeing reality not a TV screen. HOWEVER I carry the V-1 with me where ever I go. I always have a camera. So This is the lie in the truth. I cannot imagine a future that is not 100% mirrorless for me.

I was walking in Trinidad Cuba. When I came upon a tower at the top of the tallest building in Trinidad at sunset. Which means a really long rickety ladder. I had to make a decision, what is going up with me and what is staying. D800 modified for IR (Duh....) AND D600, D800 or V1. V1 was the winner. This lil' bad boy continually impresses me.

It was captured with a Nikon V1 camera using the Nikon electronic file format (.Nef) file was post processed using capture NX 2.0 software and Photoshop CS6 using NiKColorefex 4 and Viveza 2.

Final file is stored and scaled using Perfect Resize (AKA Genuine Fractals.)

For consideration only, no reproduction without prior permission.

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From my recent PBPW Cuba workshop. Some more Chromatic Grayscale.

The musician who plays in front of my "Casa Particular"

© Vincent Versace 2016

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This is image was also shot on my first day out in Havana during my Palm Beach Photographic Centre's Cuba workshop. 4000iso. Walk in the park. I converted this image using the cording technique (multiple plug-in layers balanced for red, green and blue) I am beginning to work wit onOne's BW software and must admit it shows great promise for the future. (more on that as I get better with it)

This image was captured by a Nikon D600camera. 28-300 coated VR II lens in the Nikon Electronic Image File Formant (.NEF). ISO is 4000. file was post processed using Capture NX2 Photoshop CS6, Nik Color Efex 4.0.

Final file is stored and scaled using Genuine Fractals.

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Whilst the Facebook world is pelting us with infinite amounts of amazing photographs of the solar eclipse....

Now for something completely different

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 of the actor David Breitbart. What an amazing actor, of the best I ever worked with.

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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. Scanned with an Epson V850 and Silverfast software.

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I shot this image on my second day of my February 2015 Palm Beach Photographic Workshop to Cuba. This image was shot in Havana. (There are two spots left for my March 21-29 workshop. www.workshop.org/travel.php) I only brought two cameras to the workshop and three lenses. The cameras the amazing Nikon D750 and and a Nikon D800 modified (by lifepixel.com) to capture infrared.

The Lenses were the equally amazing and versatile Nikkor 28-300mm (AKA "the Street sweeper), Nikkor 24-120mm Nano and the Nikkor 80-400mm Nano coated lenses.

This image was captured with my Nikkor 80-400mm and my modified D800 infrared camera.

Post processing was done with Capture NX-D (Raw processing) Photoshop CC 2014, onOne Perfect Suite and Nik Collection Software.

© Vincent Versace 2015

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AND..... the scans from my Epson V850 keep coming..... yet another 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 one of the "Highlander" actor Adrian Paul. This is from one of the contact sheets I was photographing hime whilst we were prepping. One of the advantages of being a conservatory trained actor (ACT/BU) that then went to USC is I am trained to work on both sides of a camera.

I shot this with a Nikon F5 a Nikkor 70-210Dmm lens, a Westcott Sunlight reflector, and Iford HP5+ rated at 200iso Scanned with an Epson V850 and Silverfish software.

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From my recent PBPW Cuba workshop. This is from the third day I was allowed the joy of shooting with the Nikon D5. Just walking the street in Havana.

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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Shot with Bert Monroy on my recce for sunset of the bay. 1pm. this is the panorama of the GGB.

Post processing was done with Capture NX-D (Raw processing) Photoshop CC 2014, onOne Perfect Effects Suite and Nik Collection Software.

© Vincent Versace 2015

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AND.....another 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 another one of the "character theatrical" headshots of the actor Brian Sannet. I love this shot.

I shot this with a Nikon 6006s my Uncle CJ gave as a graduation present from USC a Nikkor 70-210Dmm lens, a Westcott Sunlight reflector, and Iford HP5+ rated at 200iso Scanned with an Epson V850 and Silverfish software.

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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 D500. The lens was 18-300mm DX"street sweeper II" 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 a dog that decided to pose for me whilst walking the streets of Havanaa.

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 #D500 #18-300mm DX 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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CHROMATIC GRAYSCALE VERSION

Second post processed image from my “Marilyn Monroe” shoot with Stephanie Stuart arguably the Best Marilyn Monroe impersonator in the country.

In 1962 Nikon released the Nikon "F". Not only did Nikon release the camera they released it with a slew of lenses and accessories. Over 800,000 Nikon "F" cameras were sold. In 1962 Nikon ran an ad campaign that featured Marylin Monroe shot by Bert Stern. (www.youtube.com/watch?v=DpXixgkR3II) Sadly it would also be her last photo shoot.

What I wanted to do was celebrate the shoot using the tech of today. Soooooo you will be seeing a lot of images from the shoot we did on the deck of my studio.

I am a big believer in getting it as close to completely right in the camera as reality allows. What I was able to do with the combo of the sunbounce cage and hive lights was magic. We shot video during the shoot to discuss how to do conversational portraiture using the D850.First post processed image from my “Marilyn Monroe” shoot with Stephanie Stuart arguably the Best Marilyn Monroe impersonator in the country. I am a big believer in getting it as close to completely right in the camera as reality allows. What I was able to do with the combo of the sunbounce cage and hive lights was magic. We shot video during the shoot to discuss how to do conversational portraiture using the D850.

I used Hive light led wasps lights with a leko lens an a fresnel. Sunbounce cage and Sunbounce reflectors.

Nikon D850 and Nikkor 70-200mm f2.8

Post processing: Capture NX-D, Photoshop CC 2018, NiK Collection by DxO's Silver Efex Pro and Viveza.

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'hhHands give clues to the entire personality of the subject's moods, attitude, tension. — Yousef Karsh

My grandfather Pasquale use to quip that all you ever need to to to shut up an Italian was to make them sit on their hands. Hands are as communicative, sometimes even more than, the expression on the face of the subject of a portrait. I am completely captivated by hands.

One thing to keep in mind is I never pose any of my subjects. Be it in the studio or when I am doing street photography. All my images are “found” of the moment and absolutely spontaneous.

I am not sure which I prefer the color or the black and white. But this hand truly do tell a story of a life.

WHAT A BLAST this last workshop was. I shot these images with the new Nikon Zf a very fun camera to shoot and the 135mm Plena lens just Whoa. Bokeh is my thing. An exquisitely beautify piece of glass to work with. I fell in love with it and kinda for got to switch lenses, it’s just that pretty and just that useful. The Zf is now the camera I grab when I have no idea what I am walking into and Nikkor optics are just a visual pleasure to look through whilst I shoot. Nobody does In focus to blur as well as Nikon does.

Come join me for my next Cuba trip March 07-14 2024 Seeing the Sounds of Music Hearing the Dance of the Photograph. Working link is in my bio

www.versacephotography.com/workshops/cuba-seeing-the-soun...

All images are raw processed using Nike Studio NX, Post processed in Photoshop CC and the NiK collection by DxO.

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The image was captured on my first day of my three day Varanasi workshop put on by the Indian talent pooling webiste tumbhi.com. I was walking in the city and this was on happy to see me baby.

This image was captured by a Nikon D-800 200iso with a 28-300mm VR II lens using the Nikon electronic file format (.Nef) Shot on Lexar 128 gigabyte 1000 speed UDMA Flash media. file was post processed using capture NX 2.0 software, Nik Color Efex 4.0.

© Vincent Versace 2013

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A bevy of Bitchin' Cruisers on the Malecon.

Shot with a Nikon D750, during my Palmbeach Photo Center Cuba Workshop., recorded to Lexar flash media, 28-300mm Nikkor lens. Post processing was done with Capture NX-D (Raw processing) Photoshop CC 2014, onOne Perfect Effects Suite and Nik Collection Software.

© Vincent Versace 2015

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Jay Maisel once quipped "I fall in a 1000 times a day at a 1/250th of a second. I apparently do not believe in long relationships or long exposures." For me the most successful portraits are the ones where you photograph the person where they hide. You see the moment of innocence that each of us holds within.

This is the second image of of a young Cuban girl posing during her Quinceañera. I was walking by and she was just standing outside the hotel whilst the party was going on. The image was captured by a Nikon D-800 camera modified for infrared with a 28-300 mm VR II lens

using the Nikon electronic file format (.Nef) file was post processed using capture NX 2.0 software, Nik Color Efex 4.0 and Silver Efex Pro 2.0.

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. This image was shot in Trinidad. Once again only brought two cameras to the workshop and three lenses. The cameras the amazing Nikon D750 and and a Nikon D800 modified (by lifepixel.com) to capture infrared.

The Lenses were the equally amazing and versatile Nikkor 28-300mm (AKA "the Street sweeper), Nikkor 80-400mm Nano and the Nikkor 80-400mm Nano coated lenses.

This image was captured with my Nikkor 24-120mm and my modified D800 infrared camera.

Post processing was done with Capture NX-D (Raw processing) Photoshop CC 2014, onOne Perfect Suite and Nik Collection Software.

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Life is a lot like jazz... it's best when you improvise.

– George Gershwin

It is the absolute spontaneity of the moment that gives a photograph that it is the moment between moments on the way to the next moment that creates the sensation of motion that is frozen time.

This is another image of the trumpet player Rolando Lara.

This image was captured with the Nikon Zf and the 135mm f1.8 Plena Nikkor. The Zf is the camera I grab when I have no idea what I am walking into and Nikkor optics are just a visual pleasure to look through wilst I shoot. Nobody does In focus to blur as well as Nikon does.

WHAT A BLAST this last workshop to Cuba was.

Come join me for my next Cuba trip March 07-14 2024 Seeing the Sounds of Music Hearing the Dance of the Photograph. Working link is in my bio

www.versacephotography.com/.../cuba-seeing-the.../

All images are raw processed using Nike Studio NX, Post processed in Photoshop CC and the NiK collection by DxO.

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From my most recent trip to Cuba. children!

This is a response to me doing my impersonation of a chicken. The language of silly is spoken everywhere on the planet.

This is when silly speaks back

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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This is an image I took of Kathryn Morris.

(From the cleaning out my long term storage facility big ass box of slides I hauled to the studio series.) This image was originally shot on Fuji Film, Nikon F5 70-210mm D Series lens. Lit with a Westcott Sunlight reflector (my light modifier of choice) and a Westcott​ Skcrimjim diffuser I thing it was 2 stops of diffusion). The big observation is the lack of color I have in comparison to today's digital camera and the lack of sharpness film had (using the same lens then as I do today) compared to digital.

Again this was done with my old Nikon PB-6 Bellows (I was going to play with it for Marco and I still had the slide copier.) a Nikon D810, a Nikkor 60mm Nano Macro lens to itand use my new Westcott daylight balanced flex light.

© Vincent Versace 2015

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This image was captured during an afternoon walk in Havana, Cuba. This con. The image was captured by a Nikon D-800 camera modified for infrared with a 80-400 mm Nano coated VR II lens

using the Nikon electronic file format (.Nef). file was post processed using capture NX 2.0 software, Nik Color Efex 4.0 and Silver Efex Pro 2.0

Final file is stored and scaled using Perfect Resize (AKA Genuine Fractals.)

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Dancers....

We spent the morning at a Ballet School.

This is the 1st image, that is a part of a picture story, at I shot during my most recent Palmbeach Photographic Center Cuba workshop. Just walking the streets of Havana.

Shot with a Nikon D750 m, recorded to Lexar flash media, 28-300mm Nikkor lens. Post processing was done with Capture NX-D (Raw processing) Photoshop CC 2014, onOne Perfect Effects Suite and Nik Collection Software.

© Vincent Versace 2015

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Light thinks it travels faster than anything but it is wrong. No matter how fast light travels, it finds the darkness has always got there first, and is waiting for it.

– Sir Terry Pratchett

Light is the jewel of the photograph and the subject should be approached as if it is interrupting the beautiful light. Light should be thought of and approached as it is aas tangible a thing as the subject itself. But dark us just as important to an image as light and should be treated with the same care and respect as one treats light.

I love photographing Cuba. I love the physicality of the their expression. This image is of the balirino Marco Hinder Vincent. Light moves an inch every two minutes and this is the light reflecting off a 4th floor balcony glass French door that moments later the dweller of the apartment closed. Ya take what ya get and are thankful of the gift.

Color and BW versions

This is the second image from my latest trip to Cuba. WHAT A BLAST that was. I shot this image withe new Nikon Zf a very fun camera to shoot and the 135mm f1.8 Plena lens. An exquisitely beautify piece of glass to work with. The Zf is the camera I grab when I have no idea what I am walking into and the Plena is just a visual pleasure to look through wilst I shoot.

Come join me for my next Cuba trip March 07-14 2024 Seeing the Sounds of Music Hearing the Dance of the Photograph. Working link is in my bio

www.versacephotography.com/workshops/cuba-seeing-the-soun...

All images are raw processed using Nike Studio NX, Post processed in Photoshop CC and the NiK collection by DxO.

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Photographing the "Outlaw Lifestyle" down in San Diego. (Color)

Post processing was done with Capture NX-D (Raw processing) Photoshop CC 2014, onOne Perfect Effects Suite and Nik Collection Software.

© Vincent Versace 2015

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Shot Mid-afternoon on a whilst on a recce. Saw this and knoew I was staying for dinner at Bert Monroy's for dinner

Post processing was done with Capture NX-D (Raw processing) Photoshop CC 2014, onOne Perfect Effects Suite and Nik Collection Software.

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Good photography isn’t about Zone Printing or any other Ansel Adams nonsense. It’s just about seeing. You either see or you don’t see. The rest is academic. Photography is simply a function of noticing things. Nothing more

- Elliott Erwitt

From my latest trip to Cuba…..

The national sport of Cuba is Dominos. They have an Olympic team. Just because no other counter has one falls under the category of “AND your point is….” For Cubans. Ask a Cuban if dominos is a board game the response is an indignant “there is nothing boring about dominos.”

This is image was shot with the in camera black and white setting.

The new Nikon Zf a very fun camera to shoot and the 50mm f1.2 lens. An exquisitely beautify piece of glass to work with. The Zf is the camera I grab when I have no idea what I am walking into and the a to look through whilst I shoot.

Come join me for my next Cuba trip March 07-14 2024 Seeing the Sounds of Music Hearing the Dance of the Photograph. Working link is in my bio

www.versacephotography.com/workshops/cuba-seeing-the-soun...

All images are raw processed using Nike Studio NX, Post processed in Photoshop CC and the NiK collection by DxO.

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. This image was shot in Pinar Del RioI only brought two cameras to the workshop and three lenses. The cameras the amazing Nikon D750 and and a Nikon D800 modified (by lifepixel.com) to capture infrared.

The Lenses were the equally amazing and versatile Nikkor 28-300mm (AKA "the Street sweeper), Nikkor 80-400mm Nano and the Nikkor 80-400mm Nano coated lenses.

This image was captured with my Nikkor 80-400mm and my modified D800 infrared camera.

Post processing was done with Capture NX-D (Raw processing) Photoshop CC 2014, onOne Perfect Suite and Nik Collection Software.

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This image washout with the D850 24-120mm Nano coated lens shot at f4 ISO 640. This of the not so "baby" Baby Jonas on his second birthday. I havenever seen a kid quicker to smile than Jonas.

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

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From my recent PBPW Cuba workshop. Some more Chromatic Grayscale.

A moment at the market. Natural light. Light reflecting from street.

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I shot during my most recent Palmbeach Photographic Center Cuba workshop. Just walking the streets of Havana.

Shot with a Nikon D800 modified to capture IR by lifepixel.com, recoreded to Lexar flash media, 24-120mm Nano coated Nikkor lens. Post processing was done with Capture NX-D (Raw processing) Photoshop CC 2014, onOne Perfect Effects Suite and Nik Collection Software.

© Vincent Versace 2015

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Sunset in Trinidad, playin dominoes in the street. This image was shot with the Nikon D750 camera using the "the street sweeper" 28-300mm VR II Lens.

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Jazz is the only music in which the same note can be played night after night but differently each time.

― Ornette Colman

Music and photography are to Cuba like a kiss is to a hug. Each is intertwined with the other. I can be argued and rightly so that the origins of Jazz come from a migration of Afro-Cubans in 1886.

The tradition of photography in Cuba finds its roots in the way the story of the Cuban revolution was told to the people of Cuba, through photography. The echos of those traditions ripple through time to today.

WHAT A BLAST this last workshop was. I shot these images with the new Nikon Zf a very fun camera to shoot using the BW mode. and the 50mm f1.2 lens. Bokeh is my thing. Another exquisitely beautify piece of glass to work with. The Zf is the camera I grab when I have no idea what I am walking into and Nikkor optics are just a visual pleasure to look through wilst I shoot. Nobody does In focus to blur as well as Nikon does.

Come join me for my next Cuba trip March 07-14 2024 Seeing the Sounds of Music Hearing the Dance of the Photograph. Working link is in my bio

www.versacephotography.com/workshops/cuba-seeing-the-soun...

All images are raw processed using Nike Studio NX, Post processed in Photoshop CC and the NiK collection by DxO.

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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 of the one of my favorite people to photograph the actress Spnya Maddox-Upchurch. Sonya was/is also an extrodinay make-up stylist. Back in the day she did the make-up for many of the actresses I shot during my career.

I shot this with a Nikon N90s a Nikkor 70-210Dmm lens, a Westcott Sunlight reflector, and Iford HP5+ rated at 200iso. Scanned with an Epson V850 and Silverfast software.

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If you are free this Wednesday stop to see my webinar on the importance of color "Where are the Car Keys to Oz? Just Follow the RGB road" based on the chapter of the same name from the book I am working on now "21st Century Composition Theory"

Here is the Registration link: bit.ly/3eHIcYH

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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 Pratchett

I am not by proclivity an early riser. When I was in art school I frequently was head off to bed when others were getting up to go to work. That said when I am “on the job” and in the “hairball” of photographing, I am like dark. Which is always there to see the light arrive.

I was captured by this walking to coffee in Trinidad. Cuba is great for many things and coffee is not one of them.

I use primarily when I do street photography either the 28-300mm Nikkor lens when I shot DSLR and the 24-200mm Z series for mirrorless shooting. The is is simply this: I have found that I am always walking into a moment unfolding that is farther away than a nifty fifty or a 32mm is all ya’ need lens is good for. I never crop an image all of my images are full frame.

So having reach and pulling focus in as I move toward the moment increases the quality and quality of the “take”. Simple as that.

I love photographing the part of the spirit that people hide that they let be seen when they think no one is looking. the moment of a breath held expectant.

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The road map of this man's life is etched upon his face. This image was captured during a morning work in Trinidad, Cuba. The image was captured by a Nikon D-800 camera modified for infrared with a 28-300 mm VR II lens file was post processed using capture NX 2.0 software, Nik Color Efex 4.0 and Silver Efex Pro 2.0.

Final file is stored and scaled using Perfect Resize (AKA Genuine Fractals.)

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I shot this image of the lovely Sierra at our Key West stop transiting to Cozumel during my Vanelli&Friends cruise as the guest instructor. I captured this with the D7200 and my go to lens the 28-300mm AKA "The Street Sweeper". I have a very tough job. But someone has to do it.

© Vincent Versace 2015

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Thought is the enemy of flow.

—Vinnie Colaiuta

More from “Making up for lost time. A lot of what I have shot since March I cannot show for a bit.” collection

There are no mistakes. Just creative events. Dance is the poetry of motion and gesture are the words used to flow the poem. Dance is the the movement of moments in which there is no single moment just the flow without conscious thought.

Sometimes color can get in the way of gesture. So then the abstraction removes the distraction. Bring the image back to flow.

I shot this with the Nikon Z8 and the 85mm f1.2 Nikkor S. Raw file processed in NX Studio NiK collection Silver Efex Pro v7 in Photoshop beta.

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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 of the actor Scott Cleverdon.

I shot this with a Nikon F5 a Nikkor 70-210Dmm lens, a Westcott Sunlight reflector, and Iford HP5+ rated at 200iso. Scanned with an Epson V850 and Silverfast software.

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From the Hope Kroll shoot. I believe that Moses was still a corporal when this was shot. .

Westcott Skylight reflector and the sun as the light source. The Camera Nikon F5. Lens 70-210mm D series push/pull Nikkor zoom. Ilford HP5+ (iso 400 camera set to 200iso) Pull processed in a D-76 tank replenished development system (specifically the 4:30pm Thursday run). Image printed on Agfa Portriga in a two step development (Dr. Beer's No.7 formulation) Bessler 210 4x5 enlarger, Nikkor enlargement lens, cold light head. Print was selenium toned 15 to one dilution for 15 minutes. Scanned with an Epson V750 scanner using Lasersoft's Silverfast scanning software.

Final file is stored and scaled using Perfect Resize (AKA Genuine Fractals.)

© Vincent Versace 2014

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From my recent PBPW Cuba workshop. This is from the week after my students went back to the US. The BW version

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. Conversion to BW using my muli layer SEP approach.

© Vincent Versace 2016

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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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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 the "street sweeper" 28-300mm Nikkor.

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 is an image of a little girl that is laughing at my impersonation of a chicken taking a photograph.

The light source was ambient sunlight, the subject was under a tree in the shade.

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.

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 the D5/D500- 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 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 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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This image was shot on my very first day in Cuba ever with the D600 inside an old warehouse that housed the Sunday market. I shot this at 4000iso. I am still blown away that we expect this as an everyday thing that Nikon cameras just do. Not just the top of the line flagship D4 but the "pro-sumer' Advanced amateur cameras too. I took this camera with me because size and weight were issues. I could get away with 2.5 cameras. (The V1 is the .5) So I know I need high ISO and I know I want as big a file as I can get. D800 is out, 800iso is as high as I want to go, D4 can go so high on ISO that all you need do is wish that there was light. But nothing says "HEY!!! I'M A PHOTOJOURNALIST PROFESSIONAL PHOTOGRAPHER!" better than a D4. AND it is heavy. I am allowed 44 lbs. TOTAL weight, both for my carry on and checked bag. Traditionally my camera bag weighs 64 Lbs and my computer bag weighs in at 39 Lbs. So we know I will be wearing the same clothes and doing a lot of laundry at the hotel.

D800IR is going for sure. V1 is going for stealth capabilities. So that leaves which of the full spectrum cameras? Only one choice D600. 24mp 4000iso.

To put a finer point on this image and the others I will be posting here, there was no artificial light whatsoever in this space. All of the light was ambient. It was also a very overcast day and threatening to rain. The use of strobes was completely out of the question. These images were about being captured by the moment as things unfold at the speed of life. Nothing puts an end to spontaneity quicker in moments like these than a high intensity short burst of very bright light in a really dark room. What is also lost is the beauty of the light. Besides I prefer to light using a thermonuclear device than something that is battery powered. I am a bit butch when it comes to how I light I guess....

This image was captured by a Nikon D600camera. 28-300mm VR II lens in the Nikon Electronic Image File Formant (.NEF) ISO is 4000. file was post processed using Capture NX2 Photoshop CS6, Nik Color Efex 4.0.

Final file is stored and scaled using Genuine Fractals.

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This image was captured during my Palm Beach Photographic Workshops India workshop. with a Nikon D-200 camera modified for infrared. Enhanced color conversion done by LifePixel with a 28-300 mm VR II I lens using the Nikon electronic file format (.Nef) Shot on Lexar 16 gigabyte UDMA Flash media. file was post processed using capture NX 2.0 software.

Black and White conversion was done in Photoshop CS5 using a combination of NiK Silverefex and the Versace multi channel mixer conversion technique. .

Final file is stored and scaled using Genuine Fractals.

Final file is stored and scaled using Genuine Fractals.

© Vincent Versace 2010

The camera conversion was done by lifepixel. Enhanced Color Filter Their URL is www.lifepixel.com/affiliate/idevaffiliate.php?id=158

© Vincent Versace 2010

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This image is from my Palm Beach Photographic Centre's Cuba Workshop shot with the AMAZING Nikon D750 camera using the "the street sweeper" 28-300mm VR II Lens. I only brought the D750, D800 IR camera and three lenses.The D750 was such a dream to shoot I almost forgot I had the IR camera. ISO 140 . Just walking the streets in Havana.

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This is the photographer Jose A Figueroa "Figo" who was the photographer Aberto Korda's assistant. as well as has his printer.

From Cuba with the D7200 and the 28-300mm on the final leg of my "One Camera / One Lens" Project. Just walking down the street in Old Havana.

Post processing was done with Capture NX-D (Raw processing) Photoshop CC 2014, onOne Perfect Effects Suite and Nik Collection Software.

© Vincent Versace 2015

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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 actor Greg Lauren. Another blast fun day shooting. He is also an amazing charcoal artist. his drawing are breathtaking.

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I shot this with a Nikon N90s 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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This is the photographer Jose A Figueroa "Figo" who was the photographer Aberto Korda's assistant. as well as has his printer.

From Cuba with the D7200 and the 28-300mm on the final leg of my "One Camera / One Lens" Project. Just walking down the street in Old Havana.

Post processing was done with Capture NX-D (Raw processing) Photoshop CC 2014, onOne Perfect Effects Suite and Nik Collection Software.

© Vincent Versace 2015

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