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Shot this in Cuba with the D7200 and the 28-300mm on the final leg of my "One Camera / One Lens" Project. Whilst walking down the street.
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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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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Photography for me is not looking, it’s feeling. If you can’t feel what you’re looking at, then you’re never going to get others to feel anything when they look at your pictures.
— Don McCullin
Sorry to be a bit tardy in putting up images from my trips to Portugal and Cuba. THe rains hit me hard and because of the corner cutting of the contractor who built my studio (he cheaped out on what would be 40.00 worth of expense to have done it right) I am dealing with black mold issues and fixing the drainage and ripping out a floor. But enough about the fun times hers at VV HQ.
At this point it should go without saying I have fallen in love with three places: Burma, Cuba and Portugal. So much so that my current working plan is to move to Portugal. I shot this image on the island of Madeira, on my way over the mountain to see the bent dwarf trees in the fog, that didn't happen because by the time I got there the fog had burned off. I am standing in the middle of the lane closest to the edge of the road without falling off the edge to get this shot. The upside was traffic was really light, like one car an hour so I figured I'd live to see another day.
I was just grabbed by the dance of the fog and the light. It was as if the moment of the movent cause a bubble in time where no one got old.
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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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What the human eye sees is an illusion of what is real. The black and white image transforms illusions into another reality.”
Ruth Bernhard
I am[laying with something new in Nikon’s Studio NX, Flexible color picture control (FCPC). SO we are clear if you are a Nikon shooter and you are not processing your raw files in NX Studio you are truly doing your images a disservice. !00% of all of my images are converted from the .NEF file format to tiTiff in Nikon software since the inception of Nikon Capture. That is going all the way back to the first Nikon DSLR the D1.
I am working on creating FCPC settings that replicate great BW films from back in the day. This image was post processed with control points and an FCPC that I created to emulate 125iso film made by a USA film manufacturer.
I shot this with my new Nikon Z6III and the 50mm f 1.2 S Nikkor lens. I used a 10 stop B+W ND filter. Image raw processed in NX Studio.
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We do not remember days, we remember moments.
— Cesare Pavese
From my three weeks in Namibia—
In the instant that I shared between the leopard seeing me and me seeing the leopard is the moment that we both saw each other and the connection between us took the image. I remember this moment with absolute clarity. I do not however remember the day in and exact sense. I just remember the blur of it to get me to the moment of clarity.
I have been working on an image project for the past 21 years. The “Tuning the Last Page” Project. The object is to photograph the echos of the past that are present today. My most recent trip to Namibia has started a new chapter in the project “Turning the Last Page: In the Land of Dry Water.”
I shot this with the Z6III NIKKOR 100-400mm Nikkor with the 1.4x extender. mage raw processed in NX Studio and Photoshop CC with the NiK collection.
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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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What I love about Black & White photographs is that they’re more like reading the book than seeing the movie.
— Jennifer Price
From my three weeks in Namibia—
Light, gesture, color are the key elements of every photograph. But when do you know that an image is meant to be a a black and white image? The answer is a lot simpler than the general song and dance you hear the pixel pundits put forth. When the cold gets in the way of the gesture. Then it is time to abstract out the color from the image so the gesture remains.
I have included both color and BW.
There is no bad light. There is spectacular light and difficult light. It's up to you to use the light you have. You are responsible for every part of your image, even the parts you’re not interested in.The composition is already there, you just need to frame it.
Photography is an act of love. When I shoot I fall in love thousands a time in a day. I do not believe in long exposures and and long relationships.
Always shoot it now. It won't be the same when you go back..
I have been working on an image project for the past 21 years. The “Tuning the Last Page” Project. The object is to photograph the echos of the past that are present today. My most recent trip to Namibia has started a new chapter in the project “Turning the Last Page: In the Land of Dry Water.”
I have wanted to travel to Namibia for over 40 years. It all started with the second CD I ever purchased Sanford Ponder’s Etoshia” In the Land of Dry Water.
AND to answer the next question YES I will be organizing a workshop there.
I shot this with the Z6III NIKKOR 28-400mm f/4-8 lens. mage raw processed in NX Studio and Photoshop CC with the NiK collection.
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The world is full of magic things, patiently waiting for our sense to grow sharper.
- Bertrand Russell
This image is from my euphemistically named “2_DO_DROID” a 16tb with 182 GB left of space.
Sorry it’s been yet another long minute since I last posted. It has been a work filled, fun filled, stress filled project rich few weeks.
That said…
When ever I have a moment between deadlines I rummage through the the 2 do drive. It’s full of almost pictures and images that at the tie I knew there was something there I just did not possess the “something” needed at the time to get it there.
This image is one of those. I shot this image 10 years ago with a D750 and the 28-300mm AKA the “street sweeper” lens.
I found the files in a folder named “PEACOCK” all the other folders had the standard naming/numbering convention I use. There is a children’s book about a peacock who finds himself living amongst a flock of pigeons. So I figured since coincidence is the universe’s attempt at remaining anonymous I should look inside. 3:47am I diminished the file and pulled a print.
That’s my story and I’m sticking to it.
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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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Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic
—Arthur C. Clark
From my three weeks in Namibia—
I am in a moving boat, on the Chobi river the sun has set, My Z6III is set to auto ISO, Auto Eye Focus tracking (animal setting) the lens is the 100-400mm S Nikkor with a 1.4 extender resting on a monopod I am at 530mm f8 125sec ISO 3200.
Image raw processed in NX Studio and Photoshop CC with the NiK collection.
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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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If you take a picture of a human that does not make him noble, there is no reason to take this picture. That is my way of seeing things.
— Sebastiao Salgado
From my three weeks in Namibia—
I think Salgado’s quote says all that needs to be said.
Image raw processed in NX Studio and Photoshop CC with the NiK collection.
I shot this with the Z6III 135mm S Nikkor f 1.8 plena wide open. The Image raw processed in NX Studio and Photoshop CC with the NiK collection.
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I am forever chasing light. Light turns the ordinary into the magical.
– Trent Parke
This image is from my most recent trip to Cuba.
For me light is the jewel of the photograph. A very wise photographer and one of my photographic heroes, Bob Krist, said “what would you rather shoot the Taj Mahal poorly lit of a line of laundry beautifully lit?” Jay Maisel once told me in one of our many walks about NYC “treat light as if it is a solid as the subject. Trat it as if the subject is interrupting your beautiful light.”
Which brings us the the ballerina Kamila Capote. It is sunset, It appeared that the sun had finally given all it was going to. Kamila had be jumping, twirling and leaping for two hours. She “sat” on the malice’s stone wall an just started to stretch. I was about to call it a day when a cloud broke open and a glorious beam of light shown and all the solid objects interrupted the beautiful light. Big lesson with natural light is it isn’t over until you need to turn on your cellphone light to see where you are going. Even if you are A.S.O. (All Shot Out) if there’s light then there is the possibility of capturing magic.
I shot this with the 85mm f 1.2 Nikkor lens. 1/6000 of a second ISO 560. Image raw processed in NX Studio and Photoshop CC with the NiK collection by DxO.
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Baby Jonas was visiting my studio yesterday. Of the sweetest babies I have ever met.
Post processing was done with Capture NX-D (Raw processing) Photoshop CC 2014, onOne Perfect Effects Suite and Nik Collection Software.
© Vincent Versace 2016
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The truth is a fog, in which one man sees the heavenly host and the other one sees a flying elephant.
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—Terry Pratchett
I forgot that I had actually shot this. This was not the actual image of the cable car shot I had “pre visualized” I shot this as an afterthought and did not realize I actually had the Porto cable car in fog image, not the heavenly fog swirling around the Calle car I had envisioned but rather the flying elephant one that showed up.
I’ll take it.
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I believe that, through the act of living, the discovery of oneself is made concurrently with the discovery of the world around us- Of course it's all luck
— Henri Cartier Bresson
From my three weeks in Namibia—
Did I take this picture of the Baboon or did the Baboon take me? When did the decisive moment happen? Am I at the beginning, middle or end of it?
I have been working on an image project for the past 21 years. The “Tuning the Last Page” Project. The object is to photograph the echos of the past that are present today. My most recent trip to Namibia has started a new chapter in the project “Turning the Last Page: In the Land of Dry Water.”
I shot this with the Z6III 100-400 S Nikkor with a 1.4 extender. Image raw processed in NX Studio and Photoshop CC with the NiK collection.
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We don’t stop playing because we grow old, we grow old because we stop playing
– George Bernard Shaw
From my three weeks in Namibia—
I have a job that is more fun than fun. We pulled off to a village in the middle of the day because it was to hot to be out in a boat in the middle of the day and the animals were doing the smart thing, tapping in the shat in jungle. The village’s name translates to
The place of good teeth” I wrote that down because I could not figure out how to to spell the actual name. As I was bubbling around photographing a chicken clucking about with the chicken having nothing to about me try to photographer. As I looked up I saw this young girl and she saw me. It is the moment wy we both connected at that the pict her took itself. again back the discussion of the last post, for me the best photographs are the ones that feel as if we are in the space between a moment. Traveling to next but not there yet. Leaving the moment we were in yet not completely gone from it.
Image raw processed in NX Studio and Photoshop CC with the NiK collection.
I shot this with the Z6III 135mm S Nikkor f 1.8 plena wide open. The Image raw processed in NX Studio and Photoshop CC with the NiK collection.
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Only when the clock stops does time come to life
— William Faulkner
I am back in my studio for those precious few moments where I endeavor to put organization the chaos of capturing the moments of spontaneity that is my life’s work. That’s a fancy way to say house cleaning the deferred maintenance of VV HQ. Cam across this image whilst sorting the the server update and printing the work prints for a show in Cuba. I have a new printer and well it Is the right machine for the job.
I shor this image from a place that is damn nigh impossible to get to. The opening that allows this view only has a shoulder on the side of the road wide enough for a motorcycle tire. This is on click and see ya before I become a statistic and a organ donor.
I shot this with a D800 modified to shout IR.
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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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No one can lie, no one can hide anything, when he looks directly into someone's eyes
—Paulo Coelho
From my three weeks in Namibia—
There is the self we show the world and the self we hide from the world. The goal I find is to have the subject of your image choose to hide in the camera. When that happens we see the actual “who” of the person is, not the “what” of what they are they choose to show.
Image raw processed in NX Studio and Photoshop CC with the NiK collection.
I shot this with the Z6III 135mm S Nikkor f 1.8 plena wide open. The Image raw processed in NX Studio and Photoshop CC with the NiK collection.
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Owners of dogs will have noticed that, if you provide them with food and water and shelter and affection, they will think you are God. Whereas owners of cats are compelled to realize that, if you provide them with food and water and affection, they draw the conclusion that they are God..
– Christopher Hitchens
This image is from most recent trip to Cuba.
Sorry it’s been a minute since I last posted. Things in Los Angeles have been taking my attention away from posting and post processing my images- Then I went Cuba. Then I came back 0n the 6th. Then I had to put my entire studio back together from prepping to bug out from the fires
That said…
CATS!!!!!!! I LOVE CATS!!!!!!!! OK correction to the last post- I could make a career of photographing skies, sunsets and CATS!!!! And to get a cat basking in good light….. I treat light when I conceptualize an image as if it is as solid of an object as the subject that is interrupting my beautiful light. What more is there to the life of a photographer? Life is too short to shoot in bad light and to DRINK bad coffee and cheap wine.
I shot this with the Z6III NIKKOR 28-400mm f/4-8 lens. 1/500 of a second ISO 220. Image raw processed in NX Studio and Photoshop CC with the NiK collection.
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The world is full of magic things, patiently waiting for our sense to grow sharper.
- Bertrand Russell
This image is from my most recent trip to Cuba.
Sorry it’s been a minute since I last posted. Things in Los Angeles have been taking my attention away from posting images. Then I went Cuba. Then I came back 0n the 6th. Then I had to put my entire studio back together from prepping to bug out
That said…
For this last trip I gave myself the self assignment limitation of only used one lens and one camera no IR. The lens was the 28-400 and the camera was the Z6III.
This image has been plaguing me since I saw this street. I have looked at the street for 15 years drove by it, walked by it looked at it, never saw it. Then BOOM. Soooo… I asked my favorite Ballerina Kamila Quinones to dance for me. It is always a joy to see her get lost in the dance.
I shot this with the Z6III NIKKOR 28-400mm f/4-8 lens. 3D tracking 1/500 of a second ISO 500. Image raw processed in NX Studio and Photoshop CC with the NiK collection. YES it is a composite, YES I used photoshop YES it is eight shots YES it happened in about 30 minutes. The world is full of magic things, patiently waiting for our senses to grow sharper.
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Not all those who wander are lost.
— J.R.R. Tolkin
From my three weeks in Namibia—
I am by practice a wonderer. I am enamored not just having one disciple of artistic pursuit. I wand to be adept at as many of them as my time on this mortal coil allows me.
Astral or “night sky” photography has always been something I try to think of anything else to do before that. In North America there are too many obstacles, light pollution, traveling to really really isolated places and having to get up a 3am stabling around in the dark.
Then there is trying to get light (light painting) on the terrestrial part of the image.
All of those issues went away in Namibia. This image is two exposures. One of the sand dune at sunset and one right after the sun has set.
I have been working on an image project for the past 21 years. The “Tuning the Last Page” Project. The object is to photograph the echos of the past that are present today. My most recent trip to Namibia has started a new chapter in the project “Turning the Last Page: In the Land of Dry Water.”
I shot this with the Z6III 50mm S Nikkor f1.2. The dune at 1/5000 of a second at f1.8 ISO 200 and the star field at 10sec at f1.8 ISO 5000. Image raw processed in NX Studio and Photoshop CC with the NiK collection.
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"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.
.
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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This is the new headshot of the collage artist Hope Kroll.
Shot with a Nikon D750, 28-300mm lens recorded to Lexar flash media. Lit with a Westcott Icelight 2.
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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"We live forward, but understand life backwards"
-Soren Kierkegaard
I have tried for 15 years to get this shot. It seems like a simple shot. But I wanted it to be organic, not set up, the right light, the right amount of real wear blah, blah blah....
So I got the shot. I have mentioned how bittersweet this trip was. Over the 15 years I have gotten to know members of the Cuban Olypic boxing team. They are of the group of people I look forwad to seeing and hanging with in Cuba. But the Pandemic had other plans for them. They all left Havana to go back to the towns they came from to be and help with family. It''s not that they chose to lay down their boxing gloves perse, they had to put them aside for a while.
(from my last trip to Cuba with Palm Beach Photographic Centre's Cuba workshop)
There is a powerful advantage to a camera that can focus at the speed of life and that is more silent than a breath held expectant. You can truly create a place when the spirt of the subject can hide in your camera
There is no camera system that has a better or more powerful one. This image was was shot using highlight center metering.
Shot with the AMAZING Z9. The Z9 is more camera than I am photographer.
The BW Version.
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I am not interested in shooting new things – I am interested to see things new.
— Ernst Haas
More from “Making up for lost time. A lot of what I have shot since March I cannot show for a bit.” collection
When have a camera in my hand, viewfinder up to my eye, I get lost in the flow in the moment. When I come back and look at what was the taken moment. I get to get lost again.
Cannot say the enough- A still photograph is called a still photograph because the picture does not move. Not because the subject of the picture is not in motion.
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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The drama of light exists not only in what is in the light, but also in what is left dark. If the light is everywhere, the drama is gone.
—Jay Maisel
From my three weeks in Namibia—
There is no bad light. There is spectacular light and difficult light. It's up to you to use the light you have. You are responsible for every part of your image, even the parts you’re not interested in.The composition is already there, you just need to frame it
Photography is an act of love. When I shoot I fall in love thousands a time in a day. I do not believe in long exposures and and long relationships.
Always shoot it now. It won't be the same when you go back..
I have been working on an image project for the past 21 years. The “Tuning the Last Page” Project. The object is to photograph the echos of the past that are present today. My most recent trip to Namibia has started a new chapter in the project “Turning the Last Page: In the Land of Dry Water.”
I have wanted to travel to Namibia for over 40 years. It all started with the second CD I ever purchased Sanford Ponder’s Etoshia” In the Land of Dry Water.
AND to answer the next question YES I will be organizing a workshop there.
I shot this with the Z6III NIKKOR 28-400mm f/4-8 lens. mage raw processed in NX Studio and Photoshop CC with the NiK collection.
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From My latest trip to Cuba
Every artist has an instrument. From the self-evident interments that musicians play, to painters who instrument is canvas, paint and brush and dancers who's instrument is their body.
All creativity comes from the same place. We just choose the metaphor and instrument we choose to express our momentary lapses from reason to express the moments we feel in a way other can experience the way we did.
The instrument a photographer has in the camera, the lens is its brush and the file created by the sensor is the canvas.
This a moment that took me photographing the dancer Maripaz Laguna being taken by the dance.
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The shadow is the greatest teacher for how to come to the light.
— Ram Dass
This image is from my most recent trip to Cuba.
Shadow is as important to an image as light. Because no mater how you slice it, (and yes I have said and will say this repeatedly) Light is the jewel of the photograph. What would you rather look at- the Taj Mahal poorly lit or a wall of a building on a street with peeling paint and a rusty chair beautifully lit?
Light should always be treated as if it is as solid as the subject of the photograph is. The subject should always be approached as if it is interrupting the beautiful light. Light should never be just an after thought. It is really the only thought.
I shot this with the 24-200 Nikkor lens f4-6.3. 1/250 of a second ISO 200. Image raw processed in NX Studio and Photoshop CC with the NiK collection by DxO.
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Up ahead they's a thousan' lives we might live, but when it comes it'll on'y be one.
― John Steinbeck,
The Grapes of Wrath
From my three weeks in Namibia—
If I do my job correctly, I can slow my self down to the speed of life. I can make myself invisible I can bare witness and I can freeze what would be an experienced but an unseen moment of time.
I am allowed to see the one hidden moment of life of the thousands of shown moments of life.
I shot this with the Z6III 135mm S Nikkor f 1.8 plena wide open. The Image raw processed in NX Studio and Photoshop CC with the NiK collection.
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I find standing and posing for photos very awkward.
— Nicole Kidman
From my three weeks in Namibia—
At the risk of ticking off a lot of my peers who sell tutorials on how to pose a subject….
As religious as I am about never cropping in post a photograph, I never ever pose a subject in my photographs. I find how to pose tutorials to good money poorly spent.
Are there things to know whilst shooting a portrait? Yes there are some things to pay attention to when photographing a subject that breathes. For example the positioning of a hand so the wrist doesn’t look broken, IF you put a hand in a pocket let the thumb be on the outside so the hand does not look like it’s cut off, avoid shooting people directly straight on because it makes everyone look like a football player.
It will always come down to this: in absolute spontaneity you get absolute truth. You can only be one way when you are being spontaneous and that is truthful.
Nothing I am going to ask of a subject will be more natural and organic than what the subject of the image will choose to do. The reason is simple: they know their body better than I do.
I think it is down right silly some of the awkward posing that I see in images hands wrapped around in uncomfortable positions with wrist broken etc. Just because something looks “weird” does not make it art. It just means it looks weird.
Are there times when “posing” makes sense? Yes. But that will always be the exception, not the rule.
For example not one of the images in this series from Namibia is posed. I did not ask the lion. Lioness, Kudu, Cheetah, Rhino, Elephant, Leopard, Giraffe, Springbok etc. to pose.
And yet...
Just sayin’
I shot this with the Z6III 100-400 S Nikkor with a 1.4 extender. The dune at 1/5000 of Image raw processed in NX Studio and Photoshop CC with the NiK collection.
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Nature always wears the colors of the spirit.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
From my three weeks in Namibia—
There is a Hassidic saying “sorry is the rabbi who is not will to teach the lesson 101 times” I once asked my master acting teacher, Tad Z. Danielewsk about how he teaches. He said “I treat knowledge like a bucket of mud and students like brick walls. I sling the mud at the wall and what sticks, sticks and what doesn’t doesn’t . At the end of the day f class I collect the mud tat didn’t stick and start throwing it again the time we have class. All I ask is that you don’t dodge the mud.
What I have learned over the years teaching photography is you have to throw a lot of the same mud repeatedly. Why sticks sticks and eventually if you repeat yourself enough the moment of epiphany will eventually happen. Why I say this (I have said this a lot)-
I photograph my portraits as if they are landscapes and my landscapes as if they are portraits. Each form contains the important aspects needed for the other.
(I have said this a lot too-)\
Light, gesture, color are the key elements of every photograph. But when do you know that an image is meant to be a a black and white image? The answer is a lot simpler than the general song and dance you hear the pixel pundits put forth. When the cold gets in the way of the gesture. Then it is time to abstract out the color from the image so the gesture remains.
There is no bad light. There is spectacular light and difficult light. It's up to you to use the light you have. You are responsible for every part of your image, even the parts you’re not interested in.The composition is already there, you just need to frame it.
Photography is an act of love. When I shoot I fall in love thousands a time in a day. I do not believe in long exposures and and long relationships.
Always shoot it now. It won't be the same when you go back..
I have been working on an image project for the past 21 years. The “Tuning the Last Page” Project. The object is to photograph the echos of the past that are present today. My most recent trip to Namibia has started a new chapter in the project “Turning the Last Page: In the Land of Dry Water.”
I shot this with the Z6III NIKKOR 100-400mm Nikkor with the 1.4x extender. mage raw processed in NX Studio and Photoshop CC with the NiK collection.
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As you know, as I have said so my self, I am a man of great humility, AND as I have previously stated I am the world's foremost expert on shooting fog you know there is little exaggeration. I grew up in fog and I spend most of waking hours in a fog. SO when it comes to fog I know what I am talking about. I shot this on the way back from Yosemite to Los Angeles. This is from a side street in San Louis Obisbo right after filling up for gas. Fog seem to follow me.
Nikon D7200, Nikkor 28-300mm lens, Lexar 128 SD, NX-D, Photoshop CC 2014, Nik and onOne software
© Vincent Versace 2015
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In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks –John Muir.
From my three weeks in Namibia—
Photographing in Etoshia was a non stop an experience of Tachypsychia. (a neurological condition that alters the perception of time).
I was gobsmacked how everything in front of me caused me to just slowed down to the speed of life.
I have been working on an image project for the past 21 years. The “Tuning the Last Page” Project. The object is to photograph the echos of the past that are present today. My most recent trip to Namibia has started a new chapter in the project “Turning the Last Page: In the Land of Dry Water.”
I have wanted to travel to Namibia for over 40 years. It all started with the second CD I ever purchased Sanford Ponder’s Etoshia” In the Land of Dry Water.
AND to answer the next question YES I will be organizing a workshop there.
I shot this with the Z6III NIKKOR 28-400mm f/4-8 lens. mage raw processed in NX Studio and Photoshop CC with the NiK collection.
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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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Nothing is impossible, the word itself says 'I'm possible'!
—Audrey Hepburn
From my three weeks in Namibia—
Sunrise, last Moon set before the night of no moon and the last moments of the visor milky way.
I was up before sunrise in the Sossusvlei dessert to do a hot air balloon flight at sunrise. (PRO TIP: If there is a hot air balloon flight to do -do it.) When ever I do a balloon flight I dress accordingly. I also travel with a Tripod. Always. With the goal of the trip being able to say “well I never took it out”. But when you need a tripod you need a tripod. This is a composite of two images. With my eyre I could see the stars, the crescent moon and the circle of illumination of the arriving rising sun. The reality is I saws this. The technical reality is I could expose for the stars or I could expose for the impend
Ing sun rise an moon setting. But not both. I have always been of the belief that the is impossible is an opinion. And is generally the opinion held by the person saying it. Physics has limitations, in this case optical and sensor physics can shoot on event but not both in the same shot. Imagination however is limitless. Saint Francis of Assisi said “Start by doing what's necessary; then do what's possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible.”
The necessary- shoot two images on a tripod expose for the stars expose for the sunrise, the possible blend them in software and suddenly you have done the impossible.
I shot this with the Z6III 135mm S Nikkor Plena Image raw processed in NX Studio and Photoshop CC with the NiK collection.
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This is a set still of Aiden Quinn whilst shooting on Daughter of the Bride. What an absolute gentleman and lovey actor to work with.
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Those who dance are considered insane by those who can't hear the music
—George Carlin
This image is from my most recent trip to Cuba. I love photographing Ballet dancers, Cuban Ballet dancers are the best dancers I have ever seen dance.This image is of the Ballerina Kamila Capote. What I love about working with her is I just let her go and I try to hold on for the ride.
I shot this with my new Nikon Z6III the 85mm f 1.2 Nikkor lens. 1/2500 of a sec ISO 4000 Image raw processed in NX Studio and Photoshop CC with the NiK collection by DxO.
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Dance for me a minute, and I’ll tell you who you are.
– Mikhail Baryshnikov
I love photographing Cuba. I love photographing ballet dancers. I particularly love photographing Cuban ballet dancers. This is the ballerina Lilia Laura Martinez Hernadez . This is the first image from my latest trip to Cuba. WHAT A BLAST that was. I shot this image with the new Nikon Zf, a very fun camera to shoot and the 135mm f1.8 Plena lens. An exquisitely beautiful piece of glass to work with.
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 Nikon Studio NX, Post processed in Photoshop CC and the NiK collection by DxO.
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Photography takes an instant out of time, altering life by holding it still.”
– Dorothea Lange
From my three weeks in Namibia—
Albert Einstein posited that we are initial observers time and of things around us. That no two people will observe, see or experience an event the same way based on our position to the event as it happens.
However no mater what or placement to an image all observers see the moment of a stilled moment of time, the photograph, exactly the same way.
One of the profound honors, and it is an honor, I have been allowed to experience with my camera is to be in places where people have never seen an image of themselves or for that matter are aware of the power of the light capturing light saber that I wield.
Image raw processed in NX Studio and Photoshop CC with the NiK collection.
I shot this with the Z6III 135mm S Nikkor f 1.8 plena wide open. The Image raw processed in NX Studio and Photoshop CC with the NiK collection.
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All happiness depends on a leisurely breakfast.
— John Gunther
From my three weeks in Namibia—
The only thing this lion needs is a toothpick.
I shot this with the Z8 modified for full spectrum by Kolarivision with the 590nm magnetic filter 135mm S Nikkor Plena lens. Image raw processed in NX Studio and Photoshop CC with the NiK collection.
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The dog is the perfect portrait subject. He doesn't pose. He isn't aware of the camera
— Patrick Demarchelier
From my three weeks in Namibia—
At the risk of ticking off a lot of my peers who sell tutorials on how to pose a subject (part 3)….
Trying to “be” natural whilst being placed in a contortion from a photographer s such a very difficult pose to keep up
OR good luck trying pose a Cheetah.
Just sayin’
I have been working on an image project for the past 21 years. The “Turning the Last Page” Project. The object is to photograph the echos of the past that are present today. My most recent trip to Namibia has started a new chapter in the project “Turning the Last Page: In the Land of Dry Water.”
I shot this with the Z6III 100-400 S Nikkor with a 1.4 extender. T Image raw processed in NX Studio and Photoshop CC with the NiK collection.
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In ancient times cats were worshipped as gods; they have not forgotten this.
– Terry Pratchett
The hardest thing to cook is a scrambled egg. The hardest portrait to capture is a cat. They know before you do when you are going to press the shutter.
I am practicing for my conversational portrait class in a few weeks. I I can get a portrait of a cat…. Then I can take a portrait of anything.
I shot this with the Nikon Zf and the 135mm Plena. Raw file processed in NX Studio NiK collection Silver Efex Pro v7 in Photoshop beta.
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I captured this image on my first morning of my way to my three day Varanasi workshop sponsored www.tumbhi.com.I am amazed by the connection that Indians have with this river. You hear about how the River Ganges is the root of all things Hindu and Indian. If you live outside of India this statement, at least for me has been more of a literary event than a reality. But to witness this connection is truly spell binding.
The image was captured by a Nikon D-4 iso 4000 with a 80-400 mm Nano coated 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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The heart and mind are the true lens of the camera
—Yusef Karsh
From my three weeks in Namibia—
I am not a wildlife photographer. The closet thing I have ever shot that was a wild animal is my elusive Nibelung house cats Gianni and Valentino. I am a believer that you fallinlove a thousand times a day usually around 125 to 250th of a second. Not a big believer in long exposures or long relationships. But when the image takes you in that moment you fall in love with it.
Image raw processed in NX Studio and Photoshop CC with the NiK collection.
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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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Eyes can only capture objects that already seen in mind. And mind can only see things that already written in heart.
— Toba Beta
From my three weeks in Namibia—
Another “Did I take this picture of the Cheetah or did the Cheetah” take me? When did the decisive moment happen? Am I at the beginning, middle or end of it?
I have been working on an image project for the past 21 years. The “Tuning the Last Page” Project. The object is to photograph the echos of the past that are present today. My most recent trip to Namibia has started a new chapter in the project “Turning the Last Page: In the Land of Dry Water.”
I shot this with the Z6III 100-400 S Nikkor with a 1.4 extender. The dune at 1/5000 of Image raw processed in NX Studio and Photoshop CC with the NiK collection.
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