He who cannot dance puts the blame on the floor.

— Hindu Proverb

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

Some of things that are part of my inner monologue that I repeat unconsciously to myself whilst I shoot:

A pattern is interesting. A pattern interrupted is more interesting. The only thing truly in focus in a image is that which the lens is focused upon. Everything els is varying levels of out of focus.

The pretty is in the blur.

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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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. Wacom Cintq and a BenQ PG2401PT Adobe RB monitor for final color approval.

© Vincent Versace 2016

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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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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.

― Terry Pratchett

From my three weeks in Namibia—

At the risk of ticking off some people by reacting myself….

Sir Terry’s quote is one of my most repeated mantras. Light is as important to an image as dark. I frequently find myself intersecting this mantra with Michelangelo’s approach to sculpture which was to remove everything that “isn’t” and free the sculpture from the living stone. If you replace the word for “sculpture” with “image” and “stone” with “RAW File” and a dab of The Artist Henri Matisse’s thought “a little white paint goes a long way” you have the entire core of how I post process.

What makes this image work is the use of dark and that a little bit of light goes a long way. What is also interesting is that even though the gesture of the image is so strong that it works extremely well as a black and white, I prefer the color version because it supports the gesture.

But ultimately Art is in the eye of the viewer. Self expression is in the eye of of the image’s creator.

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 photography there is a reality so subtle that it becomes more real than reality.

— Alfred Stieglitz

These are hands I have know all of my life. I had the sorrow of attending the funeral of his wife at Arlington.

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Shot 6am second day shoot of my Madelaine Island School of The Arts workshop on Madelaine Island Wisconsin. Image wast taken with a D800 modified to shoot IR by Lifepixel.com with a 24-120mm Nano coated VR lens recorded to a 128GB Lexar flash card used post processing with Capture NX 2 then Photoshop CC and Nik Colorefex 4.0, Silver Efexpro 2.0, Induro C414 carbon fiber tripod and BH3 ball head

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

© Vincent Versace 2014

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Ultimately, simplicity is the goal - in every art, and achieving simplicity is one of the hardest things to do. Yet it's easily the most essential.

- Pete Turner

This image is from my recent trip to Sicily. It was hot, the food was spectacular, the coffee was the way coffee is meant to be. I shot this image on the last night of my trip. Ultimately simplicity is the goal.

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I find the stage and the players come.

--Robert Doisneau

I am in Oporto Portugal. I was on a quest to find a bakery that is propertied o have the best bread in Portugal. Alas it stated to rain, a drizzle then a torrential downpour. Good thing my camera can withstand 1.7 liters of rain per hour, so the literature says. I found the stage, an windy ass street (there are a lot of them here) Frame the shot and wait. At the time I had no idea hat I wa waiting for (besides the rain to stop and I could leave the doorway and the awning I am using to as an attempt to stay dry. Then the birds come. I forgot it was raining.

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Colors answer feeling in man; shapes answer thought; and motion answers will.

—– John Sterling.

This image is from my most recent trip to Cuba.

I am not a big believer in the 17th century painting theory approach to composition. As a matter of fact I think it is dogmatic, pedantic and pompously silly. Grecian Mean, Golden rule, Rule of Thirds, et.al. for me is the outcome of a bunch of dead old guys sitting around a rtable trying to define what a bunch of deader older guys were thinking.

. I feel that understanding human visual perception and how we “see” things is the more important thing to understand. For me, and what guides my hand in post, is that all my images are optical illusions basically a variation on the French drop coin trick.

The ownership of color in an image is the most critical factor in the visual success of the image. A pattern is interesting but a pattern interrupted is more interesting Shape is the enemy of color. The eye has a tendency to see the shape over the color. THe key is to cause shape to become the unwitting ally of color so you will see the colors over the shape whilst still capturing the gesture of the image.

There is more to boxing than the elegance of the randomness of the ring.

I shot this with the 135mm “Plena” Nikkor lens. 1/640 of a second ISO 500. Image raw processed in NX Studio and Photoshop CC with 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 actress Leslie Kay. Leslie coached me on an audition that I made it to producers because of her. She was, ism a talent and a beauty to be reasoned with.

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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Sooo back to the dancers and musicians part of this broadcast..... (from my last trip to Cuba with Palm Beach Photographic Centre's Cuba workshop)

This image is of the singer Miguel Currillo Tavin of Stepteto Habanero.

There is a powerful advantage to a camera that can focus at the speed of life and that is more silent than a breath held expectant. You can truly create a place when the spirt of the subject can hide in your camera/

There is no camera system that has a better or more powerful one. This image was was shot using highlight center metering.

Shot with the AMAZING Z9. The Z9 is more camera than I am photographer.

The BW Version.

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Set stills from the short I just shot of the dancer Kamila Capote with a Zr modified for IR. #Nikon100 #kmy.98

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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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One of the many things about Cuba is the old cars. I became fascinated by the hood ornaments and the reflection of the buildings in that paint.

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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Without them humanity cannot survive.

Dali Lama

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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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Ninety-nine percent of who you are is invisible and untouchable.

– R. Buckminster Fuller

This image is from my most recent trip to Cuba.

Everyone on the planet hides something. There is a difference between being naked and nude. Particularly when it comes to being photographed. I find the key is to give that which the subject hides a place to hide which is within my camera. A place to be completely naked whilst completely dressed.

I shot this with the NIKKOR Z 28-400mm f/4-8 lens. 1/250 of a second ISO 1100. Image raw processed in NX Studio and Photoshop CC with the NiK collection.

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From my recent PBPW Cuba workshop. This is from the fourth day I was allowed the joy of shooting with the Nikon D5.This the view from the room I always stay in when I am in Havana. Jay Maisel always takes a picture from his hotel room where ever he stays. Oscar Wilde said "Talent copies. Genius steals" if that's true then I am a thieving Einstein.

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.

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this image is from day tthree of my Maine Media Workshop "From Oz to Kansas" Black and White workshop. This image was a drive by shooting. We stopped on the side of the road on our way back from lobs TA' club sandwiches because the sun decided to show off. This ismage was captured with a D800 modified to shoot infrared 105mm f1.4. Captured to a 128 Lexar 2933x XQD card.

Image was posr processed with Capture NXD, Photoshop CC 2017 Nik collection by Google onOnesoftware black and qwhite convesion done with my Oz to Kansas conversiuon technique.

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Flowers are nature’s way of laughing

– Ralph Waldo Emerson

I started shooting flowers back in the day to test out new gear because as subjects go, they can sit for hours whilst I figure things out and the don’t talk Bach or need a model release. They are also a great way to learn about depth of field, bokeh, the play of light and portraiture.

This image is a 150 image multi aperture ( f3.3 and f11) focus shift capture with the Nikon Zf and the 105mm f2.8 MC S Nikkor. The light was indirect window light.

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.

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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From my recent PBPW Cuba workshop. This is from the sixth day I was allowed the joy of shooting with the Nikon D5.Another roof with a view.

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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I shot this image on the day after my Oz to Kansas workshop at Maine Media Workshops. We were packing up and Estefany Vasquez was kind enough to sit for a few images. This image was captured with the "conversational Portait' approach that I taught at MMW. We will be doinfg a video on it this Thursday at my studio

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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.

* POINT OF CLARIFICATION: So there is no misunderstanding, In this shot this is the light that was available, "available light" This is a random shot, nothing was added. i.e. the lights used by the bar in the restaurant is the illumination. So to be crystal clear I did not add the light, I shot the light that was there. To be specific I looked up saw the abstract took the picture, end of thought. The point of the exercise for me was to not use anything but the light of the environment I found myself in. I shot what was in front of me that took me.

This image is from the NYC leg of the shoot. I shot this whilst waiting to be seated in the bar at my favorite restaurant in NYC, Dovetail, at 77th and Columbus. I have always been into abstracts. The abilty to play tack sharp crystal clear (pun intended) focus against a creamyness of bokeh is something I fell in love with every time I clicked the shutter.

Talk about W. Eugene Smith being right when he 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 this 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..

Nikon D5 camera, 105mm f1.f lens. Recorded to Lexar XQD media. NEF

The raw processed in Capture NX-D. Post processing Creative/corrective post processing was done in 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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Without music, life would be a mistake.

– Friedrich Nietzsche

This image is from most recent trip to Cuba.

All creativity comes form the same place within us. I believe we all have the ability to create greatness. It is just a mater of what metaphor we choose to express the create spark of madness we are all born with. Every artist has their instrument, ballet dancers their finely trained bodies that they hurtle through space defying gravity, painters have their brushes, paints and canvas, musicians the instrument they close to release the voice from within, a chef has the kitchen and all the flavors of imagination and the photographer has the camera, lens and print.

The joy of all of this is to get lost in the doing, to be held in the movement of the unending sensation of the movement of connection. It is not of matter of how you choose to express your creativity. It is a matter of does they way you express your creativity give you joy.

The mistake is to not express the momentary lapse of reason that comes from the clarity of creating something that brings you joy.

I shot this with the Z6III NIKKOR S 85mm f//1.2 lens. 20 plus year project is 1/2000 of a second ISO 360. 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 the most obvious but it is gesture that is the most telling. It is gesture that is the most important important.

—Jay Maisel

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

When I have a camera in my hand I fall in love a thousand times a day. Usually between 125-500 of a second. I am not into long relationships or long exposures. I love when I can be take by the image.

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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It’s the next note that makes it good or bad.

– Miles Davis

Photography is like jazz, you can play the same note every day but it is always different. You don’t follow you don’t lead. You follow the follower.

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 Nikon Studio NX, Post processed in Photoshop CC and the NiK collection by DxO.

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When you photograph people in color, you photograph their clothes. But when you photograph people in black and white, you photograph their souls!”

– Ted Grant

This image is from my most recent trip to Cuba.

I always get asked these four questions: Do you see in black and white, can you teach me how to see in black and white, how do you know when an image is supposed to be a black and white and how come your blacks and white images look better than my black and white images.

Then I heard and read a lot of noise about how it’s all about contrast, contrast light and dark and contrast. Or basically the person positing and exposing these thoughts does not really have a clue.

In the film days when you put black and white film in the camera you saw the image in color and the film recorded it in grayscale base off a specific tonal production curve unique to the flavor of film that was in the camera. SO every image was black and white.

So what makes an image a successful black and white? It comes down to the three core elements (according to Jay Maisel or the four key elements according to me, because I cannot leave well enough alone), Light, Gesture and Color (Jay’s) and time (mine). According to Jay Light and Color are obvious but it is Gesture that is the most important, Gesture that is the most telling.

SO the equation for when an image wants/needs to become a black and white is when the color of the image distracts from the gesture of the image.

For example this image, the colors a lovely, but the truly distract from the gesture of the dancers which is beautiful and timeless.

The point? I have never met an image did not know or tell me that it was wanting to be a black and white image. The gesture of the image will always let you know. As to the rest of it being light a nd dark and contrast contrast and more contrast? That really is the after thought and holds true for both color and black and white.

Ballerina: Lilia Laura Martinez Hernandez

Ballarino: Luis Raúl Fernández

I shot this with the 85mm f 1.2 Nikkor lens. 1/1250 of a second ISO 4000. Image raw processed in NX Studio and Photoshop CC with the NiK collection by DxO.

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Yosemite and a camera. 'nough said.....

I shot this image with a Nikon D7200 and a 28-300mm 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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Nikon- We do pretty right.

Shot with the Nikon Zf, using pixel shift with the 135mm f1.8 Plena lens

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Coincidence is God's way of remaining anonymous

—— Albert Einstein

I shot this image in a place you can no longer go, The Rahkine region of Myanmar. I was on assignment for American Photo magazine, We were in a boat on the Irrawaddy river during Monsoon season we were hit with a burst of rain so strong that we frantically had to get to shore so we would not sink, we ran to first hut we could find where a family was huddled in the same situation we were.

I was absolutely soaked, my gear was soaked, we were all soaked. And in all of that this moment moved me, and two children took the image the image and cause my finger to press the shutter. The near death experience erased and the reason why I was there became self evident.

Art is long. Life is short. A moment of time last for ever in a photograph

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Photographers must learn not to be ashamed to have their photographs look like photographs.

– Alfred Stieglitz

This image is from my most recent trip to Cuba.

Everyone on the planet hides something. There is a difference between being naked and nude. Particularly when it comes to being photographed. I find the key is to give that which the subject hides a place to hide which is within my camera. A place to be completely naked whilst completely dressed.

I shot this with the NIKKOR Z 28-400mm f/4-8 lens. 1/500 of a second ISO 7200. Image raw processed in NX Studio and Photoshop CC with the NiK collection.

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

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 a warrior form Namiyupee village

This is from my most recent trip to Myanmar. I traveled 36 hours of flying (not including layovers) then 16 hours by 4 wheel drive to travel 58 miles in to the mountains of Nagaland to attend the New Years festival. This image was captured just inside a hut that was another two hour drive by 4 wheel drive.

Shot with the fabulous Z7 modified for Infrared24-70mm f4 s series lens at 160iso. Post processed with Capture NXD and the NiK collection Silver Efex Pro in Photoshop CC

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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 Karen Witter Lorre.

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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Talent is nothing without dedication and discipline, and dedication and discipline is a talent in itself.

—– Luke Campbel.

This image is from my most recent trip to Cuba.

As a general rule I never set up any of my images. On those occasions when I have an ima ge where I need a dancer to be in a specific place, I do as much as one can to be vague (to the point of the dancer feeling I’n completely clueless) about why I want from them. One of, in not the most important concept that drives the way I approach being taken by the image is this: In absolute spontaneity to you get absolute truth. You can only be one way if you are spontaneous and that is truthful.

I also as close to never one can get crop an image.99.9% of all the images I have ever shot are full frame. I believe that the rectangle I see in the viewfinder is the canvas to compose within.

Simply put I do not pre-visualize my images before I shoot them I only pre-visualize then after they are shot.

SO to this image. I was shooting boxers, the whistle blew, the practice “bout” ended and the boxer who was sparring with the boxer I was actually shooting at the moment move to the ropes to hear what the Riner was saying to him I filled the Fram pushed the shutter ring then he went back to center ring and the whistle blew to start the new bout of sparring.

The point? It took more time to describe it and more time for you to read the description of events than it took to track, frame and capture the moment.

Each and every person who desires to to be a photographer has the talent to do it. But Talent is nothing without dedication and discipline, and dedication and discipline is a talent in itself.

Again I say here is more to boxing than the elegance of the randomness of the ring.

I shot this with the 135mm “Plena” Nikkor lens. 1/5000 of a second ISO 1000. Image raw processed in NX Studio and Photoshop CC with the NiK collection by DxO.

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I shot this with my new Nikon Z6III the 50mm f 1.2 S Nikkor lens. 1/2000 of a sec ISO 4000 Image raw processed in NX Studio and Photoshop CC with the NiK collection by DxO.

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Through our own recovered innocence we discern the innocence of our neighbors.

—Henry David Thoreau

This image is from my most recent trip to Cuba.

Robin Williams said “You're only given a little spark of madness. You mustn't lose it”” the same is true for innocence.

I shot this with the 28-400 Nikkor lens f4-8. 1/250 of a second ISO 2000. Image raw processed in NX Studio and Photoshop CC with the NiK collection by DxO.

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To me, photography is an art of observation. It’s about finding something interesting in an ordinary place… I’ve found it has little to do with the things you see and everything to do with the way you see them.

— Elliott Erwitt

I shot this image whilst on the escalator on the day before B&H’s BiLD conference. I fall in love a thousand times a day. Generally for 125 of a second. I do not believe in long relationships or long exposures. For me a photograph is a moment that is between moments that freezes the motion between those moments.

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This is the "official" vinniev headshot of the Nebelung Fur Gremlin , Valentino J. Cat. The reason for the apparent stillness of a highly energized ball of fur that is either in motion or taking a nap in between inhaling food or pouncing on the other Nebelung Fur Gremlin , Gianni J. Cat who is In a similar state of lack of motion is they are suffering fro FGCFGME. (Fur Gemlin Chasing Fur Gremlin Momentary Exahustion.) this pause in the kitty time space continuum at best lasts about 3 seconds.

Shot with a Nikon D850, 70-200mm f4 @ f7200iso

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

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Only in spontaneity can we be who we truly are

— John McLaughlin

This image is from my most recent trip to Cuba.

The most wonderful images, for me. Are the ones that are of interesting plainnesses. The moment between moments on the way from somewhere to somewhere else whist neither moving or standing still. The moments that no-one actually sees as the move through there individual journeys to where ever their somewhere to somewhere else.

The power of of wielding the light saber of inertial observance, I.e. the camera allows the inertial observer, I.e. the photographer to be taken by the moment of the fleeting movement of time and freeze it. So we can always travel back to that exact spot and give ourselves the greatest give one can give- a memory.

I shot this with the 85mm f/1.2 Nikkor lens. 1/2000 of a second ISO 160. Image raw processed in NX Studio and Photoshop CC with the NiK collection by DxO.

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Up in Smoke

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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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. This image was only used as a black and white, as I was sorting images to send off to the new agency I'v signed with (to do my favorite thing in the who world....keywording...) I came across the color image. 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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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 Collette Vollette. This was from my second "Hollywood" headshot session. I was newly minted from USC and my uncle CJ had given me a camera and a lens as a graduation present and said " Stop bitching about waiting tables I tought you photography...go shoot actors"

.

I shot this with a Nikon 6006s 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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This is from my latest trip to Cuba. Walking the streets of Havana.

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

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

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

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Shot this on my way to the Ahwanee to spend the weekend riding my 1964 R69s BMW motorcycle to take pictures for my next book project, a book on infrared technique. I just want everyone to know I know exactly how tough my job is.

Digital Infrared image, taken with a D800 modified to shoot IR with a 70-200 f4.5 VRII lens captured on a 128GB Lexar flash card post processed with Capture NX 2 then Photoshop CC and Nik Colorefex and Silver Efex Pro software.

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

© Vincent Versace 2014

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I shot this image with Nikon Df auto Iso and the 28-300mm lens. I shot this image in Santiago de Cuba. She was singing to no one other than herself. I love Cuba. I am heading there the 27th

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 2018 Nik collection by Google and onOnesoftware.

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Knowledge is not free. You have to pay attention.

—– Richard Feynman

This image is from my most recent trip to Cuba. It was sunset. II was doing one of my guilty pleasures in Havana. Riding in a “Coco”. The Cuban version of a TukTuk. I had talked the driver to go down the Malicon, something they try not to do. Don’t know why. I love riding in a Coco down the Malicon the sea breeze and the occasional splash of water is just a pleasure that makes me giggle. We were waiting for the light to change. Even when you are doing the most mundane of things, waiting for the light to change, if you pay attention a visual moment will show itslf

Prepares me for the elegance of the randomness of the ring.

I shot this with the 28-400mm Nikkor lens. 1/640 of a secon. Image raw processed in NX Studio and Photoshop CC with the NiK collection by DxO.

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"Yesterday's the past, tomorrow's the future, but today is a gift. That's why it's called

the present."

-Bill Keane

If you can slow yourself to the speed of life, life shows you its been there waiting for you all the while. You just have to take the time to see what you look at.

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Shape is the enemy of color.

– Josef Albers

Whe color is in the presence of shape you will see the shape over the color. The key is cause shape to become the unwitting ally of color. SO that you will see the color over the shape.

I shot this at the Hotel National. They have free range roaming peacocks wandering about.

This image was captured with the Nikon Zf and the 24-200mm f5.6-63 Nikkor zoom. 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.

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 Nikon Studio NX, Post processed in Photoshop CC and the NiK collection by DxO.

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This image was captured with a Nikon D-2X camera with a 70-200mm VR lens using the Nikon electronic file format (.Nef) Shot on Lexar Flash media. All file was post processed using NIKON capture, Phoroshop and Color Efex Pro software

For consideration only, no reproduction without prior permission.

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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.

When I was asked to shoot the lens I was told I could only have it for 16 days. On my travel schedule during that time fram that meant 11 actual days of being able to shoot. Five of those days were travel days to get from here to there and back.

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 inhaled by the beauty of the glass and lens design of the 105mm f1.4.

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 this brushes will be staying home.This lens has a permeant place in my camera bag.

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- 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. 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 are post processed.

So that this non issue is no issue I have re-added my "FINAL" version. To MY personal sites. I think the issue really is you don't like my editing. OK. No offense but I do. I sign my name to everything I do. First and last.

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

Nikon D5 camera, 105mm f1.4lens. Recorded to Lexar XQD media Post processed in in Capture NX-D. (final image pictured here) 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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