Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.

— Arthur C. Clarke

I shot this yesterday at 7:30am for my class on using Nikon's Studio NX as the one and only raw processor if you shoot Nikon.

Raw processed in Studio NX, No color correction, nothing else. Picture Control is set to Standard. Control Points were used to darken the background in In Studio NX. Some dust removal, schmaltz removal and specular highlight reduction in Photoshop using generative fill. No other adjustments to color, sharpness or contrast. Shot with a with 105mm MC. The final Pixel Shite images is 46.75 inches by 30.972 inches at 360 ppi.

To put this into perspective the file is 2 inches bigger than my biggest printer (Epson 9575) can print coming out of a Z8.

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Post card from Havana....This image was part of the "one Camera One Lens" assignment I did for Nikon. For six months the only camera I used was the D7200 and a 24-300mm Nikkor lens.

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From my most recent (hopefully not my last) trip to Cuba

I was just walking down the street and being taken by a one moment of another beings life, the subject of this image. I was shooting this when a little boy was playing hide and seek and zipped around the corner to see if he was being followed. (the subject of the previous image) He did not see me because he thought I was too busy seeing something else. He took me alrifgt. I slowed down to the peed of life and let him hide in my camera where he took the shot by taking me.

Three thoughts come to mind, things happen at the speed of life, An interesting plains is the moss tdificult thing to achieve. AND never take a picture. Let the moment, that will be the picture, take you.

Shot with the Amazing Nikon Z50 70-250mmDX Z mount Nikkor lens

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DANCERS!!!

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

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

Color version

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Just got back from Cuba with the D7200 and the 28-300mm on the final leg of my "One Camera / One Lens" Project

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. For me the pretty is in the blur. The main reason I shoot and have always shot Nikon is quality of the Nikkor lenses. Every lens has beautiful Bokeh. All lenses focus, that's what they do. But it is how a lens handles from in focus to blur that defines the greatness of a lens. This is at f5.6 at 150mm. I shot this image 4;30am and 6:30am in Nyaung Chaungtha along the Irrawadddy river. The plan was to travel up river during monsoon season to a remote village. The trip took three days. D3 auto Iso and the 28-300mm lens.

This is another from the review process of my server and and trying get to all the files I have decided to work on during the first edit but have never gotten to. Usually the amount of time I have to do any post on a gig is the flight back home and maybe there days after I hit stateside before the next adventure takes me. I decided to take this summer to try and catch up on images I have always wanted to process.

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

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. I was taken by this image at sunset in Cuzco Peru. The man just stopped, at the same moment I had to stop because of the altitude and the coca leaves that I had been chewing hadn't kicked in. I pointed the camera clicked and he moved on. The decisive moment that decided the moment not me. I was teaching a Palm Beach Photographic Workshop there. I shot this on the firs day. Nikon D200 modified for infrared by lifepixel.com, 70-210D Series lens, Induro tripod, Lexar flash media. Nikon Capture Photshop, Niksoftware and OnOne software.

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This image is from the fourth day of my Palm Beach Photographic Centre's Cuba Workshop shot with the AMAZING Nikon D750 camera using the "the street sweeper" 28-300mm VR II Lens. Just walking the streets of Havana.

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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 another of the collage artist Hope Kroll. I believe this was the only time in her youth she formally sat for someone, I was honor then as I am honored today.

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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This image was captured on my American Photo Assignment to Burma. We were waiting to take a ferry across the river from Yangon to "parts unknown....." This young boy was waiting too. I tried to wake him when the ferry arrived but he was to tired even look up.

Pro tip: The most important thing to remember when shooting in both India and Burma is "watch where you step."

The image was captured by a Nikon D-200, camera modified for infrared with a 24-120 mm Nano coated VR II lens at 200iso using the Nikon electronic file format (.Nef) file was post processed using capture NX 2.0 software, Photoshop CS,

Nik Color Efex 4.0 and Silver Efex Pro 2.0.

For consideration only, no reproduction without prior permission.

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Roof tops in rain.

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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Freedom to a dancer means discipline. That is what technique is for – liberation.

—– Martha Graham

This image is from my most recent trip to Cuba. I love photographing Cuban Ballet dancers. This image is of the ballerina Lilia Laura Martinez Hernandez and the ballerino Luis Raúl Fernández. I love how how a dance shows up and shows their heart and soul from the moment thy show up to the moment they walk of the stage. For them center stage is always where they are.

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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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 Karen Mayo-Chandler.

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

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Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication,

– Leonardo da Vinci

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…

In my work I I am in the practice of practicing. Practice does not make perfect, a perfect practice makes perfect. Which is why I always am practicing at practicing. With the pursuit of attaining the Zen state of Shibumi- effortless perfection and elegance. A state of doing that is thoughtful thoughtless thought.

For me this image of Cuban Olympic boxer Alejandro Iglesias. I was at the gym he trains at, a place I have been going for 20 years. The background is a chainlink fence that separates the practice areas. The clouds part for a moment and a Godbeam of light shown through and he was standing there in the boxing ring interrupting the beautiful light. The moment only lasted two frames and the work began to move again. But in that moment we were all part of the whole of that moment.

I shot this with the Z6III NIKKOR 28-400mm f/4-8 lens. 1/2000 of a second ISO 12000. Image raw processed in NX Studio and Photoshop CC with the NiK collection.

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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.

I shot this on a very chilly morning in San Francisco (Then again all mornings are very chilly in San Francisco).

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

Nikon D5 camera, 105mm f1.4lens. 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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This image is from the fourth day of my Palm Beach Photographic Centre's Cuba Workshop shot with the AMAZING Nikon D750 camera using the "the street sweeper" 28-300mm VR II Lens. Just walking the streets of Havana.

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You're a refraction of the one light. You're a waveform of light. You're a fractal, a pattern that continuously changes.

--Frederick Lenz

This image is from my most recent trip to Cuba.

I was employee number six of Altamira group, the creators of Genuine Fractals scaling technology and the second employee of Niksoftware. That goes back to the time when dirt was discovered. Why I bring this up is my complete and utter fascination with the concept that everything in the universe is a fractal, no two fractals are the same but in the same exact place after a series of random numbers is The Thumbprint of God. A perfect mathematical fractal, such as the famous Mandelbrot set— this self-similarity goes infinitely deep: each pattern made up of smaller copies of itself and those smaller copies made up of smaller copies again, forever.

What does the above have to do with this image you ask? There is the whole totality of the car, then there are the smaller parts of the self similarity of the car that are part of the whole and yet completely different. That thought just fascinates me. So if you wonder why you see a lot a parts of the micro and macro world of reality. Now you know.

I shot this with the135mm f 1.8 S “Plena” Nikkor lens. 1/250 of a second ISO 125. Image raw processed in NX Studio and Photoshop CC with the NiK collection.

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This is of the lovely Stephanie Stuart is an image from a prototype Z7 and a prototype 24-70mm Z series lens. Employing my conversational portraiture approach. Lighting was a Hivelight 100c with a lieko spot attachment, a Hivelight 200c with a Fresnel attachment and a sunbounce shimmering sun reflector. This was shot inside my studio.

Shot RAW+JPEG Fine Adobe RGB .Post processed in Capture NX-D (beta) Photoshop CC. DxO's Viveza was used to darken the blouse. basic skin retouching done in Photoshop CC. The Oz to Kansas multiple Silver Efex prop conversion technique used to convert to chromatic grayscale.

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Photography takes an instant out of time, altering life by holding it still.

– Dorothea Lange

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 images. That said…

There is a variation in this image that literally is a the frame before this one. What a difference in image meaning because of one simple moment gesture from frame 499 to frame 500.

I shot this with the Z6III NIKKOR S Plena 135mm f/1.8 lens. 1/400 of a second ISO 100. Image raw processed in NX Studio and Photoshop CC with the NiK collection.

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

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

This image was captured with my Nikkor 28-300mm (AKA "the Street sweeper) my go to lens with my go to camera.

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

© Vincent Versace 2015

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What you see is not what others see. We inhabit parallel worlds of perception, bounded by our interests and experience. What is obvious to some is invisible to others.

--George Monbiot

This image is from my most recent trip to Cuba.

There is more in the world to photograph that which is obviously in front of us. We go to a boxing gym and all we see are boxers. Learning how to slow down to the speed of life and be taken by all that is around me, then stopping time and capturing for a forever moment of an interesting simple plainness. That is the joy of photography for me.

I shot this with the 55mm f 1.2 S Nikkor lens. 1/2500 of a second ISO 105. Image raw processed in NX Studio and Photoshop CC with the NiK collection.

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When you dance, you can enjoy the luxury of being you.

— Paulo Coelho

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

Nothing makes my day more when the people, even better dancers, I am photographing have yet to register that I am being taken by the to click the shutter. The power of a dual sensor camera is there is no shutter. Which means there is no sound. Because of this there is no awareness of the decisive moment being captured.

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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Memory Monday......

Coolpix 950 image. Campaign Code name "Stunning Lust". Lit with a Westcott sunlight reflector this the back door of my old "Hollywood" Studio. It took the camera 3 seconds from hitting the shutter at full resolution 1.92MP TIF to fire and a minute 47 seconds to write to the card in 1999. Ahhhh... the salad days of digital. Oh yeah I had to walk up hill in the snow in both directions to go to my studio which was just a wet paper bag open at both ends AND I was grateful....

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Photography takes an instant out of time, altering life by holding it still.

– Dorothea Lange

This image is from my most recent trip to Cuba.

In the course of our day we tend to forget that we the world around us travels at the speed of life and not at the speed of lost in our thoughts. Our physical bodies are moving at one speed and our consciousness is moving not in sync generally somewhere else.I have found that being able to to slow both mind and body to the same speed, the speed of life, is the key to achieving a n interesting plainest, the most difficult thing to achieve.

I shot this with the 135mm f 1.8 “plane” Nikkor lens. 1/250 of a second ISO 220. Image raw processed in NX Studio and Photoshop CC with the NiK collection by DxO.

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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 Color Version.

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Abstraction is real, probably more real than nature

—Josef Albers

This image is from my most recent trip to Cuba. Patterns are interesting but patterns interrupts are more interesting. I believe that Human visual perception is the more important consideration when working and framing/composing an image not 17th century painting theory. I also believes that all images, or in my case, all my images are optical illusions and just a variation of the “French Drop” coin trick. Oh yeah- I love photographing Cuban Ballet dancers.

I shot this with my new Nikon Z6III the135mm f 1.8 “Plena” Nikkor lens. 1/400 of a sec ISO 100 Image raw processed in NX Studio and Photoshop CC with the NiK collection by DxO.

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

The Black and White version, captured with the AMAZING Nikon Z6 and the best piece of glass I have ever shot with the 105mm f1.4 Nikkor.

Thank you Judith Chaffee and Bill Finlay for teaching me how to understand movement and giving me the love of dance.

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This image was captured with a Nikon D-200 camera modified for infrared. Enhanced color conversion d with a 28-300 mm VR II I lens using the Nikon electronic file format (.Nef) file was post processed using capture NX 2.0 software.

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

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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 Jessica Tuck.

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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This is an image from my most recent trip to PBPW Cuba. The image you are seeing are part of a greater project, a book serries titled "Turning the Last Page." The title of the Cuba project is "Cuba: Turning the Last Page of 1962."

The camera was the fabulous Nikon 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, no reflectors or diffusers all of the images are spontanious none of the subjects are posed. So what you are seeing is (from the shoot aspect) just the lens. Just the camera. Just the light that was there. Just the subject.

My goal every time I shoot is to be the weakest linkn the entire project.

This is an image of the Cuban Ballerina Elena. In this shot we were on the roof of a building in central Havana 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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Laughter with those that understand us is music for the soul.

– Mimi Novac

There is an Italian saying ‘at the dinner table none gets old’ wjhe you are listening music it is a banquet for the ears and a meal for the heart and soul.

This image is of Osmel Fernandez playing Clave and sing a smile in the key of joyious laughter. . Lost in thought just before he goes in to spar.

This is my latest workshop to Cuba.. I shot this image withe new Nikon Zf a very fun camera to shoot and the 50mm f1.2 lens. An exquisitely beautify piece of glass to work with. The Zf is the camera I grab when I have no idea what I am walking into and the Plena is just a visual pleasure to look through wilst I shoot.

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

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

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

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This is one of those images that you cannot believe that everything conspired to happen at the right time in the right moment so fast you had no time to second guess yourself. A pure moment of Shibumi. I have a 80-400mm Nano lens on my D800 IR camera, I am in a slightly faster than I would like moving boat going in the opposite direction as the fisherman. I set the camera to the "Yo D800 you find the focus" mode. Which I used to think was a gimmick, truth be told, but when it comes to being in a moving object whilst photographing a moving object, it is the only way to fly.

The image was captured by a Nikon D-800, camera modified for infrared. Super Enhanced color conversion with a 80-400 mm Nano coated VR II lens at 400iso using the Nikon electronic file format (.Nef) S. file was post processed using capture NX 2.0 software, Photoshop CS, Nik Color Efex 4.0 and Silver Efex Pro 2.0.

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I am in Cuba (again) this time with the Nikon D5. this is the start of the ballet shoot. This is one of the ballerina on point in color. Just ambient light 16000 iso.

So so if you want to know why I choose to light with a thermonuclear device instead do a battery powered light source. Now you know.

However...... 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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Some people practice "throw Back Thursday" I have started sift Through 48 TB Server Sunday" This is an image I shot in 2012 with my D200 converted to IR. I wore this camera out.

I shot this image while on the ferry crossing the Hlaing River which runs through Yangon. This girl was sitting in a chair at the gate opening of the ferry. It was 8am in the morning.

Nikon D200mm, 24-120mm lens Enhanced color IR conversion. Postprocessing done in Photoshop CC 2014 with Ni Silver Efex, RAW file processed Nikon Capture NX2.

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spontaneously and without effort is perhaps the greatest of all sources of personal happiness ― Bertrand Russell

There is no shortage of Cubans willingness to play. There is so much laughter and spontaneous joy. I love being taken for the ride.

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

Here's the link

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

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

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"Light, gwsture and color are the key elements of any image. Light and color are obvious but it is gesture that is the most important. "

-Jay maisel

There is gesture in every image it is your job to find the most telling. It is easy to have a keen eye for the obvious when you are in the hair ball of the moment when your are shooting. BUt to be open the the totality of the moment, tho fall in a state of thoughtful thoughtless thought and be taken. That is really the goal. Tell the whole story of everything that moves and takes you.

This image is of the Guitar player Adel Nunes Castillo of Stepteto Habanero playing his guitar.

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 and has a frame rat faster than your nervous system can register.

You can truly create a place when and where 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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Trust me I shot other things... but a promise is a promise to the dancers and musicians (from my last trip to Cuba with Palm Beach Photographic Centre's Cuba workshop)

This image is of the trumpet player Jose Gomez Rodreguez of Stepteto Habanero.

When the D850. was released it hand facial recognition follow focus (not sure if that's the "official" name for it) in Live view. It also could shoot in silent mode in live view. So I hooked up a remote and with te 70-200mm f2.8 I shot "conversational portraits" in which the subject had no idea that I was or when I was taking a picture.

Cook to the Z9-

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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On January 7th I had to purchase a new laptop. The reason? The size of D800 files. To process one from start to finish it felt like I was passing a birthday every time I worked on one. Soooo I decided that it was time to suck it up and buy a new machine. The machine I decided on was the non Retina display 15 inch 2.7 Macbook pro with a 1TB hard drive. The reason? Glossy screens in the field do not work for me and a hard wired hard drive that I cannot replace should I need to (I have yet to own a laptop where I have not needed to) is not a prudent choice for someone who works his laptop as hard as I do. I get that this is the future, but for now I can still delay the inevitable. Also it has an Ethernet port, Firewire 800 USB 3 and Thunderbolt. SO everything I own today works.

This time I decided to suck it up and instead of doing the transfer of software from old to new, I would do a complete clean install of ALL of the software. Which is, on the very best day and by anyone's measure, not my idea of a good time. To compound this joyous experience I was leaving for Burma (Myanmar) first thing in the morning January 8th. So January 7th I had every computer I own download all of the software that I needed from the internet. The plan install on the airplane all software.

One of the things that happens is laptops, if you travel a lot and live on your laptop, become like the closet of a college student the night before the parents come to visit him the dorm; filled with EVERYTHING you have ever owned. The other thing is you take that for granted. You just accept that everything you need is just there 'cuz..well.. it's just there. I replace my laptop every three years and the one I was replacing was going on four years, so yeah it was time.

Well I did not think to actually BRING the old laptop....

So when I went to install all the software I did not have the any of the serial numbers. Because the folder that is in my Documents folder "ALL_SERIAL_NUMBERS" was not on my new laptop it was on my old laptop. Did I mention I was going to Burma? And did I mention where I was going in Burma was the Himalayas to photograph remote mountain tribes? To say the internet is slow in Burma would be to give slow internet a bad name, and to think that there would be internet access in the huts of remote mountain tribes in the Himalayas? So I was left as an option "demo mode" for all of my software.

Which worked! I had to click "demo" everytime I lauched anything, but I caused this issue so I had only me to blame (I hate that when that happens... yelling at yourself is only fun for those watching).

So yesterday I was in Florida ( I live in Los Angeles, I flew straight to Miami from Yangon Burma, or 31 hours, to teach). Well the demos timed out. Most importantly the demo for my beloved Niksoftware Color Efex Pro 4 timed out... It was not until that moment that I realized just how important and how much of my imaging relies of that technology. In the simplest of terms I cannot creat the images that I create without it. I was stopped cold. Did I know how to kinda work around it in Photoshop? Yeah I guess but why? I cannot achieve the quality of image enhancement. Not to sound like a commercial but if anyone form Niksoftware is listening thank you. Thank you for every image I have created in the past 13 years.

This is the image that I was stopped until late last night. This image was captured by a Nikon D800camera. 70-200 f4 Nano coated VR II lens in the Nikon Electronic Image File Formant (.NEF) file was post processed using Capture NX2 Photoshop CS6, Nik Color Efex 4.0 and Silver Efexpro.

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Just got back from Cuba with the D7200 and the 28-300mm on the final leg of my "One Camera / One Lens" Project

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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If you are out there shooting, things will happen for you. If you’re not out there, you’ll only hear about it.

— Jay Maisel

I have had a personal project going on 35 years to find photographs of New York City from the stories told to me by my father. Some of them involve memories from having been there with him when I was child, some were his memories of when he was young. Every year when I went to visit I would bring him the images I found of the past that was present the day I clicked the shutter.

He may have passed on to wherever we pass on to but I still make it a point to seek out those places. That now has evolved into being part of my Turning the last Page project.

This image is of the view of the subway station that we would take to get into the "City" and in 1964 & 65 to get to the New York World's Fair.

THe greates gift you can give both yourself and someone else is a memory.

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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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This is another one of the images from the 105mm f1.4 lens shoot. The camera was the fabulous Nikon D500.

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.

I shot this whilst walking down Columbus street in NYC on the west side. There was a scaffolding above me because there were repairs happening over head. and the daylight was streaming through a crack in the planking. 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 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 D500 camera, 105mm f1.4 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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I shot this image whilst on assignment for American Photo Magazine to shoot and write an article about the opening up of Myanmar. Sometimes the distraction of color requires the subtraction of color to bring out the abstraction of the gesture of the image. D3 auto Iso and the 28-300mm lens. This is the image in Chromatic Grayscale.

This is another from the review process of my server and and trying get to all the files I have decided to work on during the first edit but have never gotten to. Usually the amount of time I have to do any post on a gig is the flight back home and maybe there days after I hit stateside before the next adventure takes me. I decided to take this summer to try and catch up on images I have always wanted to process.

Image was post processed with Capture NXD, Photoshop CC 2017, Nik collection by Google and onOnesoftware. Converted with the Oz 2 Kansas BW conversion.

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If you clean it up, get analytical, all the subtle joy and emotion you felt in the first place goes flying out the window.

Andrew Wyeth

I am on my second week of teachIng at Maine Media Workshops, last week was my fall color workshop called “Colors of Fall” (VERY pithy naming if I do say so myself) . This week was my master printing class. SO shooting was not the focus. HOWEVER- I am am by proclivity a San Franciscan. So it is my belief that we invented fog. SO when I get fog I shoot it. So at zero dark thirty I dragged my class out to shoot in the fog.

I shot this with my new Nikon Z6III and the 85mm f 1.2 S Nikkor lens. Image raw processed in Studio NX and post processed in Photoshop 2025.

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To see in color is a delight for the eye but to see in black and white is a delight for the soul

– Andri Cauldwell

We we just see with our eyes we see everything, everywhere all at once. When I look through the lens I see the world in isolation one part at a time and I see it at the speed life while writing with light and taken by it one fraction of a second moment at a time.

This image was captured with the Nikon Zf and the 28-75mm f2.8 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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This image is from the first day of my Palm Beach Photographic Centre's Cuba Workshop shot with the AMAZING Nikon D750 camera using the "the street sweeper" 28-300mm VR II Lens. Just walking the streets of Havana.

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This is an image from my Dec 2015 trip to Santiago De Cuba,

I think the most impressive thing about Cuba is the joy of the children. I make it a point to stop by a school or two whilst I am there and to a child I have never seen happier students and so into learning. Those that teach them are a joy to watch with them with their students.

Shot with the Nikon D750 and the 28-300mm Street Sweeper Nikkor

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Don’t initiate! Follow the initiator! Follow the follower.

—Viola Spolin

I had what could have been a catastrophe turn into a blessing. During a firmware update my 96 TB sever crashed because the power died. The partitioning of all 8 drives was scrambled. After two 3 hour sessions with QNAP tech support My drives where brought back to life. They only charged me a “thank you”. One of the things I had been doing was populating the server with my back-up drives. I found this image whilst seeing what was in the “2_DO” folder I have scattered on just about all of the separate drives.

I shot this in Cuba walking down he street. The little boy talking to his father took me. So I dd what I learned to do years ago, do not initiate. Follow the initiator. They will follow you and you will follow them following you following them.

Simply put Follow the follower.

Being on that journey time moves at a different speed.

I am so looking forward to going back to Cuba March 07-14 2024 Photography and Music Workshop.

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I shot this image of James P. Abbott, esq. during my Palm Beach Photographic Centre's Infrared Workshop. This is the image I worked on with the entire class doing the same file part of day two: post processing an infrared file. Well I did say the class get's thrown into the pixel ocean and will swim to the finished image shore. I can smell the smoke of burning brain matter. Welll.... THEY did ask for this....

Once again only brought two cameras to the workshop and three lenses. The camera used was a Nikon D800 modified (by lifepixel.com) to capture infrared.The Lens used here was a Nikkor 24-120mm. Post processing was done with Capture NX-D (Raw processing) Photoshop CC 2014, onOne Perfect Suite and Nik Collection Software.

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This 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 in a hut that was another two hour drive by 4 wheel drive.

Shot with the fabulous Z7 modified for Infrared by Life Pixel. 24-70mm f4 s series lens at 25600iso. Post processed with Capture NXd and the NiK collection Silver Efex Pro in Photoshop CC

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