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This is from my most recent trip to Myanmar.
I traveled 36 hours of flying (not including layovers) then 16 hours by 4 wheel drive to travel 58 miles in to the mountains of Nagaland to attend the New Years festival.
I shot this the day before in Yangon at a local market.
Shot with the fabulous Z7 modified 8mm f 1.8 s series Nikkor lens. Post processed with Capture NXd and the NiK collection Silver Efex Pro in Photoshop CC
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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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From the "TO_DO" archives....
When you are stuck in airports because of weather delays you can either bemoan your fate or you can post process pictures...
so here is more of my "Street walking" photography, seeing the world at eye level and at the speed of life.
I am now crashing an elementary school and playing with the kids. I love the fact that there is still enough innocence left in the world that this can happen.
Myanmar (Burma) during a Palm beach Photographic Centre workshop.
When you see the moment and the moment takes you...take the moment.
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It’s kinda fun to do the impossible - Walt Disney
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 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. Practice like you have never won and preform like you have never lost.
I was taken by this image, as is true with all my images, as I was walking to a a performance rehearsal of the next ballet to be staged by the National Cuban Ballet. I this this empty practice room the space was filled with the ballerina. Her focus was so strong I felt it as I walked by and had to step back and let her take me to where she was.
Every issue of an image needs to be solved at moment of capture. I realized that the image of her needed to be in a space big enough to show how she filed it. So I took a second shot that showed the the left side of the rehearsal room. I don’t believe in cropping images. I shoot 99% of my images full frame.
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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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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Model Charlotte, her first photo shoot. Used California sunbounce silver.
More technical details on my blog gtfoto.wordpress.com
portraits of the wonderful leo horn, taken on a photographyworkshop with roland guth. it really has been a lot of fun to spend the day shooting.
i have been shooting so much photos in the dark lately that it really feels great to get out in the sun for a change.
thank god, summer is coming...
shot taken with the Canon EF 135/2 wide open (borrowed from Roland).
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Strobist info: SB900 through Softbox from above, California Sunbounce Micro Mini Reflector (Zebra side) from below. Triggered with CLS.
My entry for this photo contest:
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Nature’s great masterpiece, an elephant – the only harmless great thing.
-John Donne
From my three weeks in Namibia—
There is something humbling about standing 10 feet away from a creature that is as big as a three story house. Even more humbling is when a creature that size sees you, looks at you then through you.
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.
Shot with the Nikon Z8 using the 24- 120mm S lens, Kolarivision IR Conversion. Post processed wit NX Studio and Photoshop CC Beta.and DxO’s NiK collection plug-ins.
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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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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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"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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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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This is my edit from a different perspective.
We brought the reflectors and stands to the beach and were setting up all our equipment and reflectors and these idiots were already laughing at us, before I even brought the dolls out. I'm not so sure why its funny that we were setting up photography equipment at a beach. Geez... people....
The dress is from Gina's shop. Its such a lovely lavender colour and goes well with most of my dolls.
Lighting Details: Used a reflector as a make-shift scrim to soften (more like deaden) the light hitting the doll's face - you can see the reflector stand's shadow :(. California Sunbounce from the water as a warm fill.
From the "2_DO" folder collection Cuba section:
I love going for the ride. I love honoring the giver by receiving the gift.
photography....just seeing the world at eye level and at the speed of life being taken by the moment and letting them moment of being taken be the cause of clicking the shutter. Once again I was taken by the absolute love of this moment.
Shot with the a prototype D5, 28-300mm AKA "Street Sweeper" lens. Raw processed in Capture NXD post processed in Photoshop CC with NiK collection software by DxO
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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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portraits of the wonderful leo horn, taken on a photographyworkshop with roland guth. it really has been a lot of fun to spend the day shooting.
i have been shooting so much photos in the dark lately that it really feels great to get out in the sun for a change.
thank god, summer is coming...
Shot taken with the Canon EF 135/2 wide open (borrowed from Roland).
The whole Album is here: Leonie
I spent the day at Jay Maisel's studio to smoke cigars and tell lies and more importantly laughing our asses off.
We also had Katz's Pastrami (Jay's favorite thing to eat)and Russ & Daughters. (my favorite thing to eat) for lunch.
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In a 10 day period I flew to SaltLake City, drove to Yellowstone, drove to Jackson Hole Wyoming, then to Moab then back to Salt Lake City then back to Moab then back to Salt lake City then flew to Los Angeles. I drove 2264 miles and spent 23 hours in a car. After that juggernaught I had a 21 hour turn around and flew to New York city for 7 days then back to Los Angeles (9 hour turn around and flew to Maine for a week.
This is an Infra red capture on the way to Jackson Hole from Yellowstone
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There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.
-Edith Wharton
From my three weeks in Namibia—
Another from the “how how close did you get?” collection
This close. Again about 10-12 feet. This is at 140mm on the 100-400mm S Nikkor. If I got any closer… This is as the sun was setting. Hence the beautiful light. Which the subject, in this case the male lion, was interrupting
The system in which I came up with to not have to bring a laptop and be able to back all my images up with my ipad. Worked swimmingly. I shot on Delkin black 850 & 150gb cards. Which is the key to all of this fast read and fast downloads. I brought three 4tb Sandisk Blade drives. I used the Lexar WorkflowGo2. I was very hesitant to buy anything Lexar. I have had less than stellar luck with their cards. That said the workflowGo did the job.
This is one of a bazillion Lion captures I have. I have images of Lions, Leopards, Cheetahs, Caracals, Elephants, Hippos, Rhinos, Water Buffalo, Wildebeests, two types of Baboons, two types of Zebra, Brown Hyenas, Wild Dogs, Warthogs, Oryx, Mongoose, Read Heart beast, Springbok, Sable, Eland, Black Faced Impala, Impala, Crocodiles, Kudo, Waterbuck, Dik-Dik (so I did take Dik-Dik pics), Steenbok,Scrub Hare, Rock Hyrax, Side Winder snakes, African Ground Squirrels, Cape Penguin and so many birds I can’t even begin to name them and those are just the animals I can remember.
AND to answer the next question YES I will be organizing a workshop there.
Shot with the Nikon Z6II using the 100- 400mm S lens no 1.4 Tele converter attached. Post processed wit NX Studio and Photoshop CC Beta.and DxO’s NiK collection plug-ins.
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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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Please be advised that due to recent budget cuts and the rising cost of electricity,
gas and oil, as well as current market conditions, the Light at the End of the Tunnel has been turned off.
For those of us who believe in physics, the distinction between past, present and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion
– Albert Einstein
This image is from a trip to Cuba I took in December of 2016.
I am working on images for my solo show of my images of Cuba that will happen sometime end of this year beginning of next at the Museo National Bellas Artes in Havana Cuba (the National Museum of Fine Art) I have been going through all of the 500,000 give or take frames I have shot so far.
The concept behind this project is to photograph the echos of the past that are still present today. What makes Cuba unique, almost wholly unique, is the it is caught in a bubble of 1962. I have several ongoing projects to capture the echo of Myanmar, India, Paris and New York City. Of all of these projects Cuba and Myanmar are the most complete.
Light, gesture and color are the three key elements of any image, with gesture being the most important consideration. In addition to these three ememnts there is a fourth concept- time, specifically timelessness. A successful image is one where gesture is served but the “when” is not definable.
I shot this with the D500 NIKKOR 18-300mm f/3.5-5.6G lens. 20 plus year project is 1/400 of a second ISO 100. 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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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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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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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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I have been chomping at the bit to be able to talk about one of the new features in the Z8 3.0 firmware update. Specifically the ability to do a pixel shift / focus shift series of captures. Wow…… the color fidelity, and incredible detail is mind boggling but having your cake and eat it too with being able to mix wide ope with critical aperture for the sharpest and creamiest Bokeh again Wow…..
Pixel Shift is an option where the camera moves the sensor during a series of captures. This series is then merged in the Nikon NX Studio software. In this case, the pixel shift option was set to the maximum capture option of 32 images. The camera exposed an image then moved the sensor… about half the width of a single pixel… and exposed the next one. For 32 images. Those 32 NEF (RAW) files were merged into one massive NEFX raw file that now has a resolution of about 180,000,000 pixels.
Focus Shift Shooting is an option where the camera makes an exposure then shifts focus to a different plane and makes another exposure. The cool part is that the camera is automatically setting the shift movement so that a series of images can be stacked on post in such a way to increase the depth of the PLANE of focus. This results in a subject the can have a nearly unlimited amount of the subject focus. Not just more depth of field, but depth of actual in focus.
The Z8 FW 3.0 is the first time anyone has offered both at the same time on a full frame professional camera.
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When I was a kid my father would tell me stories about being akid growing up in New York City. So everytime I go to NYC I always make it a point to find the echo of his memories still living in the city.
This is an image of the News Building that I shot through the glass on my one and only day. off (so far) from the Feature film shoot I am the Stills/Set photographer for, Pinball.
I shot this whilst spending the day with Jimmy AtoZ (my new associate photographer in my classes) and Aymen Siam, who I mentor as part of the NYSalt program. Jimmy is a NYC native and well took me to some of the echo of New York places I only occasionally stumble upon. I call this the "dailey Planet" 'cuz everyone knows Gotham City is Ian NewellYork City...Sheeesh
This image was capture using Kolari Vision's new in batonet mount filter system for IR. This is the 720mn filter. I have to say I am more than impressed
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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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… Drummer der leipziger Band Disillusion
De Haan, BELGIUM
I strongly (convince myself to) believe that professional photographers should take some time to play every now and then. We played around all the time when we where amateurs and that's what made us good enough to go pro anyway. So to become a better pro, I try to allow some time to play in my tight schedule.
A few months ago I got into a conversation between some like minded photographers and we decided to do some kind of fun shoot together. I actually didn't have the time but I went anyway. And I'm glad I did, because I came back with more energy and motivation.
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Although it was pretty chilly, Fauve didn't mind to shoot for 10 minutes in the surf. The sun was still pretty high. I underexposed the scene by a stop or two to keep enough detail in the sky. This rendered our model to almost pitch black. Ake was kind enough to get in the water with us holding a California Sunbounce mini micro reflector (silver) and a flash (Vivitar 285HV) attached to it (camera left). The Vivitar was set to full power to balance with the still powerful backlight. Triggered with PW's.
Ake managed to not only keep the sunbounce steady in heavy winds without falling in the water, she also yelled every time a big wave came in (still got pretty wet though).
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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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The lioness is not submissive. She merely lets you be king for as long as it pleases her.
- Tiffany Hines
From my three weeks in Namibia—
The the lion was beat, tired and spent. The Lioness wanted to go around the dance floor one more time.
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.
Shot with the Nikon Z8 modified to shoot infrared conversion by Kolarivision using the 24-120mm S lens, Post processed with NX Studio and Photoshop CC Beta.and DxO’s NiK collection plug-ins.
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The only reason for time is so that everything doesn’t happen at once.
-Ray Cummings
It has been said that on a clear day you can see forever. No. On a clear day you can see up to 22 miles. To truly see forever you need fog. This is a drive by shooting ( I stopped by the side of the road whilst driving) of a view of the Douro Valley in Portugal.
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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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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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Magic is the whisper of the unseen; art is how we give it form. In stillness, they become one.
-Ginny Brannan
Another from the crypt of lost files—
I am getting ready to go to Africa for 3 weeks and all the vaccinations and newly added visa requirements has pulled me away form my photography post processing.
I am working on a system in which I do not have to bring a laptop and be able to back all my images up. Part of that process was to free up three of my 4tb Sandisk Blade drives. Whilst doing that I found the elusive “folder of lost images.” We all have one that we can’t find but we know exists…. Out there in the ether. I was also updating all of my BW / IR actions so this was a win win.
This image is of of the Ballerina Kamila Quinones Capote. I would say that she is my favorite ballerina to shoot but if I said that there would be no living with her whilst we work. So she’s ok….
All artistic expression comes From the same place we just choose the best metaphor to express our creative expression. Every Artist has an instrument. Musicians what they play, painters brush and canvas, photographers have the camera the lens and the file the post process, Dancers have the their bodies which the hone to respond in ways that defy reality. What I like about working with her is her connection to emotional instrument that is her heart and the physical instrument that is her body is an instantaneous connection of mind/body. I love how she gets lost in the moment even though there are all sots of distractions that are a photoshoot.
Shot with the Nikon Z8 converted to shoot infrared by Kolari Vision. using the 24-120mm S lens. Post processed wit NX Studio and Photoshop CC Beta. BW conversion usingDxO’s NiKcollection silverefex plug-ins.
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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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A Lioness does not need to roar To keep the crowd in awe..
- African Proverb
From my three weeks in Namibia—
There is something humbling be so close to something that could eat you if they really thought you were worth the bother.
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.
Shot with the Nikon Z8 modified to capture Infrared using the 24-120mm S lens, Post processed with NX Studio and Photoshop CC Beta.and DxO’s NiK collection plug-ins.
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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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I have been chomping at the bit to be able to talk about one of the new features in the Z8 3.0 firmware update. Specifically the ability to do a pixel shift / focus shift series of captures. Wow…… the color fidelity, and incredible detail is mind boggling but having your cake and eat it too with being able to mix wide ope with critical aperture for the sharpest and creamiest Bokeh again Wow…..
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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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