In the old streets of dresden :)

Strobist info: Sunbounce Zebra

Model: Kathi

Makeup & Hair: Michele Garbade

Light: Hensel & Sunbounce

Rob Jamieson Photography

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Model - Jerry-J P

Assistant - Sophie C

In the end, I use my camera as a microphone to reach the world.

-Sebastiao Salgado

From my three weeks in Namibia—

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.

This image is an IR capture of black faced Antelope and Zebra whilst traveling across the Pan to Angava.

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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You don’t have to go looking for pictures. The material is generous. You go out and the pictures are staring a tyou.

— Lee Friedlander

This image is from my most recent trip to Cuba.

This subject of this image was 90 degrees to the left of the previous image from yesterday’s upload. I did nothing more tan our to the right and switch to the camera body that had the 135mm lens on it.

So again I say-

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. 1/640 of a second ISO 100. Image raw processed in NX Studio and Photoshop CC with the NiK collection by DxO.

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Model - Charlotte Russell

sunbounce reflektor, bounce with a sb 700 in the front

What success I achieved in the theater is due to the fact that I have always worked just as hard when there were ten people in the house as when there were thousands

– Bill "Bojangles" Robinson

This image is from my most recent trip to Cuba.

Experience has taught me that every moment you get to practice at doing the metaphor of artistic endeavor you chosen express your creative voice should be approached with the same intensity and focus as if you are preforming in front of an audience or you work is being see by thousands. Even if it’s just on, ten, a thousand or millions the focus to be better that you have ever been is the goal. You are the only person you compete with and against.

I shot this with the 85 mm f1.2 Nikkor lens. 1/250 of a second ISO 110. Image raw processed in NX Studio and Photoshop CC with the NiK collection by DxO.

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Time moves in one direction, memory in another.

- William Gibson

This image is from my most recent trip to Cuba.

We do not remember days, what we remember of moments., The power of the still image is we can capture fractions of a second of time’s movement with stillness a revisit that moment of time’s march froward in the present moment we are in. Being inertial observers of time. This is what fascinates me the most about photography.

I shot this with the 24-200mm f/4-6.3 Nikkor lens. 1/250 of a second ISO 3600. Image raw processed in NX Studio and Photoshop CC with the NiK collection by DxO.

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Ballet should never feel comfortable. It never becomes easy--it becomes possible.

– Agnes de Mille

This image is from my second most recent trip to Cuba.

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 and this image of the ballerina Lilia Laura Martinez Hernandez caught me. I have photographed her several times over the course of the Padt several years her focus astounds me, even when she is doing barre work,

I shot this with the Z8 NIKKOR S 85mm f/1.2 lens. 1/3000 of a second ISO 2800. Image raw processed in NX Studio and Photoshop CC with the NiK collection.

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I go out to take a walk, I see something, I take a picture. I take photographs. I have avoided profound explanations of what I do.

– Saul Leiter

This image is from my most recent trip to Cuba.

I do not take pictures as either an avocation, the way to pay the rent or for the “art” of it. The images take me. I just go for a walk and allow myself to slowdown to the speed of life. If you go out with the intent to make a photograph your images will never meet you expectations. However if you go out with the intention of not doing that all you can do is exceed your expectations.

I shot this with the 24-200mm f4-6.3 Nikkor lens. 1/250 of a second ISO 4000. Image raw processed in NX Studio and Photoshop CC with the NiK collection by DxO.

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SERVER TRAVELING : The Fine Art of Time Travel

This is a misplaced image. It was processed to be worked on. But wound up in a folder labeled

FLOWERS_MAYBE_2_DO. I do remember freezing my ass off being rained on and it was one those rare moments at tunnel view where no one was there because they were shiner than I was. There was a brief moment of a break in the clouds. the sun hit the water fall and then the water really fell from the sky. I was complaining to my self at the the time. I can promise you I will never complain again . I sooooo look forward to being able to be somewhere else as I am sure we all do than the post stamp of a piece of land that is my current lil'slice of heaven.

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I really believe there are things nobody would see if I didn't photograph them.

- Diane Arbus

This is an image from my last trip to Cuba. It is a joy to work with Cuban dancers. ( I will get back to Portugal images in a bit )

I find the older one gets the more your images are shot at eye level. I was sitting on the dance floor swapping lenses when the choreographer stopped the rehearsal to describe to the dancers what he wanted them to try for him. This is an image of resting dancer feet.

I am asked frequently when do yo know when an image should be black and white image? Simple when the color gets in the way of the gesture.

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There's nothing worse than a sharp photograph of a blurry concept

— Ansel Adams

This image is from my most recent trip to Cuba.

Not every picture has to be sharp to be special. I is from imperfection perfection comes a perfectly imperfect moment. the beauty inlays to be found in the blur. Needing to have a image with everything perfectly “In focus” is really overrated.

I shot this with the 50mm f1.2 Nikkor lens. 1/6000 of a second ISO 360. Image raw processed in NX Studio and Photoshop CC with the NiK collection by DxO.

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M: karen

L: Ambient filled with small silver Sunbounce @ camera right

G: EF 200mm f/1.8 L USM @ f/1.8

In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks –John Muir.

From my three weeks in Namibia—

Photographing in Etoshia was a non stop an experience of Tachypsychia. (a neurological condition that alters the perception of time).

I was gobsmacked how everything in front of me caused me to just slowed down to the speed of life.

I have been working on an image project for the past 21 years. The “Tuning the Last Page” Project. The object is to photograph the echos of the past that are present today. My most recent trip to Namibia has started a new chapter in the project “Turning the Last Page: In the Land of Dry Water.”

I have wanted to travel to Namibia for over 40 years. It all started with the second CD I ever purchased Sanford Ponder’s Etoshia” In the Land of Dry Water.

AND to answer the next question YES I will be organizing a workshop there.

I shot this with the Z6III NIKKOR 28-400mm f/4-8 lens. mage raw processed in NX Studio and Photoshop CC with the NiK collection.

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f11 - 1/125 - ISO100 - Elinchrom Deep Octa in Front, Elinchrom Reflector with Grid left back, Sunbounce Silver Reflector in front, Nikon D800 - Nikon 105mm F2 D DC

“A portrait is not made in the camera but on either side of it.”

— Edward Steichen

I think a portrait is at it's best when you photograph the space between the person being photographed and the person who is being taken by the photograph is the thing that is in the photograph.

This image is of the Ballet dancer Maripaz Laguna shot in the streets of Havana.

Yup I bit the bullet and modified a Z9 for infrared. I did a full spectrum conversion and then am using the bayonet filters from Kolarivision. Which means I can have my cake and eat it too. THe first element of the lens dictates everything that is going to happen from the quality of the light and resolution of thar light. So putting the IR filter at the end of the light path is far better than putting a filter in front of the lens. a full spectrum conversion allows me to bring my camera back to visible spectrum with a different filter as well as having every flavor of IR....coool....

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.

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Rob Jamieson Photography

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Model - Charlotte Godfrey

The camera sees more than the eye, so why not make use of it

– Edward weston

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 50mm f1.2 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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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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Be the person your dog thinks you are.

-– C.J. Frick

This image is from my most recent trip to Cuba.

Of the many things that have captured me about Cuba over the years the approaching two decades of me shooting the country and the people is the friendliness of the dogs and cats. Unlike here you almost never hear a dog bark unless it’s in welcome. Cats are always up for a ear tug and a head scratch, stray or someone’s house cat. In cuba more than anywhere as – Christopher Morley quipped no one appreciates the very special genius of your conversation as the dog does.

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

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Fall is inevitable, through all of their life leaves hold within them the power

to die and that must color their life.

—Orson Scott Card

Fall is my favorite time of year. The visual crispness of fresh apple cider. The warmth of sunlight with the promise of chill in the air.

I shot this with my new Nikon Z6III and my favorite lens the “Plena” 135mm f 1.8 S Nikkor lens. Image raw processed in NX Studio and Photoshop CC with the NiK collection by DxO.

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Fun and relaxed, two differend sets, one with Bounce wall from California Sunbounce from below before a dark background, one against a white wall with single Striplight and Studio flasch

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 image was capture during the first trip to Moab. It was a new moon, so the Milky Way was visible at 3:30am.

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Color is descriptive. Black and white is interpretive – Elliot Erwitt

I have never met an image that did not know it was a black and white photograph. From moment of capture it has always had an opinion. I have also heard a lot of horse fertilizer about what makes a black whit image a black and white image.

Every image you capture you see in color. When we shot film eventohouh the film wa black and white what we saw was color. Soooo… Mr/ Smartypants what;’s the magic equation then you ask?

When the distraction of color gets in the way of the abstraction of the images gesture. Gesture is the key element of every photograph.

As to this image- It could be argued that in most parts of Cuba a cigar is the sixth finger of a hand

WHAT A BLAST this last workshop to Cuba was.

the Zf is the camera I grab when I have no idea what I am walking into and Nikkor optics are just a visual pleasure to look through wilst I shoot. Nobody does In focus to blur as well as Nikon does.

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

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

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

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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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If you believe in pre-visualization you deserve what you get.

—Paul Caponigro

This is from my recent trip to Portugal.

I have to go a wee bit out of the way to get to the point.

I was in Oporto having breakfast at a cafe with a view of the mouth of the Douro river as it meets with the ocean. There were tram tracks just in front of where I was going to eati my morning meal. It was 9:30ish, the final wisps of morning fog were leaving to go where ever they go. I sat down ordered my first coffee, I was watching the fishing boats in the river it was 10:15ish.

I had just ordered my second pingo when this beautifully maintained old tram rolled by. I thought they get fog here, they have old trams…. I get up early I’m gonna get me some old tram in fog action. Cool. I spent the whole day on and of pre-visualizing my epic tram in fog in Oporto shot.

It rained the next two days. The night of the second day the rain stopped and the temprature dropped- Which means SERIOUS WHITE OUT FOG!!!!!

I am up at the asscrack of dawn, I am Geared up and out the door across the river and where I need to be. I show up. The fog sowed up. So where’s the tram? Did someone forget to tell the tram to show up? I walk into the lobby of a boutique hotel (my cafe was not open yet) and asked the front desk “where’s the tram?” He said “they don’t start running until 10:00am.

Here’s the thing I know better. you pre-visualize an image you deserve what you get. This is firmware level (or so I thought) stuff for me.

So I just started walking the seven and half miles back to where I was staying. The image I pre-visualized ? I never shot it, I deserved what I got. The moment I started to want nothing I got everything I ever wanted.

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In art, there is no need for color; I see only light and shade. Give me a crayon, and I will paint your portrait.

—Francisco Goya

I shot this image whilst being lost on a windy ass road somewhere around Evora Portugal. Portugal is the only place I have ever been that had an opinion on how it wanted to be shot. For as colorful a place as it it is, it truly prefers to be photographed in black and white. If you approach light as if it is a solid object. That is to say that the subject is interrupting the light. The the light truly becomes the jewel of the photograph.

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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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Copyright - Rob Jamieson Photography

www.robjamiesonphotography.co.uk

Model - Olivia Stappleton

Makeup/Hair - Emma Josey Makeup & Hair Artist

Rob Jamieson Photography

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Model - Penny May Sturgess

Makeup - Lauren Overend

Winter Session

Model: Talita Lopes from Brazil

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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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Well as giraffes say, you don't get no leaves unless you stick your neck out.

- Sid Waddell

From my three weeks in Namibia—

There is no such thing as a short giraffe.

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 Z6III using the 100-400mm S lens, Post processed with NX Studio and Photoshop CC Beta.and DxO’s NiK collection plug-ins.

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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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The position of the artist is humble. He is essentially a channel.

— Piet Mondrian

I shot this image on my walk down from the mountain I had climbed in the dark and in a whiteout fog without coffee whilst shooting in the vinales valley. The perfection of the light was breathtaking.

I believe that light is the jewel of the photograph and approach light as if it is a solid object. That is to say that the subject is interrupting the light. Pretty light makes even the plainest, simplest thing beautiful.

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Oostende, BELGIUM

I recently did a guerilla shoot together with my friend and fellow photographer Jean. The goal was to test the California Sunbounce Micro Mini reflector with flash attachement. We decided to go on a completely unplanned mission: no location, no make-up, no models, not much gear and no concept. Just shoot what we came up with at the moment.

LIGHTING INFO

I underexposed the ambient light by a stop or so. The Sunbounce with a Vivitar 285HV flash attached (camera left), lights the subject. I think the flash was at 1/4 power.

Here's the YouTube video of this shoot.

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Strobist info: SB900 into Softbox from above. California Sunbounce Reflector (Zebra) from below. Bare SB800 and SB600 behind the Model as rimlights. Triggered with CLS.

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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Without them humanity cannot survive.

Dali Lama

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Rob Jamieson Photography

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Model - Grace Upshall

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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CATS!!!

This is from my latest trip to Cuba. I admit it I am a cat lady. I shot this with thew 50mm 1.8 S series lens. A lens that truly blew me away. To be honest I have alway viewed a 50mm lens as an optical lens cap. I have learned the error of my ways. This is a breathtaking star lens with beautiful bokeh.

Shot with the Amazing Nikon Z7 70-200mm f 4.5 series F Nikkor lens

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Post Cards from the vacation that is my life. the "I have been some remote placeless but....... " section 2011 edition

(One of four images)

I was on assignment for American Photo magazine (back when magazines existed...) This is in a region in Burma that non Burmese (and even then it is strictly limited) can no longer travel to.

There is an old wives tale that the most beautiful women in South east Asia are from Burma specifically from the village I photographed this woman in. So hard core was this belief back in the day that the men of the village took to tattooing the faces of the women so no one would want to steal them. This was done with bamboo needle and ink at 13 years old with out any for of local anesthetic.

To get to this village this village we travelled 11 hours by car one one of the "Burma Super Highways" three hours by boat then 6 hours by car then 7 hour day boat during the monsoon season up the Irrawaddy river. Along the way we had to bail the boat out and head to shot when it dumped rain or we would sink ( this is also where I proved that a Nikon camera can indeed be pelted with 1.7 liters of water per hour....). All I know is that when we FINALLY arrived sat this village I was hell bent on photographing a tattooed face woman. I entered the village and it was completely empty. Only chickens and pigs running around.

As my angst, frustration and concern started to simmer to a boil of "@&$*%(!!" level expletives, I hear, flowing in the air around me, the is beautiful bell/bird song like voice in the most exquisite mix of births and brumes accented English say "Are you looking for me?" I spin around and all there is an empty village. the again I hear flowing in the air around me, the most beautiful voice " I cannot come down because I mail but you may photograph me if you would like to."

I would like to believe that my mother did not have any idiot children I said to my self "look up" and there above me had to be one of the most beautiful women I have ever seen. Stopped me dead in my tracks. Also keep in mind that the last white man to visit this village must have been during the British occupation. I eventually found my voice and said "yes I traveled here to photograph you" (I had no idea that I had travel here just to photograph this woman but it was as if she was notified via psychic link or carrier pigeon that I was on my way and on "official" American Photographer magazine business. She smiled, giggled a bit, I then lifted up my camera she made this face.

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It’s not the notes you play. It’s the notes you don’t play.

― Miles Davis

Cuba is music. Music in the the way people move throughout their day, music in the flow of the way cuban ballet dancers dance and their is music in the shape of every moment that takes you to snap the shutter. I am over of Bokeh. Bokeh is the lyrical part of the lens that translates to the pretty of an image. The pretty is always in the blur.

WHAT A BLAST this last workshop was.I shot this image of the trumpet player Rolando Lara. When I was young I played trumpet. Not like Rolando. Like I said Bokeh is my thing.This image was captured with the Nikon Zf and the50mm f1.2 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.

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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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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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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