Z6IIIB_NAMIBIA_06_2025__2542_FINAL_IP
Nature always wears the colors of the spirit.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
From my three weeks in Namibia—
There is a Hassidic saying “sorry is the rabbi who is not will to teach the lesson 101 times” I once asked my master acting teacher, Tad Z. Danielewsk about how he teaches. He said “I treat knowledge like a bucket of mud and students like brick walls. I sling the mud at the wall and what sticks, sticks and what doesn’t doesn’t . At the end of the day f class I collect the mud tat didn’t stick and start throwing it again the time we have class. All I ask is that you don’t dodge the mud.
What I have learned over the years teaching photography is you have to throw a lot of the same mud repeatedly. Why sticks sticks and eventually if you repeat yourself enough the moment of epiphany will eventually happen. Why I say this (I have said this a lot)-
I photograph my portraits as if they are landscapes and my landscapes as if they are portraits. Each form contains the important aspects needed for the other.
(I have said this a lot too-)\
Light, gesture, color are the key elements of every photograph. But when do you know that an image is meant to be a a black and white image? The answer is a lot simpler than the general song and dance you hear the pixel pundits put forth. When the cold gets in the way of the gesture. Then it is time to abstract out the color from the image so the gesture remains.
There is no bad light. There is spectacular light and difficult light. It's up to you to use the light you have. You are responsible for every part of your image, even the parts you’re not interested in.The composition is already there, you just need to frame it.
Photography is an act of love. When I shoot I fall in love thousands a time in a day. I do not believe in long exposures and and long relationships.
Always shoot it now. It won't be the same when you go back..
I have been working on an image project for the past 21 years. The “Tuning the Last Page” Project. The object is to photograph the echos of the past that are present today. My most recent trip to Namibia has started a new chapter in the project “Turning the Last Page: In the Land of Dry Water.”
I shot this with the Z6III NIKKOR 100-400mm Nikkor with the 1.4x extender. mage raw processed in NX Studio and Photoshop CC with the NiK collection.
#Nikon100 #nikonlove #kelbyone #photography #onOne @NikonUSA
#mirrorless #Z6III #NIKKOR 100-400mm lens #NikonNoFilter #nxstudio #niksoftware #nikonUSA #Epson #nikonusa @NIKONUSA
#wacom #calibrite #onone #sunbounce #fineartphotography #kolarivision @nikonusa #shotonnikon
#DxO #iamgenerationimage #iamnikon #B&H
#nikonLOVE #hoodman #infrared #CUBA #nikonnofilter #nikonambassador #Delkin Black
#nikonLOVE #Namibia #Africa #nikonnofilter #nikonambassador
Z6IIIB_NAMIBIA_06_2025__2542_FINAL_IP
Nature always wears the colors of the spirit.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
From my three weeks in Namibia—
There is a Hassidic saying “sorry is the rabbi who is not will to teach the lesson 101 times” I once asked my master acting teacher, Tad Z. Danielewsk about how he teaches. He said “I treat knowledge like a bucket of mud and students like brick walls. I sling the mud at the wall and what sticks, sticks and what doesn’t doesn’t . At the end of the day f class I collect the mud tat didn’t stick and start throwing it again the time we have class. All I ask is that you don’t dodge the mud.
What I have learned over the years teaching photography is you have to throw a lot of the same mud repeatedly. Why sticks sticks and eventually if you repeat yourself enough the moment of epiphany will eventually happen. Why I say this (I have said this a lot)-
I photograph my portraits as if they are landscapes and my landscapes as if they are portraits. Each form contains the important aspects needed for the other.
(I have said this a lot too-)\
Light, gesture, color are the key elements of every photograph. But when do you know that an image is meant to be a a black and white image? The answer is a lot simpler than the general song and dance you hear the pixel pundits put forth. When the cold gets in the way of the gesture. Then it is time to abstract out the color from the image so the gesture remains.
There is no bad light. There is spectacular light and difficult light. It's up to you to use the light you have. You are responsible for every part of your image, even the parts you’re not interested in.The composition is already there, you just need to frame it.
Photography is an act of love. When I shoot I fall in love thousands a time in a day. I do not believe in long exposures and and long relationships.
Always shoot it now. It won't be the same when you go back..
I have been working on an image project for the past 21 years. The “Tuning the Last Page” Project. The object is to photograph the echos of the past that are present today. My most recent trip to Namibia has started a new chapter in the project “Turning the Last Page: In the Land of Dry Water.”
I shot this with the Z6III NIKKOR 100-400mm Nikkor with the 1.4x extender. mage raw processed in NX Studio and Photoshop CC with the NiK collection.
#Nikon100 #nikonlove #kelbyone #photography #onOne @NikonUSA
#mirrorless #Z6III #NIKKOR 100-400mm lens #NikonNoFilter #nxstudio #niksoftware #nikonUSA #Epson #nikonusa @NIKONUSA
#wacom #calibrite #onone #sunbounce #fineartphotography #kolarivision @nikonusa #shotonnikon
#DxO #iamgenerationimage #iamnikon #B&H
#nikonLOVE #hoodman #infrared #CUBA #nikonnofilter #nikonambassador #Delkin Black
#nikonLOVE #Namibia #Africa #nikonnofilter #nikonambassador