Very honored to have consecutive covers of Grays of Westminster’s Nikon Owners Magazine. unusually occur. Looking at them side by side, you would obviously think they were taken by different photographers. I mean, it’s a beautiful photo shoot live, in a studio in LA, with all the accessories of such a shoot – lots of closets, gels, fill frames, no environment. , gorgeous makeup. The other is an unadorned environmental portrait on the plains of New Mexico.
Different covers, different themes, different skills. But… same photo. In the studio (Thank you for using the studio, Gianluca!) we worked with stunning Thai D’Lima, a Brazilian beauty, and fortunately for us now live in California. The eyes make the camera not want to take their eyes off. (Gorgeous makeup by Claire Piao.) Combo lights top/bottom beauty. Complete control. Last year, I contrasted this cover with an available light shot running as the cover of Cubans see magazine. And here we are…Thai people on the cover. And an amazing relationship going on with the extremely elegant camera shop (and the best service) ever, Westminster gray.
And fits Nikon Owner magazine. shoot with a Nikon Z7combined with the fastest lens I’ve ever used…extraordinarily sharp S-series 58mm f0.95 NOCT. Extend. A little DOF down (manually) on the pupil of the eye. Supports precise focus in the AF custom settings menu.
And then another cover appeared. this Nancy De Santis, one of the cutest people when stepping in front of the camera lens, anytime, anywhere. Lucky to know Nancy and her husband Rick Iannucciwho runs together? Horses for heroes in New Mexico. They combine retired and active-duty members of the military who suffer from PTSD and/or physical trauma with a truly magical healing effect when practiced with horses.
Sheila Welch, an equestrian woman I worked with for a long time in Texas, once said to me, “There is something about the appearance of a horse that is good for the inside of a person.” Portrait of Sheila below, my favorite shot when I requisitioned the men’s room at the Will Rogers Memorial Center during a future shearing horse championship.
For Nancy’s painting, I observed that Hippocratic Oath passage, as it applies to the making of the painting. “First do no harm.” A beautiful scene appears, so don’t get in the trunk and pull out a megatron of light and blow the scene to pieces. The lightest touch is required, and in this case, it’s a file B1-X with one 1 × 3 . strip soft box, located to the right of the camera. Hardly felt. Almost no. From the school of “just enough” lighting.
Once again, honored to once again have the cover of Nikon owners. An issue of Nancy’s portrait is coming out this month.
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