Portrait Photographers

Holiday Portraits

Oleg — Mon, 24 Dec 2012 17:25:47 +0000

New Holiday portraits.

Dark Nights

Oleg — Wed, 21 Nov 2012 05:02:21 +0000

Hurricane Sandy and following almost two weeks without electricity gave me an unique opportunity to photograph night sky right from the deck of the house. No light spills! This was shot on a cold night with very a bright moon. What surprised me most is the difference between moon light and shadow. It seems to be very bright but it is actually only about twice more light than darkness of shadows or one stop difference in photographic terms. I also could not see moon light at all through 16-35mm f/2.8 lens; I saw only pitch black darkness in viewfinder. 35mm f/1.4 was the savior of the day.

Photo Session in Old Bridge, NJ

Oleg — Wed, 21 Nov 2012 04:47:14 +0000

Love to photograph happy kids!

Picnic’s Art

Oleg — Sat, 22 Sep 2012 20:16:55 +0000

Picnic

Oleg — Sun, 16 Sep 2012 20:02:06 +0000

Picnic with Allied Champions dance studio.

Alluring Ballroom Show “In Rio”: Studio Session

Oleg — Sun, 10 Jun 2012 18:48:27 +0000

Alluring Ballroom prepared beautiful costumes for “In Rio” show. Photo session in dance studio was a blast!

Spring in Chelsea

Oleg — Tue, 10 Apr 2012 01:02:55 +0000

After a long day I was walking down West 20th street to grab a cup of coffee at cafe Grumpy. I just spent a day photographing people and city. I was tired and was ready to take camera into the bag and call it a day. I crossed 8th avenue and walked right into this great scene. I saw a nice composition and great light. Brightly lit building in the foreground made possible to expose sky just right to make it dark blue. Sun was setting down. I quickly made several frames right before shadow from the other building consumed the scene. I discovered a bonus when I came home – somebody decided to look out of the window right when I started taking pictures.

This photograph is available for purchase on Etsy.

PhaseOne Conference NYC

Oleg — Tue, 10 Apr 2012 00:01:19 +0000

I went to PhaseOne Conference in NYC recently. There were presentations of IQ technology and plenty of hands-on time with cameras. I rarely photograph in studio settings so I asked models to pose mainly outside of studio’s shooting space under available light only. It was a tight space because of all the people around and tons of equipment but still results are great. I also had my Panasonic gh2 with me so I made some images to compare to.

Panasonic GH2 iso320 1/100 f/2.8

PhaseOne IQ180 iso400 1/30 f/4.0
I got this one all wrong. I moved a dial by accident and got 1/30 instead of 1/160. It came out somewhat blurry but because of huge 80mp file it looks fine when reduced to web resolution. When I opened this file in Camera Raw, I was about to throw it out because skin was completely blown out. But then I decided to see what I can recover and magic happened. About two stops of overexposure recovered without any problems at all and image looks just great! PhaseOne created some amazing technology for their digital backs. I wish I can justify $50k+ camera…

PhaseOne IQ180 iso200 1/160 f/5.6

Panasonic GH2 iso800 1/400 f/2.0

PhaseOne IQ140 iso800 Sensor+ 1/250 f/4.0

Disclosure: all images are slightly retouched.

A couple of backstage pictures from Alluring Ballroom

Oleg — Fri, 02 Mar 2012 18:53:43 +0000

Anna at work.

Natalia Stepanova is working on Snow Queen’s make up.

Snow Queen Show

Oleg — Thu, 01 Mar 2012 05:00:05 +0000

We had a privilege to photograph dancers from Alluring Ballroom Dance Studio in East Brunswick in costumes for Snow Queen show. Session was a blast!