Published: March 09

France, Netherlands, Germany, Italy, United States. Editorial, Advertising.

The 2 beauty shots done in Southern Florida around Delray Beach, Palm Beach county. In particular the pool shot model with ipod and sunglasses was photographed at the pool at Crane's Beach House, Delray Beach, Florida. Great place to stay. Very high end hideaway resort, all tropical, great neighborhood and only steps away to the beach. The hotel is a great escape.

Cranes's Beach House 82 Gleason Street, Delray Beach, FL 33483 (561) 278-1700 www.cranesbeachhouse.com

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The other beauty shot done late afternoon, details mentioned in another posting before this.

The young boy photographed in Mill Valley, California. Great personality as he got right into the photo shoot and came up with all kinds of animated takes.

The beautiful hot Blond done in Vegas on an extremely tight schedule - with 2 days for over 20 different sets. There's a mix of lighting going on with everything carefully balanced - nothing posed here as that's not my style. She's moving quickly as I direct her into the frame to capture a series of different expressions at split second moments. Edits were tough but a lot of great great expressions. Love productions that are high energy.

City shot: Timeless, Intimate, Romantic. From my series of Vancouver Metropolis that is a Fine Art Architectural take on the city to show what has not been captured. This romantic take on the metropolis we live in today.

Images Licensing: Images now available directly through Corbis

Tearsheet Archive 01

archive of some of my editorial stories...

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iPod Girl

iPod Girl: photographed on a southern Florida beach on the East Coast, north of Miami at sunset with a Metz 76 MZ 5 digital flash unit, creating a mix of light that gives that radiance. The flash being the main source.

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Neptune Direct Stock Images

Aflo Tokyo Japan

Metz Flash at Bogen Imaging

Expression of Joy

BMW Z4 - cool idea. Great car...a joy to drive.

Eyes Wide Open

This presentation of a body of my work from a talk I gave in Southern California under my title series Eyes Wide Open. 

The theme was based on the magic of photography: 

"...the photographer's magic - the ability to stir the soul with light and shape and colour. To create grand visual moments out of small and simple things, and to infuse big and complicated subjects with unpretentious elegance. 

Through the photographer's eyes a kiss becomes a romance, a stretch of fabric is a costume of endless possibilities, a face is the book that describes a lifetime. When you see great photography you hear music... or want to... because the light dances. It's playful and full of energy...

...photographs can stand alone... as frozen moments that decorate, define, entertain and inform. " Amyn Nasser ©

Please contact me for any such talks and seminar series.

Padma Lakshmi’s Burger Love

Now that makes me want to have that burger!

Published: Apartment by Night

City of Glass! The Luminance and clarity. Such a lovely but cool night. It's being a peeping tom to look into spaces and places and people and belongings. The crispness and lush quality of light and dark. Yes, a romance.

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Published: Germany

Jack. Jack was great! He just struck the right pose for several takes. I did not even have to give any direction...he's a natural at it. The focused stare is superb.

The other image is where he gives the impression he is naughty with the garden hose and his mom. Click here to view.

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Austin Reed Mens Fall Camapign

Open publication - Free publishing - More women

JetBlue Billboard Campaign New York

JetBlue
Happy Jetting!
Billboard campaign in New York city.
I'd love to get some more takes.

Spike!

He was next door to me on vacation with his lovely Kay. Well, they were leaving the next day, and I wanted to get that portrait shot of him. I had less than an hour of light. So off we rushed to the beach. I found the spot where I could be higher up than he was!, so I could get the angle I wanted. My Nikon D2X fully charged with an 8GB flashcard as I shoot fast so I can capture that split second motion that is spontaneously charged with all the emotion and passion.

"Talk to me, Spike Baby! Talk to me, Go on Shout Man, go on throw me your fists, yeah, spike go baby, go baby, charge it up, bring it on, go spike, yeah, let it out! Shout! YEAH BABY!"

I fired off the camera, my finger not leaving the trigger button until I had to in order to let the camera write the data - that break was just over a minute I recall - then another round of 15-19 images fired off before I had to stop again. I used a Metz 76 MZ 5 flash plugged to the Nikon D2X, and I am feathering the flash head with white cards with my left hand, and firing with my right hand, and getting Spike to charge his fists, looking, expressning into the camera ...and flash handle edge balancing on my left shoulder....no tripods, nah!...too slow for me.

The great thing about working fast is that you capture the real essence of the person. The energy. The driven passion. That ONE split second!

Spike's in Canada somewhere on vacation with Kay and I'm sure he'll check this site somewhere sometime. Well, thanks a million, Spike!

Data: I filled up 5 compact flashcards and all the images were spot on in exposure except perhaps a couple. Jolly Good!...That's great time for curry! The Synch between the Metz and the Nikon is superb...it sends out a pre-flash to balance the light with the existing daylight. I make changes after I have seen the first shot and checked the exposure and histogram. Keep in mind that I had fill cards and a feather effect going on too. That's pretty accurate light balance.

Nikon D2X - Camera
Metz 76 MZ 5 - Flash
Lexar Compactflash - Card
VisibleDust - Sensor Cleaner! this is a great and easy way to clean your sensor!

I edit everything in Lightroom or Adobe Bridge using Camera Raw at 100% to check for sharpness using Adobe's color coding system to quickly mark off images I felt were sharp and keepers. The rest are trashed immediately (and deleted!). Cataloged using Extensis Portfolio and ExpressionMedia backed up on 3 drives and DVDs and jpegs submitted to my photo editor at Corbis. Final image - Lightly treated (ala créme!) in Photoshop.

Licensing through Corbis at www.corbis.com