"My Dream Gig."

Here's a video I found on the web on Car Photography. I found this video EXTREMELY interesting. I sent it to Professor Naidaeu, he enjoyed the video too. I thought I would share it with all of you guys. Click the link below and Enjoy.

http://vimeo.com/glosspostproduction/porschecgimakingofglosspostproduction

"Hood Fame's MURDERED OUT ES1 CIVIC."

Our assignment was to take an image that would appear as the front cover of the magazine we subscribed to. The magazine I choose was "Super Street" which is one of the more popular magazines for Import/Tuner cars. Right off that bat I knew I had to take a motion photo. Almost 8/10 Images on the cover are "rolling shots". The second task for me was finding the right car. Thankfully, I found someone that would participate as soon as I asked. Being that the majority of my friends on Facebook are car enthusiast made it very easy to find a car. I simply asked if anyone was willing to participate for a class assignment and that I need to take a rolling shot of a car. Ant, Owner of this 2001 Civic was the first person to reply to my post, so he was the winner haha. It all worked out perfectly cause I was going to give him a call if noone was willing. Ant is part of a local group of car enthusiast that go by the name "Hood Fame." They probably have one of the most "eye catching" group of cars on Long Island.

Overall I was satisfied with the way this image came out, it's nice and sharp and the background isn't too distracting. For anyone that is interested in doing these types of shots, i suggest that you take a HUGE amount of photos. Out of 50 i took i was probably satisfied with 5! It looks like we were going super fast in this photo but in reality we were actually going about 20mph. I used a very slow shutter speed and followed the car with my camera. This was the only image i got to edit, i will probably post another depending on the results. Enjoy.  -NIVLEK

"Disturbed Reading."

On saturday 10/22/2011 I met up with Professor Colombraro and her History of Photography class at Penn station. We walked into Chelsea, NY and visited multiple art galleries. It was definitely worth going, I seen some really interesting stuff. From the moment we got out of penn station i started snapping away. NYC has such a different vibe than Long Island. I feel like everything is picture worthy when i'm out there. Out of all the photo's I took that day, this one struck me the most for me.

The image was taken at the Lisette Model Self Reflections exhibition on west 24th street. This was actually someones office space! I had to double take when i seen this. At first it looked like a peaceful library like setting but then i seen that image on the wall. This for me MADE this photo. (oh yeah, the whole in the wall is awesome too) I decided to name it "Disturbed Reading." I choose this name because  this setting was like an Oxymoron, to the right its a normal person reading and then you have this scary image to the left of her looking right at her. I feel this image was successful, I really like this one.
-NIVLEK

"America's Craftsmanship."

Its amazing how you can find "art" anywhere! Just look around you, if it interest you; shoot it! This image is appealing to me because it shows the complexity of a train system. It shows the hard work and effort the goes into Americas creations. What also interest me is all the movement in the image, there lines going in every direction. I choose to make this image a black and white because color wasn't an important factor when shooting this. I didn't want the viewers to be distracted by color since the image is already very busy.

So here's the run down. I took this photograph a few weeks ago somewhere in Queens, NY. This image was actually taken outside the sunroof of my car! I was in the driver seat and my girlfriend was in the passenger seat. I was at a traffic light and happend to look up and witness this scene. I tell my girl friend "Hurry and grab my camera, its in the back seat." I knew i was only going to be able to get one shot so i needed the exposure to be close to perfect before even shooting. I quickly programed my camera to manual and guessed an exposure. I un-buckled my seat belt and aimed at the subject through the sunroof. I was able to get one shot before the light turned green. I'm glad i took this image, it makes me think a little bit every-time i look at it. -NIVLEK

"Visual Cocaine."

One of the HUNDREDS of photos i took for the INSPIRE modeling agency.

It was a looooooong saturday for me. About two weeks ago Owner/CEO of INSPIRE gave me a call and asked if i was willing to do a shoot for a local casting call. The photo shoot ended up being about 7-8 hours long. This shoot was a big deal! I certainly did under estimate the job. I shot both kids and adults (about 20-30 in total) We had hair and make up stylist and several wardrobe changes throughout the day. I got to see some cool behind the scenes activities while i wasn't shooting. The models acted a script that was made right on the spot and also did a bit of runway. It was a GREAT experience for me. It was the first time a shot with a backdrop and umbrellas! I kinda learned where and where not to place the umbrellas as i was shooting lol

All the images were done with a tripod and on Manual. I turned off all the lights in the room/studio so that the only light present were the umbrellas. I had some issues with getting proper exposure. Many of the decent exposure were with slower shutter speeds because i DID NOT  use flash, a gray card or an incident meter. I think i did fairly good for the equipment i had. I'll definitely plan head next time and study some more lighting techniques before the next shoot. Oh yeah, Inspire hired me as their long island photographer! :)