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Thia ia Sveta' friend, also a tall actor, Lena. She is about 1 inch taller than Sveta above. I never met her before, she has very outgoing personality that was joking thewhole dinner and this was the only time she closed her mouth between talking and eating , she had a lot of energy.I am sure I...

A photo of a new friend, an actor on stage and film while I was working for the film company shooting videos and stills for a casting masterclass. Normally she has a big smile on her face so I asked her to be passive faced for this image during a dinner break. I have known for a while but only...

My friend Alexandra, an actor who I have shot a number of times recently. I just met her 2 months ago at a premiere of a film she was in. We became good friends immediately and have done a number of projects and social activities, which lead to an ongoing gig for a casting director shooting...

They could lie like the others and pick a date but they really did not have control of many factors. Why buy a lens before it is shipping of reviewed? Those who switch brands because someone does not give them specific information that is not knowable seem rather silly, and not very serious...

This one is a snapshot in a dim bar of my friend Svetlana, with flowers for her birthday. This was before the virus closed up all places people gather, like this life music pub. She is a pretty girl and rather shy, a really sweet well educated girl. Z6, 24-70 f/4 at f/4.5 and 41mm, 1/50 200 ISO.

How is everyone doing in lock down. I am in my 3rd week of being in my home and I am anxious to get out an enjoy the spring weather. Here are a few photos of the last session I did of my friend Antonina, a Jazz singer who just started singing a year ago. I have been helping her in her progress...

Myfriend Antonina who wanted photos that could be used on posters for her April concert tour of her jazz vocal performances. The remove the background and floor/rear wall I used white background paper to create a continuous curve at the floor and wall corner and using two grided stripboxs on the...

Here is an example why the lens options on the Z series with S lenses are all good, there are no bad choices. I had two lenses with me in my sling bag on a casual evening snap shot of my friend Julia who was having a birthday. We visited a bar where a band she likes was playing. These two shots...

New Years is a big deal here, officially lasting 10 days of paid holiday plus another another Christmas and a second New Years based on the Orthodox calendar. Lots of socializing, parties and meeting new people. Here are two girls who I met on the 14th of Jan during the second New Year, which is...

More photos of friends in a restaurant during dinner, this last weekend. One photo is copied using auto WB and the other version is Flash WB

Here is one I took this morning early, well after midnight last night in a small club I visit often. It was a pretty festive night considering the big party night of the year is New Years. This is Anastasia, a 42 year old woman I met for the first time last night. A very good dancer and a...

Here is a snapshot from Z6 85 1.8 /1/60 ISO 250m SB900 off camera flashm in a pub where my friend Yana and I were having a bite to eat over couple drinks.

Here is another taken an hour later, using the same setup of a single hand held light to camera left pointed right at her on manual very low power. Set the exposure to a 2 stops under exposed and manually adjusted flash for her upper torso was properly exposed which came out to be 1/128 power...

Thanks, those wee the first shots taken with it but I have had more time to play with it and do some commercial sessions and the more I use it the less my other portrait lenses don't get used. Here are two of a friend when we were just in a bar last week deciding what to do for the evening. Not...

I recently got the 85 1.8 S and I am very pleased with it. I shot one session with it for a client 2 days ago hours after getting it. The feel of the silky smooth damped wide focusing ring is very comfortable to manual focus. The first shots with it were for a client and everyone was pleased...