Posts Tagged ‘Manhattan’
Western Union headquarters
main visitor’s area / lounge
terrace / outdoor lounge with the view of Bryant park and New York City library
Repose Chamber Music
Another great photo session on-location, this time for Lianna Levine Reisner, beautiful soprano. She was about to launch her new venture – Repose and needed a few portrait and headshot photographs. So we went to 2 locations on Upper West Side and got quite a variety of portraits as you may see, both indoor and outdoor.
Repose Chamber Music
I always enjoy working with creative people, and this time was no exclusion!
Classic soprano singer
And since I liked Lianna’s idea very much I want to quote her opening statement for the project:
“This summer I have been building an exciting new project. I am happy to announce the launch of Repose, which presents chamber music exclusively for private events at smaller venues. I am reinvigorating the age-old salon concert for a modern audience, bringing people together to experience music in the comfort of their living rooms, among friends and loved ones. And Repose is just the right type of entertainment for occasions like senior birthdays, retirement parties, and fundraisers.
Pianist Mariko Miyazaki portrait
Portrait of Mariko MiyazakiMariko in a piano store, Manhattan, NYC
Mariko in a piano store, Manhattan, NYC
Portrait on a bridge in Central Park, New York City
Portrait of Mr. Peter Weiss for St. John’s College
Portrait photograph of Mr. Peter Weiss for St. Johns College of Maryland
That was an assignment from St. John’s College to photograph Peter Weiss for their multimedia project on human rights. He is Vice-President, former President, of the International Association of Lawyers Against Nuclear Arms and its US affiliate, the Lawyers’ Committee on Nuclear Policy; Vice-President, Federation Internationale des ligues des Droits de l’Homme; and a Vice-President of the Center for Constitutional Rights. Here is more information about him.
As we spoke with Peter he mentioned that the time he spent in Africa is still most memorable and so I decided to incorporate in the portrait his favourite art piece he brought home from there.
Portrait of a graphic designer (with a touch of fun)
It was a really easy going photo session at Stephen’s house. He is a very bright and creative person and despite he needed just a plain headshot I went to doing it with a little funny twist in post-production in terms of background. Which I believe looks just great for something like facebook profile and other social media usage. Of course I gave him a version with simple white background for more serious purposes too 
Headshot of Stephen Turbek, graphic designer
Loft in Tribeca
Dining room in a small Tribeca loft
Living room area in a Manhattan loft
Office area in a contemporary loft
Kitchen interior on Central Park South
Contemporary kitchen with appliances
This kitchen was totally remodelled by a New York contractor company. It took about 6 month to finish the project. What I loved about this is finishing materials they used on columns and back splash lights on walls and bar isle. Really nice touch.
And yes, those jars for spices there on the wall, holding up with magnets – brilliant They cover actually small metal door to electrical switches, huh?!
Kitchen bar isle from living room in an upscale Manhattan apartment with view on Central Park
Bar isle in luxury New York apartment
Photograph of kitchen cabinetsView on a kitchen bar isle from living room in an up scale apartment in Manhattan
Portrait in interior of a designer / decorator
Portrait of Helaina Bernstein
Portraiture session of NYC based interior designer and decorator Helaina Bernstein on-location in Upper West Side of Manhattan.
Beautiful and modest gem on Upper West Side
I loved this fairly small loft on 1 West 67th Street from the first glance. Probably because I’m personally not a fan of big apartments or houses for many reasons (not agoraphobic either though )
But this is really clean and simple dwelling where I’d feel comfortable.
Shot this loft last November for Marie-Christine Kresse interior design portfolio.
Living area from the second floor
Owners keep this loft as a guest apartment actually.
Kitchen and living area, view from the entrance
Upper West Side luxury
Living room with a piano connected to a dinning room with glass doors
It was a beautiful apartment in a great building. The photoshoot was challenging though – interior designed by talented designer Lisa Merkatz was finished mostly in whites. And that is always tough for me
But it is lovely and very livable! Judge for yourself:
White beauty
I did this job more then a year ago, but I still wanted to publish it here since I love the result
White and beige
Chess kitchen
Guest room, library
Master bedroom
Fireplace in the master bedroom
Sky View in Queens
Where is the best view on Manhattan? Not in Manhattan probably? There is a new residential complex named Sky View Parc which gives you the best view on Manhattan over the Queens.
I did this project photographing a few model apartments in this complex in January 2011. And I’d say it’s a lovely place to live actually.
Sky View Parc is a residential enclave featuring luxury condominium residences overlooking an expansive landscaped park. With breathtaking views that stretch over Citi Field, Flushing Meadows Park and the Long Island Sound to Manhattan, Sky View Parc is a new vision of luxury living in Flushing.
In an area rich with entertainment, sporting and cultural attractions, Sky View Parc redefines home ownership in the heart of New York City’s fastest growing and most vibrant neighborhood.
And you definitely will have great apartments at your disposal to design to your personal taste and to make it truly yours
Sunny breakfast area
Spacious living room with a potential for great interior design
Social places, living room
Photograph of a bedroom design
Another master bedroom with a view on a park and Manhattan
Model apartment dining room setting
These model apartments were designed by a highly experienced interior designer Kristina Jacob and I need to say it was a pleasure to work with her.
Tribeca loft’s interior
Almost a year ago I did this interior photoshoot for a designer portfolio.
It was a great loft located in Tribeca, Manhattan. The designer wanted to get photographs of dining area and living area. Unfortunately there were some limits in terms of choosing the angles because not everything was done by the same designer so we didn’t want to include kitchen in the pictures. Therefore I had to shoot dining room toward windows and living area. Which is not my favorite view in this case.
Dining area / room
And separately I shot a detail view of living area, which I like a lot finally
Living room details shot
And here is the full view of the living area, with a fireplace. I love every chance to have a fireplace to be lit (so many fake fireplaces in our life ).
Fireplace in living room
Photographing a family for Christmas card
I’m always proud when clients come to me again year after year, because it proves I’m doing good I’m delivering the images and I’m making them happy!
This was another such family: I photographed them last autumn when Robi couldn’t even stand yet on his own. And now we had another photo session in Central Park for their Christmas cards. The astonishing fall foliage of late October in NYC makes it perfect background for such images.
It's all about love and happiness
Robi is now quite running and know what he wants and what he doesn’t like too
We had actually to do 2 days of photography to get enough images.
Family portrait: It's good to be together
Beautiful day in a park makes it perfect for family portraiture
Happy family moments that we want to remember
Urban view
It’s one of the best spots to look at shiny NYC’s skyline – across the river from Manhattan you got to Brooklyn. There is a beautiful pier with water taxis and infamous Brooklyn Ice Cream Factory. And there is that view .
As times change something we lose and something we gain. It was a great place to go for wedding pictures, on any given day you’d see a few weddings coming there. Not anymore, because parking is prohibited there now. But they built there really nice Brooklyn Bridge Park.
It's always crowd there especially at night, eager to see the city's glory
Reflections of shiny beauty of New York City
Golden time to look at NYC's skyline
Photograph of NYC view at dusk
Products photography in interior
This is was an interior photography kind of work. But. In fact we were shooting for and with Linoto company which makes great linen stuff. It was quite fast-pacing and high-quality work, with 2 invited stylists and a lot of props. So we shot it in a loft and all interiors were staged and styled mostly by stylist Abby Walton and Jason Evege from Linoto.
Photography of White linens which are the bestsellers at Linoto
Everything was styled to the way you would feel it like it’s home, not just a showroom, but real cozy and warm home. I think that the stylists did they job really great. there is fine balance between messy loose set and relaxed homelike atmosphere we achieved in these images.
Here lives a traveler
Lovely place for reading something
Food on a table, set just to show napkins. But it is tasty and looks good
Family portraiture in Saudek’s colors
It was a family portrait session in out local beautiful Juniper Valley Park in the beginning of November. I was caught by autumn colors and remembered my old favorite photo book by great Czech photographer Jan Saudek. He used there a technique by hand painting his B&W photographs in such a vibrant and rich, saturated colors. The book was titled “LOVE’.
So this particular picture reminds me of that book every time I look at it.
Family portrait photo session in a park
Portrait of an interior designer
This week was like week of interior designers’ portraits – I did 2 of them. This was the first job on that week, beautiful and talented Alicia, really great interior designer, with multi-years experience.
We were about to shoot both indoor and in Central Park at first, bit on the day of photoshoot the weather was quite windy so we dropped the idea of shooting outdoor (November in NYC is always tricky).
I think we got the great imagery despite the space was a little bit too tight so we couldn’t get full-body portrait, but it wasn’t my plan anyway. I quite like the incoming light and those birds in behind the windows
The whole light-colored interior was quite good setup for Alicia’s blonde hair also.
Portrait of Manhattan-based interior designer
Alicia also is an avid traveler (looks to me she has lived all around the Europe), and she has done an international design jobs as well.
Portrait with travel memorabilia
Photo session of an extended family in Central Park
But in this case I was lucky to have this great family, so easy to photograph!
Portrait of extended family on a terrace overlooking Woolman Ice Skating Rink in Central Park
We definitely had great time together walking and playing along most scenic spots of Central Park on that gorgeous autumn day.
Love and happiness
Engagement in NYC
It was first time being in NYC for Carlo, but 4th for Eleonora. I was hired to photograph this beautiful couple around Manhattan’s landmarks.
Lovely couple on a lovely day
The day we scheduled the photoshoot weather was quite tricky and nasty so we had to push it for another day. I saw that Carlo was kind of upset and confused because of that and I didn’t see the reason for that. I thought it’s not a big deal, we always depend on weather.
While we were walking to Central Park next day Carlo explained to me that actually he made a proposal yesterday! Damn, I missed this moment, now I got it! But they were so obviously in love, kissing all the time so I think I didn’t miss too much after all 
First time in New York City, and being in love
Love
Headshot of a composer
This was a headshot portrait session with a well-known composer Andy Mendelson in Lower Manhattan.
We started at his apartment, played a guitar a little bit trying to achieve that ‘moment of creativity’ look and then came out toward beautiful morning light.
To be mobile I used just a couple of Canon Speedlites indoor and only one strobe shooting through softbox when outdoor on-location. The softbox was handheld by my assistant, who was also walking backward at times, parallel to Andy moving toward my camera – tricky part
Portrait photography of Andy Mendelson, NYC-based composer
2 different worlds
I was wandering around Battery Park City the other day and ended up at World Trade Center Ground Zero. And there was a perfect modern urban picture waiting for me:
Still-life
But before I got there I was stunned by another view, more pleasant to my eye, quiet and calm on lovely Sunday morning:
Isn't it timeless?
Can you tell me what year it is?
These 2 photographs separated by just a few blocks, but what a difference! I love to travel around the globe and find these amazing small gems, pieces of life we live and sometimes don’t appreciate. That’s why I got here almost 4 years ago, and fell in love with this city, it’s diversity and craziness!
Orange city mood
Just a couple of glimpses
Double-decker for Mersedeses at 3rd World Trade Center building.
Luxury Mersedes passengers cars as passengers on double-decker
Did she realize this match of colors? I guess not
I think she had very bright mood
Princess’s family photo session in Central Park
Another family photography session in Central Park on lovely summer day with a beautiful princess Aidan and her parents Melissa and Rob.
Need to admit she was extremely shy and we had difficulties to get her in front of camera But we played and did let her play her game
As the result I believe we got plenty of catching images of this great family.
Joy of running fast
Little girl laughing
It's all about love
Great family moment
Faster than wind
What a beauty!
5-minute headshot
At the end of another very long day I still had some juice and lights set ready And there were a couple of cool guys helping us with running the photoshoot whom I wanted to photograph. Luckily for me they were interested.
So I just used one rather big softbox for a swift 3-minutes sessions for both Anvil and Carl. I kinda like the result
