Posts Tagged ‘USA’
Western Union headquarters
main visitor’s area / lounge
terrace / outdoor lounge with the view of Bryant park and New York City library
black and white self-portrait
Sometimes you have to do a self-portrait – they say it’s a very good exercise for any photographer to get to the other side.
This time I had another reason – simply didn’t have any model on hands and wanted to try this black and white high-contrast approach.
I think I did pretty good actually 
But wife disagreed and said that I’m absolutely not like this portrait because I’m soft and smiley 
Our Pride – New Arrival
Being a commercial photographer specializing in family and children photography one could meet newborns on almost daily basis. But… Having your own child born is arguably always an extraordinary event! And so I do understand all the parents wanting to get their newborns photographed. Because believe it or not you have only about 10 days for that. It is that short!
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.
Dreaming of flight
Take off
Flying over the beach
It was a windy day on Fire Island and you would want to fly against that wind, I’m quite sure. It was real fun! I clearly remembered myself being a boy and doing the same Unfortunately I didn’t have ocean around.
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
Corporate headshot portrait
It’s always easy to do portraits of a person with outstanding personality. That was the case
I was hired for a corporate headshot portraiture session, because Scott needed new headshots for his upcoming publication. We did it on-location at their office’s library, which was just the right spot for the look he was after.
portrait of an attorney in library
Scott G. Kaufman is the principal of Crowley & Kaufman, P.C. His practice focuses primarily on Queens County Surrogate’s Court matters. These matters include estate litigation, estate administration and will contests. Scott G. Kaufman also handles all matters relating to Guardianships pursuant to Article 81 of the Mental Hygiene Law. Scott has become a well known and well respected practitioner in both Surrogate’s Court Practice and Guardianship.
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
Don’t shoot
This was just a test-shot, another part of my ongoing project about uniforms. Fun, fast and easy-going photo session on-location in a basement We will obviously work on this theme though, I would like to have more action in the image of course.
Not a cop but in this uniform looks cool
Just quick ‘strobist’ info behind the image:
one 580ex2 blue-gelled behind him in the boiler room, 1/16;
another one 580ex2 gridded on his face, camera right, 1/16.
F8, 1/160 sec.
Long Island house again, Port Washington
It was a lovely summer day in July when we had this photoshoot of a beautiful new house in gated community of Port Washington on north shore of Long Island, NY. Again for portfolio of interior designer Christine Hopper.
A little bit too much sun outside for dealing with skylights but we managed it
Living room main floor
Main living area with skylights
Another view on living area
And here is a couple of shots from 2nd floor rooms:
Open office space on 2nd floor
Grandchildren bedroom
Interior photography of doctor office
Reception area
Check room
Doctor's table in waiting area
Waiting area
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
