Stanley Nov Photography

Q. What’s be better than booking a new client?

A. Being re-booked by returning customers!

Recently a very loyal customer of mine signed a 3 session (maternity, newborn and baby) contract to cover her 2nd pregnancy.

Today was the first photoshoot, and, as I’m waiting for them to grant me rights to several maternity pictures I am glad to share with you some photographs of the first child – the beautiful Celina who I also photographed 8 month ago.

Yours, Stanley Nov

I recently had a pleasure of meeting and photographing Angela. She was shy at first but eventually warmed up and we created some very compelling photographs. I was lucky to photograph her on location where she felt safe and comfortable.

Yours, Stanley Nov

Good things come to these who wait .. or those who are persistent. Those of you that know me know where I stand on the topic. You would also know that I’m always trying to expand my talents by experimenting with different types of photography.

Several weeks ago I was asked to be the house photographer for an amazing ballet company located right here in Brooklyn to cover their performance at KBCC. I am very excited about this opportunity.

Today was one of the dress rehearsals and I can tell you one thing – I don’t know how challenging it is to dance but photographing a ballet company is no easy task, but, it was fun, thrilling a very enjoyable.

Yours, Stanley Nov

As they say, it’s not the size of your flashgun that counts but the sensitivity of your sensor (ok .. they don’t say that but they may as well).

The photograph below was made with the flash at ISO 160. As you can see, the flash fired enough to properly expose the objects on the table. When shooting with such low ISO the flashgun assumes the role of Key Light and overwhelms the festivities of ambient lights – which was not what I wanted this image to convey.

The frame below was created with the same Aperture and Shutter Speed settings but the ISO was increased to 1250. At this level of sensitivity the flash functions merely as a fill in and the camera is able to absorb most of the ambient light. Can you spot the difference?

Stanley Nov