Oleg Shpak
@niteart
www.nite.art Richmond, VA–based portrait and art nudes photographer. I’m always looking for models to collaborate on photography projects. I photograph everyday life, both mundane and uniquely abstract, because for me there’s no other way.
I have been lucky enough to try most of the fanciest cameras made today. For non-specialized photography, there is nothing better than the Fujifilm GFX. All those Leicas and Hasselblads are a pile of half-baked turds and compromises that happen to make images. I hope I saved you a bunch of money.
What do you do with a thousand meaningfully different images from the same session and there is nothing to cull?
For the next few months, I am going to photograph in the style of William Coupon as a tribute to my favorite portrait photographer.
I rotated some images by accident in raw processing. Should I keep it this way for finals? Model is ig: the.model.kels Kell Star
Had the pleasure of working with @collibrina.bsky.social in a truly unique space. Culling these will take a while because there is nothing to cut. Every frame is perfect exactly as it is.
I ask my models to dress in colors, textures, and patterns. This is what a 10 out of 10 looks like. Model is @melancholicmodel.bsky.social
A studio session with @melancholicmodel.bsky.social. Erin's instinct for movement and form made the work effortless, and genuinely enjoyable. I walked away with many images I really really like.
I went to a botanical garden a few days ago, so I have tons of beautiful pictures. But this little one stole the show. Its mother was on an "island" in the middle of the pond, and the little duck kept circling the pond non-stop, to the amusement of a huge crowd.
Nice to have a willing model for a pinhole day, who can handle rain, wind, and cold with enthusiasm and humor.
Some pictures from Sony creative space on the road event in Richmond, VA. They gave everybody A7V with 28-70/2.0 or similar lenses. It was fun! Camera is a dream for all manual exposure people like me. It is still super inconvenient to hold and viewfinder was sluggish and not very good in general.
Meg Eubank in B&W. I struggled to edit this session for several reasons and tried a dozen times to finish it over the last year with different approaches. And then Evoto released new presets that hit just right! After all the creative suffering, it was almost a one-click "retouch" job.
Leica Q3 vivid look + Godox iT32 with CTO filter. I don't know what they were smoking there, these colors look very weird to me, but I like them in the same time. It does not work every time though. Some pictures were meh with the same settings. Would you be interested in prints from this session?
@anastasiamaye.bsky.social I don't have anywhere else to share these but here.
There are so many images I like from my session with @anastasiamaye.bsky.social that I have no idea how to cull them, other than removing duplicates.
I usually don’t do frontal views in your face, but this one felt just right. Anyone want this as a print?
A few pictures of my house in NJ. I spent a few weeks there alone while getting it ready to sell. I did a few sessions with models, but the empty house itself also gave me plenty of chances to take interesting photos.