portraits

Will Ferrell — Back to Blogging! If you haven’t noticed, I have been gone for the past two weeks. I haven’t been away on some deserted beach in the far east; I have been out in Palm Desert photographing the 10th annual Desert Smash which benefits Will Ferrell’s charity Cancer for College. […]

Will Ferrell

18 Mar, 2014 in portraits tagged desert smash / palm desert / ron burgandy / snl / will ferrell by Rob Nitsch

The big trick in photography is to know when to break the rules. When the human eye looks at an image it will immediately be drawn to the brightest portion. Then it will explore the image and finally return to the brightest area. That is why, typically, the […]

Light and Dark

9 Dec, 2013 in portraits tagged focal point / shadow by Rob Nitsch

©Rob Nitsch – click to enlarge! — ©Rob Nitsch – click to enlarge! Another self-portrait. I actually have a lot more of these then I thought. It is not because I am narcissistic, I swear!(even though I lived in LA for way too long) Like most other portrait photographers, I tend to spend a significant amount of […]

Lighting tests

2 Nov, 2011 in portraits tagged autumn / B&W / Cape Cod / self portrait by Rob Nitsch

©Rob Nitsch – click to enlarge! One of my favorite speedlite techniques, especially this time of year, is to underexpose my ambient light and overexpose my flash. It can put a little extra spookiness / moodiness into your photos. It will also add texture to an other wise bland grey […]

Speedlite fun

26 Oct, 2011 in portraits tagged mood / portrait / speedlite / vermont by Rob Nitsch

Today I was prepping for a senior portrait session I have booked for tomorrow. My nerves were kind of getting to me about this one, not because I am doing a portrait session but because there is no wiggle room here. This is a very last minute shoot, the photos […]

toughest shot you can take

27 Sep, 2011 in portraits tagged black and white / Cape Cod / previs / self portrait by Rob Nitsch

Sometimes photography and life do not get along. After many weeks of unpacking and settling into a new life on the right coast, I found I was spending less and less time shooting. Which is contradictory to the reason we relocated. Although I was doing a lot of work for […]

Prioritizing

19 Sep, 2011 in portraits tagged Cape Cod / family / photographers lifestyle / portrait by Rob Nitsch

©Rob Nitsch Sometimes a smile will concur a miss focus. Well this is really just a throw away image for me, I am just using it as an example of home many throw away images you will have when photographing a toddler. They will run from you, run away from […]

Smiles

12 Sep, 2011 in portraits tagged Cape Cod / focus / garden / portrait / smiles by Rob Nitsch

Yesterday I was able to break away with August and do an impromptu photo session at the towns public garden. Worked out pretty well, Mom got some time to get some stuff done, Dad got some photography time and August got some fun time! The clouds were a little thick […]

Fields of Silver

6 Sep, 2011 in portraits tagged august / B&W / Cape Cod / portrait by Rob Nitsch

Looks like Opal’s portrait went over very well on Monday So, I decided to include another photo from that session. This one includes her brother Tober. These kids were great to work with, I can’t even describe the fun that I had that day. I shot two locations, the beach […]

Opal and Tober

31 Aug, 2011 in portraits tagged Cape Cod / garden / portraits by Rob Nitsch

Now that these photos have been turned over to the clients I thought I would share a couple here. I could not believe the intuitiveness that this little girl had in front of the camera, not to mention the great range. Some of the shots she would blast you with […]

Opal

29 Aug, 2011 in portraits tagged beach / Cape Cod / children photography / portrait by Rob Nitsch

I thought that my catch your attention! Seriously though I wanted to share a couple of tips that are specific to photographing toddlers. They are a different breed of portraits to say the least. Expect more action than an MMA fight! Here are five of my tips.

Shooting Children

20 Jun, 2011 in portraits tagged photography / portraits / tips / toddlers by Rob Nitsch