There is just something I love about trees in the fog.  The fog really accentuate depth even when you don’t have a vast open spaces.  This really helps in New England, where we have an abundance of under growth which makes it difficult to isolate your nature subjects.

Field of Grays

This was an amazing moment.  The fog bank was just rolling into my location and the sun was rising behind this tree.  When shooting in the fog I love being right on the edge of the fog bank.  This fog is thinned out and lets more light through which in […]

Edge of the Bank

Ok, it has been awhile since I have posted and I apologize for that.  I have been side tracked with lots of photography jobs, personal artistic development, trips to the other coast and life’s little chores.  Last week on Cape Cod we had amazing summer weather and with the warm […]

Silver Fog

One of the great things about living in New England during the late fall and winter is that there is never bad light.  When you are down south you really cant shoot from 10 am to 2 pm because of the harsh overhead light.  Up here the shadows are always […]

Teri M.

This is a nice little lighthouse in Eastham Ma.  Loved the sky on the day I shot this on.  The jet contrails made a perfect X with this nautical beacon.  I must admit I have fallen behind on my posting as I have been working on a huge print job. […]

Cape Lighthouse

I thought I would throw my hat into the HDR ring.  I prefer my HDR’s to lean towards the more realistic side.  This is a tree I shot on our trip up to Vermont.  three, one  stop brackets.  It was on the Jenne Farm property.  I thought it really captures […]

VT Tree

I thought I would throw everybody off with that title.  Soon enough I will be back to shooting the rustic beauty of New England.  For now let these photos from the Virgin Islands warm you up.  I don’t know the name of this bay,  each one seemed more amazing then […]

Iconic New England Autumn Photograph

Tomorrow is a travel day for me, so this is kind of a quick post, just because I have to get back to getting stuff together.  This is a photo of August having a blast on a huge slide.  The location was a apple orchard up near Boston that had […]

Static

©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

OK, Ill admit it, I meant to write-up a post yesterday but I got side tracked with Halloween.  Also, I was preparing for playing the role of school photographer today.  Yes, I will be shooting the children at Cape Cod Children’s Place today!  I am super excited!  Needless to say, I […]

Jenne Farm

This is one of those iconic New England scenes of rural decay.  A shack slowly decomposing into the green mountain landscape, contrasted with dark gloomy skies and white birch trees.  Thankfully Vermont is peppered with these deteriorating structures, they are one of the regions great photographic resources.

Vt Shed

This may be an east coast cliché.  They say Jenne Farm is the most photographed farm in the US.  You may recognize it from a Budweiser commercial, Forest Gump or even the great Chevy Chase comedy Funny Farm.  The farm has become a mecca for photographer, especially in the early […]

Cliché Friday – Jenne Farm

We found this cute guy at the Sugarbush Farm in Woodstock Vermont.  He was very friendly and great with kids.  My son had a great time petting and feeding him.  He even came out of his stall to play with us for a little while.  The farm it self had […]

Vermont calf

©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

This is from one of our senior portrait sessions this season.  There are a lot of moving parts doing an out-door portrait session.  This was a last-minute reservation, by that, I mean we had less than two weeks to take this from start to finish.  Then the day of the […]

Senior Photo’s

I was hired to shoot the exteriors of this lovely Cape Cod house a few weeks back.  I love these types of jobs,  they make me pull techniques from multiple photography skill sets.  I obviously use my landscape techniques to capture the complete property.  I use portrait techniques to define […]

Architectural Photography

I love going out and capturing some shallow depth of field detail shots of the natural world.  Processing them in black and white really lets me concentrate on texture of I am looking at.  I’ll let you in on a secret, this image was made pretty close to home. Settings: […]

Camo

It is hard not to reflect on your own self convictions when you go to Salem.  Giles Corey was pressed to death.  It took over two days for him to die.  When the pressure from the stones being added to his body forced his tongue out his mouth, his captor […]

Pressed

This weekend Sarah, some friends of ours and I went up to Salem Massachusetts to get a jump start on the season.  We had a great time walking around the town and checking out the oddities that inhabit this historical town.  This was my first trip to Salem and I […]

Salem Massachusetts

When you head out to the pumpkin farms this autumn to pick your own gourds, remember not to pass up those prebuilt staging areas for your family photos.  They are everything that cliché friday is about.  Even though thousands of people are going to have that same location in their […]

Cliché Friday – Shooting on set