I was sitting around watching the Fellini movie, "La Dolce Vita" and it reminded me of this photograph...

©1985 Kirk Tuck, All Rights Reserved.

.... It was taken on a vaporetto in Venice on a cold day in April of 1985. I paused the movie and headed out to the office to see if I could find the slide. I did.


I was too lazy to scan it so I set up my copy stand and shot a copy with the a6300, using a Nikon 55mm macro lens with an adapter. I used a Fotodiox LED as a light box.

This shot was taken with a 35mm Minox camera. 35mm lens. f2.8. Kodachrome 64. Amazing what was possible with such "primitive" equipment....

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An Anniversary Post. 31 years as a tolerant model. And Partner. A state-of-the-art spouse.

At the Louvre. Leica M4+50mm Summicron.

At the Metropolitan Museum, NY. Original Canon Rebel (film) + 50mm f1.8 lens.

Home studio on Elm St. Leica M3+90 Summicron.

Venice. Leica M3+ 50 Summicron.

Paris. Leica M4+ 50 Summicron.

Camera being carried by subject: Olympus Pen F (classic)+50-90mm zoom lens.

A quick nod to Austin film maker, Richard Linklater. This is from my Elle Magazine assignment back in 1992.

©1992 Kirk Tuck, All Rights Reserved.

A quick "thank you" to Richard Linklater for helping to make Austin the "third coast" for movies. Nice work. I'm looking forward to seeing "Everybody Wants Some!!"

Showing off some work I am proud of. I love clients who are in sync with my portrait style.

Last Fall I had the privilege of photographing the attorneys at Dubois, Bryant and Campbell; a law firm here in Austin, Texas. I worked with Envision Creative Group to create a portrait style that worked well for all three entities.

Here is the webpage from DB&C's website that showcases the photographs. Please click on the individual images to see them in their true, horizontal format. Attorney Portraits by Kirk Tuck.

All of the portraits were done on location at DB&C's offices. I used a Nikon D810 with either the 105mm f2.5 ais or the 135mm f2.0 ais lenses. The lighting was a combination of existing light and up to four, high density, LED lights --- modified by a combination of scrims and diffusers.

It was pretty much a dream project for me. Great people, a beautiful environment and a great, supportive advertising agency. Would I do it again? In a heartbeat.

Which portraits do I like best? The ones that have meaning for me. Connection. A reason to exist.

B.Y. ©2012 Kirk Tuck, All rights reserved.

Twenty years in in which to grow more beautiful. A side by side comparison of two black and white images taken twenty years apart.

2012.

1992.

The earlier one taken on a Hasselblad with a 150mm lens. 

The later one taken with a Nikon using a Hasselblad 150mm lens with an adapter. 

The early one scanned from a print the later one a digital file.

My continuing opinions about the use of stock photography for corporate advertising.

Here is something I wrote a while back to run on LinkedIn. It's my honest appraisal of the use of stock photography for branding by major ad agencies. I get that mom and pop operations may be budget restricted but given the cost of doing "real" branding ads and ad placement......

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/stock-photography-lost-imagination-kirk-tuck?trk=pulse_spock-articles