Recent content by Frank Papini

Thanks Jim! :-)

These pictures were all taken with a Sigma 60mm f/2.8 Macro lens, and it was funny... as I was at the park taking them, another photographer friend saw me using that lens, and my trusty Nikon D7000... and he commented that I was using the "plastic" set up... of course, he was using his Canon 5D...

Thanks guys! In order to be Bar Mitzvahed... you get a date for it from your Rabbi... usually two years ahead! So for those 2 years, the kid has to study, study and study some more! Which is why I like to include the prayer book (Siddur) in some of the shots during the temple session... as it...

Thanks for your comments! This is probably one of the hardest shots I have to do while covering a wedding... I know! I could "pose" the shot! But that takes all of the fun out of it! I make it a point to get this shot, as it happens! And I am proud to say that I can get it 8 out 10 times... and...

I took this shot at the LAPD Academy's banquet hall... but come to think about it... it could be anywhere! :-) It was back-lit with a photogenic 1250 powerlight, set at about half power, which was about 300WS! shot at f/11, with a Nikon D2x, 28-70 f/2.8 lens, with ISO 400. I wanted the cake to...

I call this shot Lucky Shot... but I planned for it! :-) I knew the shot I wanted to do during the hora... I wanted to shoot it with a fisheye, in this case a Nikon 10.5mm on a Fuji S2 (anybody remember those?) mounted on a monopod, focus set to about 6-7 feet, at f/4, while firing the camera...

Jewish Temples are big into stained glass! and for a period of about 5-6 years... I did nothing but Bar and Bat Mitzvahs!!! and I loved shooting the kid's Temple Session, which is normally done during the week of the event, on a day that is NOT saturday! and I made it a point to use the stained...

This is one of my favorite shots of all time! it was taken a long time ago! with a Fuji S2, as a TIFF, with a Nikon 80-200 ISO 400, at f/4. The only way that I could compress this image so that both foreground (kid reading) and background (stained glass) were sharp, was to do it at 200mm, on a...

You are right Jim! I think there is something about only I and them knowing WHO is in that image... silhouettes and shadows is something that I try to do in every event... but for the most part, I do it for me! Wether the clients like it or not! Sometimes they "see" it! Sometimes not.

This wedding took place at the Los Angeles Garden and River Center. I just love this door! it was lit by a single Metz 45CT-4 placed behind the couple, and was shot tripod mounted with Nikon D2x, 28-70 f/2.8 at 1/2 second, f/11 with ISO 800

I love doing these type of images... and even though I have some clients that do not understand the concept of a silhouette, (mostly the older parents..."too bad we can't see the faces") the couples, for the most part like it! This image was taken at Castaway restaurant in Los Angeles area, a...

Thanks! I believe that... like the slogan for Kodak's Ektar 25 (anybody remember that?) said... "the difference is in the details" and women like those little details!

These are some of the ring shots that I do when covering weddings... these were done with a Nikon 60mm Micro, with a Nikon D3. I do not like to bring a tripod in to where the preparations are being held, because it gets in the way! specially if it is a small room! so I normally use a higher ISO...

Thanks guys! I am one of those lucky people who do not have a job! I do what I love doing, and get paid for it! I think it was Ghandi that said that if you ever find a job you liked doing, you would never work a day in your life! And that is me!

These shots are some of my favorites! I had my assistant hold the light between the bars of the fence, it was a Metz 45ct-5 that had been rigged with a 7.2 volt battery from a R/C car... it looked like a bomb! :-) I raised the camera with a monopod, and fired it with a pocket wizard. Nikon D3...