Zave Smith Photography

Valentines Day

Zave Smith — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 15:37:07 +0000

Valentines Day.

Valentines Day

Zave Smith — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 15:35:57 +0000

Valentines Day……
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Blue Coat

Zave Smith — Sat, 28 Jan 2012 15:08:22 +0000

Blue Coat.

Blue Coat

Zave Smith — Sat, 28 Jan 2012 15:07:45 +0000

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Overcast With A Chance Of Rain

Zave Smith — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 22:00:41 +0000

Overcast With A Chance Of Rain.

Overcast With A Chance Of Rain

Zave Smith — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 21:58:26 +0000

Enjoy!
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Warmth

Zave Smith — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 22:09:52 +0000

On a cold, wet Philadelphia day like today when a client calls and asks if you can be in Florida next week, what do you say?

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Playground

Zave Smith — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 22:50:13 +0000

Playground.

Playground

Zave Smith — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 20:07:52 +0000

“For Zave his camera his is toy. The set and talent is his playground.” Thank you Tricia Moravansky Bronsky for saying that. Made my day.

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Embrace the Sky

Zave Smith — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 13:05:37 +0000

Enjoy!

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Not far from the train station

Zave Smith — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 13:46:09 +0000

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Duets

Zave Smith — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 16:03:50 +0000

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Young or Old?

Zave Smith — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 13:39:30 +0000

The young of heart feel that life is a opportunity. The old feel that life is a threat…..
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Another Day in Philly

Zave Smith — Mon, 09 Jan 2012 19:35:46 +0000

Another Day in Philly.

Another Day in Philly

Zave Smith — Mon, 09 Jan 2012 19:34:54 +0000

Enjoy!

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From Last Week’s Shoot in New Orleans

Zave Smith — Wed, 30 Nov 2011 21:51:11 +0000

See Our latest 40 seconds of fun from New Orleans:

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Enjoy,

Zave Smith
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What I Did This Summer

Zave Smith — Mon, 21 Nov 2011 20:05:45 +0000

From one of several places I shot this summer for Medley Healthcare.

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Best Work

Zave Smith — Fri, 18 Nov 2011 13:03:34 +0000

Sometimes I feel that I do my best work when I don’t give a damn. How about you?

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Do You Know What It Means To Miss New Orleans….

Zave Smith — Fri, 11 Nov 2011 00:39:08 +0000

From this weeks shoot for the New Orleans Tourism Office.

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Some Shoots Move You!

Zave Smith — Tue, 25 Oct 2011 17:26:45 +0000

Philadelphia Portrait Project Movie!

Sincerely,

Zave Smith
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Some Shoots Are More Fun Than Others

Zave Smith — Fri, 14 Oct 2011 11:30:23 +0000

Sincerely,

Zave Smith
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Procrastination with a purpose

Zave Smith — Mon, 03 Oct 2011 11:49:44 +0000

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New Work, New Site, New Zave

Zave Smith — Tue, 27 Sep 2011 12:29:52 +0000

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New Site

Zave Smith — Fri, 23 Sep 2011 18:26:26 +0000

We just revised and posted our new website. Lots of new images. Lots of new galleries.

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Enjoy!

Zave Smith

Back on the East Coast-Shooting for Playworld

Zave Smith — Tue, 23 Aug 2011 14:25:08 +0000

Enjoy!

Zave Smith
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Rain Dance

Zave Smith — Fri, 12 Aug 2011 15:51:27 +0000

Rain Dance.

Rain Dance

Zave Smith — Fri, 12 Aug 2011 15:49:10 +0000

Enjoy!

Zave Smith
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Party like its 1975

Zave Smith — Fri, 20 May 2011 12:33:34 +0000

ok, shot this week.

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Reinterpretation

Zave Smith — Mon, 16 May 2011 15:33:18 +0000

To view gallery: Reinterpretation

She was my first love. I found her on the pages of “Life Magazine” and hanging from the walls of the Detroit Institute of Arts. She was small, rich in the colors of black and white. She was the representation of an artist’s reaction to life. She was the etchings of Rembrandt and Brueghel and the photographs of Weston and Smith. Her images were honest, brutal and beautiful. She inspired my first black and white photographs. It was love at first sight. It became my method of interpretation of life as I felt it.

Musicians often reinterpret their work. Visual artists tend to create with the sprit of one and done. While visual artists might work on a theme or style for a series we seldom go back to the single original and rework it.

Recently I have had occasion to revisit some recent photographs. A client had asked me to convert a couple images into black and white. I did not simply do an image>mode>grayscale in Photoshop but I went back to the original raw file and completely reworked it. It was like bumping into my first love all over again. Seeing these images anew in Black and White rekindled a passion that had been left behind.

Sincerely,

Zave Smith
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Summer Time

Zave Smith — Mon, 02 May 2011 20:53:23 +0000

Summer Time

Sincerely,

Zave Smith
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Take a Leap

Zave Smith — Tue, 12 Apr 2011 20:12:46 +0000

Enjoy!

Sincerely

Zave Smith

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34 Portraits

Zave Smith — Sat, 26 Mar 2011 19:12:17 +0000

Click to view slideshow.

A visual reinterpretation of the portraits photographed on South Broadway.

Enjoy!

Zave Smith
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Next…..

Zave Smith — Thu, 24 Mar 2011 19:30:45 +0000

Sincerely,

Zave Smith
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Showing Off

Zave Smith — Tue, 22 Mar 2011 20:31:53 +0000

It is hard to find the time to sit down with art buyers and show off the new portfolio. But it is such blast when we do it. The reaction is just so positive.

Sincerely,
Zave Smith
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New Work

Zave Smith — Wed, 16 Feb 2011 18:46:44 +0000

We posted new work on www.zavesmith.com. Let us know what you think.

Sincerely,

Zave Smith

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An Act of Murder

Zave Smith — Fri, 11 Feb 2011 19:21:43 +0000

It is almost an act of murder. In order to grow you often have to kill off the very things that have made you successful, in the first place.

At first I tried to understand and follow the marketplace. This was reasonably successful. But I was not after being reasonable. Besides, who was willing to pay for a cheaper imitation of the latest trend?

After ten years of some success at being a generic photographer, I started to become bored. I then started to put my craziness back into my work. I let go of the food and the products that had made my pay and started photographing shadows, kids, old people and even twenty-something cute girls. My only criterion was to make pictures that made me smile.

I used to get a lot of assignments that started with a layout. “Here, photographer, create a photograph that looks like this.” That is what I was paid for. Now I get assignments like, “Come down to Mardi Gras for a week and see what happens.” Or when Capital One called and ask me to spend some time photographing several small business clients of theirs in Dallas and in New York. No layouts, few directions, “Go see what’s there and bring us home something wonderful that captures the real life of our clients.”

I have learned that my best work, the work that makes my client’s smile is the work that happens when I let go. When I forget all the preconceived notions of what they want or what an “advertising” photograph should look like and I just react to what I see, I create photographs that sell.

Kill the concept and create a killer photograph.

Sincerely,

Zave Smith
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