Portraits and Actor's Headshots

If you are thinking of pursuing an acting career, please do keep in mind that movie productions and talent agencies aren’t only searching for good looking people; lots of extras and actors are marketable because of their unique characters and features. These are a few of the qualities that makes them interesting and therefore successful in getting noticed. Danny Devito is one great example…Don’t you love him? He is one of my favorite actors and despite being 5′ tall, overweight (and balding), he has managed to become one of Hollywood’s most versatile actors! With all the new motion pictures coming to New Orleans, the needs for extras it’s only gonna get greater, ( check the Louisiana Entertainment and the New Orleans Office of Film & Video sites!) so be yourself and do market yourself for who you really are, nobody better than you knows what your strenghts are!

Rates and Details

Photo shoots are priced at $150 if done at City Park in New Orleans or at Lafreniere Park in Metairie and $200 in the French Quarter and includes:

1. Photo session on location (up to one hour of actual shooting)
2. Maximum of 200 exposures (shots)
3. One 8×12 photo printed on Kodak Professional Supra Endura VC Digital Paper. With this paper don’t worry about prints fading. The standard archival value is 100 years in home display and 200 years in dark storage.
4. FIVE of the best images from you photo shoot will be cropped and professionally adjusted, (including minor touch ups) and will be posted online in your own public or password protected gallery. You will then be able do download the FIVE digital files for free and select one which will be printed at 8×12 and mailed to you via USPS (printing and shipping included!).

Additional prints (not included in the above rates) can be ordered and delivered to anyone from the online gallery.

To qualify for this unique package deal you will have to sign a model release so I will be able to use your images to promote my business online...Let’s Go!

Portraits and Actor's Headshots

Michiel Huisman as Sonny and Lucia Micarelli as Annie on HBO Treme second line set

To view all the shots and/or purchase high quality prints, please visit  www.nolaPIC.com

Brass band on the HBO Treme Second Line (New Orleans)

To view all the shots and/or purchase high quality prints, please visit  www.nolaPIC.com

Second Lining on the HBO Treme shoot in [...]

Whatever is out of focus will be rendered with the bokeh shape that you applied to your lens.

Same shot as above (slightly different angle) but focused on the foreground instead.

From Wikipedia: In photography, bokeh is the blur, or the aesthetic quality of the blur, in out-of-focus areas of an image, or “the way the lens renders out-of-focus [...]

Finding photography related gifts for Christmas is fairly easy, if you are a photographer that is! I compiled a list of affordable and useful gifts for your special someone so all you have to do is go through the photo goodies and make the 2009 Christmas ho-ho-holiday shopping experience painless!

Lensbaby The Composer for Canon EF mount [...]

Streetcar on Canal Street in New Orleans

I just added on my gallery site www.nolaPIC.com quite a few images I have taken in the French Quarter (Jackson Square, St. Louis  Cathedral, Bourbon Street and along Canal Street in New Orleans last week. It was rainy and…Beautiful! All fine art prints are also available framed and with [...]

I just added three new pictures of the Holt cemetery in New Orleans to the Gallery named “New Orleans Cemeteries” on my e-commerce site www.nolaPIC.com! To see  more New Orleans photography and purchase high quality prints please visit www.nolaPIC.com
The same gallery contains other images taken at Lake Lawn cemetery and Cypress Grove cemetery in New Orleans. High [...]

I recently did this photo shoot at The Plant Gallery in New Orleans of their wedding bouquets. The light was just perfect for this type of subjects, since the cloudy sky provided a huge natural soft box, decreasing the contrast.I’m pleased with the results (they were too:).
Click the thumbnails to see larger size images.
All Pictures [...]

While you will see some photography samples on this blog, to purchase online high quality open edition prints by Alfonso “Pompo” Bresciani, please visit my e-commerce and secure site: www.nolaPIC.com where all the high quality prints are displayed and updated often as they become available. All of the open edition prints can now be ordered online, [...]

I just added this image on my other site nolaPIC.com I took at Lafreniere Park in Metarie, LA at sunset (once I uploaded the shot on Flickr my photostream was on fire with comments!). I love the soft tones, narrow dof and the bokeh  of the Canon EF 85mm f1.2L II USM ! The fine [...]

Pre-Order Canon EOS 1D Mark IV

LAKE SUCCESS, N.Y., October 20, 2009 – Canon U.S.A., Inc., a leader in digital imaging, is proud to introduce the next evolution in the EOS 1D series of cameras: the Canon EOS-1D Mark IV Digital SLR camera. The EOS-1D Mark IV is a high-speed multimedia performance monster with a 16-megapixel [...]