Archive for August, 2009

My dearest Olga!

August 30, 2009

We have the coolest friend ever! She is also an amazing yoga instructor, beautiful, talented & dedicated to her practice. Olga has been my personal yoga teacher for a while now and I have learned so much from her! We had lots of fun yesterday taking these pictures which by the way turned out great. I was looking to do something more colorful & fun, and she was the perfect subject.

Thank you Olga, for being a great teacher and a great model! Leave a comment, would ya? ;)

I love the "Get up Stay up"

I love the "Get up Stay up"

Love those colors!

Love those colors!

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she quoted " Mad Russian Yogi" :)

she quoted " Mad Russian Yogi" :)

I am sexy...lol

I am sexy...lol

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Dancers' pose

Dancers' pose

Om........

Om........

Love this!

Love this!

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Olga + bridge + railroad = perfect picture!

Olga + bridge + railroad = perfect picture!

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Meditating under a tree! Love both shadows.

Meditating under a tree! Love both shadows.

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Week #1

August 26, 2009

I had a lot of fun this week photographing random things everyday. I had the chance of putting of the new concepts I am learning to practice. My favorite one is Miles’ picture! Let me know which one you love the most :)

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Not much technique to this one, Just natural light. I like the blue sky in the back. I took it while walking Miles and the dog.

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I like the composition of this picture. This is my dog Rio and he for once listened to me! I love the black and white contrast.

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Here is my little adorable boy at the beach. I took this photo at about 1 pm…the brightest point of the day! I used a flash as my main source of lighting! Love it!

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This was taken at about 8:30pm. I am using two lights, I love that crazy hair light. Thanks Vanessa, you are great model.

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I took this at the studio. I usually don’t do studio shoots, but my brother and I wanted to try it out!

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Thanks to my mom I have a spotless kitchen! Can you see Rio?? He is so dark, he looks like a bat :) Gracias mami..!

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This was a hard one to take. I was more scared of the spider jumping at me, than actually getting a good picture. I did a good job though!

365 day photo challenge!

August 20, 2009

I decided to go on this challenge for a couple of reasons. One, I want to put myself in every lighting situation possible and get great amazing pictures.  Second, I want to shoot something everyday…no matter what it is! I always feel a little rusty when I have not photographed in more than a week. Third, I am trying out new lighting techniques that I want to put to practice and get more comfortable with.

I will post them once a week and talk about how I got all of them. This is day one of the challenge, so here is my very first shot out of the 364 you are about  to see.

In this picture I have one flash set up on a tripod and other one on my camera to balance out the main light. This was taken in our little office at home at about 8pm (right before  bed time!)

I like the fact that the light is even all through the picture…his eyes are beautifully lit (taken in account our little office is quite dark).

I love comments, so leave one ( pretty please?!)

My sweet baby boy!

My sweet baby boy!