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The Observer

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Take Notes Oassis Lydia Squirrel Spying The Fast and the Furious Taunting Fools Chicken Man Temptation In your Shoes In this series I was following my kids, trying to capture and perhaps understand a little better, the relationship they entertain with each other. Of all the pictures I took, I kept the ones that had a similar color palette and strangely enough, many of them had blue and red somehow, somewhere in the composition. I'm glad as I think it's a good fit for the duality I wanted to portray. Having said that, this was probably one of the hardest photography assignments I had to do to this day. But I followed the advises that were given to me; I worked hard and shot a lot. The main difficulty I encountered was that I had to act solely as an observer; no matter what. I was always taking pictures very close to them while they were playing together or just relaxing and it was...
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Light and Composition She sees You (Framing) (ISO: 800, Shutter speed: 4'') Horse Bathing (Rule of Thirds) (ISO: 800, Shutter speed: 1/30) The Bad Seed (Vantage Point) (ISO: 800, Shutter speed: 1/25) Sunny Boy (Contrasty Light) (ISO: 100, Shutter speed: 1/25) Who's that Knocking at my Door?  (Diffuse Light) (ISO: 400, Shutter speed: 1/30) The Search for Happiness (Window Light) (ISO: 800, Shutter speed: 1/30) Once again, I had a blast making these pictures. I think I discovered a new love.  In She sees You I was playing around with the headboard of Lydia's bed trying to somehow capture her through the wooden bars. It was night time and quite dark in her room; from my angle the camera had a lot of trouble focusing so I helped it a bit by adding a light source (aka me holding a flashlight in her face), which explains the cooler light on one side. I also cropped the picture a little bit from ...
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The Freeze, The Blur and The Night

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Freeze 1: Too Cool for School (ISO: 200, Shutter speed:1/250) Freeze 2: Urban Cowboy (ISO: 200, Shutter speed:1/250) Blur 1: No Jumping on the Couch (ISO: 800, Shutter speed:1/30) Blur 2: Say Hello to my Little Friend (ISO: 400, Shutter speed:1/25) Night 1: Stranger in the Night (ISO: 800, Shutter speed:4'') Night 2: Can we Go Home Now? (ISO: 800, Shutter speed:4'') I have to say that this was an amazing experience on so many levels and I'll soon explain why. But first, lets take a look at the photographs shown above;  in Too Cool for School , I had my kids and my dog go in the backyard after school and just jump and fool around. It was around 4:30pm and quite cloudy. I wish it was perhaps a little lighter than what it turned out to be, but overall, I'm happy that one of the many, many pictures I took turned out interesting. There was a few more with my dog in action but for some reason, this was my favor...
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Pinhole Camera Photos

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Pinhole Camera Process: The Results: Digital/Pinhole Camera Very First Try (This is what I thought I was going to capture and the actual pinhole result) (The exposure wasn't sufficient on this one). Landscape Still Life Self Portrait Pinhole photography is not an easy task; as you can see, the digital images somewhat differ from the pinhole images. It's hard to estimate what will be present in the frame or how wide of an angle it will capture. Of course, the more you do it, the better you get at taking the pictures you originally meant to take.   If I was teaching pinhole photography, I would take a small group of young adults, prepare the pinholes for them and have them prepare their own box (exactly like we did in class). In my experience, young adults are often very enthusiastic in trying new things that are a little challenging.  I would tell the students to walk outside around their nei...
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