MIND YOUR HEAD

Mind your head… that sentence got stuck with me while traveling around the UK.

It somehow meant that I should think about my head, my thoughts, my ideas, even my beliefs -at least to me-, and that also means working out my composition skills or creative ideas… I take my camera out whenever I can, you just never know when you’ll come across something that could make a good composition.

I don’t really follow the rules that much, but if I see something that aesthetically catches my eye, then I will try to go for it…

ARTISTIC PHOTOSHOOT

I had not published these portraits on my website, not that I had forgotten that I made these beautiful images of Ellen, she is part of the National Ballet Company here in El Salvador.

She revealed not just how natural she is in front of a lens, but the true artistry of her moves in front of it is so striking, that the resulting images turned out to be pure magic.

An ethereal beauty…

THE QUARANTINE CHALLENGE

I guess none of us ever expected to be confined because of a virus, the first thing that may have popped in is that the Third World War would explode or something! But no, here we are locked at home with our family which actually I prefer over anything else these days. Some others may be a bit desperate to go out and try to have a «normal»life.

This is the new normal these days. And I’m trying to make the best out of it.

I am trying to use my time to learn some new skills, try to handle better PS or even the use of flash or any other type of light to make a pic.

In a way, I need to have my head busy into something, busy into creativeness since it’s my escaping method, it can be pretty hectic sometimes being in a lockdown period.

And so after all these days, I decided to go outside, downtown to be more specific -where it’s usually crowded, to find an empty city.

It actually felt kind of cool not having too many people around, somehow not being affraid to take out my camera.

Maybe I can make some more before it starts getting back to our new normality…

That feeling of urban emptyness… I can barely describe it.

If buildings could talk and tell us their stories…

THE CHARM OF THE OLD LOOK

There are some beautiful old towns here in El Salvador, and many times I’ve come across things , old things, those that aren’t made anymore, like thick wooden doors that have been aged by the sun and time, windows rounded by cracks, really old door knobs made out of rusty iron

.  I always need to stop and shoot a photo to have them in my memory.

Old things have  a certain charm to me, they simply become original and unique pieces that won’t be found anywhere else.

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El Proyecto Fotógrafa

La fotografía ha sido parte  de mi vida desde muy pequeña, crecí viendo a mi padre llevar su cámara de 35mm por donde fuéramos, siempre me pareció que el tiempo quedaba plasmado en ellas, las vivencias, momentos importantes, incluso palabras que vuelven sobre ese segundo en que fueron hechas las imagenes.

En este tema me inicié allá por 2002 estando en España, en ese entonces me acompañaba una cámara point and shoot de 35mm que tuve, y la cual me ayudaba a congelar los momentos que yo quería guardar en la memoria. Cuando veía el resultado de lo revelado fui descubriendo mi afición por la composición y la luz.

En el año 2010 decidí especializarme un poco, aprender bien el manejo de una cámara DSLR, sobre el uso de los lentes, luz, exposición, etc. Tomé mi primer curso de fotografía con Iván Guevara, fotógrafo y artista.

Luego vinieron otros dos cursos en la escuela de RAF, donde aprendí un poco mejor sobre el manejo de la luz, aspectos técnicos, etc.

Son cinco años ya de haberme involucrado en la fotografía, y dos de haber decidido hacerlo más de lleno y sin embargo, sigo en un proceso de descubrir lo que puedo lograr a través de ella, explotar mi creatividad hasta donde pueda, en diferentes planos y perspectivas fotográficas, estoy por saber hasta donde puedo llegar.