Portraits
Shooting portraits must be the most difficult task of any photographer. You are constantly walking a fine line between what looks like a million-dollar photo for you and what the subject thinks is not the most flattering shot. Even though I started working with it pretty late, portrait photography allowed me to explain how I see the subject and get a better understanding of the world around me and him/her. It is like shooting through two pairs of eyes. Yours, which search for the perfect light, composition, technical aspects, and the eyes of your subject, which search for the best profile, position, and emotion. I don’t always get complete creative control, but when I do I like to make it count. Time flies pretty fast and that's one of the main reasons I photograph people, to give them a recording of how I saw them at a specific point in their life. I look for the small nuances and mannerisms that make the person and I try to bring that out in the portrait. Sometimes I find snapshots that don’t show the personality of the subject as well as a thought out portrait can do but being able to offer this permanent record of those I shoot is really important to me.
