Weekly Assignment : Nude

This photo was taken by Jan Hendrik den Boestert in 1950.

Nudity has always been a taboo, especially in the 40 As a photographer I see nudity as a work of art, when well photographed, nudity can be very subtle and beautiful.

In the early 20th century, the nude photos were seen as indecent or immoral. Only in modern times that these photos, taken before, were "famous" and are duly admired.

Nudity before the cameras started nearly two centuries before the popularization of intenet and webcams and long before the porn industry transform the body and sex in merchandise to compulsive consumption. "From the beginning of art history, portraying the human body has been a major challenge for artists and resulted in supreme achievements, as can be seen in the galleries of Greek and Roman statuary or the paintings of Renaissance masters" Thomas Campbell.

I want to take some nude pictures of some models for my portfolio. Good taste can be the key to beautiful pictures... and good taste I have, I just need to find a model that can inspired me to take some awesome photos.

I am not good in take pictures of people, I don't feel the connection... people never get the best of me as a photographer. I like landscape, architecture and still ife pictures.

I must improve my connection with people, It's necessary to consolidate a promising career and to achieve that I must create all kind of photos and show how good I can be in what I am doing.

Weekly Photo Assignment : Collage

In my opinion collage is a peace of art. I always love to do them with my pictures. Basically I use Photoshop and try to be very creative. Collage is a piece of art made by sticking various different materials such as photographs and pieces of paper or fabric. If you surfing on the Internet you can find millions of collages, some of them are awesome and some are bad made. There are some websites and apps that make collages for you by themselves; the only thing you have to do is to upload the pictures.

“Collage became an art form during the Synthetic Cubist period of Picasso and Braque. At first, Pablo Picasso glued oil cloth to his surface of Still Life with Chair Caning in May of 1912. He glued a rope around the edge of the oval canvas.” For me it is an artwork since the first person did it. Picasso used and it became a famous technique. When you have good photos and a vivid creativity you can have amazing collages and earn some money from that. I do collages to give as a gift to great friends…. I always start with an idea, and then I take pictures of what I want to start building my collage. It can take minutes or hours, depends how much creativity is stuck in my head.

No matter which artwork I am doing, I always get happy about my work, It can be graphic design work or some photographies, I just love what I do.

How Art has Changed Me

I breathe art, I live for art. I always liked art museums. All my education are facing some kind of art: advertising, graphic designer and photographer.

Cinema, theater and museums have always been my hobbies. I still go every week to the theater or any kind of museum or exhibition. I have over 4000 DVD / Blu-rays at home, 2000 cds and hundreds of movies and digital music.

I am a very sensitive guy. Art transport me to a different world, to another dimension and that makes me happy and fulfilled. Art is a human activity linked to manifestations of aesthetic order, made by artists from perception, emotions and ideas, with the goal of stimulating interest in this awareness in one or more viewers, and every work of art has a unique and different meaning, and I can see those meaning, and that is why I keep feeding my soul with art.

I believe that a passion for art starts early, since when we were children, my parents always taught me to appreciate and understand the important art and their diversity ... I like to enjoy the simple pleasure and thrill me with the most diverse representation of art. I like the simple and the complex, the rich and of the poor, of any kind of attitude and art. The Art represents our nobility and teaches us that the world goes much further than we realize. Live life because I love art. I learned to love art because I live life to its fullest. I have several artists that amaze me, whether in painting, photography, film or music, my list can fill up pages and pages.

Weekly Photo Assignment : Computer Editing

My iMac and I are together no matter what… I use it for all my working as a photographer or a graphic designer. My software for editing photography is Photoshop and when I need to associate my photo with a graphic design job, I use Photoshop, InDesign and Illustrator. These softwares I use all the time.

Photoshop is an image editing software developed and manufactured by Adobe Systems Inc. Photoshop is considered one of the leaders in photo editing software. The software allows users to manipulate, crop, resize, and correct color on digital photos. The software is particularly popular amongst professional photographers and graphic designers. However, it is also used for amateur photography enhanced their web pictures. Adobe Photoshop is hands down, the most popular program for creating and modifying images for the web and for printing.  I use it mostly for printing. My steps to create an image are: first my thoughts, then my camera, after Photoshop, and at the end print it. Sometimes the last step is posted or just leaves it in a digital format. The clients decide how they want the final result of my work. When I really like any of my work, I print it for my portfolio and save it in a special folder.

My passion for Photoshop started in 2005, since then I use it everyday in my work. That was one of the reasons that made me go back to school in Chicago/IL and study Graphic Design at The Illinois Institute of Art – Chicago.

Weekly Photo Assignment : Camera Store

For every photographer, a camera store is where everything starts. Have some good equipment is essential to do a good work. Good equipment is not necessarily the expensive one... It's the one that can do the jog. You have to have a list of the equipment you are gonna buy and wisely invest your money. In my opinion a good camera, some lights and lens are what you need to start your photography business (as long as you have some study and background in photography)...  However it's not the equipment that is going to make you a good photographer,  to achieve success you must study and devote to your field. 

Right equipment depends in what kind of pictures are you taking, landscape, wedding, buildings, editorial, etc… The client can be very “severe” about what kind of pictures him/her wants. The equipment can make the difference between a good photoshoot and a bad one. The right light, ideal lenses and a good camera are the bases for a good job; and you can find every tool you need in any great camera store in the USA. B&H is a famous photo and video store in NYC that ship for every place in the USA.

“ You don’t take a photograph, you make it."(Ansel Adams), and to make a good photography, you need sensitivity, knowledge, passion for art and insight to make the best of you and your art. I have all the tools to be a good photographer, I just going to keep doing my best... always.

I took my picture at B&C Camera.