Steal the moment

I shot this in Cuba at Plaza de la Revolución. I was hanging out when out of the corner of my eye this beautiful girl appeared. I quickly ran over there and took a couple shots, she had no idea I was there but to me the moment was perfect.

I learned a long time ago that when you see a photo, take it. If you do not, it will hunt you for the rest of time, believe me…

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Dancing with birds

I woke up this weekend to shoot the sunrise, unfortunately it was not very picturesque. I felt great to be out there, but the sky was flat, there were no colors and it was just boring for a photos.

This is where my creativity kicked in. I brought some tortillas from home (I know I’m super Mexican) in case this happened. I’m always super prepared, and I’m glad. I started throung tiny pieces to the air for the birds to come and I could get some sort of shot acoomplished, not oly that but it was fun messing around with my friends on the beach at 6:30am

The first pic is me, I put the cam on a tripod on a timer and let it fire while I was running around like a maniac. The second shot was more of what I was aiming for.

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This is where you can find me in the mornings shooting the sunrise. If you are ever around come say hi.

How to make the sun look big in my photos

This is a question I get often. Edin how do you make the sun look so massive in your photos?” I teach this at my photography workshops and often people are shocked at the results.

To achieve this is actually quite easy, all you need is a massive zoom. Most of us do not have a massive zoom, I totally understand that but even if you have a 200mm zoom lens it will do the job.

Once you are out on the field photographing the sun, make sure you zoom in directly at the sun, while doing this make sure you have some sort of foreground, in this case I used the trees at the Everglades National Park.

In the photos below you can see the difference between a photo shot at 70mm and the same shot at 600mm

In the professional lingo this is called compression. Compressing the sun. Now go out there and experiment, you will be surprised at the results.

Camera settings: 1/125 F18 ISO100 Zoomed in at 70mm

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Camera settings: 1/200 F18 ISO100 Zoomed in at 600mm

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Facebook Live during Sunset

Good morning, I did a live broadcast yesterday during sunset on my Facebook page. What can I say, sunsets in Miami never disappoint. Its so good to be out in 75 degree weather in the middle of winter hanging out chatting with people from all over the world. Facebook live is one of my favorite platforms to conect with people, its great to share my experiences and interact with you at that very moment.

Here are some of the shots I got, and a vid I made. I do this live things often so subscribe to the page to get notifications. I need to upgrade my drone, I’m just not sure what route I want to go. Any suggestions?!?!

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