Halloween Night

Have you ever gone shooting and you just weren’t feeling it? Did you put your camera away or did you just keep trying only to realize everything you were shooting was garbage??? Let me tell you Halloween night was a perfect example of this. I have been looking forward to this night all year, why you ask, well here in Miami Beach is a giant party, everyone is dressed up and thousands of people take over the streets.

Upon my arrival I realized I was not in the mood to take photos, not even a little bit, and even tho I live a block away from the madness instead of putting my camera away to enjoy the festivities I kept trying to take photos. I quickly realized that the last thing I wanted to do was hold a camera, I was even starting to get annoyed. After my failed attempt at taking some cool photos I finally put that thing agway 2 hrs later and just hung out and enjoyed the festivities but at that point I was kind of annoyed so I just went home.

Whats the lesson here? Its simple if you don’t feel like taking photos DON’T its not a must just because you are in a cool place (unless your on assignment), this has happened to me before and I hope it never happens to me again, next time you don’t feel like taking pix, just don’t, trying will just make everything worse… Here is some of the ok pix I got before putting the cam away…

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Its almost halloween

Its almost halloween people, mischief night to be exact. What are your plans?? I know I know most of you celebrated this past weekend, how was it?? Tomorrow is Halloween and here in Miami Beach the celebration gets a little crazy. Lincoln Road gets crazy (crazier than normal) Tons of people come out dressed up and it is a giant party. I go to take photos and of course to see all the pretty ladies wearing almost nothing. If you are in the area I highly recommend you stop by and see the madness, bring your camera and enjoy the festivities….

You can see my photos from last year Here.

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Miami Beach iconic lifeguard towers

Miami Beach iconic lifeguard towers:

Good morning people, I have been working on this new series what seems for ever. I started this project a few months ago. I wanted to capture every lifeguard tower in Miami Beach in a different sunrise. At the beginning of the project I thought that this was going to be an easy task, let me tell you, it was anything but easy.

From the beginning of the project I wanted to capture cool sunrises with all this cool lifeguard towers, well very quickly I realized that the sunrise had to match the tower, making things a bit more complicated. Like everything I do I became a bit obsessed with this. I had to change my sleeping habits because I wanted to make sure I didn’t miss any sunrises until this project was completed. This took me a few months and I missed very few sunrises. (I can count them in one hand)

I started on 1st street and worked my way to 21st, some days the sunrises were not even worth photographing so I just sat there and enjoyed them, but that wasn’t my only problem, very quickly I realized the people where going to be a massive issue. It turns out people are attracted to things, they don’t like to just pick a spot in the sand and sit there, then need a cozy place, in observing people coming to the beach to watch the sunrise, 100% of them would congregate around this lifeguard towers not caring about me and my camera even though I was super close to it and impossible to ignore.

Tourists were not the only issue, homeless people crashing out at this places or underneath them where a bit of an issue also, lots of the time they would get up to use the bathroom (the sand) in the middle of my shot. No problem, I finally completed this and have hundreds of photos of this towers.

This is the coolest project I have completed to date. I have such a personal connection to this not only because I love this place but because I truly feel the sun to be something spiritual, and watching it rise for so many days in a row, well it was something really special. I got to see some amazing sunrises, met some amazing people, observed human behavior and learned a lot from it all.

Here is my final project, I hope you like the photos. (I have lots of different ones from this same locations that I will publish later, I feel this are the best ones) Here they are in order from 1st street to 21st street coming to you from Miami Beach Florida.

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Art Basel 2013

Good morning and happy Sunday, here is a quick post of whats coming for this December for Art Basel 2013. I will be unveiling my new Floret Collection at Art Basel this year. I am super exited and invite everyone to come see it. I will have more on this coming soon. For now feel free to check it out and share this with your friends. Have a great rest of the day…

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How to create dramatic photos using Lightroom adjustment brushes

Good morning and happy Monday. Here is another shot of an amazing Miami Beach Sunrise. I often forget that I live here and have been missing out on lots of this, but lately I started waking up at 5 am just about every morning to go watch the sun come up more often.

In this video I will show you how to create dramatic photos using Lightroom adjustment brushes. This is a very useful tool and comes in handy with just about any photo you are trying to edit, from event photography to landscape photography.

Click on the photo to see the highress file and play with the slider below, so you can see the before and after. Please give me a like and share this with your friends.

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