I am a not so young photographer born and raised in Cuba, although I have been living in Spain since 2000. I studied Graphic Design and Visual communication and started to work as a junior designer in a prepress facility in Spain, where I had to retouch hundreds of bad photos to include them in advertising campaigns and a wide variety of things for our clients. I was really ticked off the whole time because I could not understand how that was possible. So one day I called my older sister and I asked her to help me to buy a camera because I wanted to begin to make my own photos and pitch it to our clients, and she did.
That was two years ago and I cannot express how much photography has changed my life, my hopes, my dreams. Now I am a full-time photographer with a small business and I am mostly focused on portraits and music events, but from time to time I go out into nature and let my camera go crazy. I am still learning all the thousands of techniques and styles.
All I can say is that this has become my life, and my goal is to become a better photographer and person every day by learning and practicing. I admire the work of many great photographers from Spain like Rebeca Saray, but mostly my guidance comes from people like Jeremy Cowart, Zack Arias, Joey L, David Hobbie, Joe McNally etc. I think i have devoured every bit of information, workshops, schemes, and gear talk forums – in order to first: find my own style and second master it – all the technical details and training my eye to see in photos. It’s complex and sometimes overwhelming, but, when you see the results and the clear improvement in your own work, oh man, that gives you all the strength you need to move forward and keep digging deeper into it. Photography is like a drug, once you taste it you become an addict. You just can’t help the need of taking amazing pictures, freezing emotions and stories in a single frame, becoming the witness and the teller of those emotions.
When I was younger I always wanted to become a photographer, but growing up in Cuba – having a camera was not only impossible but also naive. So i decided to learn Design and later on apply all that I learned from that other beautiful profession into my photography.
I also Love Black and White…it has in my opinion much more strength than color, black and white is story driven, content aware…it’s just magical. I just love it!
Thanks for letting me tell a bit about myself and my work, follow me and friend me!
Links:
Website: http://proezaestudio.com
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