Sue’s portraits were elegant and beautiful. Her portraits were simple if I used David’s words from 2014 but that David grew up. My mentor would say that you can photograph ANYONE if you knew how to photograph women and boy you could see her 27 years of experience in her photographs and how she interacted with her subjects.Ī behind the scenes photo of my mentor, Sue Bryce, at work. And little did he know the thing he despised was going to enable that.Įverything changed when I found my mentor, Sue Bryce, online and taught me about the delicacy and mastery of photographing women’s portraits. Photo taken of a client in 2016.Īs cocky as David was back then, he still wanted to learn and the fact that clients were asking him countless times what to do pushed him to evolve. I would have people ask me nervously what they should do with their hands or whether they should smile or not. You can already imagine how uncomfortable that made anyone in front of my camera. I focused on my camera settings, the light, and loosely cared about what the subject felt like. It also showed in the way I directed my photoshoots. I was all about creating these outdoor images that only catered to my vision. – “I’m all about capturing the candid and the atmosphere’s vibe, not some boring static vibe in a studio.”Ģ014 David sounded like as if an elitist film critic who criticizes any movie that isn’t directed by Alfred Hitchcock started getting into photography. – “that’s just a picture of someone’s face – like it’s so simple.” – “like where’s the fun in studio portraits when all they do is set up the same lighting set up and a lame color backdrop?” These were some of the reactions I made to seeing studio portraits: Little David who just started Freshman year at UC Davis apparently knew what he liked and didn’t like in photography styles and one of them was studio photography. You know when you’ve been at a hobby for some time, received a number of compliments, no longer feel like a beginner, and go from “oh nono, it’s just a little hobby” to telling people about your passion without any given prompt? Yeah, that’s what was happening to me after 2 years. A photo of my friend Christina at the Han River during our senior summer of High SchoolĪfter 2 years of this, something weird happened with my head – it started to get big. A photo I took of the girl’s soccer team in 2013 for yearbook. I was also the guy pulling aside friends at the Han River to test out flash photography at sunset because of some new technique I saw on YouTube. I was that guy taking photos of all the athletes for yearbook. He knew how passionate I was about dance and bought a Sony NEX-7 which I pretty much carried everywhere with me. If you care to follow me down memory lane, I started photography in High School when I begged my dad to upgrade the family camera so I can film dance videos for YouTube. A couple of things happened in succession: I cringed, I made an audible “wow” to myself, and I remembered that I used to think studio portraits were LAME. With less than 6 hours left in 2019 and the last decade, I looked back at my 7-year photography journey.
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