A Day at the Track

I never got into the thrill of going fast. I liked sprinting, and for that I was relatively fast, and I enjoyed jumping off tall things although I have always been scared of heights. There has always been something about going fast in a motor vehicle that has never really enticed me. My father and brother on the other hand really enjoy the challenge and thrill of speed. After becoming friends with a local car club in Miami and going to some car events, I have developed an interest in car photography. My dad has always had a love for Porsche. He has recently shown interest in taking his car to the track. Through the shop that my father had some work done on his car, he was invited to go down to the Homestead Miami Speedway to drive his car like it was meant to be driven. Since getting into car photography, cars have proven to be an interesting subject to shoot and sporty enough to offer a challenge. Racecars and getting on the track to shoot is more along the lines of a challenge that I am enticed by. Spending quality time with my father is great when we are both doing things we love and can share the experience together. Here is a session with my father and I at the track; him driving while I run around taking pictures of him and others zooming around. Yes, I did get to ride along with him a couple times, and yes I did enjoy the speed. I hope you enjoy my photos of the fast cars!

After Portraits, What's next.

This will be the last of portraits for a little while, I will be posting other genres of photography that I have been able to shoot and hopefully I can share some life stories along the way. As I attempted to end the series on portraiture, I had several things on my mind to share. I have been wanting to write about my development as a photographer while relating this experience to life-lessons learned while growing up. I also wanted to explain my perspective on photography pricing, and how I have experienced it. It became difficult to keep this blog short, simple, and cleverly tied to photography. I have decided to incorporate it in the next series of blogs and find some sort of transition between blogs so that it is not one huge long novel to read all at once. It is currently an unfinished draft and there may be a brief intermission before I can manage to finish. The intermission, however, will not be absent of photo postings. After all, this is a photography blog, but I do want to express a little more with words every now and then. My intention for starting this blog besides showing my photography has been to gain an opportunity to share a passion through writing.

Lifestyle and Self-Promotional Headshots

There are many challenges with portraiture and so many different types of portraiture within photography that I could easily spend a whole career on just portraiture and be completely fulfilled. Taking Headshots is one specific area of portraiture that you can spend a lot of time developing a career becoming successful at. It can be extremely simple yet full of emotion. There is a common structure as far as formal portraiture goes, but they can also be extremely fun and interactive. The dynamics of each person and the emotions they are capable of expressing just through their faces makes portraiture and specifically headshots so interesting. I have a young portfolio in my more recent studied headshot work, but I really enjoy the room to grow and progress towards a well rounded portfolio and understanding of the extent of what headshots can be. In general, I have a broad interest in portraiture and photography so I want to be a little more liberal when it comes to headshots. I am willing to create less formal headshots, including some lifestyles into the composition or using a subtle promotion as the background of a portrait is something I like to create. Of course for the client, it is the most important to create an image that is common to what they would like to communicate in their own headshots. Most of the time, clients may not have a set expectation of how their headshots should look other than what they have seen before in the typical corporate/school directory photos and what they want to use their headshots for. I have no problem meeting those expectations, but I love a playful client willing to incorporate a little more personality into their headshots. Given the opportunity, I will play with the boundaries. Right now I love experimenting with my own work and learning from other's work so that I continue to grow into both the more conservative art of headshots and the creative sides of experimenting with portraiture. This is another aspect of my love for photography, the room to grow, learn, experiment, and get better.