These days I’m paying extra attention to things like color harmony and the quality of light, and the cool thing about working with a camera is that it pushes me to work harder at pre-visualization.

Learning to see the quality of light is by far the best thing I can learn to visualize compositions, and in that sense, it is also the hardest.

On this post, I share my thoughts on gear talk and a step I’m taking to improve the light quality on my portrait shots.

Taking portraits never fail to be challenging. I remember when I first began getting into it, I tended to overdo things. Like over packing gear or even planning poses. So, lately, I began to be a little more careless, and that feels about right.

Myrka is an actress and editorial model based in New York City. We met at the Bethesda Terrace in Central Park, off 68th Street to take casual portraits.

Meeting a new challenge is by far the most significant benefit I get from doing casual photo shoots in the street.

In this post, I share my impressions from photographing a fashion blogger

Learning to be attentive to light is always a step in the right direction.

Black and White film portraits of CT artist Veronica Wolfgang!

 Using a film camera forces me to think more about how light and location interact with the subject