Here’s one more post with simple photo tips to improve your images from Antigua Guatemala. Let’s start with this simple photographic recipe: The first ingredient is quality light, that’s 50% of the recipe. Second ingredient is strong photographic composition; that’s another 25%. The third and last ingredient is an interesting subject; the last 25% of … Read more
Here are some simple photo tips to improve your street photography, regardless of where you live. Seek out quality light: the golden hour in the morning or afternoon is a good place to start. Focus on interesting subjects, that is, of course, a personal preference, but do try finding extraordinary subjects. Last but not least, … Read more
I really enjoy teaching street photography to timid photographers through the Antigua Photo Walks. Here’s a photographer who in the previous week had told me that he was uncomfortable photographing people, yet decided to take the street photography walk with me and now he was capturing fabulous pictures within five feet from the subjects. Some … Read more
Believe it or not, this was one of the coldest mornings thus far during this Winter season, 8C/46F, yet one of the most beautiful morning with cloud-free skies and lots of spectacular light. You really ought to come to Antigua Guatemala during the Winter season, it’s quite possibly the most fabulous time to visit. One … Read more
I believe I have developed a reproducible crash course that turns shy and timid photography enthusiasts into fearless, in-your-face street photographers by providing them with set of approaches and tricks to capture candid portraits of strangers within 3 to 6 feet. I really enjoy watching the transformation of apprehensive shooters into dare-devil paparazzi photographers through … Read more
Another thing that I encourage during the street photography walks around Antigua Guatemala is to capture portraits of strangers, intimate portraits whenever possible, which means within 3-6 feet or 1 to 2 meters at the most. I also encourage to capture portraits of kinds of people not just the Maya people. This means portraits of … Read more
Some of things I teach during the AntiguaPhotoWalks.com that I lead around town is composition rules, including sub-framing, which is the act of using natural frames found on streets, such as arches, windows, doors, branches, or even a pair of legs, such as in this case. Another thing that I teach is that pictures of … Read more