Yes. Files for social media are at a maximum of 2560px on the large side, the other ones are at the largest resolution possible.

I often come back to those pictures that seem inconsequential to other people, because THEY weren’t there.

I was, and that’s enough.

It’s easy to go on Google and find pictures of the Tour Eiffel in every angle, every season, every lighting.

To me, monuments are not a thing to photograph. This picture, though?

https://preview.redd.it/7u1r8b5vv20c1.jpeg?width=1920&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=a5743742dde44f4f2329bd20309f6bc7ce4b0f54

I remember it was a winter night. I remember the street, I remember the bar. I remember going in just because it was raining, I had my freshly done laundry with me and I seriously needed a coffee.

I remember going in, seeing this guy. I remember I had my Nikon d3400 on me, 35mm lens on. I remember thinking “holy fuck I need to take this”, dropping the laundry bag, pointing, framing and shooting. I remember I had it in manual, set up for dark scenes.

I also remember some guy telling me on social media that he recognized the bar and his grandfather, that he wanted to buy a big ass print.

I also remember that some other guy hired me to take a picture in this precise same bar for the cover of his book, after seeing it.

Memories are like that. Pictures taken in random moments will bring you so much more, precisely because they’re random. “I took this pic of X because i was in Paris” doesn’t hold the same power that “I was walking down this alley and this grabbed my attention”.

Posing. I shit you not, posing.

Most of what I learned when it comes to photography, from composition to lighting, was learned in a photoshoot as a model.

I kept an eye on how the photographer was working. How he told me to pose. The angles. The lighting. And in the end, he allowed me to watch as he edited the shoot in Lightroom.

I didn’t know much about photography before that. Just the basics. After? Oh. Man.

Yesterday I had a shoot like this. Client only wanted a couple headshots for her linkedin and resume, but she was shy and didn’t know how to pose.

I started to talk to her, told her anecdotes, told her about the stuff i have in my shelves, asked about why she decided to migrate, blahblahblah. As we were talking, i kept on shooting.

It’s all about making them forget there’s a camera.