Culture

Hero Shot

Latin-American

My work emphasizes on the dual personality/culture my family has. We are Latinas but often get confused for different ethnicities because of our fair skin. My goal was to shoot the American styled photos as soft and subtle and the Latina side as bold and loud. During the shoot I was having trouble with the sun. We had to go during mid-day because of conflicting issues with my model. It was troublesome but I was able to get images I was happy with. I used my external flash to make sure my subject was properly lit all around and would help with the harsh shadows the sun was causing. During the photo shoot we heard a rattle snake approaching so we decided we would end it at that location. Professor Schafer helped me with the edits and I was able to play with the highlights and shadows to get the image where I wanted it. With the second image I kept going back and forth between making the image warmer or leaving it the way it looks like now. I ended leaving it a little bit cool, when making it warmer it made my subjects skin too red. 

Before the editing