about Alluring Exposures
Male
Born and raised in Mexico, I started shooting with a Kodak Instamatic 126 camera when I was 12. When I was 15, my family relocated to Chicago IL and a short time after I bought myself a Mamiya 110 SLR with limited manual exposure settings. After 2 years of experimenting with that, I got me my first full-fledged 35 mm, a Canon (can't remember the model but I think it was an AE). I continued shooting anyone who would pose for me, landscapes, citiscapes... The Canon died after about 3 years so I bought a Nikon FG-20 (which my sister now has and it still works great), went to a Nikon FA, Nikon N4004, Nikon N80, Nikon E8700, then a Nikon D70s, a D300, D300s and then Sony 6000 series came out. I shoot mainly with the A6400 and have a 6300 for backup, considering having it turned IR.. Photography has always been my passion but I didn't start pursuing model photography seriously until 2001 at the insistence of 3 models I was friends with and for whom I had shot special projects.
Since then, I have shot for multiple agencies, magazines, promoters, boutiques, and local designers. I have helped many new/aspiring models get their portfolios started, helped some experienced models experiment with new looks and styles, and am also strongly oriented to dance and dance performance photography.
I have to say as a former commercial photographer, I found the whole Ujena model of advertising a crass photographic and creative rip-off. To get people to photograph models in their swimwear and then use those images in their advertising without compensation, telling those photographers they would appear in print is absolutely unconscionable. Personally I would have nothing to do with them and feel sorry for the people that fall for their own brand of a scam. You have a couple of really exciting images like "Desert Flower," but for the betterment of your commercial credibility (if that's what you're wanting to do ultimately), I'd distance myself from those rat bastards at Ujena as soon as possible. I can't tell you how to conduct yourself, but I just had to speak out when I saw the Ujena link.