here is my heartfelt thanks to fer for the best one on one session :) you can see his amazing work here and here
Hey Fer! THANK YOU SO MUCH for taking the time to come up here and teach me!!! I learned so much that my head is still swimming… THANK YOU!!! What can I say? You are so awesome! You were so open with all of your knowledge and information, something that is truly rare in this business. I loved watching you in action…something that I wish I could watch more of! When I shot Marcie and Isaac on Tuesday, I really tried to think out of the box and shoot creatively. I kept trying to looking for the unobvious, adjusting my perscepctive of what I could actually see. The shooting techniques you showed me really were phenomenal!! I kept thinking of all your phrases: put them in the corner, look for the unobvious, get rid of the unwanted elements, get lower…get higher…everything was so helpful! I also learned so much about how to see light…the light metering technique you showed me was awesome! I used it to see light in a whole different way. I never used to look for light patterns before and now I try to see the way light falls on a wall or through a window and how I can use it to my advantage. I am still a portrait shooter, and probably will be forever, but you helped me see that there are different angles that can help make an image more than just a pretty picture, it can become a work of art.
More importantly, you gave me a renewal of creativity…I have long admired your work and have been a fan for ages. Just being around you for a couple of days reminded me that this job is supposed to be fun! You exude a vitality and passion for your work…one of the most memorable things you said to me was that your wife never says to Maya that you are going to work…she says ‘Daddy is going to do what he loves.’ When you talked about planting that seed early on in our children, it really impacted me. I get all teary-eyed emotional just thinking about that. I am always trying to balance work and family and always have my children foremost in my mind with every business choice I make. So, even though that wasn’t one of my goals, I actually learned a lot from you on how to truly enjoy and love what I do.
Wth all of my heart, THANK YOU! And thank you to your sweet wife and daughter for sharing you with the world. I know that you have many demands on your time and that you travel lots…hearing about your wife and the way she supports and encourages you really inspired me! I can’t wait to meet this incredible woman that you were lucky enough to marry :) And I have to say that my kids all loved you as well! Abby still thinks its funny the way you sing all the time, and the first thing Ella said on Tuesday morning was ‘Where is the funny guy?’ Hehehe!!! And I know Gerardo loves hanging out with you too!
I wish you lots of success and many blessings in your future… for sure you will always have a friend in the Garmendia family! See you at Boda F in the fall :)
Thanks!
Angela G.
