My Story:

I think I got my first camera when I was 5 years old, a 110 film camera. Three or four years later, came the Zenit 122, my first love. She taught me all the techniques foundations, and also gave me fair shots to advance in composition. Around fifthteen I left it aside, moving my obsessions to computer security where I learned my foundations on IT.

When the time to choose a career at university came, I chose business, because I wanted to develop my own business. Ironically, I left my career after 4 years to dedicate me full time to my business, that was growing at the same university business incubator (IT business).

Before my first big broke up (that happens sometimes when you are in business), I got this small point and shoot camera. Even when she was a really crappy camera, it was a bright enough spark that gave me light in my darkest days, and also she ignited the flame of photography once again.

In order to kill the depression-post-broke, I travelled to Bolivia, Perú and Ecuador. Once there I saw it clearly, I wanted to become a travel photographer. I managed to sold my first pictures, but couldn’t make a living, I was too inexperienced and trying to make money in one of the poorest Latin America’s markets.

Back in Chile, I seriously developed and taught myself in photography. I got a mentor and got a good camera. In the meantime, I got an offer from Image Group to go work as a Cruise Photographer, it didn’t worked well financially (actually I lost money working for them), but I learned so much about photography business and studio photography that it worth the pain.

Now I am back in Chile, and I have more projects than just-elected-president. So, stay up at the blog!

My Photography:

Photography is my passion and quality is my obsession. Photography for me is about digging into the world to get a small piece of it, and sometimes it’s the opposite, stretching the reality to the point where it meets fantasy and freezes it with the strobes. But in addition to it, photography is also about social skills, travel tactics and sometimes, even acrobatics climbing to get “the perspective”.

But it ain’t easy, that’s why I try to approach photography from multiple levels. I got structured from the old-classic-Ansel-Adams camera/negative/print, to the “modern workflow” of camera/raw/screen.

The camera is still ruled by the zone system, with the modern corrections to digital. I work in full frame, top line lenses and I always care the equipment quality meets the challenge. At the computer, I process the raw mostly with Lightroom and Photoshop, where I’m pretty good at, but sometimes I try new software, to feed my obsession with best and new. Finally, I give most of my personal pictures for free in a Creative Commons license at flickr.