Chris Acuña Photography

The photos below are the result of constant nagging by my friend Loida to take her on a “photo adventure” which is basically her way of telling me that she wants to have her portrait taken in some form or another. So I agreed to a portrait session and we set a date, but on this particular day it was incredibly overcast and the rain was coming down with no signs of stopping. So, naturally my model was already making other plans and getting ready to call it quits before we even left her apartment. Fortunate for us, I was able to convince her to put aside her fear of getting wet and go out and take some damn photos!

You can tell in some of the photos below that the day was very wet and you can definitely see some rain drops in some of the images below. Regardless, the adventure went on and we came away with some pretty cool photos and a lot of good laughs from running around Pinecrest Gardens and having fun in the rain.

I’m a little late in posting these images, but I wanted to get them online either way because I am really happy with how they turned out. I photographed the majority of Easter with a new Nikon lens I purchased on Ebay. 35mm ƒ2.0 for the curious, and the quality was something I was really impressed with. If you follow my work at all you would know that I love my background soft and out of focus, especially with portraits, and this lens delivers excellent color and some great Bokeh.

SO anyway, Easter this year was a blast. We celebrated Annabelle’s 1st birthday along with the Holiday and the day was perfect. Nice an sunny on a Sunday afternoon with family and friends is always a good time. Food was provided by the Crepe Maker. I was also able to shoot a roll of film that day which was pretty fun

The renaissance festival here in Florida is always a good time. This year it was held at Cauley Square Historic Village under the shade of the trees and with a nice cool breeze. I always enjoy photographing this event because the characters are so friendly and lively that they make excellent photo subjects. The costumes are great and the best part about it is that everyone WANTS you to photograph them. A true photographers paradise! In any case, this year I was very happy with the photos I was able to capture. It was extremely difficult to choose my favorites so forgive me for the image overload below.

I’m also having a hard time choosing my favorite photo to submit to the annual photo contest so if you have any comments on your favorite image please let me know!

 

 

I had the opportunity to go to the Sony Ericsson Open last week and our tickets were excellent. What is even more excellent is that I was able to smuggle in my rather large zoom lens which allowed me to capture some pretty sweet photos. It was an evening match so we saw Caroline Wozniacki and Serena Williams go head to head and afterwards we saw David Ferrer beat Juan Martin del Potro. It was a great experience and some of the photos I was able to capture are below for your viewing pleasure

Someone once told me that taking photos is easy and creating images is the real challenge. I couldn’t agree more. In continuation of my photo project this year exploring the capabilities of film and push myself further I decided to experiment a bit.

These photographs we mostly shot at a Botanical Garden in Napels on a day where I had forgotten to bring my digital camera. I know, I know, big failure to leave my camera behind, but I did have my film camera with me so I stopped at a local CVS and purchased four rolls of film to make use of the camera. I’m so glad I left my digital camera at home. Rather than just capture straight photographs of flowers and Nancy I decided to tray some double exposures and see what ort of results I could get. The process was extremely rewarding. I fell in love with all of the images instantly.

For the curious: the double exposure process is similar to photographing as you regularly would, the only difference is when you reach the end of the roll, you winde up the film and stop right before it enters the canister and begin shooting over the same roll again. The results that can be achieved through this process can be seen below. What I love most about this process is how unpredictable and unique the images are. It makes seeing the photos for the first time so much more exciting! I have several ideas I’d like to try with this method of photographing so you can expect to see more of this style again in the future!

All of the photographs below are taken straight from the camera with no Photoshop or image editing done. All were shot on 35mm film with a manual Nikon camera and a 50mm lens. Enjoy!