Good Friend, Good Father
In the Village where I stay, I've four neighbors - Pio, Jun, Mac, Alvin, all of whom I occasinally get to play basketball with. Among them Alvin, or Bino, as some other guys call him, is the closest to me. -> Decent guy, good boss, good provider, and a loving husband with a four month old child. [I featured a portrait of Andrew in a previous post]
One busy day, after finishung my errands, I managed to make it to Alvin's before dark, hopefully to take available light portraits of the little one [I've been trying to do portraits of his child every month he grows older]. This time, I Knew 'twould be a strech because the sun had just set as I rang the doorbell.
A simple remembrance of little Andrew Garcia's fourth month.
Dramatic low-key images where what I had in mind, but being very keen on the fading ambient light, I decided, as I was enetering Alvin's living room, that "quickie" silhoutte shots would be a lot easier for me to execute with the dusk light also very fleeting [in 5 or so minutes I knew too that darkness will have fallen] Briefly explaining to Bino what I wanted, I rushed him to raise his child in the middle of the street a couple or so times [7, to be exact] and did my thing.
Wether a portrait shoot takes 30 minutes, an hour, 5 hours is an arbitrary matter. It's always the end goal/result that matters. [One time, I did spend one whole day taking photos of this girl, between breakfast, lunch, merienda,
- of course THAT was fun, considering I was in love with her -> photos were OK of course]. With Alvin and his child, somehow, I'm glad I arrived later than I had planned - hence the silhoutte option. 'Twas all good. Am happy with my snaps - took only about a minute.
Wether a portrait shoot takes 30 minutes, an hour, 5 hours is an arbitrary matter. It's always the end goal/result that matters. [One time, I did spend one whole day taking photos of this girl, between breakfast, lunch, merienda,
- of course THAT was fun, considering I was in love with her -> photos were OK of course]. With Alvin and his child, somehow, I'm glad I arrived later than I had planned - hence the silhoutte option. 'Twas all good. Am happy with my snaps - took only about a minute.
brosi gonzales
