Rafa Botello – twilight portraits shot on flash

shooting professional athlete Rafa Botello for my ‘Twilight Portraits’ series of images, I had the shot set up perfectly and was all prepped and ready for that all too short window of twilight that comes and goes in a flash.
Here you see the light and the balance is perfect but I had wanted to make this a moving image and just as Rafa set off his tyre blew out and he had to do a quick change…Fast as he was the light fell faster into the night to make this much of a differnce but while, to me at least, the top shot is more technically well balanced I still prefer the moving one below.

professional athlete Rafa Botello shots on ambient

Rafa Botello gym session – all shot for Trisense Magazine using only available ambient light….

graphics and graffiti

I love subtle light.
I love strong light.
I love, graphics, graffiti and urban decay.
I love hi tech and lo tech.
I love colour and black & white.
I love movement and static shots.
I want to keep my mind open and my eyes peeled for anything that catches them….

my own backyard

sometimes it’s all too easy to ignore what’s in your own backyard…To think that better things lie way over the horizon and that you’ll only reach them if you travel far from where you come from to get them.

sometimes I think the further you travel down this creative road the harder it gets because you wanna get better at what you do, what you capture and what you see and the better you get the better you want to be….
I like making pictures. I take them all the time. Pressing the shutter on the world I see before me makes me feel whole. When I lose that feeling I go back to my roots and I photograph the ordinary things that surround me and embrace me and revive me.
I go back to the basics – to how I first started…To what made me want to be a photographer and a film maker in the first place and I try to rekindle that feeling and take pictures of the simple things close to home.