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April 9, 2013 by heber vega
Maternity
A few days ago, I finally made the time to photograph my best friend and wife, Belen Leon, at 9 months pregnant! Yes, I really cut it close to the time that our fourth son is due. This will probably be the last child we add to our family by birth, so we wanted to [...]Archive
October 17, 2012 by heber vega
When light is non-existent
In photography, many things can go wrong during a shoot. Most of the time, things don’t happen exactly the way we visualized them. Sometimes things happen that are completely out of our control. We have to work hard to minimize as many of these situations as possible, but sometimes things happen. A few weeks back, [...]Archive
October 12, 2012 by heber vega
Gear that challenges your work
I keep working with my new strobes (Elinchrom Quadra – a review is coming soon!) and I’m really enjoying the opportunities they’ve created for me in this new photographic market in northern Iraq. These days I’ve been busy shooting, and I love that! A little at a time I’ve been able to develop a better [...]Archive
March 29, 2012 by heber vega
Reminder: Be Ready
Last week was the biggest holiday for this part in Iraq. It’s called Nowruz (New Year) and I got invited for a picnic at a small village named Mawat. As I knew I was going to have a great time with local friends, and that we were going to spend some time together in a [...]Archive
October 18, 2011 by heber vega
How off-camera light can improve your photography
This weekend I assisted at a very special wedding party. It was the wedding of one of my good friends, teammate and former editor of this blog, DeeDee Baumgarner. It was so special because she married a local Kurdish friend, and for this region of Iraq that is not the norm (to say the least). [...]Archive
October 12, 2011 by heber vega
Photographing a celebrity within one hour
In my short one-and-a-half year career as photographer, nothing really prepared me for a shoot like this. I mean, I’d read a couple times about what it takes to shoot a celebrity, but it is something totally different when you finally have to pull the trigger. At least it felt that way. Today I want [...]Archive
August 14, 2010 by heber vega
Pursuing and Creating Light! (resources)
If you have been following my Tweets, then you may remember me talking about on-location lighting setups. For a long time, I’ve been thinking about making a lighting setup for environmental portraits and editorial types of shots. Photographers such as Mitchell Kanashkevich, have helped in this quest. He has a great e-book on using flash, [...]Archive
July 23, 2010 by heber vega