Karen Martinez

She is the daughter of my Brother-in-Law's Uncle and her Quinceniera is comming up...
I am the sister of the wife of her father's nephew and I can take pictures fairly well..





The family asked me to take the pictures for her Quinceniera. A Quinceniera is similar to the American Sweet 16. It is a right of passage for most Hispanic ladies. It symbolizes the first steps taken into womanhood and is officiated by a ceremony done in church and a celebration following. She's going to have an enlarged picture of herself for people to sign at the Quinceniera and she wanted the picutes to be done at Balboa Beach.





I learned a lot yesterday. I learned about client-photographer etiquet. I learned about angles and where to stand when it comes to direction of the sun. I learned that due to the limited landscape a beach is a difficult place to photograph people. I also learned that the first 15 to 20 minutes of any photography session will most likely be spent on getting the suject to relax. Karen was very rigid at the beggining of yesterday's session, but towards the end she was more relaxed which made for more natural looking pictures.





She's a nice person and mature for her young age.