Alexis Cuarezma

It's Friday... Time to put work like my boy @the_tgshow , not days / weekends off. Let's get it!!!! #teamcanon #teambayphoto #boxing (at Team Watson Boxing Club) https://www.instagram.com/p/BtopZOegPn3/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1nv0r98uxf8ti

New work, portrait of the homie @chefboyparis , Point Guard for Berkeley. Any Cal fans in the house? Need to photograph more basketball again. Got so many ideas and it's always so much fun. #teamcanon #profoto #profotousa #canon5ds #basketball #basketballportrait #teambayphoto #sekonic (at Haas Pavilion) https://www.instagram.com/p/Btd6bLIAun5/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1ece0fuq0bin

Focused! Portrait of the homie @the_tgshow from our project "Believe". Also new video alert, if you want to know how this image was made, check out the link in my bio. #teamcanon #teambayphoto #canon5ds https://www.instagram.com/p/BtV-Mv0grt0/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=bl59tgfhc66y

Outtake. Unplanned but I love it. With Nicaragua's finest @marinajacoby Everyone, if you're seeing this, go follow her & spam her with some love in her comments. She's amazing. Tell her I sent you!! Marina, can't wait to connect again, strike some lights and make some more images. I need to make something happen sooner than later. Got so many ideas. I want to step my game up. @adrianapaniaguaof , I need figure out how to make you come be part of this too!! 🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼🇳🇮 #marinajacoby #missnicaragua2016 #missnicaragua #profotousa #canon5ds https://www.instagram.com/p/BtTSVNYA-cq/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1gdhxdog3ux3b

Nicaragua - strength and beauty @marinajacoby 🇳🇮 #Nicaragua #nicaragualibre #marinajacoby #missnicaragua2016 #missnicaragua #profotousa #canon5ds https://www.instagram.com/p/BtQko9MgjcH/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=2kwnsa31b3y5

1 of my favorite images of @marinajacoby we did after we finished shooting all our concepts 🇳🇮 #marinajacoby #canonusa #teamcanon #teambayphoto #profotousa https://www.instagram.com/p/BtOB3YSA32H/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1nx69eicpi19f

New York swagger in the house. Stepping in the booth repping the east coast. Thankfully, music studios are usually dark specially the mic booth, as I used the modeling lights to make this since I couldn't get the strobes to properly trigger. I switched to my prime 50mm and shot it at F2.0 since I knew that's when that lens got sharp. This was one of the final images we made that day back in 2006. Crazy how much I remember considering it was 13yrs ago. #teamcanon #musician #portraitphotography #portrait #newyork #rapper https://www.instagram.com/p/BtL82iegttp/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=ym3dl41vz1jq

We did this shoot in a music studio in Hayward called 17 Hertz. I was using 2 @paulcbuffinc strobes I borrowed from my school. To trigger the lights, they gave you the sync cord plus a hot shoe adapter to plug the sync cord to. When I setup the lights, the hotshot adapter didn't work & it wouldn't trigger the lights (at the time, I didn't know you could actually plug it directly to the camera). So to work around this, I used my Canon Speedlite to trigger the lights from the slave. However, I was getting weird results. Even though the lights were trigging from the slave, everything was coming up extremely underexposed. It appeared the camera was only capturing the very end of the flash from the strobe. No matter how bright or close I put the lights, it would come out underexposed. I took a few frames like this as I thought I could maybe push the exposure in post (I was getting the results I wanted but it was just way under). Thankfully, I was able to. This was pushed about 2 stops in post and it still came out good. For the rest of the shoot to work around this, I just used the modeling lights which is what lit the previous shot. I told James the school studio/equipment manager the issue I had and he said maybe it was a pre-flash from the Speedlite that was throwing it off. Either way, I was happy I was to find a work around. Circa 2006 P.S. I need to photograph some musicians again. https://www.instagram.com/p/BtLTpsLgNdo/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1m2cs9m6tqa10

Relentless #sosnicaragua A warrant was issued for several journalist and news directors Miguel Mora & Lucia Pineda last month. The station was raided and they were incarcerated. In addition, for 5months and counting the government is withholding materials required to produced newspapers. Silence, censorship and looking the other way are allies of oppression and dictators. These human right violations and crimes are currently being committed in Nicaragua under the dictator Daniel Ortega, who has disgusting 30+ year track record of atrocities including raping his daughter and executing people want to speak up against him like Alexis Arguello. This project was done in an effort to be bring attention to these human right violations, crimes and censorship. I certainly understand I'm in an extremely privileged position having escaped that situation at the age of 6 and being nearly 4,000 miles away. I'm reminded everyday how lucky I am when my biggest concerns are making photos and not eating too much food. Despite being in this privileged position, I still find myself having to be concerned with what I make and haven't been able to do what I want, with who I want for a number of reasons. If you're afraid to speak your mind or express yourself, you're not free. Not being afraid for yourself is one thing, but having family/friends face consequences of your actions is completely different. And that's an actual problem I'm trying to figure out. Relentless #sosnicaragua https://www.instagram.com/p/BszJOfUgMtO/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=jem4z59ewoz7

Relentless #sosnicaragua 🇳🇮 https://www.instagram.com/p/Bsy5Kz-ApLV/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=16ebv0yj4bsm

Azul y blanco con la Reina de belleza @marinajacoby 🙏🏼🇳🇮 Paz #sosnicaragua (at América, Managua, Nicaragua) https://www.instagram.com/p/BseOjlUAqLi/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1t55tv43pkmy2

Outtake from my shoot with @marinajacoby - Miss Nicaragua 2016 🇳🇮 #sosnicaragua https://www.instagram.com/p/BsbHGi9ghJZ/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=agx8m46cp0yk

New video alert, Fitness shoot with dramatic skies and color. All done in camera. Check out how I photographed @sarinamariefitness a few weeks ago. Link in my bio. If you're seeing this on Facebook, here's the video link: https://youtu.be/0JTWcN0k3Ac #canonusa #canon5ds #teambayphoto #teamcanon #profotousa #profotob1 https://www.instagram.com/p/BsLgDOlg1Cl/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1eq52x4bwv74g

Fun fact, celebrating the new year with @bisforbella4 in 2019, took her as my Senior prone date in 2002! 🎉🎊🥂🙌🏼 https://www.instagram.com/p/BsFYg_3glmH/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1pdmmq32hjcds

My top 9 for 2018. Thank you so much everyone who helped make these images happen 🙏🏼 and everyone who follows me. @nigerianprince23 dominating 🙌🏼 & glad my shoots with @seeshevydance & @marinajacoby made it too. I want to work with you all again in 2019 and forever. Thankful and grateful to have worked with everyone here. Have a safe and amazing time tonight everyone 🥂 #topnine #teambayphoto #teamcanon #profotousa #canon5ds https://www.instagram.com/p/BsDu4TeAdmJ/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=iode9ogw1sty

My favorite from this look/location of @sarinamariefitness . Like the previous image, all done in camera 📸 stacked filters in front of my lens and blasted her with light. 2 @profotousa B1's at full power with a P50 magnum reflector on each at position 4 to focus the light and add power. Ran test prior to get this look but the most important thing to get this image is what any real estate agent will tell is important: "location, location, location!" We drove around for a bit to find the right place so I could photograph her against the sky and not see any power lines or trees. Was hoping for clouds and got lucky that day too 🙏🏼🥂 #profotob1 #profotousa #teambayphoto #teamcanon #fitness #sekonic #canon5ds (at Livermore, California) https://www.instagram.com/p/Br5jvhPA3a-/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=4thk7stlvk25

New work shot just before Christmas. Photo of @sarinamariefitness all done in camera. Stacked 4 filters in front of my lens and blasted her with light to get away from a cloudy, colorless overcast day as much as possible. Wasn't going for a "natural" look at all or being subtle at all. Hope everyone had an amazing Christmas and are enjoying the holidays with your loved ones 🙏🏼 #teamcanon #profotousa #profotob1 #teambayphoto #canon5ds (at Livermore, California) https://www.instagram.com/p/Br3EwLqANEB/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=9e6zi2eie0iu