anilorac186's photostream

I'm 23 from Puerto Rico. Love photography, make-up, music, movies and sometimes TV. Since I was little I love taking pictures of everyone and everyhing. It was only about 2 years ago that I really discovered that I had en eye for it. I had to take a Black and White course in my school and from the beginning my teacher said you've got talent, use it! So that motivated me to learn and take better pictures. I fell in love with the dark room, although I still don't like reeling film with the metal reels haha. I took the second course but because of work, school and some other things I couldn't produce the images I wanted, still I did make a few sets that I really liked. For now I work with the camera I used for class, the 35mm Canon Rebel K2 3000. It's an amateur camera but hey it's not about having the most high-tech camera out there, I mean look at the cameras that Ansel Adams and many other photographers worked with years ago and look at the masterpieces they created! I am in NO WAY comparing myself to any of them, but what I mean is, there's no use in having the best and newest camera out there if you don't have the talent to take a beautiful and meaningful photograph.

I like to make icons and banners on PS. I started about 2 years ago, all because of Garrett Hedlund. I had to go watch the movie Four Brothers for a class (I study Telecommunications) and he really stuck out for me, not for his good looks but his performance. I looked for info on him on the net and saw all these gorgeous icons and thought well, why use someone else's if I can make my own? So I started experimenting with different programs and now I just use Photoshop CS2. I'm no expert but I can defend myself haha :P

Ever since I was little I played with makeup. See my mom used to get makeup as gifts and she never wore makeup so I took all the makeup and played around with it. Little did I know later in life it'd become my passion. I am a self-taught makeup artist. I've never taken a makeup class, what I know I've learned on my own, In fact, during this (my last semester in University) is the first time I take a makeup class, theatrical makeup to be exact. I believe that makeup has the power to transform people, can you imagine Moulin Rouge, the Lord of the Ring films and countless movies without makeup? NO! Because it is essential! Makeup should always be fun, if it looks bad don't worry, it'll wash off in no time!!!