Day to Day by Rivka Galicia

Day to Day by Rivka Galicia

I started doing photography because I love Mexico's colors and textures, this was the start of the journey.
But I felt like those experiences were only found in very specific streets or markets.

Later on, I took the first photo of this project with a compact camera, the Canon PowerShot ELPH, and I felt like I could do more.
Later, I ordered my Canon R50, and all the photos are made with that one.

This is the first course I’ve ever taken on photography, but I think I can teach my brain to see things no one sees, and to communicate through photography, and that’s what I aimed to do here.

Canon Elph Power Shot 360
Canon R50 > Kit lense
Lightroom

This photo is not very technical, it doesn’t even has good quality.
I'm used to take my canon compact camera everywhere... and make photos of everything: people, pets, parties... but I never took photograph that seriously... until this photo.
I took this photo of my boyfriend in a random that, but something caught my eye, I think it was the sensibility and hidden smile in his eyes.
This is when I decided I wanted to try more.

When I learned about shutter speed, I was amazed.
I went out running to my garden with my camera and start taking photos - I made the mistake of trying to use manual focus on a bunch of bees (haha).
You can imagine the disappointment when I realized my photos didn’t have great lighting or focus, but it was okay; it was just the first try.
Even so, here is my favorite photo from that day.

I took a family trip to Atlixco, and I thought it would be a great opportunity.
However, I never got to step out of my mom’s car because we were headed to a specific event I couldn’t miss.
The beauty of these photos is the fact that I had to look very quickly for things happening.
All the photos in this section were taken from inside her car:

I was so excited to take photos of cows, in the city you don’t usually have contact with these amazing animals.
This day, was the first time a texture caught my eye: hay.
I tried to capture movement, but also sentiment in the animals.
Here is the result:
(I wish I could upload so much more but Domestika would’t allow me ): )

This was the last day in my journey of this course.
I took photos of 2/3 of my dogs, the last one wasn't cooperating that day (haha
I enjoyed a lot getting to make my dogs move or catching their attention, but the only thing they trully wanted was to go inside the house again (and I think you can see that sentiment in the photos)

I hope you enjoyed this journey as much as I did, thank you.