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FREE Photo Shoot Locations Edinburg and McAllen, Texas
Edinburg City Hall Edinburg, Texas Edinburg City Hall is such a beautiful place for photos. The location is a public space built to impress visitors. It’s adjacent to Edinburg Municipal Auditorium, which is a highlight of the city hall space. The structures are geometrically fun, of course they got grass and trees but the good kind…
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Friends in Photography
TBT 2010 Yesterday my friend Karen and I matted a few of the images I will be displaying/selling at the McAllen Art Walk March 5th. Karen is an expert matter, well not really but she’s dam good. So I asked her if she could help me matte my images. We began working at 9 a.m.…
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Daniela Garza – Head shots – Ben Briones Studios
Daniela is my best friend of 10+ years and I love her to death. I have seen this beautiful soul grow and become a passionate care giver and proud Latina. She recently asked me to help with her some head shots for work but knowing our dynamic I always love taking our photo shoots a…
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Neil Young at UT-Austin
In 2010 I had the opportunity to photograph Neil Young for a publication known as The Horn’s, He called me up around 5pm and asked if I was free to shoot something. I said, “Yeah sure, what is it?” Neil Young, he is playing at the performing center at The University of Texas at Austin. This…
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Looking for Light – Austin, Texas
When I lived in Austin, Texas while attending the University of Texas at Austin I would take walks and search for light. I loved exposing to the available light really capturing true contrast in real life. None of these photos are edited, they are JPEGs straight from my classic Canon 5D. I recently found these…
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Nature Photography – Austin, Texas
Traditionally my photography leans toward portraiture and photographing people. I’ve noticed that the majority of photographers start off their photography careers photographing nature and I don’t blame them because photographing people is very intimidating, especially as a beginner. There was a time when I would photograph butterflies on my college campus in between classes but…
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Meet Kylo – A Kitty that’s a Puppy, thats a Kitty!
Kylo is my first official pet. Sara and I originally got him to gift to Sara’s sister but as we had him at home we fell in love with him and decided to keep him. If you know me I am not a pet person but Kylo really changed my mind. I love him a lot…
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Eat, Live, and Breath Photography
EAT For those who have been a career photographer for three years or more can probably relate. When on a gig or assignment you literally eat on your drive to the next gig, while editing photos at a coffee shop or in your office and sometimes your clients feed you too. If you are like…
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Ayotzinapa U.S. College Tour Press Conference at South Texas College – McAllen, Texas
Felipe de la Cruz Sandoval, father of missing or slain Mexican student visits South Texas College to talk about their initiative to find their children. Very interesting but hard to photograph. Here are some shots from this event. If you are having a forum and would like to have the event photographed please fill out…
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UTPA Baseball Team vs Illinois University Baseball Team – 2009
Back in my UTPA days I photographed sports, specifically baseball. I would use a 400mm lens, which weighed chingos and I had to drag it around in a rolling case, but it was fun and a great learning experience. I recently found these shots in one of my old hard drives and thought it would…
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The importance of Pre-production for a high profile portrait!
A week ago at work (South Texas College) I was assigned to photograph the college president. The school president’s schedule is always very tight. I got lucky that she was already going to be taking photos with The Monitor Newspaper in the morning so I was able to piggy-back on that. She was scheduled to…
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McAllen 18th Annual Miracle Riders Bicycle Team June 2 & 3 2006 – Ben Briones Photography
Here is another look at some of my first “professional” work I did back in 2006 for the Miracle Riders Bicycle Team. My friend Israel and I took on this gig as a photo and video team to photograph a two day bicycle ride from McAllen, Texas to San Antonio, Texas. I was barely getting…
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Butterfly Photography – An Old Obsession
Between 2008 and 2010 I use to have this obsession with photographing butterflies. I would take my camera to school at UTPA and hang around the small butterfly park next to the chapel and just wait around for butterflies to land on plants and flowers. Once I transferred to UT-Austin I would continue my obsession…
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My First Photo Shots – Yvonne Longoria – 2008
This is one of my very first “professional” photo shoots from way back in the day. The file metadata said it was created in 2008. These shots are recent edits but they are not far from the original JPEG files. I shot this with my first camera the Canon Rebel XTi. I think back then…
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Photography Lessons with Sara Yanez – McAllen Convention Center
Understanding exposure is important when learning photography. A few weekends ago Sara and I went to the McAllen Convention Center so that she could practice photography. So that the lessons could be as accurate as possible we had the same camera setup; Canon 60D with the Canon EF28-135mm f/3.5-5.6 IS USM Lens. We also used a…
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