interview with jackie

yay, fourth day in a row… fourth interview on {photography}, by five amazing, talented and such beautiful ladies. as you may know, my camera is pretty simple, though i dream about a professional camera, and this insight is being so interesting and enriching for me. i am learning so much from their answers! muchas gracias guapas! if you want to remind yourselves of other interviews, you can catch up on {françoise rachez}, {euge de la peña} and {valeria spring}. today we are having a lady that is so loved by everyone, the lady who is behind {la vuelta al mundo} . i remember bumping into her pictures on {flickr}, and from that moment on, i had her as a reference in photography. hoy tenemos jackie rueda!

1. so, we are here to talk about {photography}… let’s start with a very important detail… where did you learn your way through {photography}? when i was a child i would always borrow my dad’s beautiful pentax spotmatic, until one day he gave me my own slr canon as a birthday present. later, i graduated from journalism with a major in audiovisual, which means that i studied photography for two years. taking pictures has been my passion my entire life.

2. what camera+lens do you use the most? i have two cameras and several lenses (and an incredibly long and expensive wish list) but if you see my flickr stream you’ll notice that most of the time i end up using my 50mm 1.4 on my canon d7 (and lately the 35 mm too).

3. what is your camera’s best feature? noise control = great images at high iso. it’s fast and the sensor gathers tons of light.

4. three must-dos for you concerning {photography}! having my camera with me at all times, even to go grocery shopping. that’s pretty much it!!

5. favourite subject to shoot? hands down, urban scenes! in second place, marianne and valeria, my beautiful daughters and cheap labor models!

6. after taking pictures, do you use any program to process them? all my photos are edited in photoshop cs5.

7. in three words… how would you describe your {photography}? happy, warm, feminine.

8. what inspires you to do what you do in {photography}? well… i’m in love and that rules everything: the good, the bad, the sad, and the beautiful things in my images. since i moved to montreal, i developed the habit of looking for beauty in everything around me (it’s a survival tactic) and you may notice that in my pictures montreal and its gorgeous four seasons inspire me so much…

9. when you wander in flickr… what drives you to write a comment? i have very little time to leave comments and it’s sad because, come on, who doesn’t love a little encouragement?  i feel remorse for not always being able to write the things i feel when i see my contact’s pictures, especially those of my former students, but when i do it, its 100% honest, not because i have to or just to be nice. the photo has to touch me somehow.

10. would you like to try anything different from what you do in {photography}? i’m dying to spend some time just photographing strangers in the street. it’s something that i almost never do because it terrifies me, but i really like it. my zoom will be so happy (now it’s bored to death in my bag). another thing i’d like to do is that kind of melancholic, moody, evocative long exposure images on the rocky sea shore that british photographers do all the time. i have no sea, so that’s what i call a challenge!

thank you so much for having me here on you blog, claudia. this place is not just pretty… es bellísimo! gracias.

muchas gracias por todo, jackie… gracias por aceptar mi invitácion, fue un honor para mi! y yo quiero una canon 7d también!! you can find jackie’s stream {here} and explore her website, “a journal of her love affair with montreal” {here} + her {l’atelier}, an online course about photography! un beso muy grande para todos y hasta mañana!