Activism: California Marriage Certificate, no longer valid.

TITLE: Take backs.
MODEL: Darell Seria & Carlo Ybanez
REFLECTION: In this photo I tried to depict a couple that had got married in San Francisco when gay marriage was made legal in 2004. Later on, those licenses were no longer valid after the law was revoked. I wanted to show a man holding the license in his hand, slightly holding on to it while it almost fell to the ground. It's symbolic that they still hold on to each other and the thought that they mighty someday be able to have a legal, civil union but still feel that paper hold so much pain of what they thought could be. To capture this, I shot on a black ground and had one of the models sit on the black chair. I used a hot lamp and placed to the right of the models to highlight there silhouettes. I also used another hot lamp and positioned in next to the piece of paper to give it some light since it would have been hidden by the shadow of the chair. The shutterspeed and f-stop were low. Overall, I would like to reshoot this concept. I wanted to try it and experiment with it.