Vogue's 120th Anniversary Photo Shoot

Vogue, the most influential and most sought after fashion magazine is going to celebrate its 120th year on September and the best way to celebrate its 120th years is to do a massive photo shoot features some of the most influential people like Florence Welch, Rooney Mara and Jennifer Lawrence to name a few. While the list is filled with A-listers in their respective industries it is inspiring (and pressuring) to know that all of them are all under 45 years old! Norman Jean Roy was the man behind the lens in this editorial shoot who is also a top dog in the fashion industry.

Here are some of the photos:

Raf Simons

Sarah Burton, Christopher Bailey & Stella McCartney

Peter Copping & Erdem Moraliogu

Ricardo Tisci & Rooney Mara

Phoebe Philo

Jennifer Lawrence

You can view all the photos with a detailed description about the people in the photo here.

After seeing all the photographs I was naturally psyched to see the BTS video and Vogue was good enough to post one on their Youtube channel.

So what do you think? I'd love to hear what you guys have to say so hit the comment and let's discuss. (Source: Vogue) Cheers!

Winston Baltazar Photography Workshop

I was very lucky to be invited by Sir Winston to attend in one of his photography workshops last Sunday held at his studio in Makati. I arrived in his studio a bit late but I was welcomed by the attendees, we did some exercise before we got started. The workshop is divided into two classes. The first is the morning class which is attended by the newbies who are learning the first ropes of photography  which is the relationship of aperture, shutter and ISO and getting creative, the latter was the "oldies" basically they are done with the basics and learning more about lighting setups while working on their communication skills with the model.

The workshop's topic was shooting a prenuptial shoot and I was very lucky since Sir Winston invited Janice and Michael, a real lovely couple to be the subjects for the shoot. The lights was setup in a particular manner where it will vary depending on the trigger that the person is using while the others can shoot using available light. We took turns on the triggers and it gave us different lighting combinations giving us the opportunity to be creative.

Sir Winston let me try out his 70-200 L lens and I'm really captivated by it!
Now I know what lens I must have in the near future. :)

The whole shoot was comprised of 3 sets in different locations and styling. The last set was the bride wearing a beautiful white wedding gown. Sir Winston added 2 of his continuous lights to the setup adding another equation for the participants to take advantage of.

Keeper shot!

Credits:

HMUA: Maffi San Miguel

Models: Janice and Michael

Location: WinSam Studio Makati

We wrapped up the workshop around 6pm and everyone was happy and judging by their smiles it looks like everyone got the shot that they wanted. I would like to thank Sir Winston again for having me as their guest, I sure did had a lot of fun and learn new stuff that I'll be applying in my future shoots.


Interested in attending one of Sir Winston's workshops? Check this out.

Seeing Old Friends and Making New Ones.

I just got back from today's photo-shoot with awesome people and I can't express how much I had fun doing this. To be honest I still want to do shoots more often now since I had picked up a lot of stuff from watching other photographers whether in real life or in DVD and I am feeling inspired being able to apply it in these situations.

Just to share to you guys, I have here 2 unprocessed photos of our shoot today in my friend's commercial space.

Sun up to sun down, we shoot till we drop. I really had a great time working with Jelly, Kristine, Magu, Oko and Gerome because it didn't felt that we where working in the set for almost half a day not to mention the heat can probably drive you crazy! I really want to work on the photos but I still need to prepare for tomorrow's shoot and I need all the rest that I can get before I set out for another whole day of shooting. So I'll just leave you guys with those two beautiful photos of Kristine wearing Jelly's creations.

February Behind the Scenes for Gadgets

Here you go guys I won't do a lengthy introduction since this post is way too overdue (we did the shoot last December so yea) and besides who wants to read this silly post when one can just go straight to the photos! So here are some of the behind the scenes photos of the Gadgets February 2012 Issue which features the stunning Athena Imperial.

Photographer Erwin Barleta
Hair and Make-up by Gold Sergio Magtoto
Styling M.R. Gavin
Art Direction Benjamin Arnold and Michelle Callanta-Toledo Clothes by Danilo Franco and TOMATO
Accessories by Tomato Shoes by Soule Phenomenon 

Ms. Gold putting on some make-up to Athena

Photographer Erwin Barleta with his daughter

We at Gadgets prepared tons of good stuff  for you and for the environment (since Feb is our Going Green Issue) so you guys do better check it out.

Disclaimer: Behind the scenes images above are taken by 

Patrick Jude M. Ilagan 

Copyright 2012©

Gadgets Magazine July Photoshoot.

 It has been quite awhile since my last post and tons of awesome things happened during that time so I owe you guys a lot. Now, I will start it off by sharing to you guys that I have been working at Gadgets Magazine which is a local tech and lifestyle magazine as their graphic artist for two months now and I must say that I am having a great time working there since it was always one of my dreams to work in a magazine as a photographer, graphic designer and sometimes a writer, which is not going to happen anytime soon since I really have to work on my writing skills (right now I am not confident on how I used and placed those commas) but still I am living out one of my dreams. 


During the course of my laziness to update this blog, the July issue of Gadgets came out and it is my great pleasure to tell you that it is the first issue that I have worked on and in a couple of days (or probably within a week) the August issue which is the anniversary issue of Gadgets is going to hit the bookstores and newsstands (I can't wait since I spent 4 straight days of going home really late). While waiting for the August issue to come out, let me share to you guys the behind the scenes of the July issue photo shoot at Secret Fresh in Ronac Art Center with the beautiful Jessy Mendiola as our cover girl, Sir Paul Ticzon the awesome photographer (I must say that I am a big fan of his works and seeing him work in the flesh is one experience that will stay etched in my memory) and Ms. Jo Ticzon the wonderful hair and make-up artist. The shoot was really awesome even though I was only there during the latter part of the shoot because I was in a meeting in Makati but judging from the outcome of the photos in the magazine it was fantastic and I couldn't wait till the next photo shoot with Sir Paul since I am eager to see his workflow. 


So I will stop typing now because I am generally tired from staring at the screen for hours and get some sleep but I will leave you some photos during the shoot. :)


Cheers!


Disclaimer: These photos are copyrighted but I do allow it to be used/published as long as the images are properly credited and linked back to me. Please do not try to remove the watermark because it is painstaking, time consuming and very frustrating since I have only uploaded really small versions of these images. tee-hee.