Long Overdue: Stef & Carol's Portraits

After a gazillion years of getting stuck I finally managed to get these photos done. Yes!

Photography Inspiration: Brassai

If there was one photographer who live and very much showed his love for the place where he lived in it's Gyula Halász or more commonly known as George Brassaï or Brassaï for short. A Hungarian artist who did a lot of creative work like making sculptures, films, drawing and above all photography. Brassaï first worked as a journalist for a Hungarian newspaper but later moved to Paris wherein he stayed there for all his life.

114th Independence Day— A Day Worth of Risk

I risked and therefore I conquered and captured images. These are my 114th Independence Day Collection. All are captured using my 10-22mm on a 500D body and a CD-R King flash/Godox Flash trigger by a Yonguo CTR.

For my 2nd independence day celebration, I have decided to do something I haven't done before. First is photograph people in the street with a speedlight. The second one is to talk to strangers, complete strangers and ask them to pose in front of the camera. In all honesty these are no street portraits. These are still images of the 100% Juan.

All of these images are copyrighted and cannot be used in any means without my permission and the permission of the person in the photograph.

This guy was giving the real owner of the ice cream stand a lesson in posing.

One of my favorite shots during the day.

Wish I had a dog that big too!

Yes even security guards didn't escaped my camera.

I waited for almost 3 hours for the fireworks but its all worth it.

I'm really happy with the results but I think that to be able to create better and more compelling portraits, I need to practice this for 1,000,000.00 times.

A Different Light

Cara Phillips a photographer from Detroit shot these wonderful portraits using UV lights to illuminate her subjects. The portraits shows and emphasizes the beauty of the imperfections of the skin under a different wave length of light.

(Source: Fubiz)

Sunday Vignettes

Last Sunday I went out for a shoot with my friends (Jacky, Linelle, MC and Miguel) in Ninoy Aquino Parks and Wildlife. We haven't seen each other for a long time and it was so great seeing them catching up as well as remembering the days when we are still back in high school. Now that I am thinking about the good old high school carefree days I'm sort of thinking doing a shoot in my high school building. 


I definitely want to do this again and maybe I will try and do something like a series of portraits of my classmates.


P.S. I tried out the stuff that Zack Arias was talking about in his Onelight Workshop DVD. 

Movement!

Keeper shot!

One of my favorite photos in the set.

For Rejh

This post goes to my beautiful and awesome friend- Rejh, she will be going to California today and stay there.


We first met way back when I was in my 3rd year in college and I was to do a night shoot of the city at night for a plate so I asked my cousin Xy if I could stay in her flat for the night and as they always say the rest is history. She was one of the first person who went out for a photowalk with me and she was the first to be my model as I was learning the ropes of photography. We have been into countless adventures, we drunk a lot, ate a lot, got crazy a lot and shot photos a lot. She was one of the few people who made me feel that I was no stranger to her and those who knows her will also tell you that.


I will definitely miss her and the great times we spent. I will miss her so much because I will have one less friend who will make plans with me on where we will have our next crazy adventure but who knows maybe this one is the next great adventure only this time there are no plans.

Rejh, I pray for a safe trip and I will see you soon and I will definitely buy a webcam to prepare myself for Skype Nights with you guys. See you soon! :)

Street, Smoke, Swagger and Headphones.

Sup!

Did a quick shoot today with my awesome friend. I tried out some techniques 

I learned from watching si Paul Ticzon during our November Shoot.

Cheers!