Photography Inspiration: Irving Penn

I just recently discovered the great Irving Penn while I was researching things for a blog post at work. I was actually taken aback after seeing the photograph of the Ballet Society and the image of Lisa Fonssagrives. His images are just so powerful and poetic that it feels like the eyes of the person in his photograph is looking right at your very essence. Most of his photographs are stripped off color and elaborate backgrounds which makes his work so direct and emotionally charged.

Street Photography Practice

PNR Station in España Manila

Lottery Hope(fool)s

Bananas!

Quick Fortune

Market Scene

Quiapo Church

Hidalgo. Quiapo

Ukay Ukay is the tagalog of flea market.

A lot of bags

I'm having a great time shooting street photos because apart from telling a story I also get to interact with people from different walks of life. I will be heading back again in Quiapo this week to capture images for our final assignment in FPPF.

White on White

Hello! 

I have been quite busy since my last post because I was trying to come up with ideas for my assignment in the FPPF workshop (which is shooting white on white, black on black and so on). Frankly I'm having a hard time since I want to come up with a unique idea, something that I have never done before, so what I did was a little experiment (well not really) bah! enough of this too much babbling.

Enjoy!

P.S. That is not really milk :)

Did a little bit of post processing in here :)

Splash!

gimme some Oreo.

tried some cross processing technique here and on the Oreo photo. 

KFC Bucket Diffuser

I was definitely bored last night and adding to that I will be doing a food photo shoot for a cousin of mine who owns a restaurant so I did some research on what gears to bring and what to do for food photography and while I am at the subject I saw some interesting DIY gears like making a DIY ring flash out of a KFC Bucket. I was fascinated by the idea of trying to make my own DIY but instead of making a very elaborate piece I just wonder what will happen if I cut a hole at the buttom of KFC Bucket and fit it in the head of my flash unit and viola! I don't know what to call it but for now I'll call it a KFC Bucket Diffuser haha.

What do you think? Share some insights :)