Sharemane

Sharemane Yamomo

f/2.8
1/160 sec
ISO 125
Softbox as main light positioned 45/45 with bare speedlite providing separation.

This got to be my fave studio shoot as of this time.  It features the beautiful Lawrice Tayag doing her own makeup with a mirror smaller than my nose.  I mean, not many of my subjectscould do that!  But she did it and did it with astounding results.

Lawrice is Lawrice.  She's as pretty as she can get.  And she has that big tantalizing eyes to boot.  So every time we do a shoot, its actually too easy to do as she actually knows what to do right from the start.

I was using a Canon 450d with a 50mm 1.8 lens on this shoot.  Light source is an Octabox positioned 45 degrees of the subject then a reflector to provide some fill light.  Background is a yellow wall but I just had to position Lawrice some distance away from the wall so that I could make it look this gray. :)

Off to a brand new start

From a writer, to a technical geek guy, to a street magician, and now a newbie photographer!

Now that's just me. However, I am still a writer and a geek at heart... its just that those stuff are too serious and at my age I guess I should be enjoying life more since a few years from now I could be dead meat.

As a newbie photographer, I am more into fashion photography and covering events. I do some landscape photography but nothing special there from me. So via this blog, I will try to share all my favorite shots in the past, future, and present. I will try to share a story on how that particular was taken and show what I learned thru that shoot.

So here we go. Let's start with a shoot with one of my fave subjects, Ruby Rose Gamboa. This photo was taken February 5, 2012 at the Ecopark in San Jose, Tarlac. I was with my friends Gooby and Gab, along with another subject Sharlene. I was using a Canon 40d with a cheap 50mm 1.8 lens mounted on it. Settings as I remember are F2.8, 1/250, and ISO 200. A softbox was position 45 degrees to the subject with the beautiful ambient light providing the hair light and separation.

Hits and Misses

In life, there would always be failures no matter how hard you try to avoid them. The only thing you can do is to lessen the suffering, endure the pain and shorten the agony.I wish it could be that easy.

In the next few days, I will file a leave of absense for an undefined period of time.

I am on a roll, so to speak, but my roll is more appropriately "tumbling down on a steep rugged hill" that has caused me too many emotional cuts and bruises.

All I wanted is another chance of having a family, but I guess I tried too hard that I happened to blew it in the process.

Sometimes, that's life (and relationships). Its like in many ways, trying to hold on to a bird. Grip too hard, and its dead. Grip too soft, then it will fly away.

I am so embarassed to admit that I am already 34 but still no idea how to get that "right" grip. Some people never learn, and perhaps I am one of those who just too hard headed to learn.

Is it I am with the wrong person? Wrong decisions? Or wrong me?

Perhaps Katrina Halili might be thinking the same way. She was said to be so much inlove with Dr. Kho but now Dr. Kho told everybody that Katrina was actually her drug dealer. Duh?!

But then again, that's another story.

I will be back, that's for sure. Hopefully, I will come out stronger and wiser.

For I cannot give up life. Life is all about the challenges, the pain and the sorrow, and the triumps and failures over those challenges. You cannot win it all, but you have to win at least most of it.

Badly bruised and all, life still and always goes on.

Magic!

As long as I can remember, I am always in awe of magic tricks... coin tricks, card tricks, parlor tricks, mental tricks and all other tricks. Oh well, I have this neighbor who showed me a slew of magic card tricks last December. I was really so amazed.

And so I decided for myself, that if that sleazy moron can learn these tricks.. then why can't I? (He was actually using a Svengali card then)

I started going to video sites like Youtube and Metacafe. To my surprise, it got tons of tutorials on how to perform those tricks! And there I learned that some of those tricks weren't that hard to perform after all.

Here are my list of tricks that so far I can perform (I'm writing them down cause I usually forget!):

1. 2 card monte
2. Card Catch
3. Ambitious Card Routine
4. Impromptu Card Trick (I'll turn your card upside down)
5. 5 Card trick
6. Do as I do Card Trick (I call it Compatibility Test)
7. And a dozens of coin tricks which I don't know how they were called.
8. And some more card tricks that I don't even know how it is called.
9. Oh yes, I know how to do the Jumping Gemini trick... the hardest for me.
10. The Slap Card.
11. A couple of fake shuffles and fake cuts.
12. Card in my mouth trick.
13. Stigmata Card Trick
14. Elevator Card Trick
15. 21 card trick
16. And some more...

Its actually fun to see how people get amazed by the tricks. But don't call me just yet to perform in a birthday party, I am far from being an expert. Right now, I am just enjoying it... even single moment that I see amazement and wide smiles from the people I entertain.

Just an Update about Me

I have just resigned from the organization of IT officers of municipal governments in the Philippines. I don't know... maybe I am not just fit for the job.

And I am also gunning to have a night job so no more spare time for extra curricular activities. I must admit, I hate it when I have an argument with a member and then suddenly that asshole will attack me for being president.

That is utterly STUPID! If they think I am enjoying my presidency... well, I am not. I am supposed to be doing to help and to promote FOSS. Its just that they demand too much for something that I am not even being paid for!

Yes, I sacrifice time for my family and the opportunity to earn extra money but in the end they call me names and doubt my sincerity. I had enough.

They call me "Hey Mr. President" only when they are there to criticize me but never when I need their cooperation.

Never will I took again such position. I'll just help people in my own humble way. Being under the spotlight is way too much for me, I guess.

Another update?! My youngest baby turned 4 months last Feb 12, my only son turned 7 last Feb. 13.

My baby is soooo cute!!!


And although I don't have his picture, damn... my son is handsome.

I am glad their moms are head turners and my genes weren't that strong to influence their looks. Lucky for them! Hehehe!

Anyway, that's all for now. I am not really in the mood for anything. Hi to everybody... I missed blogging.

To all!

I just wanna say Merry X'mas and a Happy New Year to all!

It may not be the best of years but hey, we are still alive and kicking, aren't we?!

Stay happy, I am trying to and you should also.

Above and over the calendar...

Time passes by like a breeze... one moment you feel its coming and then suddenly, it has passed you by.

On Nov. 29 2007, I am 32.

At 32, I have 4 kids. One failed marriage, and another failed relationship in the making.

I don't know... I guess I do not deserve to have a happy intact family. My mom and pop separated when I was seven, my first marriage ended a years back and now my current flame is going agog over her first love in high school.

Gimme a fucking break!!!

Maybe I deserve to be alone. I deserve to just work, earn money, give money for the kids... and then die a lonely man.

I am tired.. I am so tired... to say the least.

For the first time in my life... I feel so old. Oh maybe... maybe... I am not worthy.

I don't know, everything for me right now is up for grabs.

Hail Mary save my ass for I am now harvesting the karma of my sins.

Amen.