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.