Working with Minnie Mouse!

Just a few days ago, Monday to be precise, I collaborated with a commercial make-up artist who's name rhymes with mouse. I was invited by my stylist to take photographs for a wedding advertisement in Wedding Digest. We're to help out a friend, who's name is Maws, advertise her bridal make-up services for this coming August & also for her collaterals in marketing her services.

Since she's in need of bridal gowns I did not hesitate on recommending them my aunt's designs. I recently found out that the owner of DREZZEE is one of my relatives so it didn't really took me a lot of time to pull-out. I'm thankful that they are very pleased in working with me & my team! :) We went to DREZZEE's atelier in Makati City & I get to see numerous designs made by Tita Cherrie which I think - could truly make a bride's wedding remarkable.

Gowns by DREZZEE

At DREZZEE's salon

Maws (HMUA) & Jane (Stylist) taking some time off from work. :D

I love this clown. It's so expressive & at the same time, sad.

I got there an hour late so it's good that Maws went ahead on doing the model's make-up since it usually take 1-2 hours top. While waiting, I ocular for a venue where we can shoot & discovered a rentable studio that costs P12,000 for a 3 hour shoot! Holy~~~~kdjfhbdjkgfh!!!! :O The owner invited me to check what's inside the studio & to my surprise their studio can fit four SUV! I forgot the name of the studio, not that I didn't want to share it with you guys but seriously, I forgot what studio it was. :<

I found a better venue that allowed us to shoot for FREE, thanks to my aunt's connections & since it's for a magazine they said "sure" in a heartbeat. :) Huzzah! So our shoot's venue was held inside Opera House. Opera House is a school for young & aspiring musicians and stage actors. I love the interior, it's so sophisticated & retro with all those theatrical paintings displayed in the corridor.

Chilling at the Opera House's lounge

The definition of HAGGARD.

We wrapped up around 5:00pm. It was a very long & exhausting day for a two layout photo shoot! Unfortunately, I can't post actual photos from the shoot until August. Ya'll have to wait until Wedding Digest publish the photos this coming August! A big heartfelt thank you to Maws for involving us into this project! :D <3

キミに100パーセント!

I was to blog about this next week but since I really need to pack out my iMac out of the box (I promised that I'll let it rest for a month 'til I am finally settled in my own loft) guess that I post it before I start getting occupied with workloads again.

Yesterday, I gave my students hands-on training on how I post-process photos with the use of Adobe Lightroom & Photoshop. I taught them how to airbrush & how to manipulate a photo from RAW. Everything should be RAW in my class, mind you. As RAW is to Sushi! LOL! I also gave them a free lecture about Basic Fashion Styling taught & presented by my teammate, Jane Econar of FOBtography Studio and also Basic Hair & Make-up Artistry presented by one of my two new talent, Kiss Mejia from Makeup Design Academy.

Kiss, explaining the key points on how a make-up artist coordinates with the photographer.

Attentive listening! LOL

Aspiring TEENS, just don't flip the page too much, you'll regret it. :)

Sequined baseball cap~

Always wanted frames like these~ so cute!

I'm really proud of my team for being able to share their knowledge to my students. I'm glad that they enjoyed teaching 'cos there will be more teaching this coming July as we're officially collaborating with Photography Academy Manila.

Grysh & Ciarra

Ciarra still attentively posing for the camera. XD

CANDY Mag pose~

Grysh looked a bit like Ciarra here. XD

And then Ciarra appeared!

We did a sort of preview to one of the editorials that we're planning to submit to a local digest this coming August. Actually I did posted a hint about that in my instagram account. :D

Half of my students! :D

PROUD OF YOU GUYS! CONGRATS! : D

Congratulations to my students! Now you have the tools, all you have to do now is FIGHT! :D This is your very supportive teacher, signing out! Spread ART & LOVE! :)

Principes fondamentaux de la photographie de mode

Yesterday, I had my first formal & legit workshop that was organised by The Photography Academy-Manila. I was really nervous but I was able to cope anxiousness with sugar (thanks to McDonald's McFloat for that)! I didn't even realised that I've been lecturing for 5 hours straight! Knowing that I didn't even passed PubSpeak back in college, haha! I'm able to regain back my H.R. skills in communicating in front of people that I have acquired during my BPO days. :D

I izzzz teach le classsss~ izz dunno what I doing. O~O

So what is The Photography Academy-Manila? It's an up & coming academy that was put out by various photographers & enthusiasts who excels in different aspects of photography. TPA-MNL was founded January 27, 2013 and as a photography academy, I must say that they are something to look out for in the coming future! Being one of the connection of one of the people who founded the academy is really a blessing from God. I owe them a lot for entrusting me in teaching what I do best, Fashion Photography. :)

Le pillows~~ wiiii floooffeeeh~ <3 I WANT ONE TPA! :D

I iz think..... pewpew~

Discussing what Editorial fashion photo is all about & how it is different from the rest. :D

I got in the venue an hour early, I prefer arriving hours before the said time as I hate being late! Arriving early gives me perks to prepare & get a few grub at McD's. I had my daily dose of sugar so I'd be hyper during my class & would look like I'm really into it! :D

I discussed the basics and the kinds of fashion photos. Also taught my students the difference of Simplicity & Complexity when it comes to photo composition as I believe that in Fashion Photography, it is how you execute your concept and ideas into photos, not the technicality of photography.

Chris, one of the founder of The Photography Academy-MNL introducing le me~ XD

Floofeeeeh props~~ tempting to wear one while discussing! <3

I donno... XD on the far right is Japs, owner of Green Lens Photo Studio ^^

I can notice how attentive my students were during the lecture as some of them are all giddy to answer whenever I throw them a question. Just a way of mine to see that they are really listening & not just looking at the photos that I have prepared. :) I'm glad that no one gave me a harsh review on how I teach except that I'm very conyo (I know that) & also that I do tons of unnecessary movements :D and excuse me for my foul language when I accidentally slipped on my water bottle & cried "Pekpek!".

I'm excited to see my students again, too bad that we weren't able to do a hands-on post-processing. I feel sorry for that but I'll be continuing my discussion about post-processing on the next lecture, perhaps. :D I'll try to make it more interactive this time! :D I got a few tricks that I'm very excited to teach them next week! Huzzah!

For more information about The Photography Academy-MNL, please visit www.thephotographyacademymanila.com

Photos by TPM-MNL & Rox

Work Hard † Play Hard

I just got home from a long rough day in Greenhills. I went out earlier with my close friend, Jenny, to purchase an iPad Mini in replace of my phased-out iPad 1. So I really have to ditch out the old gadgets & make room for new ones. I sold my 2008 Macbook 1,1 since its LCD shows a faulty flex & the battery has gone out of the drain already. Let's start off with my iPad Mini, shall we?

iPad Mini in all its gloreeeeey~ <3

My old iPad 1 can no longer be updated as its hardware is already shabby and it can no longer play the new Apps in the market. It doesn't have an accelerometer & it lacks OS updates. Another big difference (why I have to get rid of it) is that it doesn't have an HD 1080p camera. In other news, iPad Mini & the new iPads has a camera. Another difference is the size, of course, and its weight. iPad Mini is literally miniature & lightweight. Which of my not so techie Mother & Sister cannot understand of....quite sad & it's hard for me to spoon fed the two byte per bytes! Luckily, one person here in this house can understand how techie I am when it comes to gadgets & how knowledgeable I am in terms of technology....thank God!

So far, the first I can do is blog about how happy I am to be able to replace my old iPad 1 which Dad gave me kaso super contra talaga my mom about me having so many gadgets & gadgets are the only thing that symbolises my masculinity and sorts me out of my femininity. I haven't really test drive this baby of mine & I promise I will so take care of its battery life so it can last longer than my iPod Touch.

Speaking of my iPod Touch, let's move on....as you may have notice, I also got myself a new candybar phone by Samsung. It's a Galaxy Ace & I'm not much of a phone junkie so I consider myself lucky to find someone willing to trade in their Galaxy Ace for my iPod Touch. FYI, I had no personal phone for 3 months so finally! I'm back on track with saving contact numbers. So this time, you won't be  annoyed as I will no longer ask for your name when you text me. :D

Still have not named these two cutie.... what to name 'em?

I first asked my BFF, Jaro if this phone is quite good enough. I also tweeted about this & also looked for reviews about it, turns out that it's so so so sooooo much better than an iPhone 4s. I have been so cast down for 3 months as I was not able to buy myself my dream phone as I have took the wrong turn to save cash for my so called "boyfriend/partner", now that he no longer exist - I can finally breathe & buy myself a better phone! Well, iPhone really is not a PERFECT phone, we do know that there are so many phones out there in the market that beats the hell of Apple iPhones. My only reason why I wanted an iPhone is because I could sync it effortlessly on my Mac 24/7 & that's about it. And oh yeah, I use iCloud.

This new Samsung Galaxy Ace is so much better than Blackberry as well. One of my favourites is that it supports a 5.1 channel surround sound equaliser for audiophiles like me. You can also schedule text messages & birthday greetings (kind of like Tumblr's schedule posts). It runs in Android, means that there is no limit to FUN & TWEAKS! You can even use the FakeiPad android app in the market to make it look like an A++ iPhone4S. The only downside is its 5MP camera quality. But I don't really need a 12MP camera nor an 8MP as I already own a high-end DSLR for that. 5MP is already perfect for camwhoring. :D

I also found a way to update this Galaxy Ace into Android Jellybean! :D So fun, ain't it?! It has so much feature than an iPhone, talk about expandable memory for my music. I can just insert a 32GB microSD & huzzah, works just like an iPhone and I can fully use the whole 32GB unlike Apple's make-shift 32GB capacity (as they only really give you 28.5GB because of pre-installed Apps that comes with the hardware)

Le Box

That's about it for today. So let's all welcome my two new babies! Yay!!! Don't blame me for my first world problems XD LOL!