Tag: Projects

I was asked to shoot the Burn Baby Burn Concert together with Elber. This was truly a crash course in concert photography (I learned a crapload of stuff on the spot) as two huge elements are ever changing – your subject and the stage lighting.

Here are some shots of Johnny Allegre, Up Dharma Down, Bamboo, Sino Sikat? and umm .. this guy covering his face. I got a lot of tips from Elber. When shooting concerts, make sure you use your widest lens. In this case, the prime lens was the best choice (and most often recommended) for concert photographs. I had my ISO set at 800 most of the time but this guy recommends that you should be shooting at 400.

What sucked? Well, I didn’t have an external flash. That would have made a huge difference with the blurred subjects. I was interchanging between the prime lens and Jed’s 3.5-6.3 18-200mm Sigma lens.

I’m no expert photographer but I hope you liked some of the pictures. I’d love to talk about different techniques in concert photography too since I am still a young padawan photographer.

Today, Jed and I attended a food photography and styling seminar by Jo Avila and Pixie Sevilla. We learned to cook and style two dishes – salad and pasta. I’ve taken an interest in photographing food because the opportunity to shoot horse de oovers has been getting more frequent because of F&B World Magazine (it is under our mother company at HIP).

The 3 Cherry Tomato Pasta dish is below. I highlighted the cherry tomatoes because that is what makes the dish unique. The redness of the cherry tomatoes also become a very attractive color to the eye.

The Two Pasta Combo dish is below. I wanted to take a shot of the cute bell pepper around the cherry tomatoes again.

There are two ways to look at the end goal of food photography in my humble opinion. You need to ask yourself the question, “Do I want to eat this food afterwards or not?” Because if you really want to get that perfect photograph you will need to make your meal as unedible as possible: In this salad and pasta dish, the plates have been poisoned wiped with glass cleaner and the fresh water sprays you see is glycerine. Also, there’s a huge mound of tissue underneath the lettuce and the pasta. And I tried to pin the olive onto the pasta using a safety pin. I would have used super glue but that would have permanently fastened the olive onto the pasta.

Here are some behind the scene shots.

PS: We won best photo for the Cherry Tomato Salad arrangement!!!

I’ve been making my list (and checking it twice) and composed a smile whilst I realized how the list gets longer and longer every year.

I remember something Gail mentioned a few posts back that the true “rewards” of blogging aren’t the AdSense cheques or Xoom transactions, but the many sorts of ties we form, from cyberspace link building to real-life community building.

On a related note, anyone up for a blogger Christmas parteh?