We went to Narvacan, Ilocos Sur, right after our Thunderbird trip because Buchi wanted to take pictures of Paraiso Ni Juan again. This was one of many shots I took at the place. I wish I'm good at Photoshop T__T

Anyway, I went to the other side because I can't climb as high as they did and the shallow waters look so slippery...hahaha! I don't want to risk breaking my camera and the filters he gave me.

It was an open beach, anyone can go there for a swim. We were lucky that it was low tide so lots of rocks appeared on the surface --- our favorite. :D

I like it that I'm going places lately, all thanks to my wonderful camera club who likes going out a lot and or just thought of a sudden trip out of the blue LOL. I've always been a homebody and I know I'll never make it on my own; only planned trips (like our Bohol trip) can make me go out of the house and enjoy the outdoors!

When you type the word 'Boudoir' in Google, you'll find links and images of sexy and sensual ladies struttin' their stuff in lace. They got sensuality all over them to leave the rest for the other's imagination. I just had a Boudoir funshoot with a friend and she's had trouble making poses at first LOL. But good thing I have the reference images I need, so I just showed it to her as a guide. Here's the teaser though..



I shot these in my mom's room because my room's too dark and pinkish for a sexy boudoir shoot. =) I'd like to venture into something like this in the future so I hope my camera club will organize a funshoot so I could get more practice hahaha

I was so happy with what I bought the other day, a Prolite DS150 professional studio flash. I got it at D'24k in Hidalgo, Quaipo (yes, I can go there by myself now lol) and I'm gonna use it for business purposes of course, but I had to test it first hahaha! It comes with a 9ft steel stand, a 40x60 softbox and hot shoe. At first, I had a hard time looking for the right settings to make the light appear flattering on the skin, but the greatest thing about having a camera club is that they're always to the rescue at every question you have about your photo's flaws hehe. After adjusting the aperture and the flash power itself, yey! I got my first studio-like photo right at my home :D I'm planning to get a reflector soon, I just used a ghetto reflector (read: my dad's old car sunshade) but it still works like a charm :3 It's still visible on the eyes right? :)

I had fun creating new Lightroom 3 presets and this was the newest and I'm calling it Something Pink. LOL. I took it from the default Aged Photo preset and did some split toning of greens and blue hues..and ta-da! I got a romantic, pink-ish tone perfect for ambient light photos just like the one that I took here. :)

You can visit Teej's Facebook page here for more. I guess I'm gonna try those Instagram-like presets soon.

 The hype about the Lunar Eclipse was too much so I decided to join in and take pictures of the bloody moon. LOL. I only have a kit lens with me and my trusty tripod. So I went out with my sister and took shots of the moon. :) It's so small... I just took a picture of the entire sky instead... but hey, the moon still looks red!

Spontaneity at it's best! That's how I could describe this short getaway. The guys at CVC just talked about it at FB chat..then hours later, w00t! I'm on top of Ortigas footbridge along EDSA, shooting light trails like crazy. It's hard to compose pictures, I'm such a n00b when it comes to framing! Anyway, here's my share :) I would like to do this again on a different location!

I'm gonna start the PPlicious series. For myself. LOL. I've been looking at Tumblr too much and just recently, I've been a fan of Metro Photography's treatment on their wedding and prenup photos. Nakakainspire tuloy maging prenup at wedding photographer. But being such a noob I was, I didn't care much about the composition of the photo itself, but the gorgeous post processing they made in each photo.

I have been using Photoshop since college and I didn't know post processing was a whole different learning experience. I find it hard to blend colors in between layers and it's funny that I'm taking two hours and more just to PP a bunch of photos. ^_^ It's also great to be in a photography club, I'm getting the answers that I need especially when it comes to anything and everything about my new hobby.

I'll just share some of my post processed photos, I used Adobe Lightroom 3 + Photoshop for these pictures. Why those two? For color enhancement, I prefer to use Lightroom. Colors are more vivid and lively and I don't rely on presets too much..I make sure to tweak those sliders more to get the desired output. As for Photoshop, I use it for major 'cleanup'. Like removing noise, sharpening the image, spot removal, or if I want to put graphics on the side or create a photo with textured layers.

Sample shots with much PP :3




I've still a lot more to learn LOL. More photoshoots please! :)