Trying 5D Mark II

Kenneth went to our house yesterday and brought his brand new 5D MarkII with his 70-200mm f/2.8 lens. I tried a few shots. Damn! It's sharp! :D

FlowerHeart
Cam: 5D MarkII ISO: 200 Shutter: 1/640 Aperture: f/2.8


Peeko
Cam: 400D ISO:100 Shutter: 1/1250 Aperture: f/2.8

RiverTrek

Earl and I geared up for a river trek near my place last saturday. I just want to share some shots I took during the weekend.

Chocolatey

Rush

I have more here.

Calm

I took this shot when we were shooting for a documentary in Sasa. i wanted to shoot some more but we're in a hurry.. :)

An Event Coming..

Hiya! No photo opportunity for me these days because I'm so busy but tomorrow would be a good opportunity for me. My officemates/friends Earl and Flordy will take their vows as a couple! I'm done doing their video as a gift and I'll ask them if I could share it to you guys. Will post pictures of the event also (will try because I'll be handling a videocam tomorrow) so watch out! :D

City Streaks

Another photo safari was set and held last Saturday. We went uuuuuuuuuup at the rooftop of LandCo Bldg. We placed our tripods and started to frame. It was supposed to be another sunset shoot, this time at the city, but Haring Sun didn't cooperate. So I opted to shoot streaks instead. Pano Style!

in Blue


Warm City


I wish next time I can shoot again.. another short film or even a full length..

Good catch

I went to a friend/Film Director who was shooting his full length film here in Davao (he's also a Davaoeño by the way). I was told that they're quarters is at Felis Beach Resort and they'll just go around the nearby communities to look for a place fit for the scene he needs.

While waiting for the text reply to know where they are in the area, I strolled around Felis and I got these images.. care to comment?

The Fisherman



Bangka

Sunrise shoot at Pawikan Sanctuary

I woke up 3am in the morning to prepare for our sunrise shoot in the Pawikan Sanctuary in Punta Dumalag. I miss called Cheng² to wake her up and also Adi who'll be giving us a ride to go there. I didn't even bother to eat because the call time was 4:30 in the morning, it's already 4:00 and I'm still fixing things up.

I fetched Cheng² first before going to the rendezvous at Ecoland. When we arrived,I saw Wacky, Epong, Chattee, Christian, Monique and her brother Mikee, Adi who's inside the mart waiting for his coffee, Lyan who's sitting at a corner and observing what's happening around him. Mark, Mommy Jojie and Doc Deb was discussing something while drinking coffee.

It was still dark when we arrived at the Pawikan Sanctuary. No one was there besides us and the insects behind the bushes. The sound of the calm waves greeted us.

We setup our gears and started clicking away.

Here's some of the pictures I took.

Calm


Serene

Taken at 4:45 a.m.

Anyway, later that day we watched Manny Pacuiao's battle against David Diaz of the US. Again, Manny defeated the American adopted Diaz through a 9th round KO. The first Asian to claim a 4 title belts in 4 different weight divisions! congrats Manny! It's ok that youre face will be beaten. You have insurance online anyway.

Brigada Eskwela

Last Monday the DepEd launched its Brigada Eskwela where the community around the school will help each other to clean it up. We had a caravan. We visited and donated a gallon of paint to every school we passed on our way to our destination. We're heading towards an Elementary School in Bunawan.

Some painted the walls of the classrooms while some went to the corners of the classrooms and cleaned up the cobwebs. It was a “Bayanihan” modern style!

Playground

A picture I took yesterday when we went somewhere here in Davao.

Kokey's Park

One of the newest attraction here in davao is Peoples Park. It was a sports complex before where you can jog or play with your dog on the soccer field. Then the Local Government started to convert it into a park and asked a local artist sculp statues of Mandaya around that piece of land at the center of the city.





(I'll post more pics later!)

Lomo Look

Hi! Due to public demand (hahaha), here’s my own version of making a digital lomo. From this:


.. to this (I just removed the cup on the 2nd pic)..

Nice?

So let’s get it on!

First, make a Curve adjustment layer

.. and create a slanted S.

Then change the foreground color to Black, create a new layer on top of the two layers and fill the new layer with it.

Change it's blending mode to HUE and lower the opacity to 40%.

Flatten it and change the color mode to Lab Color..

.. go to channels tab and select Lightness (Don't be surprised if the picture turns into Black and White).

Then go to Filters>Sharpen>Unsharp Mask - change the value of Amout to 50%, Radius to 50 pixels and Threshold to 0. After that, change the Color Mode back to RGB Mode.

Now, for the last step, let's add the vignette to complete that Lomo look! Go to Filters>Distort>Lens Correction. At the Vignette Section of the window, change the Amount to -100 and the midpoint to +20 (.. or adjust it to your liking).

That's it! HTH. Please leave your comments and tell if you were able to make your own Lomo Look.

DigiLomo

I just want to share with you some photos I took and made them into a Lomo type of picture. ( As for the other pic, sorry I lost the original file.. :) )
From this:


To this:
The Telephone
My Mug
If you want to know how to do this. Drop me a message. Would be glad to share it with you.

Vintage

Makina

This is a photo of my grandma's sewing machine. a 1973 disc-o-matic by the Singer Company. I only used a study lamp to light this shot.

I remember some of my shorts and t-shirts were sewn by my grandma using this machine. Not only mine, but most of my family members. Thanks lola! :D