Hi Everyone,

This past couple of days was really amazing for me ( though I was away from my wife and son ).  Last week was an amazing shoot in Hong Kong with Glenn and Hannah and this week was another memorable shoot for me with Joff and Jessa in Batanes!

We were lucky to have a great weather in-spite the weather forecast, I was afraid that we would be able to shoot as Batanes is a typhoon area specially during the rainy season.  But we were still bless .

Joff and Jessa Thank You sooo very much for this opportunity and the trust, for giving me 100% of creative freedom.  Even at our own bathroom we used it as our background .  Guys thank you, maybe you guys can go to sabtang and just email some images hehehehhe!!!  anyways, enjoy the photos.

Oh the first 3 images doesn’t have any “Photoshop enhancements”  no effects, almost straight out of camera .

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Hi Everyone,

Its been awhile since my last post its been really crazy lately with the new studio … I just got back from an E-session in HK with Glenn and Hannah and we had a wonderful weather!!!  I got to shoot areas in HK that I’ve never shot before!!!! stay tune for more additional images but for now, here’s my teaser, enjoy!

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Here are some teaser images from a 2 day shoot with Louie and Liaa.  Thanks for making it a fun shoot guys, I had blast!!! Enjoy

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Hi everyone,

Saw the results of SWPP‘s monthly image competition for the month of April 2010 ( you can view the official results here and it should be posted next week); every month the monthly competition gets harder and harder to get a GOLD rank, I guess the society is raising their bar of standards.  here are my images with its corresponding rank.

Really happy with the results – 4 GOLDs, 2 Silvers and 2 Bronzes.

So far for 2010 I have 6 GOLDs that are sure to be apart of the annual convention judging on Jan 2011 .. I forgot how many Silver ranks Ive got but hopefully at least some will be upgraded to GOLD ( crossing fingers ).

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Hi everyone,

I thought I’d share with you the wedding of Anna Mae and Atsushi Wedding from yesterday May 01, 2010.

They book my 2nd team – Glamour Shots and since I didn’t have any wedding coverage yesterday, I accompanied them.

I have no plans on shooting the wedding but I still brought with me my D700 and 85 1.4 (you’ll never know).  My mentally was, since I hardly used my 85 1.4 on weddings, though I bought the lens to do some specific shots for my own coverages, I never really used it to document a wedding, so I challenged myself to take some snap shots as the need arises.

I was soooo amazed by this lens ( I guess that is why its very expensive ) and just yesterday that I appreciated prime lenses!  SUPER SHARP images!!!!!  Majority of the images below are taken with 85mm 1.4 at 1.4! There were a couple of shots that I borrowed my assistants camera and lenses for some specific shots.  Im sure that Anna mae and Atsushi didn’t mind .  Anyways, here are the images ( again, this is not my wedding, in short I was a tag along shooter ) Enjoy

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Hi everyone,

I have to say this post is really really really long overdue! I was supposed to post this when I started the blog but things got side-swept when my website went down….

Ian and Len’s wedding – kind of sums up what wedding is all about, gorgeous couple thats loves to be photograph, full of emotions – laughter and tears, beautiful reception and lots, lots and lots of good tasty food .  I really had a wonderful time shooting their wedding!!!

Coordination/decors – Noel Tanza

Make up artist – Otoi Mercado

Gown – Aztec Barba of Patahian

Videography – Jason Magbanua

Enjoy the preparation part of this wedding, church and reception will follow.. thanks

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Hi Everyone,

here’s the preparation part of their wedding.  enjoy .

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As promise, here’s a teaser shot from today’s wedding in Boracay. . the sunset was just spectacular… I’ll just post a new thread when I get back but for now, here is the shot. enjoy.

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Hi everyone,

The results are in!!! but just incase you didn’t know SWPP (The Society of Wedding and Portrait Photographers) very similar to WPPI (Wedding and Portrait Photographers International –  which am also a member of); SWPP is based in the UK and they have an annual convention and SWPP has a monthly and weekly competition.

Each image is ranked of GOLD, SILVER, BRONZE and Unclassified; here are the definitions (from their website)

Scoring system for monthly image competition

All images will marked as follows

Gold – Silver – Bronze – Unclassified

Gold: Awards will go forward to the annual judging and are deemed to be images of the highest standard and will be published in Professional Imagemaker

Silver: Above standard. These images will be reviewed every three months and have the potential of being reclassified as Gold.

Bronze: Acceptable competent image.

Unclassified: Below acceptable standard for a competition image.

Each month judges are getting tougher to get a Gold rating and these are my entries for March 2010 and its rank.

Fashion: SILVER

Glamour and Beauty: SILVER

Monochrome: BRONZE

Portrait Contemporary: SILVER

Wedding Bridal Portrait: GOLD (the only gold in this category 91 entries total)

Wedding Contemporary: SILVER

Wedding Photojournalism: BRONZE

Wedding Traditional: BRONZE

So, 3 Bronze, 4 Silver and a Gold I couldn’t be happier …. hopefully this coming April I could do better ..

Thanks everyone for the visit.

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Hi everyone,

This morning I received a great news from Bludomain that my site is re-uploaded and up again!!!! Big Big Big ups to lisa of bludomain for helping me with my problem.  I’ve had soooo many not so pleasant comments or negative comments about the services of bludomain but I can tell you first hand they are all not TRUE!!!!  Again lisa, thank you so very much for your assistance!

Now its time to change my old images and update some of my fave and new images …

ben

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