Back With B&W Photography After A Decade

After a decade practicing digital photography, yours truly is back doing B&W photography with a vengance! Thanks to the University of the Philippines for inviting moi to teach photography in the College of Fine Arts-I found the perfect excuse to splurge on B&W again-if not to also educate future generations of photographers in the process. Now looking back, I sorrowfully regret having sold my color enlarger...

Photography On Techie Talk Morning Show

These morning shows are not for the faint of heart-yours truly was at the studio by 4:30AM for a 6 AM channel PTV-4 show segment entitled: Techie Talk. It's my second time to be guested in the said channel's morning show (but different name then, which I shared with landscape photog Mr. Molina).  Hosted by Cong. Angara and the lovely Ms. Izza. Photog guests are Ador Pamintuan, Joey Tañedo and moi. On my cue I explained how digital made photography affordable with less gears-especially with portable lighting strategy called: strobist.

Mr. & Ms. Youth Philippines 2012

Congratulations to Mr. Gelo Flores and Ms. Eien Almirante for winning this year's Mr. & Ms. Youth Philippines. May you guys be a beacon of hope to our Filipino youths! DHQ Photography by Joe Galian and; Sam Nakai. The Nikon D5100 is used with the old Nikkor 18-135mm lens. Wow, 16 MP looks very good in JPEG Fine format! No post-processing yet, except for web resizing.

FPPF Wedding Photo Workshops

Here is a belated FPPF Wedding Photography Workshop class picture. As time can allow me, I do post all photos of the behind-the-scene (BTS) in my blog. The FPPF needs more personnel to manage this wedding workshop's BTS. Congratulations guys: may you be the next generations of Pinoy wedding photogs!

The word "strobist" has been probably popularized by freelance photographer, Joe McNally. It describes a lighting style of using small portable, battery powered flash units-which are also called "speedlights". Ergo it's my initiative to popularize the new word "speedlighter" as an alternative moniker to our photographic lighting style. As a Philippine Nikon endorser, yours truly expounded on Nikon's visual creative handle on their "I am Nikon" worldwide ad campaign and stamped my own thematic bend. So i say: be a SPEEDLIGHTER!...because light is might.

Watch our Camerageek TV 2nd season on June 23 Saturday, Channel NBN 4 at 6 PM. Kudos to Dan Pamintuan, Jam Ra and the rest of the CGTV Team! Ey you can download every episode that you missed! Visit: http://www.camerageektv.com/

Master Photographer Edi Huang & The Mads

T'was a great honor to be selected as lighting assist to master portraiture and advertising photographer Ms. Eduviges Huang on her photo project involving the internationally renowned UP Madrigal singers-who are celebrating 50 years of singing worldwide! Only the best deserve the best, eh? I had the privilege lighting for her ala strobist in hot and humid San Agustin church in Intramuros. Art director was Frando Culata, backup photographer was Pablo Beltran and production assistant was Archee.Thank you for the job madame and kudos to the Mads! May your golden voice unite us all forever!

Great RF i-TTL Trigger Value: Pixel King

My Pixel King i-TTL Flash Trigger for Nikon cameras is here for off-camera RF wireless strobist lighting-as was shown in my DPP VI anniversary talk. At Php 6,250 it's a better bargain (RF transmitter & RF receiver w/ cords included)! Learn more about it in my FPPF Strobist Lighting workshop on June 15-16! For more info and to register online please visit: http://www.photoworldmanila.com/workshops/strobist-workshop/