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Wassup, wassup?

July 1st, 2008 · No Comments

As I mentioned in my last post, I wasn’t able to watch the live coverage of the bout between Manny “Pacman” Pacquaio & Dangerous David Diaz last Sunday, I was shooting Melo & Eunice’s Wedding in Quezon City, Melo is Karmi’s younger brother.
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Manny “PACMAN” Pacquiao once again proven [...]

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Tags: Daily Rants · Personal · Photography · Pilipinas · Point of View · Proud Pinoy

What’s wrong with my cameras?

June 5th, 2008 · 4 Comments

Notice what’s wrong with these photos?

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Tags: Do it Yourself · Gears & Gadgets · Photography

UP Macro Shoot EB

June 2nd, 2008 · 6 Comments

One thing is for sure, macro photography is addicting!
Last Saturday, a macro shoot EB was organized at UP Diliman Campus by PiPho forumers, macro masters like Arbil, Neil & Orlee were there & it’s an opportunity to learn the tricks of the masters.
Different macro gadgets came out, some are commercially available & most of it [...]

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Tags: Macro · Photo Ops · Photography

Macro Photography using Extension Tubes

May 30th, 2008 · 3 Comments

I would consider macro photography to be my biggest frustration, I tried using close-up filters before, although the results were good but not that satisfying.
Here are my latest macro shots using a manual extension tubes:

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Tags: Gears & Gadgets · Macro · Photography

Ladies of the Flag

May 27th, 2008 · 3 Comments

As promised, this will be the second part of my Wagayway Festival post, this time I’ll be featuring the “Ladies of the Flag”, each of the lovely ladies will represent a symbol in our National Flag, the first of which are the three stars representing the 3 island group of our archipelago, namely Luzon, Visayas [...]

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Tags: Cavite · Events · Festivals · Photo Ops · Photography · Pilipinas

1st Wagayway Festival

May 25th, 2008 · 1 Comment

The Wagayway Festival of Imus, Cavite kicked off yesterday with a street parade. Wagayway is a Filipino term meaning wave, obviously because it’ll be the National Flag Day on May 28th. It was May 28, 1898 when the Philippine Flag was first waved by the troops of Gen. Emilio Aguinaldo in a battle [...]

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Tags: Cavite · Events · Festivals · Photo Ops · Photography

Higantes, Street Dancers & Floats at Ayala Avenue

May 15th, 2008 · 1 Comment

The roads of the Makati’s Central Business District was congested last Friday 09 May 2008, instead of the PUV’s & other vehicles plying the Ayala Avenue, it was closed to traffic to give way to the opening salvo of Makati’s 338th Founding Anniversary Grand Parade.
Higantes (Giant paper mache), Marching Bands, Street Dancers, Floats & Delegation [...]

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Tags: Festivals · Photo Ops · Photography

Wet Aliwan Fiesta!

May 4th, 2008 · 6 Comments

It was raining cats & dogs last Friday, which, made me contemplate on covering the Aliwan Fiesta.
But Saturday came & the sun was high up in the sky & it was hot, I went on with my plan of covering the event. It was noon when I arrived at the Quirino Grandstand, the event’s [...]

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Tags: Events · Festivals · Photo Ops · Photography

In quest for the best camera bag

May 2nd, 2008 · No Comments

Finding the best camera bag is a never ending struggle.
There are a lot of considerations, like, the number of gears that you have, is it easy to carry, etc. etc. I myself passed through that kind of struggle, I ended up buying Tamrac Pro 8, I have no complain with it, the bag can [...]

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Tags: Gears & Gadgets · Personal · Photography · Site Update

Give me a cameraphone & I will shoot

April 28th, 2008 · 8 Comments

Update: Our activity last April 19, 2008 was published by Inquirer.net today, also, check out my latest assignment here.
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We had our lunch at Kainan sa Balsa after attending the Sunday Service yesterday, the food is always good, but the ambiance & scene is better, this are the moments [...]

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Tags: Cavite · Daily Rants · Food Trip · Photography