It's An Honor

It's an honor to have a photo that I took (enclosed in red dashed-line) in Digital Photographer Philippines' 4th Year Anniversary celebration to be featured in Digital Photographer Philippines Issue 34 (Page 11 top-right corner). The best thing is that this photo contains six (6) of the best professional photographers in the Philippines (L-R): Jay Jallorina, Jay Tablante, Pilar Tuason, Jo Avila, Xander Angeles, and Raymund Isaac.

I'm glad I stayed until the very much awaited portion of the celebration -- the Live Judging. I got a chance to present the Live Judging portion 'entertainers'. It was also a good thing that we had good seats in the house.

Thank you DPP and more power to you! We enjoyed every moment during the event and surely learned a lot of things from the best in the industry.

See you again next year, right?

New Learning: Portraits

I learned something new today. Something about portraits.

When we look at models on a glossy magazine of any kind, models have this sort of silky smooth skin. I thought it was just pure make-up and special lights that makes it look that way. Technology has it's share on how it's done nowadays as I have just learned.

Having myself as the lucky guinea pig for this learning, I believe I learned a lot. It needs a little patience to do it though. But for a first time try, this a good result in my opinion. I used the photo I took on my "Flash Experiment" entry as it has some nice things to clean up and also has a nice play of light and shadows. So, here's the result:

I think I should put myself on a magazine cover like so:

Thanks to technology!