Margaret

Margaret was the first ever model that I shot back in August last year when I was in the early stage and exploring photography. She left Hong Kong and went to England to study and now she is back for a vacation. A fellow photog invited me to shoot her again and I was so excited.

Here are two of the shot I did in August 2008.

All Natural Light




And here is the shot I made August 16. Oh no I just realized its a little over a year! Its almost an anniversary :P

Natural Light


I used 580 EX II cam left bare and 580 EX II cam right on a portable beauty dish triggered with Pocketwizard Flex and Mini TT1


Hope you guys like it!

Water Droplets Tutorial

My wife went back to Manila for a vacation and to study make up artistry to suplement my hobby. Now I have more time to play around with the water in the kitchen without my wife nagging me about the pirex plate being played around. Don't worry baby ill take care of this :)

So this shot is inspired by the Strobist article a few months ago.

The equipments used

White transparent chopping board
White pyrex plate
Plastic for the water
2 580 EX II gelled
Canon ST-E2 to trigger my flash
Tamron 70-200 f2.8 Macro lens
Canon 5d MK II
Tripod

I hanged the plastic bag on top of the exhaust fat and check where the water is dropping. I placed a marker (tip of the spoon or knife) on the spot and pre focused the area. I turned the focusing on manual so that everytime I pressed the shutter it wont find a focus again. Oh by the way my exposure was 1/200 and f8 and had my ISO at 50. I was shooting on manual mode as well. I chose to used 1/200 to slightly kill the ambient light.

Here are some of the results.




You can visit my flickr set here as well.

Executive Shot

A good friend who works at a Financial Wealth Magazine in Indonesia approached me to take an executive shot for her profile in their magazine.

I have decided to take her portrait at LEGCO Central Hong Kong because of the majestic pillars that surrounds the building.

I used my Canon 5D Mark II and Canon 24-70mm F2.8 Lens for this shotand one Canon 580 EX II on a reflector umbrella triggered by Pocketwizard Flex TT5 and Mini TT1.

Thanks to Lighting Essentials

Thanks to Don of Lighting Essentials for featuring three of my photos in his website. I have been dreaming of having my photos featured in this site.

Lighting Essentials is a great site for those who are into photography may it be natural light, studio lights or strobist style of photography. Great site!

Here are the three photos.

Machi



Only Hard Men Wears CK



Catherine

Baby Aaron

This is the recent shoot I did for a friend Arlene. I had to make a lot of clicks to get a few perfect shots. I didn't know it was this hard to do baby shoot :)

This is the set up




And here are the results








I have used Pocketwizard Flex TT5 and Mini TT1 to trigger my two Canon 580 EX II on ETTL

Here is the flickr link of theses photos.

Catherine

Cantherine is a Vietnamese student aspiring to become a model. We did one session in Kennedy Town Pier Hong kong for her portfolio. I hope you guys like it.

On these shots I have used two 580 EX II triggered with Pocketwizard's Flex TT5 and Mini TT1.




Here is the link to these set on flickr.

Bangkok Photoshoot A wish come true

Thiis is long overdue but I guess worth posting. These several shots were taken in Bangkok on a workshop hosted by Manuel Librodo last August 16, 2008.

Models were Joanne, my wife, Emma and Niqui.

JOANNE







NIQUI






EMMA





You can see more of these photos on my Flickr Portrait sets

Please feel free to leave your comments. I would love to hear what you think.