Merry Christmas from Tim Medrano

Merry Christmas Y'all!

Alright, first of all, thats not my cute baby. He is Baby Enzo, Reuben and Karen Ostrea's first born. Second, that beer was put their by his parents. No, he is not starting young!

UP Lantern Parade 2009

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Our final year to participate in the Lantern Parade. It was bitter-sweet as nothing went as planned. Even the after party didn't go as I had expected... None the less I had a blast seeing all the elaborate floats and costumes by future artists and designers of UP Fine Arts.

JV + Cathy

Photographer: Tim Medrano

Preps: Great Eastern Hotel

Church: Parish of the Hearts of Jesus and Mary

Reception: UP Diliman Bahay ng Diliman

JV and Cathy are office mates at Infocom. JV is a web developer and Cathy is a web designer (Perfect help for my thesis!!). According to Cathy, JV is the camera shy type and would need coaching to pose. I guess Cathy coached him well right after our final meeting before the wedding day because I didn't have problems with him posing for the camera. Cathy, however, made our shoot very, very easy and fun. She did all the poses like a pro! Watch the Slide Show

Quick Composite Images (Flabby Tummy ALert)

I just shot myself topless on a Sunday afternoon. I got really bored and decided to do some composite images of me boxing myself. It was an experiment more than a real shoot. I must admit I haven't this very often and what I'm going to tell might not apply to all applications. I did this in an hour more or less. The longest step was editing the photos.

Tips to remember:

1. Have a good concept in mind.

2. Have a consistent lighting set-up.

3. Use a tripod!


First, set up you lights and camera. Test and adjust to take and stick to it. You will be shooting a lot so you will have a lot of options. The important things is the shots are lit and shot exactly the same.

Second, select photos that go well together. Factor in position and complexity of the extraction.

Third, layer the photos in one file in photoshop reducing the photo you will be erasing to 60% so you can see what you are erasing.

Optional, if you are going to adjust the look of the photo creatively, do it after all the compositing is done to get maximum consistency.

Breaking through the Creative Slump

I'm going to quote Steve Simon a photojournalist that I admire about being better at photography. He says:

 "If you go out and shoot, you'll be better at taking images even if you don't want to be better."

It is true in a way, but I want to go on a different point of view about going out and just using your camera a lot to get better. I really do not mind if I got "better" or not. But I guess the whole point of me starting to take me camera with me to school or wherever, again is to find a "perfect" shot. If there is one thing about this post that will further confuse you is that I'm going to contradict myself in saying that there is no perfect shot. That said, as photographers, painters, dancer or whatever you are, there should always be that unreachable dream you take with you wherever you go. I call it my personal "kick in the butt" constantly pushing oneself. Yes, you will probably never get that perfect shot. But then again, you'll never know. So keep shooting!

That said, here's more photos of today.

At least one of them were surprised.

Intention

December 1, 2009

PLDT Watch Pad Booth

3 days of shooting events at Robinson's Galleria and Ermita. Man, was I tired. But I really had fun. I got to watch Pacquiao and Cotto fight live for free!! View Slide Show Here: http://timmedrano.com/PLDT_WatchPad_Web_Gallery/index.html

Lady Gaga??

DJ Jun of Wave 89.1

DJ Georgia on the Hotline

Disco

view complete gallery:

http://timmedrano.com/PLDT_WatchPad_Web_Gallery/index.html

UP Photowalk

I did a short UP photowalk for the nth time. It was hours before a commissioned shoot in Chef and Brewer and I thought there were classes already. Unfortunately, it turned out that the start of classes was Tuesday November 10. After walking through UP with and without a camera, it seems that there's always something new and interesting to see if you look hard enough. 

The Belt Guy

Hairdressing

Brief Visit to Subic

I drove to Subic with my girl to look for bars and accomodation for her upcoming event for Sanuk that I'm also going to document in the Ad Congress. I tried to squeeze in some shots in between places we drove to because the sun was so beautiful. The weather yesterday is somehow a relative rarity now because of all the storms and sporadic rains brought about by global warming. It was also the first time I used a CPL after a long time :) Enjoy the photos!

Reflections

Beautiful Light

Underwater Buddha

Serene Waters

Beautiful Sunlight

November 1, 2009

Undas (Day of the Dead)

November 1, 2009 - Two children lighting candles on a relative's grave in Barangay, Malapit, San Isidro Nueva Ecija

Entry #4

Bisho (Vice)

October 28, 2009

Marvin and Vergie

It's been a long time since I did a wedding event. In a way I missed it. I missed the urgency and time pressure of it all. Angel Bar called in for me to back-up shoot for them.

Weddings is the sh@t... I didn't know how I much I missed it since I was still shooting for Imagine-Nation :)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Morning Run

I volunteered to cover Ace Saatchi and Saatchi's Charity fun run at the Fort Bonifacio High Street as a pledge to donate a a thousand dollars to the victims of Ondoy. I had no sleep, and I had to wake up at around 430am to get to venue in time. It was a fun event after all we had free breakfast in Pancake House right after.

Briefing The Runners

Shots Off

Morning Sun

Things Got A Little Bit Too Competetive

In the End Its All for Charity

Homey Softlight

I just realized how nice and soft the light is in our house. This is one of those times that I had to stay at home as I am finishing my thesis presentation for the next day. It just goes to show how we sometimes take things for granted because we're always busy. :)