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Friday, December 19, 2008

HDR Christmas

Fuente Osmena Rotunda, Cebu City
Cebu!!!

Sunday, December 7, 2008

It's Christmas...

Christmas Tree at Fuente Osmena Circle -- Cebu City, Philippines
It's Christmas...

Sunday, November 30, 2008

Friday, November 28, 2008

Cebu City Hall

The newly renovated Cebu City Hall - took this shot in early morning before the sun rises...
Cebu City Hall - HDR

My first attempt of HDR

Reflection

In image processing, computer graphics, and photography, high dynamic range imaging (HDRI or just HDR) is a set of techniques that allows a greater dynamic range of luminances between light and dark areas of a scene than normal digital imaging techniques. The intention of HDRI is to accurately represent the wide range of intensity levels found in real scenes ranging from direct sunlight to shadows.

High dynamic range imaging was originally developed in the 1930s and 1940s by Charles Wyckoff. Wyckoff's detailed pictures of nuclear explosions appeared on the cover of Life magazine in the mid 1940s. The process of tone mapping together with bracketed exposures of normal digital images, giving the end result a high, often exaggerated dynamic range, was first reported in 1993[1], and resulted in a mathematical theory of differently exposed pictures of the same subject matter that was published in 1995[2]. In 1997 this technique of combining several differently exposed images to produce a single HDR image was presented to the computer graphics community by Paul Debevec.

This method was developed to produce a high dynamic range image from a set of photographs taken with a range of exposures. With the rising popularity of digital cameras and easy-to-use desktop software, the term HDR is now popularly used[3] to refer to this process. This composite technique is different from (and may be of lesser or greater quality than) the production of an image from a single exposure of a sensor that has a native high dynamic range. Tone mapping is also used to display HDR images on devices with a low native dynamic range, such as a computer screen. --- wikipedia

Monday, November 24, 2008

The Colors of Vegas

Las Vegas -neon lights sparkle the city every night, 365 days a year...
The Lights...

Caesars Palace

Vegas Strip

JIHWANG

My korean friend who speaks bisaya very well...
Saranghe

Portraiture

Portrait shoot using off cam strobe...
Portrait Smile
Model : Mairin
Locale : Wings Warehouse, Mandaue City
Photogs : Me, Jay Arias and Marvin Bonjoc

Friday, November 21, 2008

Soar High

What a timing capturing this alien in my not so hi-tech camera...sigh (Santa Monica, California - Summer 2008)
Soar High...

Caesars Palace

We walked the entire strip the whole afternoon until evening...after the stroll, we went to Noe's friend house and drink until 5 o'clock in the morning whew!!!
Caesars Palace

Thursday, November 20, 2008

Police Car

Spot the difference

NYPD - New York Police Department
NYPD

CCPO - Cebu City Police Office
Police Car

Whew!!!

AmGirl

Manhattan, New York - Soft Edge, Vignette and Smart Sharp Techinque...the original pix was blurry due to I did not check my setting when I clicked the shutter hahahaha..
AmGirl

Hollywood

My Limousine in Hollywood...whew!!!
Limousine

Wednesday, November 19, 2008

Photoshop Technique

The "Soft Focus Effect" technique in one of my e-books...

Justin
Justin

Sarah
Sarah

Kakai
Kakai

Saturday, November 15, 2008

Shangri-La Escapde

Sunrise Shot...
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Jump Shot...
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Native Hut...
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Sarah and Justin
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Friday, November 14, 2008

New Toy

Still I can't use my new gear...no head available in photo store...sigh!!!
Manfrotto 190XPROB

My Baby

Although dusty and dirty, this baby is very much reliable...it can fire as much as you can think...whew!!!
My Baby...

Tuesday, November 11, 2008

Sarah and Justin

NAIA 2 - waiting for our flight going back to Cebu
NAIA-2 Philippine Airlines Domestic Airport

NAIA-2 Philippine Airlines Domestic Airport

NAIA-2 Philippine Airlines Domestic Airport

Sunday, November 9, 2008

Flickr Explore

This is my sixth picture in Flickr Explore...
Pari-an Heritage Park,Brgy. Pari-an, Cebu City, Philippines
Pinay

Sunday, November 2, 2008

Sarah's Camera

Her Point and Shoot Camera...She is planning to level up her photography someday by getting a DSLR...whew!!!
Canon IXUS 860 IS

Thursday, October 30, 2008

Manila Bay Sunset

Sunset

Zoom view of the sunset...
Manila Bay Sunset

Strobist...

Absolute...
Absolute
Strobe placed in-front of the bottle...
1/30,f16,ISO 100

Apple (Made in China with melamine...hehehe)
China Apple
1/30,f22,ISO 100, Strobe - 1/4 power (placed above the subject)

Wednesday, October 22, 2008

Masskara Queen

The festival first began in 1980 during a period of crisis. The province relied on sugar cane as its primary agricultural crop, and the price of sugar was at an all-time low due to the introduction of sugar substitutes like high fructose corn syrup in the United States.[1] It was also a time of tragedy; on April 22 of that year, the inter-island vessel Don Juan carrying many Negrenses, including those belonging to prominent families in Bacolod City, collided with the tanker Tacloban City and sank. An estimated 700 lives were lost in the tragedy.[2] --- wikipedia

Masskara Festival - 2008Masskara Festival - 2008
Masskara Festival - 2008Masskara Festival - 2008

Sunday, September 14, 2008

Tommy Hilfiger

Tommy
Strobe placed at the bottom...

Joan Kirstie

The Fort, Cebu City
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Monday, August 11, 2008

Husband and Wife...

The Fort - Cebu City, August 2008
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