Today, my country, the Philippines, is celebrating the 150th birthday of our national hero, Dr. Jose Rizal. With this, I would like to share the last poem that he wrote before he was executed in 1896 ( Read more... )

i'm so happy. remember the wedding photography i attended last week? i thought that i wasn't able to take a good shot. it was so frustrating to take a picture and saw the sharp shadow because you're only using a built-in flash. that was what happened to me ( Read more... )

i had fun at the wedding photography workshop last friday. i learned so many things, but sadly, out of more than a hundred pictures i took, there isn't a good picture. it's not the instructor's fault, though; it's all mine. i don't have an external flash, thus there are dark shadows in my pictures. so, next on my list is to buy a good external ( Read more... )

i attended a product photography workshop in sharjah last saturday. i didn't know that the setup is so elaborate. lights and diffusers were set up. our facilitator told us that in a professional photo shoot, it takes three hours to set up for a single product alone. the other facilitator showed us how to improvise on some equipment, like instead of ( Read more... )

as promised to myself, i'm going to upload the pictures i've taken during some of the workshops i attended with oppps.

here are two portraits of nina, our model during the workshop.


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i know i've been slack in keeping up with this blog. oh, i do log in everyday, but only to check if there's an interesting post among my livejournal "friends ( Read more... )

yup. i didn't realize that i've been living here in dubai for more than five months. and it has been a roller-coaster ride. one time you're up and happy, the next you're so depressed. they say it takes time to get used to living in another place. and they were right, of course ( Read more... )

i'm not much into writing a journal. either i am too busy to sit down and write or have a short attention span to think of what i have done. and also, past is past. what's the fuss?

but i finally decided to have one. maybe, this might be fun.

so, i welcome myself to live journal and you to ghanima's realm.