Family portraiture for me is one of the jobs I love to do. It is also as heartwarming as covering a wedding.
But the difference between the two, family portraiture is ajob where I have to immerse with the entire family from the kiddos to the lolo and lola so that they would be comfortable to me yet I still have to be a little bit out of sight so as to capture those real family moments. The location was at the Casino’s farm in the outskirts of Impasug-ong. The place was around 1 hour away from Cagayan de Oro City so we had to travel early. It was also my idea just to be sure that I’ll be having some nice shots with the kids running around before they ran out of energy. But that I was wrong, the kids were all over the place skipping their afternoon naps. It was I who surrendered and got a few zzz’s early in the afternoon.
All I could really say is that, I had a fun day with THE CASINOs……not forgetting to mention the tasty lasagna and the family’s signature version of the appetizer bagoong.
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photographed by: BON ASERIOS
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The photography workshop focused more on letting the participants acquire that “photographer’s eye”. And so I chose to share my knowledge on how to compose a photo instead rather than focusing more in editing. My aim was for them to be very observant with every detail when they frame their photo. That each photo has its own story to tell and by putting those in a harmonious way would create a story. This workshop, we tackled from landscape photography, food, fashion but I decided to do more portraits as doing portrait photography is the usual kind of photography. They are only using kit lenses and I taught them how to use them in portraiture.
So here are the shots of my participants and after teaching them basic knowledge using Photoshop and just guiding them through, they were the one who edited their photos. Editing was more of their own taste rather than me dictating what they want to do with their own photos. Again I would like to thank to the Lord God above for giving us a wonderful weather for the shoot, my participants who showed in my workshop with great enthusiasm and to the organizer of the workshop, Ms. Pickle Flores, for letting this workshop possible. I hope that a Razzle Dazzle part 2 will be in store in the future. So I am also calling out you people who are interested to learn photography that I am open to one on one workshops or group workshops, just shoot me an email…
photos 31-37 are photographed by me.
Once again THANK YOU SO MUCH…
portraiture | portrait | Cagayan de Oro city
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sliver [?sl?v?] – 1. A slender piece cut, split, or broken off; a splinter.
The shoot was about breaking free from doing the usual shoot. The idea was doing a fashion type photoshoot but the photos portray not the clothes they wear but the emotion and the feelings the pictures gives you.
This was a visual art side project I had after I was invited by Essa and Mai of a photo shoot they had in mind. Essa and Mai are close friends of mine who came up with a nice and unique idea for a shoot. Their idea was inspired from the yin yang symbol and also to make do of simple garments for them to wear and it was my part on how to interpret their idea and make it like a high fashion shoot. My aim was to take their picture and direct them in such a way people will see first the emotions and the poses they did before the people realizing that they are only wearing simple linens.
We would like to thank club TILT management for giving us full use of the club area.
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And by the way, I’ll be doing a photography workshop this coming April, please stay tuned for more details. Interested participants can now contact me for reservations. Only 15 slots are available. Hope to see you.
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conceptual art by: ESSA SANTOS and MAI MISA
photographed by: BON ASERIOS
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