Details:
Camera: Canon EOS 400D
Edits: Additional shadow with Picasa 3.0
Shutter Speed: 2s
Aperture:f/5.6
Flash:none
Focal length:40mm
ISO:1600
Exposure compensation: -1 step

Date of capture: 4/7/07 10:18PM

Details:
Camera: Canon EOS 400D
Edits: Additional sharpen and shadow with Picasa 3.0
Shutter Speed: 1/100s
Aperture:f/4.5
Flash:none
Focal length:90mm
ISO:100
Date of capture:8/6/08 1:13 PM

The girl in this pic happens to be the same one in the “Bugas Queen” picture. This time, she portrays how many people are affected in life. Be it rape, poverty, hunger, they all end up in the ragged condition shown in the pic. Once again, this is a shoot I did for the UP cookout. I am kind of proud of this picture because I actually requested for this pose.

The title implies that we need a “hit” on our head to remind ourselves of the growing poor condition in our country. We often ignore how many of our society is in great need of help, yet we wait till the conditions call for desperate measures. We should remember that we don’t need another hit just to remember what we can do on our own.

Details:
Camera: Canon EOS 400D
Edits: Additional sharpen, highlights, and shadow with Picasa 3.0
Shutter Speed: 1/640s
Aperture:f/4.5
Flash:none
Focal length:90mm
ISO:100
Date of capture:8/6/08 11:51AM

Ah yes. This photo brings good fond memories. This shot was taken during my first ever somewhat formal photoshoot. I was invited by a friend and a former classmate to do a photoshoot for the UP Cookout AV presentation. I willingly agreed thinking I wanted some experience. And experience I did gain. We had the shoot in an area which was considered a squatter’s area, although I was amazed with how clean it was. The concept of Bugas (Rice) Queen, was the idea of the barrier between the Rich and the Poor. Our symbols of wealth? Well, the obvious glamrous wedding gown, and the more common neccesity in life…Rice.

A good number of Rich Filipinos would most likely do what the Bugas Queen is doing. Enjoy their luxuries, and ignore the hungry world of poverty that constantly yearns for what they have: A life. Take a good look at who are those Bugas Kings and Queens in our Society… The politicians, the Liars… I mean Lawyers, and those cheating businessmen. Are you a Bugas King/Queen?

(Note: For those whos say I am rich, for the Nth time, I am only upper-middle class)

Details:
Camera: Canon EOS 400D
Edits: none
Shutter Speed: 1/250s
Aperture:f/5.6
Flash:none
Focal length:52mm
ISO:1600
Exposure Compensation: -1.3 step
Date of capture:11/1/2007 8:28 PM

Every year it has become a tradition for me to bring my camera to All Saints Day. One of my favorite subjects, is the candle. There is just something about the candle that makes me ponder on matters. Matters such as life. The candle is a nonliving thing carrying with it also something nonliving. Yet this thing that it carries along with it, a flicker or a flame, become one as a candlelight, and together, they die. How can something without life, die? So going back to the image, I did not fix the candles like this. They were in that position when I passed by. Which is why they caught my attention. And when I saw them, I realized they looked a lot like people in prayer to a significant One. And then I remembered, Matthew 18:20, For where two or three are gathered together in my name, there am I in the midst of them.