Pinoy Photographer

Tilt-Shifting Fort Bonifacio at Night

tekgik — Mon, 01 Nov 2010 08:10:31 +0000

иконописПравославни икониматрациA night out playing with the 17mm Tilt-Shift lens. Not the perfect weather though

Architectural Photography

tekgik — Thu, 17 Jun 2010 05:28:43 +0000

I studied Architecture, I practiced construction for 2 years. Our family is in the business of construction. Since the time I made photography my full time career the first two big clients I had is in the manufacturing industry. For the past 3 months almost all of my major shoots are in the real estate and resort – hotel business. Since I shot mostly their interior and exterior designs it was so time consuming straighten up the converging vertical lines, it also came to a point that one of my client saw a degradation of the corner frames due to stretched pixels. A little tip regarding perspective, in architectural drawings vertical lines are drawn straight, vanishing points should be in the right directions also. These are the things a photographic image should replicate from a drawing. It came to my idea that investing an architectural lens can lessen my post-production time and provide me a great level of adjustments with minimal image quality loss.

The Canon 17mm TS-e Tilt-Shift lens came along. It is one of the finest if not the best architectural lens today. It is the sharpest and “contrastiest” among the lenses that I have now. The well built heavy lens comes with a hefty price tag at $2,7xx or P130,000 in pesosesoses. I have been using it for alsmot 3 weeks now and I can tell you that, its all worth it!

With this lens and a new style set of post-production I’m doing, I think this will give more value to my client to have the best image possible.

I simply enjoy every frame I take it with it now, my dream to be a fully pledged Architect might be diverted to be the best architectural photographer out there. Anyone can dream right?

Ok so i’ll probably stop my hands typing and show you what the lens can do. Take note that these shots are composed of 6 or more exposures to produce a High Dynamic Range, I don’t like HDR-Halo type of images (personal preference) so theres a another step I’ve done here to make it less prevalent and make it as natural as possible. These are post-processed in LR3 and PSCS5 workflow.

These shots were taken from a walkabout shoot in Makati yesterday part of the “I heART Makati, I love the Philippines. I love being free” event going on.

Here’s the beautiful RCBC Plaza designed by Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, LLP, in cooperation with local architectural firm W.V. Coscolluela & Associates

Large version here

The iconic Ayala Tower 1 designed by Skidmore, Owings and Merrill, LLP and Leandro V. Locsin & Partners

Large version here

Long time no blog post

tekgik — Thu, 17 Jun 2010 04:25:56 +0000

Blame it to Twitter! Twitter is instant, quick and very light.

Follow me at www.twitter.com/tekgik if you want to read tweets about photography, gadgets, design, architecture and adventures in my everyday life. You can also see my twitter stream at the top-right navigation column of this site.

No More Divisions by Julien Drolon – Music Video

tekgik — Mon, 22 Mar 2010 10:19:25 +0000

Howdy?!

I just wanna share this music video we did last last week. This is where my 2 HD DSLR heated up. We shot this with 2x Canon 7D in Full HD 24p and some with Canon 5D Mark II Full HD in 30p. All raw footages just edited for arrangement.

Click here to view the embedded video.

Credits:

Composed & Performed by Julien Drolon
Arranged, Produced & mixed by Jimmy Antiporda
Guitars by Noel Mendez
Mix & mastered at MUSIC MASTER STUDIO

Music Video Credits:
Directed by Jimmy Antiporda
Assistant Direction & Cinematography by Regie “Tekgik” Fernando
Concept & script by Julien Drolon
Edited by Jimmy Antiporda
Production House: JAM Creations
Shot on Canon 7D

Cast:
Vocals & Guitar – Julien Drolon
Elec Guitar – Noel Mendez
Bass – Lito Planes
Drums – Paolo Lapresca
Children of Childhope Asia Philippines
Random Pinoys

Pull Over Photography

tekgik — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 15:10:17 +0000

Baguio’s Panagbenga 2010 last weekend, though we did not plan to go there we have decided to rest and breathe the cool air of Baguio since we have an errand in Tubao La Union. As always my camera is ready to shoot something interesting while burning rubber on the hi-way.

And yet again, I present you some new shots of my “Pull Over Photography”

February & March Photography Workshops Schedules

tekgik — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 15:20:26 +0000

Here’s my Feburary and March Learning and Hacking Photography Workshops scheds

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UPDATE

March 2010 workshops was moved see below

Learning [basic] Photography Workshop

Feb 13 batch (12 slots) 10% disc until Feb 2

9am to 5pm total 8 hours

Php 2,500.00

March 13 batch (12 slots) 10% disc until Mar 8

9am to 5pm total 8 hours

Php 2,500.00

Hacking [advanced] Photography Workshop

Feb 20 & 21 batch (12 slots) 10% disc until Feb 9

Feb 20 – 9am to 5pm

Feb 21 – 10am to 2pm

Total 12 hrs

Php 4,500.00

March 20 & 21 batch (12 slots) 10% disc until Mar 15

Mar 20 – 9am to 5pm

Mar 21 – 10am to 2pm

Total 12 hrs

Php 4,500.00

For complete information kindly visit www.hackingphotographyworkshop.com website

San Jose, Tarlac

tekgik — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 10:18:47 +0000

A view from Monasterio de Tarlac

Complete gallery

When in Rome…

tekgik — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 04:12:38 +0000

Continuation upload of my Euro Trip last year. Now online, Rome Italy gallery.

Colosseum, Rome Italy

Complete gallery here

Lights on at IMAX

tekgik — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 14:43:49 +0000

Lights on at IMAX

Day 4 Twitshotdaily

tekgik — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 14:30:30 +0000

It’s my 4th day of doing my Twitshotdaily (Photo A Day) project.

Here’s my 4th one

Ironman Awaits

The Twitshodaily Twitter stream here

Twitshotdaily on Twitter

tekgik — Sat, 02 Jan 2010 03:44:10 +0000

Hello fellow photog tweeps!
I have a little project on Twitter called Twitshotdaily or #twitshotdaily. If you are interested in joining don’t hesitate to do so. You may read my reasons below.

Purpose:
-to organize one important tweeted photo daily
-to provide an easier way to search photos of twitterfeeds
-to enliven the passion for photography
-to provide a streamlined photo tweets timeline

Suggested format:
Day1: (title – caption) (photo server link) #twitshotdaily

Sample:
Day 1: Magnificent Mayon – A shot of Mayon Volcano pho.to/9876 #twitshotdaily

Notes:
-Photo can be taken with any camera but it must be taken during the day of tweeting
- Day 1 is Jan 1, 2010
-my intent is to complete it for 1 year (365 days)

The Last Sunset and Moonrise of 2009 (Philippines)

tekgik — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 13:18:42 +0000

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New year’s eve, my son and I went to our roof deck to see the amazing view of the sunset west side of our home. It looked like the sun is peeking and very embarassed from what had happened this year. The whole world suffered from the economic turmoil, disasters hit the earth especially my beloved country.

Goodbye 2009! …farewell

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Looking back on the east side, a very rounded moon surprised our sight. A beautiful scene that reminds me that there will be bad times and of course good times and I honestly feel it for the upcoming year 2010. It will be great! I already have so many plans for 2010. Im skipping the usual and I don’t want to do a new year’s resolutions list anymore since it’s not effective, at least for me.

Welcome 2010! more surprises coming soon…

Wishing you all the best this new year and new decade (2010)