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4.5 hours Baguio to Manila via SCTEX

Posted by tekgik under kaBlog

Ok so we went to Baguio last sat Aug 23. Im on experimental that day, I wanted to try the route of SCTEX thru Tarlac hi-way.

SCTEX Tarlac

Kenon Road

Kenon Road, shooting while driving (kids dont try this at home)

Up north, from Manila (Valenzuela exit) to Baguio City with an average of 80km/h (Kenon Rd & Mc Arthur Hi-way) 100km/h (SCTEX) we were able to reach Baguio at about 5.5hrs with frequent stops and misrouted to the SE of La Paz, Tarlac  approximately a total of 1.5 hour.

Going home from Baguio to Valenzuela with same route and average speed we were able to get home for only 4.5hours with just 1 stop at Capas, Tarlac 15mins the most.

It deifnitely short cuted the travel time since you wont be jamming thru the stops and traffic at Luisita, Banban and Mabalacat.

I enjoy this overnight trip specially that im with my beloved ones, the important people in my life. Ohhh did I mentioned I also played with my e71 and GPS while driving? I love that phone! Im having fun geeking with it

Here one shot taken by my brother!

Regie & Raffy

My fam

Goodbye iphone! Hello e71!

Posted by tekgik under Still, Tech, kaBlog

Ah yessss… my e71 is here, il no longer have to deal with globes ridiculous pricing of the iphone 3g.

Look at this beauty!

Expect a short review of this sleek new phone from Nokia… Been using it for almost 6 days now.

So far the coolest feature is the GPS…

4 days with Lightroom 2.0.. not beta

Posted by tekgik under News, Post Processing, kaBlog

If you havent seen / heard of it. Lightroom 2.0 is now finished with its beta stage and Adobe is now selling the final version of the software. Luckily adobe provides a 30 days fully functional trial version of LR 2.0.I already used it in two projects, two event photography coverage 1 is coroporate and 1 personal.

I must say that the new improvements are very useful specially the brush exposure +/-. Im still fiddling with its new added feats. I also like the saturation brush. Some noticeble UI improvements in the grid folders views. Speed wise, theres a little to noticed and Adobe still didnt add an option for bumping up RAM or CPU power. Im still dissappointed with the watermarking feature which is the most useful export feature i always used.

Yeah.. so heres some screenshot with the color desaturation technique

Download the 30 days trial here

New MacBook Pro.. sorta new

Posted by tekgik under News, Tech, kaBlog

Yeah after a year finally, i have upgraded my laptop from MacBook Pro 2.0ghz Core Duo to the latest MacBook Pro 2.4ghz Core 2 Duo Penryn (Multi-Touch).  Im very hapy using it now, the cool CPU what a difference! And the LCD brightness! Night and day! And thank you time machine i have restored ALL apps, infos, settings from my old to this sorta new MBP.

Mindanao.. 2nd time

Posted by tekgik under Commercial, Landscape, Travel, kaBlog

Next week Im flying to Mindanao to shoot a plant for a client. I love this type of project since im always excited doing travel / landscape photography. But anyway this is categorized as a Industrial Photography! Il be gone for 3 days and my wife is already begging me to bring her a “Pinakurat” search it so you’ll have an idea where im going

It will be my second time going to Mindanao but this time it will be on the southern part.

some essential accessories

Posted by tekgik under Tech, kaBlog

I bought a 3 meter length Belkin 5pin to USB chord for tethered shooting and an 81 in 1 Connectland card reader that can also read sim card. 

You may buy these at Octagon SM Megamall

Virus free pinoyphotographer.net

Posted by tekgik under kaBlog

Finally this site is no longer on the flagged list of google! All registration on this site is disabled! You spammers and virus injectors you should be the one to be infected! Anyway enough of that. Im happy now!

Yay a busy month!

Posted by tekgik under Commercial, Events, People, Portraits, kaBlog

Busy bee this month, my sched is really tight! i had some event, industrial, portrait, food and fashion shoots this July! Plus the workshops! I need to grab theses opportunities since these are all coming to me. I also think that I need an extra manpower in my studio. I hired an extra driver slash assistant to some of my shoots. 

Thanks to my family who continues to give me inspirations!