Olivia’s Doll House
July 30, 2007 | Filed Under weddings | Leave a Comment
JC’s birthday, at the “second happiest place on earth” – where kids get to play dress-up.
Sab enthralled with her costume
“Hello Mama!, mumble blabber mumble, I’m Belle”
The birthday girl herself walking the runway.
Justin jump-starting his architectural career.
and a nice way to end the weekend, a full moon.
Anatomy of a Jump
July 24, 2007 | Filed Under weddings | Leave a Comment
Shot around 500 hundred photos and as expected some turned out to be duds. I guess this is the norm in sports photography, you don’t know exactly when the best moment is going to happen, you just have to be trigger-happy. Most are autofocus mishaps, I certainly wished I had Canon’s top of line cameras, getting more focus points would have really helped.
I love RAW! When converted directly to JPEG it might turn out flat and boring. However, a little post processing really gives wonders.
I didn’t get to ride but I was more than happy photographing friends in action.
Alan wake to wake – perfect jump! ….almost 
Franco powering through his start
Joseph slicing through water
Bau making it look easy
Chinggy on his succesful attempt
The smile says it all. Photographed by Carla
Mike flashing the German Moreno sign …eheheh
and my vain self portrait.
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PS.
I’ve had the VinceAndCarlaCuares.com.ph domain for free for almost 4 years. I didn’t realize that domain names are so cheap these days, until now. For 7 bucks, I bought a year’s subscription for a new domain. You can now point your browsers to vinceandcarla.com and email inquiries at info@vinceandcarla.com . =) I have always dreamed of having email addresses on my own domain. I guess today is a happy day for me.
Since I’m still getting the old domain for free, I plan on continuing redirection to this blog.
Mercado-Gueco Reunion
July 21, 2007 | Filed Under weddings | Leave a Comment
Guess how many persons are there in the photo?
The group is so huge that it needs to be viewed at full resolution. I thought I’d make a compromise and pan the photo using Flash. I have an old version and transitions aren’t that smooth, for now it will do.
and…. oh…. it’s,
One hundred twenty one.
edit: I’ve updated, and the panning is now smoother. It did, however, degrade a bit of picture quality.
Southborder Concert
July 15, 2007 | Filed Under weddings | Leave a Comment
It was a fun evening! I try to learn something new whenever I get to shoot. This event is at the top of that learning list.
Vince of South Border
The green lighting made this weird colorcast on Duncan.
I loved the motion and emotion so I thought I might as
well publish it.
Awesome Geneva as their special guest.
The opening act, performed by various fil-am talents.
Stage lighting was poor especially making things difficult for my 70-200 f4 IS. I was tempted to use ISO1600 but hesitated as I’m almost always disappointed with the noise even if I expose to the right.
Geneva doing a flamenco pose showing-off her ripped abs.
Glendale Auditorium beside Glendale Community College.
V20, Long Beach after party guests.
Nino and friend.
Mia and friends.
Seattle girl on Mariners jersey.
Alan and Joni
Sweet and Friends
Alan and Annie
Troop Sibil
Vince, Mia, and KC
Maia, Des and Friend.
And lastly, my shoutout to the cool folks of Pinoygraphers! It was nice meeting you guys.
7-7-7
July 9, 2007 | Filed Under weddings | Leave a Comment
Spent that day at the Aquarium of the Pacific.
Ever since I saw pics like this on the web, I knew I have to get one myself. The aquarium wasn’t as bright as I thought. I had to bring up the ISO to 800 and still wasn’t enough.
If you are familiar with the lighthouse at Long Beach, that’s exactly where the kid is running up to. Being on top of the Aquarium’s boat deck gave me this interesting perspective.
DOF
July 7, 2007 | Filed Under weddings | Leave a Comment
Depth of Field
I thought I might as well sneak this photo in since I was already lying on the grass.
Pelican
July 7, 2007 | Filed Under weddings | Leave a Comment
I think this is the closest I can get to birding given the fact that the longest focal length I’ve got is 200mm. I have now realized that photographing birds is a lot harder than it looks. Rep to those who do this as their hobby! =)
