We have never been in Clearwater before. This is a quaint place in Clark, Pampanga which is ideal for prenups and overnight outings. The entire place is complete with different foliage and there are lots of activities that visitors can do. In the case of Selwyn and Jo-an, the shoot started around three pm and by the time we knew it was already past six. There were lots of activities that we were able to do and everything was just a step away. Again, for those thinking of a different prenup venue, this is the place.

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Weekdays I am in the CBD or the Central Business District or what most of us call Makati. Of course, during weekends I steer clear from this place but this Saturday is an exception. Raymond and SG have decided to do their prenup in the heart of the business district. Throughout the shoot along the villages of Legaspi and Salcedo, though we got occasional stares from the MACEA (Makati Commercial Estates Association), everything went smoothly since the couple had requested earlier the mandatory permit. Note that the permit is free so it is just a matter of getting it before attemptiing to shoot in this area. From early noon till eight pm, our shutter kept on clicking and the couple enjoyed every minute. As you might have noticed from the photographs, we treat the entire thing as a magazine/fashion shoot. Less of the usual mushy and cheesy shots. Not that these shots are easy, it requires a lot of attitude and cool factor. We are pretty happy with the results. Rock on.

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What if hundreds of young boys gather in one place? Chaotic you might think. Amazingly, it’s not. Guess it is one of those moments that parents can actually bond with their sons. La Salle Greenhills held its Lakas ng Luntian Family Day last Saturday participated in by K1 students and hundreds of excited and screaming parents. Come to think of it, I believe the parents were more unruly than their kids training their cameras and videocam on their sons. All hell broke lose when our kids started to dance to a medley of songs ranging from Eye of the Tiger to Kung-Fu Fighting. Ecstatic parents storm ideal places to get the best view of their little boys. What was I doing when all of these were happening? Same as all the rest — craining my neck to get the best view of Paulo.

Here are the rest of the K1 boys and events that happened that day.

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Whew…. who in the world invented digital photography? When before we just have to go to a processor and have the pictures developed. Now gone are those days. Each picture now needs to be meticulously color corrected, saturated and then must be creatively laid-out to make an interesting story. Yes this is lot of hard work and not just a walk in the park. Your creative juices must be endlessly flowing to come up with an impeccable work.

Here are some of our latest ArtBook layouts. For the complete layouts, please click the name and you will be routed to my Multiply site.

BJ and Meann Prenup

Russel & Michelle Wedding

Derek & Margarita

Jay & Mench

Migoy & Hestia

Unlike other oufits covering prenups,ours are entirely different. Our coverage includes almost the entire day which is almost similar during weddings.

For Alain and Ryna’s, we started quite early in Tagaytay Highlands. We took the first few shots in the expansive grounds of Highlands, to the Club’s playground and then started hustling in the numerous Clubhouse’ billiard tables. The heavy downpour in the afternoon allowed us to take the mandatory breather but as soon as it stopped back to the grinder once again .

We surely had a grand time as can be seen from the different photographs. Can’t wait till their wedding.

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Paul and Cheryl exactly know what they want their wedding to be. It should be a gathering of family and friends and for everybody to enjoy the event. For the very hard to pleased Tsinoy crowd this might be a tall order. However, nothing seems to be too impossible to the couple especially Cheryl who is very used to organizing big events. In fact after the ceremony in Mary the Queen, we temporarily stopped the traffic along Xavier for our street shots. Cool .

Reception in the evening was quite a party. The programme was well thought off to the extent of doing a mock of the “Singing Bee” which surprise, surprise was won by the couple. Cheryl’s love for music, especially for Frank Sinatra song came in handy. Thus, it is just appropriate to use two Old blue eyes’ song for the movingpictures AVP. We were very proud of this movingpictures since this was the first time that we combined pictures and video in an onsite presentation. Quite a feat, if you ask me.

By the way, you might notice something different about the photographs shown below. Yes, I have been toying with several photoshop actions and quite amaze of the output. You will see more of these in the coming days.

Love it? Let me know.

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This wedding has been in the drawing board for quite a time. As Melissa said this is really the wedding she and Martin has been dreaming of. Guess too busy with work and rearing the family might have gotten in the way but surely the dream wedding has been there all along. Most of the details of the wedding have been worked on by Kutchie Zaldarriaga of Getting Married Philippines. Melissa exactly knows what she wants. Aside from the boudoir which she was very ecstatic, another thing she very much loved was her wedding gown designer.

The event was truly a dream wedding come true.

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From the day Melissa booked us for her wedding, aside from our photography and video services, she already expressed her desire to do a boudoir session. Just like other clients who contacted us for boudoir session she has expressed her apprehension. One, she is already a mother of three and she feels she doesn’t have a perfect body. I assured her that a boudoir session is not limited to those with whistle-bait figures or those with a modeling careers. As long as the subject has the right attitude and perhaps enough guts to see this thru then anybody can pull this off.

Just to prove my point, we did an initial take during her actual wedding. I am sure she will be more than willing to do the entire session after this .

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It was raining hard when we reached Tagaytay. With this uncooperative weather, an outdoor wedding is definitely out of the picture. The new venue was equally awesome, the foyer of Midlands Golf Clubhouse with the Taal Volcano in full view. As soon as we arrived in Tagaytay Highlands, we immediately went to Karl’s cabin for some shots. As soon as the mandatory shots were done, it was Gaye’s turn. We were quite early since the wedding wouldn’t start till 4:30 pm but we were triggering away as early as half past noon. Gaye is a natural charmer and very relaxed in front of the camera. We took countless preparation shots not only inside the cabin but outside
as well.

Clear blue skies greeted us at the start of the wedding. Until the end of the ceremony, the weather has been very cooperative which allowed us to take several dramatic portraiture shots. It was quite necessary to have remote lighting for these shots since ambient light was already too low which will result to blurry photograph. Even a tripod will not solve it since the camera might be steady but not the subject.

The reception was a really party participated in by Karl and Gaye’s closest friends. Our movingpictures slideshow summarized the entire event using Daughtry’s Feels Like Tonight.

The welcoming sky of Tagaytay Midlands.

The many moods of Gaye.

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Reprinted from Selle and Dyoks Blog.

Thick, heavy and you can easily recognize it from a mile away. that’s what a typical wedding album is. Then photographers started offering “coffetable” albums. They’re a bit thinner with pages pasted on thin cardboards. they look more like baby books than coffeetable books.

And then there is the ArtBook.

The ArtBook is a unique product offered by Fol Rana, Jr. It has the look and feel of a true coffeetable book. A unique product indeed that’s why we wanted one for our wedding. It took a while but we finally got ours just today.

Even though we already knew what it would like (layouts are pre-approved before printing), it’s just different seeing the layouts printed and bound together in a book. Heck, even the smell is different.

The printing quality is exquisite, giving justice to the elegant layouting done.

Besides absolutely loving the album, we love the way it was packaged too. To protect the artbook, it has:

* a classy leather case
* a printed hard case
* and a book jacket

The front and back cover layout couldn’t have been more perfect. To top it off, our love story is printed at the back.

Just to give you an idea how thin our ArtBook is, that’s 6 five-peso coins stacked beside our ArtBook. Even my phone is twice as thick as our ArtBook. We haven’t seen a 50-page wedding album this thin other than the ArtBook.

Browsing through the pages of our ArtBook brings back memories of our wedding day. That’s more than enough to bring a smile off our faces.