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Tour de Filipinas – Family Portaits Part III

Tour de Filipinas – Family Portaits Part III

Here’s the 3rd Batch

Tour de Filipinas – Family Portaits Part II

Tour de Filipinas – Family Portaits Part II

Here’s the 2nd Batch

Tour de Filipinas – Family Portaits Part I

Tour de Filipinas – Family Portaits Part I

As you guys well know, me, maan and the girls traveled back to the Philippines for our much needed R&R.
And being the photojunkie that I am, I just had to bring along some of my photography gear.
Since it has been 7 yrs since we last saw our family, we made it imperative that we took [...]


The Ladies of Akbayan

The Ladies of Akbayan

Yesterday, I had a chance to shoot my good friend Murin who brought along a co-worker/friend from Akbayan, Reggie.
The sunset was gorgeous and the models were ultra cool.
Anyhow, here are some of the pics.

And the crew (joey, marius and ike)

Happy Holidays

Happy Holidays

I took this picture tonight as my contribution to the TPF December 2009 Assignment. It’s not much but I do hope it conveys what I was meaning to say.
Happy Holidays Guys!!!

Holiday Shipping Cut-off Dates

Holiday Shipping Cut-off Dates

Howdy folks,
The busy season is right around the corner and Zenfolio has been kind enough to publish the cutoff dates for shipping print outs. Your order must be placed and approved, on or before the cut-off date to be delivered in time for the holiday.
Holiday Shipping Cut-off Dates

Halloween
October 31st

Thanksgiving
November 26th

Hanukkah
December 12th

Christmas
December 25th

New Year Day
January [...]


No Pics My Man

No Pics My Man

Zenfolio is currently upgrading their system, which mean in English, no pictures will be available until they are done =(
Come back later maybe they’ll be done by then.
Dios ti ag-ngina =)

Fun / Hectic Weekend

Fun / Hectic Weekend

You may not believe it but I signed up to play for the SCR basketball tourney. I joined my friends in the Gold Team.
Our uniforms just arrived the other week so we had the chance to wear them today. And what luck, we won our game, hopefully that luck carries over on succeeding games. Mind [...]

1and DNS Issues Again

1and DNS Issues Again

Howdy folks,
Just to let you know, 1And1.com is currently having DNS issues and it may affect access to my gallery.
If you can’t view my gallery url (http://gallery.kayumangi.com) you can use an alternate address which is http://kayumangi.zenfolio.com
I’ll update this page as soon as I know more…
Thanks a bunch,
- Marius


UPDATE: Direct Access to the Gallery is now back Online

UPDATE: Direct Access to the Gallery is now back Online

The gallery is now back online. Sorry for the inconvenience. – Marius
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Hi folks,
I just learned that the sub-domain pointing to my gallery is down (http://gallery.kayumangi.com)
I am currently in the process of resolving the problem.
You can still access your images if you use our alternate site http://www.zenfolio.com/kayumangi/
Sorry for the inconvenience, I’ll keep you guys posted.
- [...]

Da Grip by Joe McNally

Da Grip by Joe McNally

I saw this link from TexasPhotoForum and I’m glad I did. It really helped me steady my shooting. Check it out maybe it will help you too.

Amtrak’s Newly Published Photo Guidelines

Amtrak’s Newly Published Photo Guidelines

I saw this post from NPPA and I’m glad Amtrak finally settled the long standing debate.
Last year I had a gig (well was to suppose to do it but its a long story) for a sorority that wanted to do some classical images. And I had the idea of doing it on Amtrak. But after [...]


White Background Part II – Dual Ligthing Setup

White Background Part II – Dual Ligthing Setup

Today is Maggie’s 1st Month. We celebrated it by doing an impromptu photoshoot.
I tried experimenting with the lighting: instead of doing the usual 3 light setup (all have white brolleys attached but two are pointing to the seamless paper and the third is overhead camera), I only pointed one white brolley to the seamless [...]

Updated Services Page

Updated Services Page

If you’ve noticed I’ve updated my services page to contain a more detailed breakdown of what I offer as well as how I charge clients.
I’ve decided to switch to the hourly rates from the daily ones as it allows me to be flexible in accommodating my clients.
As always the rates quoted are for guidance only, [...]

How to become a professional photographer

How to become a professional photographer

I saw this post and I was laughing out loud. Check it out
http://www.27bslash6.com/photography.html


DIY Grid

DIY Grid

I was running around HEB and walmart looking for black straws to make another pair of grids for my Vivitar 285s but no luck.
You see the grids I made from the Strobist kit from MPEX didn’t last long because I made a lousy job hehehe.
Anyhow, I was scouring the Strobist Flickr forums for alternatives and [...]

Lightroom Plugin for Zenfolio

Lightroom Plugin for Zenfolio

I’m a big fan of Adobe Lightroom and I currently host my photos at Zenfolio.
I saw this great plug-in and I just had to share it with you guys.
Thanks for Jeffrey Friedl for this awesome tool.
Check it out.

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year

It’s been a long and painful year. The country is in a recession, job layoffs left and right; and foreclosures everywhere. But despite all the gloom and doom, there is always hope.
We must refuse to live in fear and sadness. Because if we did, there won’t be any point in living we’ll just [...]


Photoshoot – Mission Accomplished and then some

Photoshoot – Mission Accomplished and then some

We just finished our photo shoot today and boy everyone had a blast.
And I learned a couple of things from this session. One, is that no matter how much you prepare, there will always be something that will go astray. And in such cases you just got to go with it and adjust. No point [...]

Photoshoot Gitters

Photoshoot Gitters

Early morning tomorrow will be my 1st fashion shoot with the gang, I’m bring along Wyne (my 2nd shooter) Randy and Jason as my lighting guys. It’s going to be fun and it’s going to be awesome.
I just finished briefing the guys about Mercer park and the challenges we face like lighting conditions and what [...]

Happy Thanksgiving guys

Happy Thanksgiving guys

We just got home from the HEB Parade in downtown Houston. I took a lot stills check them out


Yana Series N

Yana Series N

I was working in my office, yana just woke up from here midday nap and she looked so cute I just had to take some snapshots.
Check them out in our flickr account:

Maan @ Six Months

Maan @ Six Months

We just got back from Thai Cottage and Maan was in the mood for a shoot so I whipped out a couple of light stands along my reflector com car shade and snapped some pictures.
Check them out

Halloween Trick o Treating Shoot

Halloween Trick o Treating Shoot

The gang just finished trick or treating and decided to an impromptu photoshoot (well ok I really planned on shooting for Yana but then we decided to include her friends as well).
Checkout their photos