found one of my stock photos on a wall poster for cotton:on in jakarta

..with some others also from stocksy. norie and irma happily posed in front of it for scale.  the poster is for fashion company cotton:on.

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addicted to gadgets and technology - my latest series in alamy

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same guy from the previous post. this is just a play on how in the old times men carried their cigarette packs folded in their t-shirt sleeves.  rebel-bad-boy sort of stuff - and also wearing one's addiction on one's sleeve - only this time it's addiction to gadgets and technology.  i submitted this concept to stocksy, but the editor said he didn't get the context, so i did a reshoot of the same thing and submitted it to alamy.  it's part of my latest series there.

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image above is part of the series.

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i hate this model

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because he wore my clothes better. there.

i do love tho that i didn't have to source clothes for him to wear (we wear the same size, all my stuff is fair game) and that he was a real trouper during the shoot.  stocksy said it wanted some sartorialist-style street fashion photo, so there.

vintage pirate coat from vivienne westwood (this one is charles'), suede chukkah boots from a.p.c., iggy jeans from agnes b., hooded sweater from diesel (which the model smirked at, comparing the style of the hoodie to foreskin) and hat from dior homme.

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romantic ideas

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remember when i said the people from stocksy sometimes suggest what to shoot?  i was gonna do a gay-themed series of photos, but there wasn't necessarily an inspiration board for this, so i thought, why not just do the moodboard for couples?  here's what the editors of stocksy think are good couple photos. great, right?  i thought, those are mostly young (except for one) white (except for one) hetero (except for two?) couples. what if just try to recreate those moments, but with a gay black couple? (photo above, they're models of course, and may or may not be gay in real life).  i was curious to see if they'll be perceived to be just as romantic (not at all? even more so?).

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but then there were just so many hours in a session and i ran out of steam, so i continued the next day with another pair of models (photo above).

the results, plus a lot of variations (i tend to veer off path when shooting), are in this gallery (first day) and this gallery (second day). they're not all there yet as i'm still going through the photos and might actually do a third day of shoot for the set-ups that i missed, but they'll end up in those galleries.

this, for example, is a lame attempt at "a touch to the lips" - i should've gone closer, over the shoulder of the guy touching the other, more intimate - ah well.  and this, which i like, is a combination of "love at every age" and "roof".


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more directions

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in another post i mentioned about how i directed the models on what to do, and last weekend i joined a group shoot where another photographer said i'm actually good at it, so i thought, how about i share more on what i tell the models before clicking the shutter?

in the photo shown above, i told the taller model to dry his hands (we were doing dishwashing photos before this), the other model to help him remove his apron, while asking his opinion about something important that he has to decide on but doesn't know what to do about.

this is part of an lgbt series of photos that i'm doing for stocksy.

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don't you just love it when they get it?

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all i said was, you're these bored party people, spoiled brats - they came up with this, from a shoot i did last sunday.  in the photo are diego, michelle, mitchel, and hallie.

photo stuff update:  i guess sales are picking up (and i hope it continues) - bme (best month ever, if you're not familiar with stock photographers' sales talk) for alamy, stocksy, and imagebrief.(well, considering this is my first month)  and tho not bme for pond5, still not bad.

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first rm sale via alamy

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i've had several rf sales from alamy before, but this was the surprise first rm sale.  good timing i guess, since i've just uploaded some new stuff there.

photo above was taken in bagan, myanmar (formerly burma), on a lovely hot air balloon ride at sunrise.

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correction:  oops. i did a double check and turns out it was rf (royalty-free) after all.  i was confused because the sale was for an amount that another agency used to charge for rm (royalty managed). ah well.

my mother's crew of sewing women on a website's splash page

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above is a photo of the women sewing doormats in the hut next to our family house in the philippines. it's currently used by a company in their website. my mother's the one standing at the back, taking a break from making their lunch to be in the photo.

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first sale @ imagebrief

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just got my first (hopefully not the last) image licensed at imagebrief.  it's basically a company that caters to specific requirements of companies needing images by sourcing them directly from photographers worldwide. the big draw? they take out the smallest commission in the industry.

the image that got licensed was from the shoot pictured above (tho not this specific image) with scotty, anton, and jordy - taken in maplewood.

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stock imitating life imitating stock

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on top is a photo from a recent shoot in the east village in new york for stocksy, inspired by the photo below it, taken spring of 2009 in the peak district in the uk (taken to look like a stock photo) with friends, in a really, really old cottage we rented for the weekend.

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late for the party

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this one's from a recent shoot for stocksy united. we have this thing going on where someone in the creative team (brianna?) suggests a trendy topic to shoot, and one of them was balloons.  was a few weeks back but am only starting to get back my momentum in doing shoots, so - ah well, as they say, better late than fat.

in the photo is alek sandar

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round-up part 2

image used by cosmopolitan

... more from yesterday's post:
hot sex stories and fantasies - cosmopolitan.com
who works 9to5 anymore? - msn.com living
subjective time - timeandmandate.com
sharing is caring? - fourcemag.com (dynamic url content, photo might be gone already)


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round-up of photos used recently

photo used by esquire.com

once in a while i like to google myself to see which among my photos are used recently, and found these:

tips on how not to become drunk - esquire.com
sex and the busy life - redbookmag.com
tips on gaining work experience - careerking.net
skinny jeans - kroq
picnic tips - 9and10news

thanks!

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beat gen shoot

finished processing beat generation pictures.  short break memorial weekend then on to hipster pics.

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it's a wrap

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first full production photo shoot in san francisco. clockwise from shirtless guy: trevor (talent), nikkie (make up artist), teddy (production assistant), kevin (lighting assistant), bart (moustache talent), deborah (location), justin (stylist), lizzie (talent).

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south beach, miami, in msn.com travel

screen capture of msn.com page they actually messed up the photo order (description/credit for cozumel, mexico and south beach, miami)

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Oni & Libs

finally got to process photos from when i visited oni and libs in wellington - and basically just going through folders and finishing them up one by one so i won't have to go back to any past shoots wondering if i left out any unprocessed photos. have finished and archived 10 folders never to return, currently doing the beijing photos, but have to stop to prepare for move and travel to myanmar. next time i process photos i'll be in california already.


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photoshoot: rowing with jorma, daniel, eduard, and ulrich

i finally finished processing all the photos from this shoot (after more than 2 years). I guess that still isn't so bad, considering i've got even older photos that i have yet to process


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mae and carol's gramma in msn.com's splash page

screen shot of msn.com's splash page 16 December 2011

jane, who helped me do this photo shoot of mae and mrs. castillo (we always refer to her as carol's granny), told me about this find on today's splash page of msn.com.  the article is about projected new jobs for 2012


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p.s.
oooooops! carol is so gonna kill me. haha! she practically put the shoot together - sowwy carol, and thanks again :)

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rowing team photo series

i've had this series of rowing photos in my hard drive for a while and has already amassed tons of dust that i've decided i should put them all out before the year ends. unfortunately all the indoor shots, including the one above, can't be used as royalty-free because i wasn't able to obtain a property release for the boathouse.


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