Sessions Twelve: La Violinista

Talent: Franz

Photographed by lee abrio

Hi Everyone! This is one of our lazy Sunday shoot. A friend of mine has organized to set a shoot on the Lake? River? whatever you call it. lol. We are supposed to rent a old looking boat but our guy didn't find what we want. Well this wasn't so bad at all, regardless of its yellow paint and playboy logo. hahaha. And i thought were gonna need another boat for our lighting set-up.

Gear Talk!! I only used my Canon 50D with 70-200mm lens playing with an aperture of 2.8-5. No lighting set-up was involve no reflectors. All comes with direct sunlight.

Again thanks to the organizers!! Thanks Guys!! ;) 

-LA

Sessions Twelve: Z-Series

Model: Amal

Photographed by Lee Abrio

Credits: Organizers- Nezam + Armie

Hot Cars & Girls shoot session was organized by my my local friends. They have invited more than 10 super car owners, 10-12 local and foreign talents and most of the photography enthusiast in the country attended the event. Its a good gathering of photographers held in a newly constructed covered roof building.

I did not bring any of my lighting equipment on this day. I know its gonna be packed with photographers. So i just make advantage of the available light on the location i.e. sun. lol

Gear Talk!! I used my old Canon 50D with Sigma 50mm 1.4 i also tried using a UWA lens but its too wide and i didn't get any success using it. Hmmn. i think i will find time to shoot more of this kind with lighting set-up.

-LA

Sessions Twelve: JV

Model: JV

Photographed by lee abrio

Lighting Asst.: Uniokeez Bautista

BTS with my Co-Photog./Lighting Assistant/human boom stand. lol

Hello there!! I'm back again! lol. Hope you guys like my new blog layout. I'm not sure if this layout works with laptop and small monitors since i adjusted my width to 1200px. The images above are some of my few sessions with JV. With Thanks to my good friend Uniok for inviting me on some of his personal sessions with her.

Gear talk! I used my old canon 50d on this images and a 50mm f1.4 sigma as always. 1 Elincrom dlites and Tronix battery pack for the outdoors and available window light for indoors. I'm not really satisfied with my output on our outdoors shoot at the beach. One-light is tough for me. I always look for a kicker light separations lately, i wonder why?. We never had a chance to bring out a second light due to strong winds and the whole shoot i was fighting with the f*ckn sand flies. lol. Few minutes later after finding my comfort in the shoot the sky has started to fill us with thick clouds. So we ended up swimming at the beach after saving all our equipment from the coming rain. That's the only fun part tho. hahaha.Thanks for reading. ;)



-LA

Sessions Twelve: Distortion of the Fifth

Model: Joyce Santos

Photographed by leeabrio

Credits: Uniokeez & Ma'am Jo 

Another session from my back-logs. Sorry guys if I wasn't able to update much on my photoshoot sessions. 

I've been engaged with lots of activities lately. Well aside from my day job I shoot a lot till I can't find time to edit 'em photos. lol. As much as possible i picked those photo's which are easy to edit or which requires less retouching. That's how i do the hierarchy but of course i need to prioritized my client shoot before anything else. I wish i was a full time. haha. 

This wasn't the first time i work with Joyce (model). The first time we've done a testshoot with her was completely a failure (sorry). A friend of mine has just bought his new strobe light @400ws with a battery pack. We were so excited to test it and we used a portable beauty dish on the shoot. We started shooting around 5pm+ but since its cloudy we are getting a dimmer ambient light from the sky. I found it tricky since i can only shoot with an aperture of 2.8 below in order for me to get decent exposure of the background provided i'm @ my lowest possible hand held shoot for shutter speed. I did try few test with the strobe light @ this settings (one light) and i'm getting a harsh lighting on my subject. The light was set to the lowest power settings and I noticed that i can only get a decent exposure of my subject if i shoot with aperture 5.6 and up which will under exposed my background. Too bad that we didn't bring any back-up lights. We did try few solutions like moving the lights away to our subject but i'm not really happy with what i'm getting on the shoot another solution is to put more diffuser on the beauty dish/light modifier or shoot with natural/ambient light. .hahaha.

For this shoot session i used one light and a window light, 50D with 50mm 1.4 Sigma attached. I played around with aperture of 1.4 - 2.8. shutter speed varies on the ambient exposure i want. It is always tough shooting in a group, how you organized a photoshoot, how you deal with your subject/model & co-photographers and how you coordinate with your MUA's etc. I'm not really good at it. Photography is not just taking photo, its not only learning about the aperture,shutter speed, ISO, and proper exposure or lighting. It's more into directing your subject/model to your desired output when you don't have a creative director. How you communicate with your subject, and how to make them at feel comfortable & at ease during the shoot on the set specially when you are shooting in a group. I will try to share some of my insights & strategies on my next post.

-LA

Sessions Twelve: Chen

Model: Xiao Lee

Photographed by lee abrio

-LA

Sessions Twelve: Drift

Model: Joy Del Rosario

Photographed by lee abrio

Lighting Assistant: Alfredo Bautista Jr.

One of the effective test shoot i made early this year. i took this shots couple of weeks ago, i am seriously having a hard time finding my range into photography i made a lot of photoshoot sessions/client shoot recently i wish i could share them with you guys.

I'm still using my old gears and this shots were taken with my Canon 50D + Sigma 50mm 1.4 attached. I also got the opportunity to test my new battery pack for my D-Lites. Thanks Tronix for the technology. lol.

-LA

Private Sessions 3: Nazri

Talents: Nazri & Fish

Photographed by lee abrio

Another day of a soloist


The interesting part of shooting alone is that you don't have any assistants to hold your lights and reflectors when you need them and it's so much more frustrating to get your shot.  However, I managed to wrap it up earlier than a conventional 3 hour photo shoot.  That's more tiring than doing 500 crunches!! lol

I hardly shoot guys.  After this session, I think it's about time to scout some.  I found it more efficient since there is no fancy make-up required, less production, etc.  If anything, just a bit of powder is all there is to it.

I have been really itching to shoot outdoors lately and finally, the sky was so good to me this time.  The sun was giving me a good spill of a kicker light.  I'm loving those flares I added on the post lol.  I did use a bare 580exII on a light stand as my main light source - just a typical set up when I shoot outdoors (without my crappy softbox)

A big thank you to the team (if i had any).  Nazri, if you are reading this man, you did great in the photos.  Very orgasmic!!  lol And to my favourite model who is constantly growing up!!  Please cut it down love.  I love that fierce look!!  I got that alot from Nazri hahaha!  Cheers again guys!!  Hope to work with you guys again in the future.

-LA