Brain Maggots

New theme

Feb 16

P NutSite news and updates No Comments

I grew tired of the old theme and luckily found a fresh one. I think I might stay with this one for a while.

J.an.ry 2.0

Feb 14

P NutPhotography angela antonio, j.an.ry, janry, joirie pacumio, Photoblog, ryan villareal No Comments

I shot my friends last month for their birthday celebration. It’s their second event and I’m glad that they chose me to shoot them again for their second annual celebration. It’s always fun working with them. We had a lot of fun.

How to be a douche and alienate people — photojournalist style.

Feb 12

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A photographer in Haiti is running a workshop and charges attendees $4000. He claims the workshop teaches photographers how to work and shoot in a disaster zone.

The photographer received more than 60 hate mail type responses in his blog entry, which he quickly deleted. Good thing Google chaches everything.

Wired Magazine wrote an article about this, and also, his rebuttal why he thinks his critics are wrong.

Personally, I think he draws the line where humanity ends and capitalism begins. It’s not wrong to document things as they happen if that’s what you do for a living, but somehow, the whole thing leaves a bad taste in my mouth.

LA Sheriff Threatens To Submit Photographer to FBI’s Hit List

Dec 14

P NutPhotography, Random thoughts and musings, Video activism, Photography, rights No Comments

This seems to have a good discussion about the rights of photographers in public.

While I respect the photographer’s advocacy, I believe he went there with the intention of being confronted. I don’t know about you guys, but I generally don’t go out shooting with a hidden camera.

I understand that while the cop was just there to do his job, he is rather ignorant of the photographer’s rights. The photographer could’ve been friendly and swallowed his pride a bit and answered the cop’s questions and informed him about photographers’ rights and have avoided the scandal.

Jollibee Vintage Toys

Dec 07

P NutPhotography Jollibee, Photoblog, toys, vintage No Comments

This is a mid-late 80’s interlocking Jollibee train set that came along with their kiddie meals.

My sister found this last week. I may have played with a couple of them because of the grime and dirt; but I’m not entirely sure if I even got to play with these at all because some of them were still sealed.

I decided to take a picture of these in all its glory — grime, dust, dirt and all for posterity’s sake. Washing these might take the paint off or something.

Light info: 1 light camera right and a small white card fill on the left. shot at F/16, 1/160, ISO100

Jollibee

Champ

Popo

Mr. Yum

Mico

Lady Moo

Hetty

Chickee

Two students con Paris Match’s photojournalism prize

Jun 29

P NutNews, Photography, Quicklinks photojournalism No Comments

I find it funny how 2 art students would win a photojournalism contest and then reveal that all the pictures that they submitted were staged. The British Journal of Photography writes about it here.

What I find interesting here is that the winners studied the winning pieces and photojournalism’s cliches. I know that this would probably spark a lot of talks and hopefully, progress.

Akina Uy

Jun 27

P NutPhotography akina uy, Photoblog, strobist 1 Comment

This picture was supposed to be used for an ID that turned into a glamor type portrait. I guess I’m just looking for reasons to shoot.

The set-up was fairly easy — 1 softbox on top and 1 reflector below to bounce the light. 1 softbox to light the background to make editing easy.

Personally, I think that the exposure is around +1/3, give or take, on the highlights. With some make up and what not this would’ve been perfect.

Olympus E-P1 (Digital Pen)

Jun 16

P NutPhotography Olympus E-P1 (Digital Pen) No Comments

Looks like Olympus is catching up with the market. The Olympus E-P1 (Digital Pen) seems like it’s one of the most advanced point-and-shoot cameras so far.

Advantages of this over other leading non-dSLRs in the market is the interchangeable lenses, this uses the same sensor as some of their dslrs, HD video capture, multiple exposures, and being able to create slideshow movies in-camera. Seriously, this one is much better than the dSLR that Im’ using right now, although I doubt that clients will take me seriously if they see me using this one.

The camera doesn’t have a built-in pop up flash but it does have a hot shoe. An external flash is sold separately. Alternatively, you can snap a flash trigger there and use speedlites/studio strobes to go off camera — functioning exactly just like any other dSLR.

Top Photography Blogs

Jun 16

P NutPhotography, Quicklinks No Comments

Invesp lists down Top Photography Blogs. If you’re done reading all the articles in your RSS reader, then I would suggest that you visit the list and add some more sites like I did.

Apparently, Invep sampled 20,000 sites and based their calculations based on RSS memberships, Yahoo incoming links, Google PageRanks, etc. One thing that you might want to take note of, is that a lot of these sites are actually technical/gear/tutorial sites. Although there is nothing wrong with that, but there are some really nice photography sites that are not included in the list — most of which just simply feature their portfolios.

Weekend Quicklink

Jun 05