School is over (for the semester). I made it through with most of my sanity and a 4.0! W00t!

For this final slideshow of my pottery, I took final tea sets into the light studio with my D200 and took some shots with the strobes.

Tea sets

• My goal in pottery was to make 3-4 tea sets. 2 of which being a traditional Japanese style, one white, one black, with a low temperature firing and quick reduction (cooling with little oxygen) process, also known as raku firing. The other two were of a Turkish style and done with a normal high temperature cone 10 firing (the typical firing for ceramics). All are functional and every bit made by me.

Thanks for looking, comments, criticisms, suggestions, encouragement and congrats.

Well shutterbugs, I'm logged back in here after having not visited for months (close to half a year, if not over that, i think). So I hope you'll all forgive me for posting a whole buncha pics to feast your eyes on (hey... I probably won't be posting again in a while anyways). So, all I can say is that it's good to be sharing again. So enough of the talk and on to the photographs. I've catergorized them into...
Portraits of the self and of friends:
Jordan - New Avatar
Jordan - Vanity Shot Portrait
Catzie - Space Cadet Portrait Chi and Kitz
Jaymond and Aira
Jef, "The Dragon", Tan
Shing and Bor Passed Out
Shing - Hammock Shot
Mara Sleep
Raymond Bagatsing - Portrait

Also did Cinematography work some months back for an indipendent, full-length film entitled "Lambanog". Here are my studio-snaps of the cast:
CJ - Studio
Lawrence - Studio
John Lapuz - Studio
Paulo - Studio

Howsabout checking out some of my random  urban shots?!?:
Burrrrnnnn
Another Sunrise
Moonset
Jeepney Sa Gabi
Lost Souls At 5pm
Basket Bolero's
Tennis Dude

Every once in a while, I like to take trips into one of the many slum areas that are quite numerous in Metro Manila. Here, people have a world and way of living of their own:
Into The Shantis
Madonna and Child adorned by laundry and slippers
Cards 001
Cards 002
Cards 003
Cards 004
I Am Manila

Feedback is, as always, very welcome. :) Hope I've shared some of the visual-me once more through this post. Keeeeepahshootin!!! :)

I've been working endless hours and things have been so busy in my life that I haven't had time to get out in the field and do photography. My wife grows flowers in her greenhouse and I thought I could take advantage of her green thumb and get the photography fix I needed. I have a garage studio I use for portraits and still life stuff, so I set up and shot some images. Here are a few:
Perfection

Pieris
 Red Lilly

I finally built a light box in my garage and was playing around with a bunch of stuff with no remarkable shots to speak of.  My son, a golfing freak, had some ideas and I thought these turned out pretty cool
Ball
Putter
 Wedge

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after

hahahahahahahahhahahah

this will explain all the food shots!

Well it won't get nice and it won't get nasty. It's just staying yucky so I stayed in to play.

If I was a girl I'd have gotten out my sewing stuff but that's just not going to happen. It was a good day to play with trucks. Just the van in this one. Oh no.. broke down and hauling it home. Picked up a wide load on this one.

Anyone know any good looking women in Oregon that aren't shy? It's warm out in the studio ;-)

I cannot seem to get away from the  tabletop set up..I promise I will get out of the house and go on a photo holiday soon...Bears Of Color ,Marbles w A Little PS'n ,Rabbit gets ready for Christmas.
I am thankful for many things..one being The Photographica Community
HAPPY THANKSGIVING!

Well had some time today to do a few Photos. Still at the Macro thing LOL !
 Feeling Blue
The Color of Alexandrite
Mystic
Just White
Opaled Am

Note to Self ... Do Not Do Photos Of Thees Anymore ! You Have To Look Into The LIGHT!!!!!!!!!!
Blue Star Sapphire

Last But Not Least Thirds
Master Chief Thirds

Bye All Have A Good Day !!

Ok... so I was going to go outside and shoot. The fog still hasn't lifted and it still isn't getting above 40º. Back to the white setup on the tabletop.

Coloring outside the lines but within the frame. In the old days it was all manual. It was handy to have a meter with your camera. Cool ride even if it is a diecast.

I'm sure there is a third of something in those somewhere.

Still playing around with my tabletop set up. Thanks to ClassyShots for the picture of his..and also thanks to StevenWolf for the "cropped, rotated, desaturated, sepia-toned, contrast adjusted " post..neat series of adjustments to acheive nice looking pics.. Hope Yall Enjoy
Two Nuts Are Better Than One?
When Shell Freezes Over!
What the Shell Is Going On Here!

.... with a Canon can get rather messy but they never get away ;-)

#1, #2,  #3, #4.

I'll go outside and play now and try and find something different to shoot.

Ok...I switched the table top setup over from white to black. Working with black is a different ballgame. No lights on the background and most of the time I use only one light to light the object. On the white I use a sheet of clear plexi-glass to get the reflections. Today I took a sheet of clear and painted one side of it with high gloss spray paint. It takes a few coats. In place of the white paper background I used black cloth (same background I use shooting low key model shots. Anyway.....

With the white.

With the black.

I went out and hid in the studio today to get away from the rain and cold. Actually it was an excuse to play with the roll of white background paper some more that I used on Selvester's shots. All but one of these I used a sheet of clear plexi-glass on the lower part of the background. I was pretty happy with the results.

I picked up this candle holder at Salvation Army for $1.98... With Reflection,  Without Reflection. Needed something else so I grabbed the  egg scale out of the kitchen to try.

I've got about half a dozen camera lenses that are about 100 years old and wanted to see how they would come out... lenses 1,  lenses 2,  lenses 3, lenses 4.

I do have to admit that I had some help on the setup on these. Selvester did behave himself  in the early going but as time went on he got bored with the whole thing. Soon he was running around yelling "Here piggy, piggy." I went in the house for a minute and came back out to this.