Road photography

Some great "road" images compiled over at DPS.

My personal favorites are...

The set inspires me to shoot again. But Im sooooooooooo busy that my photography activities kinda took a back seat.

But just like Arnie, I'll be back.

There's just too many winding roads to shoot.

Please check the rest here.

Close-up screw in lens

This close-up filter is a nice alternative for expensive macro lens. Or easier DSLR macro photography accessory to use than the extension tubes.

Go to ecbuyph.com/catalog to order.

LED Ring Flash Lamp for Macro Shots

• LED flash ring light
• For macro photography
• For close-up photography, for hobbies or professional use (jewelry, archiving, documentation, forensics, research, science, etc.)
• Screw-in to your lens
• Mounted on the front of the lens, this can provide even illumination.
• Use bright lighting for correct exposure
• Can be used LED lens mounted or table top
• Works with different lens sizes (6 pieces adapter included, 49mm 52mm 55mm 58mm 62mm 67mm)
• LED controller, left LEDs or right LEDs or all LEDs
• Hot shoe insert for the battery pack
• Can be battery operated (2 aa batteries) or via power output jack, choose between the two power modes
• Super bright white LEDs provide a continuous light source for macrophotography

What’s included:

• Battery pack (shoe insert)
• 6 pieces ring adaptor
• Ring LED light
• Power adaptor
• In box packing

PRICE: P3300

Macro Photos via Macro Extension Tube

All because of the macro tube set. Get to capture macro photos by just getting a 475 peso macro extension tubes - rings.

Fits Canon DSLR cameras

Extension tube macro ring set

Capture macro photos, ultimate close ups with clarity

Magnify subjects

The extension tube doesn’t affect image quality, there is optical element (glass-lens) inside.

The set has 3 rings or tubes plus the camera mounting ring and the lens adapter

For varying magnification, you can 1 or 2 or 3 of the inner tubes.

8 different possible combination of the tubes for different macro shot level

More tubes used means the the farther away the lens is, which results to greater the magnification

The Extension tubes has no electrical contacts, camera’s auto-focus function is disabled

Compatible with All Canon EOS SLR / DSLR Camera (300D 350D 10D 20D 30D 40D 5D 400D 450D 500D 1000D 1D 1DS MARK II etc.)

Made of high-grade metal

Ship in gift box packing

GO HERE PLEASE.

MRI

scan the man-nequin

Title: Scan the man-nequin.

A shot using multiple exposure. Vital stats: using tripod, 30 sec, f10, auto white balance, 40mm, post-processed using Lightroom.

Lamp/light used was this upright lamp.

My sweet prime lens

The sulit lens! F1.8, 50mm prime.

Tank Too Bookzine

A old copy of “bookzine” Tank Too given to us last December. I think it’s by Tank Magazine. A collection of their works/photos perhaps. I dont have copies of Tank Mags but I do know that photos published here are great photographic arts. Includes amazing imagery and full-color photos encompassing architecture, arts, people, fashion, design, graphics, etc. Books like this is a source styles/techniques and visual ideas, an essential guide how capture compelling photos, an inspiration. To the one who gave this to us, and to Tank… thank you.

Quiapo Kids

A Photobook By Me

100 photos. Photography by me. My "cam-name", Leo Isaac. Not the basketball player but a tribute to my lolo thunder, named Isaac.

Mais con Yellow

...at yellow cab drivers

101 Photos

We’re able to finally print some of the photos we got. Printed primarily for offline viewing and second, for filing/archiving. After getting the copies and inserting them onto the album, I must say, the cost (print + album) is worth it.

The good ol’ photo print is still the best way to look at the imagery. Better than wide screen laptop, better the LCDs, better than any other hi-tech photo viewer gizmo out there. There’s something about looking & holding the photo paper. About a hundred pictures all in all, see tiled thumbnail above.

Check the 101 photos here. It's my "utility" Flickr account.

The actual album...

Croc @ Night

Shot these three photos daytime and were in fact all overexposed. But thanks to adobe lightroom 2 (I recently installed), it can easily salvage failed shots. Can turn daylight to dark night, can make infrared look as well, just make the tone warmer. Hope to learn more about LR.

the real shot...

Rusty Iron

You might wake up one morning wondering just how rustic is that rustic flat iron… well, here I am to the rescue. This crystal clear photo post will answer your question. When we say rustic, for this plantsa, we really mean rustic.

Rizal Up Close, 2 Decades Hence

Earlier this am, we jogged at Rizal Park - Quirino Grandstand area. Had the chance to see mah main man, the doctor J... Jose Rizal. The Rizal Monument. It's like 2 decades ago when I saw Rizal this close and never been back. Until today. Back in the day, there were guards. This morning, there were no guards at the monument, they are all assigned to Philippine congressmen perhaps. Protecting the porks, err, the pork barrel carriers.

Night Photography Settings

Necessary Settings In Your Camera

As you can see from our gear list, you will not be needing a flash on this one. Everything that we need to set to achieve the proper exposure will be in your camera.

So let’s fast forward. You found a neat place, you’ve set up your camera on your trusty sturdy tripod… Now what?

Set your camera in Manual Mode (M). Don’t get scared because you left the Creative Zone! Being in Manual Mode, we are able to control everything from Aperture, ISO level to Shutter Speed. Which by the way, are the three main factors we will be focusing on.

Aperture: Set your f-stop to about f22. This will ensure everything in your plane are in focused.

ISO: 100. The lower the better, this will ensure a noise-free picture especially during long exposures.

Shutter Speed: 15+ seconds or more.

A note lifted from here.

Set for Timed Exposure: To prevent any additional shake to the camera, using your 2-second timer on your camera is a MUST.

RAW: ALWAYS ALWAYS ALWAYS Shoot in RAW.

Bandila na Sinala (Filtered Flag)

This photo, titled “FREE AS A BIRD,” won a mini photo contest run by our photography mentor. I attended a 3 day seminar then got to be in this/our mini “alumni” social site group. Props used are flag I bought at a Roxas Blvd stoplight intersection (during the June 12th Philippine Independence Day) and the wooden birds are from here. The theme of the constest is DIY filter.

Using day-to-day home items as filters. No commercial filter is allowed. I used a plastic cup with a hole as a filter. I earned a remote shutter FTW. The photo below also got good number of votes, same contest.

I’d like to thank our teacher for running the show & the peeps who voted for my entries. I thank my payrents too. =)

Seriously, thank-u-2-God.

Plastic Swim

Remember the fishy accent? Here’s the new pic of that item with blue background seemingly going & swimming its way to you. Get this super affordable conversation piece now. This is one fish that will not spoil… your budget. (We used a back-lighted ordinary big shopping plastic as background.)

My Elements of China

While going over the Elements of China coffee table book, it dawned on me that I might have stock photos of... Wood, Fire, Earth, Metal & Earth. And after few minutes of browsing the hard drive, somehow, I have. Not exactly at par with the photos in that coffee book but still, it's worth posting (i think).

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Elements of China, Photobook

Another coffee book - photo book I grabbed from a thrift shop... this is Elements of China coffee table book. With full color photography and short narration of things related to the following elements...

• Wood


• Fire


• Earth


• Metal


• Earth

The above 5 elements are not to be confused the movie I recently watched, Angels and Demons' four elements of all things in existence: Earth, Air, Fire, and Water. Chinese philosophy rocks! They got five,not four!

Not only this coffee photo book is a visual delight, we'll also use this as props during our furniture photoshoots :-)