I had the chance to capture the wonderful golden wedding anniversary of tatay Pabling and nanay Tesing few weeks ago. They’re both from Palo, Leyte. Tatay Pabling and nanay Tesing’s children and grandchildren prepared this wonderful occasion. It seemed like everyone had their part in the event… Even their apo ha tuhod had several dance numbers during the reception. A momentous occasion to the entire family of tatay Pabling and nanay Tesing that’s worth to be remembered.
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Ceremony | Antipolo Cathedral
Reception | Jardin de Miramar
We had a wonderful time capturing the wedding of Jet+Dianne. I arrived in Manila 4 days ahead of my team, as I have to visit my doctor for a follow-up checkup of my hands. Nelson and the boys arrived in Manila two days before the wedding bringing everything that’s needed for the shoot… even our ever-tested ladder was not excused.
We decided to visit one of our favorite photography store somewhere in Banawe, Q.C. on the morning of Friday to have some early 2008 Christmas shopping spree and went to Antipolo in the afternoon for an ocular visit of the church as well as the reception venue. After Antipolo we were rushing to be in Makati as the service department of Canon closes at 5PM and I have to get my flash after going a minor overhaul. Unfortunately, after the loooong trip and wooorst traffic we arrived Canon office at around 7PM. I’m just glad that Rommel, the technical supervisor for Canon cameras, waited for me for two hours just so I can get my flash unit. That’s the impeccable service that I can’t just easily let go of my loyalty to Canon. Their customer service is really No. 1 for me! Thanks Mel for the great service and support.
Anyways, so much for the blah..blah..blah.. I know you now want to see the photos that we took. Well, here are some of my favorite takes of Jet+Dianne’s wedding. Continue reading “Jet+Dianne”
This should have been posted before we left for Manila last week but Globe Broadband was acting childish again so I just got the chance to post it today after our wedding gig in the north. Anyways, here are some of my takes of the wedding of Junjun and Michelle.
The Blings.
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I’m stoked to the new website of my partner… It’s up and rockin’ beautiful! Check out www.nelsonpetilla.com. I’m glad he is bringing his services to the next level… really world-class! Didn’t I told you its HUGE! 
Le Jardin de Tacloban is the newest party|wedding venue in the City. It’s been operating for a couple of months now and a lot of my friends and clients here and abroad would email me asking if I have any photograph of Le Jardin.
Anyways, for those who haven’t seen the venue yet here are some photos that we took during the wedding reception of Jason+Donna.
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Every photo that we submit to our clients are all post processed. It sometimes takes a lot of time enhancing the photo further to give a ‘wow factor’ into it. An example below is a photo of the wedding of lexan+karen. They wanted me to make a thank you card for their guests. After informing me the file numbers of their choice, I started enhancing the photographs to have the ‘wow’ thing.
The before photo was already ok… the exposure was great. However, I wanted to enhance the clouds as well as the rocks in the foreground. After adjusting the colors and skin tones, dodging & burning on different areas and working on the highlights and contrast further enhances the mood of the photograph.The photo below was taken by my partner (www.nelsonpetilla.com). I enhanced the photo by first cleaning some clutter in the photograph. Most of the time the flares in the photos are intentional, however, I decided to just take out the larger flare on the left side of the photo. I also took out little garbage in the foreground before I changed the tones to have a different mood also. To top it off, I added an antique tone to the photograph to give a different color to the stones.
This is what we normally do to every photo that we submit to our clients. As what we always say adding an artistic touch and topping it off with a creative zest.By the way, to the friends and relatives or who knew lexan+karen and wish to see more of their on-site photos. You may drop by my main website and go to the client section. The password of their gallery is lexan’s family name. Cheers!
Blog update. If you will observe in my refurbished blog I still had my old blog posts. However, due to the new huge blog design the photos posted were too small that it messes the order of posting. I tried fixing it but still without success. If somebody can help me just hit the comment section and I’ll be glad to give a 1”X1” whole body portrait for keeps… joke! ☺ Anyways, to all the new blog stalkers who feel nauseated about the 2007 posts kindly check the link here so you’ll see the older posts better. Please bear in mind that most of the horizontal photos are a bit cropped. Cheers!
I know both of them was a little bit disappointed about the weather but I was always telling them that the show must go on… They have to cheer-up despite the odds. Everyone in the guest list was informed right away about the change of the ceremony venue. Lyel and Cayeen’s friends and relatives were on a text brigade trying to reach everyone about the new venue. Well to make the story short… everything went well. Our warmest congratulations to both of you… You guys are such a trooper! Despite the heavy rain, we were still able to capture delightful photos of their wedding.
