Marc: Kea, may contacts kang blue diba?
Me: Oo, Bakit?
Marc: Good! Kailangan ko!
Me: Ok, may grado yun ha!
Marc: Ok lang, ikaw naman magsusuot.
Me: Ha?
Marc: Please, please, kailangan kita, picturan ko mata mo. Nasa bahay ka lang ba?
Me: I'm out. Urgent ba?
Marc: Hindi naman, pero please kailangan kita kunan ngayon para sa blue project ko bukas.
Me: Okay sige, I'll get back to you. Uwi ako to get it, iba na kasi suot ko.
Marc. Good, good, sige, text text.
And that's all it takes for me to be a model... an eye model specifically, for just a day.
Anyone close to me knows that I am more interested and passionate in working behind the scenes in concept shoots.Next thing I know, I was already with Marc and Poch going to Jim's house to borrow external flash and have my eye photo taken.
Four of my Highschool barkada (a.k.a. friends) were in this club called The Los Baños Camera Club. Every 2nd Tuesday of the month they have this themed contest among the members of the exclusive club and they invite guests to be the judge of the picture. Members are required to submit two entries in adherence to the theme. Every month they get to pick top 5 photos, proclaimed as winners, where their work will be shown in the club's upcoming exhibit on November of this year.
This month the theme is BLUE. Anything blue.
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| The Boys, all camera jargoned-up. I decided to take a photo of them exchanging lighting tips. Uploaded the dim/blurred version of this pic or else Jim will kill me that I exposed his sanctuary :) |
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| Wondering what it feels like to be literally in Jimmy's shoes...while waiting for them to decide what lighting to use. Poch ( Upon seeing that I am positioning myself in taking a photo with my point&shoot cam): Isuot mo na kaya kesa ganyan ka ng ganyan! |
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| I didn't even think twice before I agreed "eye-modelling" for this project... I was super kaladkarin that I didn't even bother to check the slightest possibility of getting blind with the flash. Chos! Because the first time we had a fashion pictorial photoshoot, I was working behind the scenes but I went home with a severe headache that feels like I am about to throw up. |
Here's the finished product:
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| My eye. I was wearing my old blue teary-eyed contacts, good thing, I kept it. No mascara, obviously. Kea: Marc, how about if I put on mascara before you shoot so that it'll look good in macro? Marc:*looks confused* |
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| The Photographer, Marc Alfred Maligalig. Photo taken by Henry James "Jim" Botengan |
And the winner is...
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| Ronald Gilbert "Poch" Hernandez |
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| His "Blue Drop" entry a.k.a. the pic that kicked my "blue-teary-eyed" photo's ass. |
Some photos of the that I borrowed from Poch's Facebook Account:
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Two of my friends are in the Top Five Winners for this month! Yey! Congrats Poch and Marc!
Credits: Thank you Marc and Poch for lending me the photos.
1 comment:
witty title! :)
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