Ah the final workshop day and they will be off to worrying about individual and group projects for the last 2 sessions. On this day the students did pasta, cereal, salad and sandwiches as part of the workshop. Pardon the short posts, I’ve been really busy lately!
See the pictures here!
I love watching my students when they see me prep a chicken or a piece of meat in class. Suddenly their eyes light up light kinder kids waiting for their turn for some fingerpainting. After my demo, the students were opened to doing their own methods. “Whatever you do, it has to look delicious for the camera” and so they did.
Here are some pics:
It was a small class which gave me more time to be a little more focused with each of their projects. I modified the lessons a bit just to inject new things that will benefit the students, and I let them do their thing and give comments and options after they’ve seen the picture of the food under the lights.
DRINKS - a bit jittery with their first project, the students seemed to do pretty well on their drink activity
It was a fun 3 weekends which came by pretty fast.Their individual and final group projects will be up as soon as i get the pics from Jar Concengco, our guest photog for the class. 
While waiting for my students to finish their final food styling projects, i decided to do a little ice cream on my own. I wanted to get a whimsical feel…something yummy and candy shop like at the same time. Thanks to Jar Concengco for the hero pics
I decided to forego the melts since it was just something for fun… :p
Wish I could find more time to do more projects!!!
I recently did a quick job for Tabasco & Mega Mexicana. I think the tiny recipe sheets are out in the supermarkets already but I haven’t had the chance to see what they used.
I used available light for this so I had to brighten it a bit on PS. But then I think it looks okay. Still I still want to learn some lighting for product photography. I wish I had more time for these things.
My class starts tomorrow. It’s another bunch of fun filled weekends! Pics to come out soon. I’m pretty excited to meet my students!
Finally, a breather from everything. I am starting my class this weekend, I already changed a few things compared to the old class and managed to get some more challenging stuff into the new one. I miss my photography, I just breezed by my bestfriend Ana’s flicker and I felt that my photos were starting to run out of inspiration…I only take photos now for work, and yes, I’ve noticed that they have become a little uninspired. It’s an entirely different ball game when you just sit around and observe what looks beautiful…rather than going around wit a time limit to look for a good angle. I think I will start taking more pictures for fun again.
The good news is that my brazo shoot is starting to take shape. Ces already sent me some pegs for her booth and I really can’t wait to see the other pegs! It really is different when everyone is just concentrated in one job, and can therefore do their best. Looking at these pics made my meringue nightmares go away!
More things to come
Finally, something I did for my restaurant. I’ve been trying to get my schedules open to have more time to go to the restaurant. For the most part, I am just waiting for our DSL connection there so I can stay there the whole day.
I have this song in my head, you know that Mr. donut ad they brought out in the late 80’s?
“Hey Mister that’s a Mr. donut donut”
I feel like I’ve been transported back in time as I was making some fake ice cream for the shoot the night before.
This was my first Mr. Donut job and schedule was pretty tight. We didn’t have time for a preprod and I was glad that Jen was able to give me good direction to what we were going to do. I’m just lucky that I was working with very familiar artists I’ve known for years — Jen Lapira, graphic designer and a fun obsessive compulsive; and Allan Tuazon, our image-captor with the giant camera and all the set-ups I’ve always envied. Call time was 11am, but since this was the first time I was going to Allan’s studio (yes, we’ve always worked at the CACS halls before), I didn’t want to be late. I had my set-up done by 10:45am and I was already sorting some corned beef before the R&D and Marketing Managers came to the studio.
Yesterday was probably my hardest job yet.
It looked simple enough — Ces Lopez’s Supreme Brazo de Mercedes Bars. There were 7 layouts, 3 of the layouts had 2 bars in one picture, one layout had 3, 2 layouts had 1 and the last layout (which I stupidly placed in the end), had 12 bars in one picture. So this was how my project went:
Yes, do you think there is anything special about this post? Everyone knows Cafe Mediterranean. But this dinner in particular seemed to transport me TO the Mediterranean (what I would give to go back)!
We were 3 feet from the calm waters in Boracay. What made it even better was that the water was clear, seaweed less, and had a light blue green tinge because of the full moon.
What’s nice about Cafe Med is that you can expect the same good quality they have in Manila. Food is tasty, I cannot exactly say its exceptional, but it is a good place to eat for a trojan fix. But what made it that way was the fact that the place was absolutely beautiful. With a nice waitress tending to our table (which happened to be all the way to the front end nearest to the shore), we were sippin’ wine given the place’s low corkage, having mezze, salad, pizza and lamb stew. Yum!
What I like best is that Cafe Med now uses pure whole wheat pitas (or is it just in bora). I know that the whole wheat hype is only maybe 30% better than the white pita, but I’m just appreciative of the tiny extra fiber that it brings to my stomach (even if i ate a truckload that it didn’t make much difference).
How much did we eat? A LOT. That’s because my dad brought along 2 bottles of wine and we told the waitress to lower our corkage. They gladly obliged once they saw what we ordered. It was so much, that we had pita and pizza for snacks the next day.
