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August 6th, 2010

Ham Project with Photokitchen

shooting at photokitchen

Finally, something to get me out of the office and the puppy nanny I’ve become. Months after our last email, I finally met Mylene Cheung of Photokitchen (which is conveniently located sooo near the school!) or LivingRoom Photography Studios, for a test shoot…and finally our actual shoot. I instantly had a great feeling about Photokitchen, I think this a place where I can actually exercise creative vision with a studio that wants to achieve the “look” I want to develop for myself.

i blurred it sorry

Photokitchen specializes in both food photography and production design. They get inspiration from one of my favorite food photog & blogger, Lara Ferroni, who has perpetuated this wonderful, shabby-chic french look. And they are actually younger than me which is great! The shoot was long but light, I totally loved working with Mye since we seem to have the same eye for stuff…even if the ham began to misbehave a little, which is something I expected since I felt so nice and comfy already, I just knew something was going to go wrong.

But alas, we have come up with great shots. Still, this won’t be out until maybe Christmas so I guess a blurred teaser would have to do for now. The shoot was fantastic, and I think the client was happy with the outcome! Hopefully their consumers will too. :)

I blurred the product pictures by the way. You will just have to wait till December :D

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July 25th, 2010

Much Needed Blog

I’ve finally found some time to blog!

How long has it been…a month? A month and a half? I’ve been so caught up lately!

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I’ve been trying to fix stuff for our Chefy Store. So many people have been asking…so aside from those bags, what else do you sell? I wish I could have some time to really sniff out some cool stuff to sell..unique and useful at the same time. But the good thing is, The Chefy Store, finally has its own website! I haven’t quite finished it yet, but it’s getting there.

We have our new Chefy Lite bags out…finally! Well, I guess you can say that our designs are just getting better and better. Hopefully, by year-end, we’ll have 3 great items.

My pups have been a handful!

me and wiggle
Well, for my food styling, I’ve been doing jobs for my grandma’s company. I’m not sure though if I can post those up. Well…maybe just a tiny sample.

taco cups
tacquitos
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April 27th, 2010

Jurassic Pics from 2006

Look what I found! Just when I thought all was lost when I got that stupid guest account bug, I found something in my hard drive. I really should look for the original CDs of this one.

me with the gals at CIA


We were all over the world and this was “going out” group in CIA, along with our mentor, Delores Custer. I really had a great time here! I think everyone should experience an American education. CIA was just the Hogwarts of Chefs! I froze when I met the roster of classmates I had, one was turkish working at Wall’s, one was japanese with her own resto, one was a r&d chef at a prestigious university, and here i was…fresh out culinary school just hoping that this was for me.

me at Denise Vivaldos class in Cali

At Denise Vivaldo’s I was with Pixie Sevilla-Santos, who happens to be one of the Philippines’ top pastry chefs. I was also with other food stylists going on refresher, and a really cool food blogger…

Those were the days. I didn’t even have a day job yet and I was on an extended vacation. Haha!

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March 24th, 2010

My First Photo All-Nighter: Sneak Peek

luscious-KR-brownie-cake

It does come with the job. I am proud to say that I pulled off my first photo-all nighter with a smile on my face (Thank God for that 2nd wind!). My first video was also an all-nighter but this was extra challenging considering that at first I thought it would be a relatively short shoot. But that’s the reason why you block off an entire day for this job. It’s times like these when you’re glad you took that extra dose of vitamin C that morning.

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Kenny Rogers will be opening a few new branches this year and one of which will be their Newport branch near NAIA 3. I’m pretty happy that I was finally back from Thailand for this project since I’ve just been dying to get out of the office cubicle the past couple of weeks (and believe me, even if I love my office desk and I love my stuff, cubicle work is pretty bombarding after a while). And tada! a food styling project!

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I was especially excited for this one since I was working with familiar people. I always find it a challenge to see how long I will take to get what the client wants, for this project, it was pretty difficult, although I managed to still keep smiling. I was just pretty amazed at Sir Francis, our photographer, who had just finished a car shoot that very morning at around 6am (and we started at 10am). All-in-all the final good take was taken at around 3am. Oh I do hope to get a copy of these pictures, because this shoot was a very special one!

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March 17th, 2010

Portfolio Collab Part 2: Edison See & Joaqui Zamora’s Food Shots

It’s been maybe 4 months since Edison first sent me a message in facebook about his teacher, the great Mark Floro, recommending me for a portfolio collab. Because of the hullaballoo at school and the Christmas rush, I’ve had to put things off until I finally found a good time for us to go for it.

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With how it started, there were 2 setups, Edison was going to do something with a set and Joaqui was going to do something with just a white background. Not so hard I thought, but it was, pretty hard. I had to move and re-use plates by the end of the shoot because I was having such a hard time balancing which one to pay attention to. But alas, the pictures turned out pretty great! Thanks very much guys! Hope we get to do this again.

joaqui zamora 2
joaquin zamora 4

Food was from Buenisimo by Cafe Ysabel

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