A Day with the D60KREW and Sir Rolly Magpayo

Good Morning ladies and germs! I'm about to leave the office now from a very very tiring day. I just came from a photo shoot cum seminar in Paranaque then went straight to work but man it was well worth it. I learned a lot from a master named Rolly Magpayo. My friends from the D60 KREW was eager to learn too and it started what became a very fruitful day. And the models were also awesome!

I would be able to give you a couple of shots but we were not allowed to touch our photos yet. He decided to also teach the raw processing of the photos and create the actual wokflow via a saved action of sharpening by Manny Librodo and a lot of other stuff in photoshop. I have not used things like that yet because I usually sharpen things differently to make things pop via colors and levels of brightness. I saw the results they post processed on the lecture and they were really natural looking. The sharpening were all done in the eyes and minute details of hair, eyebrows, nose and some other things in the background. I guess that is the proper way to do it so maybe I will follow their examples. I would check how it fares with what I do. I was not hurt by the critiques that much because I felt the same about my signatures and photos too. I will have to change them sooner than I think hahaha.

My personal mantra for the day is...

CHANGE MY UGLY SIGNATURE
CHANGE MY UGLY SIGNATURE
CHANGE MY UGLY SIGNATURE

Maybe I would be able to submit raw photos tomorrow and see what happens. Hope the Master likes it otherwise I would not be able to post it. =)

Here are a few shots outside my office which I took yesterday.

More than Reality

There are a lot of programs now lined up in major broadcast networks that fail to capture the essence of having a reality show. My Dad even sleeps on some of them the whole hour. My elder sister however is a scared cat so she is the one who ends up screaming on great ones that successfully touches the audiences every now and then. Reality TV has never been better for me though until I learned about the the truTV effect. If you do not know what that is, then you are missing half your life!

There is this show called Halloween Heist by the Masterminds which I religiously follow in truTV video. With the situations and creepy parts so real, you will feel that you are even in the video itself! I was so afraid once that I had to turn on the lights while watching it because if you do not then all these other ghosts and horror filled thoughts will surely fill your mind. This is just awesome viewing in the comfort of your own home. There are also other episodes you might want to try like this newly released one about tough necks from Texas oil fields:



See what I mean about it being better than reality TV? It is a whole lot better than those conventional ones that feel sometimes artificial because they are in one way or the other already scripted. I wonder how this would really feel if I watched this with my sister soon, she will definitely scream! Ha-ha! And what is better is that they even have promos that you can join while enjoying these awesome oil swash buckling episodes! Watch it with caution because when the stories are real, the effect is A C T U A L!

Foodie Event News!

Good news guys!

I just received a reply from the foodie event organizer about my enthusiasm in joining the event on September and it seems that things are getting a little bit smoother. They have not yet finalized the venue so there are still some matters for them to arrange, but just the thought of them replying to my email this morning means I have got a huge chance of going to this event. Check out her reply…

Hi Troy!

We are still finalizing the venue and will keep you posted if we can invite you to join.
Thank you for your interest to be one of the tasters!

Rache

On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 7:08 AM, TROY wrote:

Ms. Rache,

Hi there! I'm TROY a photographer and owner of KUMAGCOW.COM and would like to let you know my interest in attending this upcoming food event. I have written a couple of food reviews in my site and would really love to get to know foodies like me and the great food new establishments would like to offer. If there is an RSVP please let me be number one on that list.

Thanks!

Regards,


TROY

See what I mean? It really pays to ask people. Now that this has been really positively received from the organizers, I don't think there would be anything else that they could tell me to stop wishing to go there. I will go there by hook or by crook heheh. Not unlike that Goldilocks event by Nuffnang where they suddenly had emailed me about an attendee list of some sort. I was not able to go there because of that. This will be one event I will not miss. Surely gonna be another event food will not be wasted! hahahah!

Dangerous Black Gold

Imagine being put into a situation where your life is at stake. You battle huge fires, enjoy dirty, filthy clothes, men sweating, hard labor, huge drills, wells and derricks just to get a glimpse of that BLACK GOLD everybody is looking for.

In this lifetime where everyone is dependent on oil, we all wish we could look for that spot where you can get millions of barrels of oil so you can sell them to the highest bidder. Texas is filthy rich of this particular ingredient we use for any petroleum based products, but nobody knows the danger and hardships that go between getting that and pumping it into your car's engine. I'm sure if a lot of them already perished during just the exploration, there is more to see in this particular episode from truTV's Black Gold which premieres August 19th at 10p/9c and with all new episodes Wednesdays at 10p/9c.

If I were one of the rough neck men that are put into these hard and hot places, I would probably faint just seeing explosions here and there. At the sight of fires bigger than me, I would be one sissy looking under that hot sweltering sun. I would not survive being part of truTV's Black Gold drilling because it would be too hard even for a big guy like me. It would take guts and a lot of fire trucks to hose me down. You can really imagine that you are in that particular place and state because of the real life television program they make. You should watch that truTV's Black Gold trailer so you know how it feels. Only TRUTV does that!