Summer Projects 2010

I wanna start shooting more this summer. Next semester I will just be a memory to everybody. There's many things I plan to accomplish. Majority is project Cheki. Cheki'd out:

PedoBear gets everyones attention

Robots will kill

Kid Robot

Format

I plan on taking 300 different pictures of people, this would be the basis for Book #2.

Here are some other summer projects in my list:
-Get a Vagabond II so I could start going mobile with my strobes
-Shoot more portaits
-Project Polaroid/Cheki
-Infrared Photography
-HDR Photography
-Themes
-Roomscape
-ReIgnite the City

Codex Seraphinianus. Decoded

Graduation party for a journalism major: Action. Thrills. Laughs. Great food with swell company. Terence James Calacsan will eat Lechon everyday for the rest of his life. That's how champions are born. I brought along my portable studio. The paper was a bit dirty on the ground, so it reflected little spots around the background. Long day...great hangovers.

The graduate

Speech!

Book of Nick

I've been pretty discreet about it, but I released my first book. Don't expect to see it at Barnes and Noble and Borders. There is a possibility of being seen at independent shows and various photo conventions, with my approval. It is about 100 pages of pictures from my portfolio and a few from my blog. I owe it to the workshop I attended that allowed me super discounted access to 25 books each with a 100pgs. Any additional book will cost a little extra. This is a little preview of book 1:


Front Jacket

Back flap

The people section

Destinations

Family

A sneak peak at what book #2 is going to be about:

Fire

Mad tanker exploded. Intense. Fire seen from house.

For the Queen

Bambu - The Queen is Dead from Oishi Media on Vimeo.

Astronaut 6 and the Baby Believers

Terence James Calacsan. California State University Long Beach. Journalism.
Congratz to MAD HEAT for earning his Bachelor's degree. PINEHILL everyday for the rest of his life.

A wrestler appears

John Calacsan. ADN All Day.

Congratulations to my cousin John Carlo Calacsan, who has braved the mighty storm of nursing school. The family is proud. Another nurse will make the family very proud.

Anticipation

LBCC. Hall of Champions

Sup Terence?

Pano

Here We Go! CMP!

Student displays in the Riverside California Museum of Photography will be up for 2 days! Check out some of my work in the Digital Gallery. I scouted the area and talked to some cool cats about future exhibits. Come now and see what all the fuss is about. The pics featured are not in my blog.

Hella Stoopz

Exterior

Control

Panel

Old School Panos. It is intense with film

Mariel's Cotillion

Had a last minute photoshoot with my sister's court. I was kinda unprepared with my lighting and lent out 2 of my softboxes and strobes to my friends. I relied on 1 large softbox and a beauty dish/speedlite combo. It came out pretty decent. I wish I could've prepared more in terms of posing and lighting arrangements, I only prepared for an hour of shooting since practice should begin right after. Mars showed up late and dance instructor was lagging. I took about 300 pics...here's 70 of them:

Couples:

It's the MAD GREEK son!

There's a little gem in Corona called the Mad Greek. It looks like a run down spot, but it's a great hole in the wall place thats been around since the 70s. Very decent prices too. Check it out:

Infamous Pastrami Burger

Decent helping of Chili Cheese Fries

Rating: 9/10

Nothing New is Going On.

I've been busy doing nothing lately. Booked for 14 weddings this summer, the first on June 5th. Mostly been doing senior portraits for both high school and college graduates (27 so far, since April). My package is pretty reasonable if you are interested: $40. 150-300 pictures on disc. 1- 8x10. 2- 5x7. 4- wallets. 2 outfits too. This is my summer special because I have nothing better to do.

I will now go back in time to 2007-2008 and critique my work and remember things I forgot.

The Gazebo photoshoot. Back then I thought that the black borders make my pictures look more professional.
This was also a weak continuous lighting source and I had a weak lens.

Vern's 20th
I  had a much more consistent lighting source back then.

Composition. Composition. Composition

The color gamut on my D60, was great

I needed to shoot at a different pov

Super Fighting Robot!

"MegaMan"-Fan Film from Eddie Lebron on Vimeo.

preHIDing

Before High Intesity Discharge night, there was something deeper involved. This is the story of the events that took place before that fateful evening. This kid will narrate it:

Mikey's Miata arrived looking like a toy

Then we proceeded to take pictures by his driveway

Unfortunately, a cat appeared and everything changed
it went from this...