Orfa - Miss Loay Pageant (sample edit)

by Ryan Macalandag

Orfa - Miss Loay Pageant, originally uploaded by Ryan Macalandag.

Location: Casa Filomena
MUA: Bukton
Stylist: Mark
Director: Jorindel
Assistant: Atupz

Lighting: one (1) SB-25 silver umbrella, front and above of model.

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Glimpses of My Father's Barrio

Photography by Ryan Macalandag

These are some of the images I took when I last went home to this little barrio in the mountains of Danao, Bohol, Philippines. My father is from here and he was speaking at the elementary school's graduation ceremonies when we went.





First thing you can really notice when coming here are the kids running around playing. My earliest recollection of my first visit was when we went into this little barrio through a curvy, swervy, narrow heckuva road and out of nowhere pops out this little place crawling with children. The little critters were following the pick-up truck we were on. They didn't see motorized vehicles too often during those times.



That's my pop in the middle of the huddle with our lunch of fresh water crabs and shrimp.



Me with a few of my cousins.

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Portraits: Baby Michaela

Baby/Infant/Child Photography by Ryan Macalandag
Tagbilaran City, Bohol

Babies and infants may be the cutest things in the world but they are the hardest to photograph. I'd shoot an erupting volcano anytime but would second-thought on doing a shoot with babies. Not.



Well, it true that kids are difficult to shoot, but I always have fun! It takes time, patience and the right amount of luck to get nice unforgettable "moment" photos.





I've always thought that I will never lose the child in me. I've always been comfortable with children. I feel that I understand them. At some point in my life when I was a kid, I didn't want to grow up.

Thus, when photographing kids, I somehow use my childish instincts to just lose myself in the moment, play around and wait for that lucky shot to come by. They're hard to come by but they sure will.



Just be patient and wait. :)

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Photobin: Trinidad Beauties

Beauty Pageants Photography by Ryan Macalandag
Miss Trinidad Beauty Pageant 2008
Bohol, Philippines

Here are some of the photos from the Miss Trinidad shoot I did las Saturday. The ladies were still young and didn't have any experience with pageants yet but they were quite cooperative during the shoot.

Bravo also to their hair and make-up stylists - all from Trinidad also.









Technical Info:
Shot using a Nikon D80 with a Nikkor 50mm 1.8 lens.

Lighting Info: 1 Vivitar 283 at full-power bounced to a silver umbrella camera right and above, 1 SB24 left and behind subject to light "blue screen" background and act as kicker light. A huge sheet of white illustration board was placed in front and just slightly below the face of subject to act as fill light (and a flattering catchlight as well).

Background is a digitally made art through Photoshop.

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Photobin: True Radio Show Shoot

Lifestyle Photography
True Radio Show DJs and Staff Pictorials
by Ryan Macalandag




True Radio Show airs on BCCTV Channel 6 TV every weekdays from 7 to 9 in the morning. Hosted by DJ Sandy, the show is originally radio only but BCCTV Channel 6 wanted to hook up with 911 FM so now they're also airing the radio show on TV.

Cool! Now you can actually see your favorite radio hosts beamed live to your TV sets. If you're on Channel 6 and you have cable that is.

Here they are: The FM DJs



The whole True Radio Show crew:



Solo shots!



Aren't they all adorable???hehehe Way to go guys! Keep it up.

For more photos from this set, go to my Flickr site.

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Photobin: New Year's Day Shots

Photography by Ryan Macalandag

What better way for a photographer to start a new year than to do a photoshoot with friends and family. This was exactly what I did. To my amazement, I got a handful keepers from the day's shoot.







For more of this set, please click here. Happy new year to all of us! :)

portraiture, kids, children, portraits, family, lifestyle photography, ryan macalandag

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Photobin: Globe Telecom Bohol 2007 Calendar Shoot

Aldner, who works at the Globe Telecom Bohol Branch called me up last week for a photo shoot. Globe is to have an internal desktop calendar which will feature local celebrations in the Philippines. July, in that calendar, would be dedicated to team Bohol. Thus, we made a photo of them dressed up in "Sandugo" costumes.



We did the shoot at the back of the Dauis Church where there is a beautiful green lawn. We tried to include the stone wall of the church as backdrop but opted for a "more cleaner" shot with the green lawn as the background.

Lighting Info: ambient light, plus bare SB-600 left of camera triggered via Nikon CLS.

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Photo by Ryan Macalandag
Gear: Nikon D80, SB-600
Copyright ©2007 All rights reserved.

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People: Terence

This set of Terence was way shot about a year ago using a 50mm 1.8 lens on a Canon XTi. I was browsing through and remembered how nice it was to shoot with a normal-prime. Now, with a Nikon D80, I'll have to save up a couple thousand more since the Nikon 50mm costs about P6,500 in Hidalgo - about P3T more expensive than the Canon counterpart.

Anyhow, I really have to get that lens. And after that a 50-200 VR or an SB-800 to compliment to my SB-600.

I'm gonna have to pray for more projects to come then! :)

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Photobin: Miss Tagbilaran 2007 Swimsuit Shoot

It's been almost a couple months now since the pageant. But,I never got around posting these pics yet. Anyways,Sandugo season is coming and news is the Miss Sandugo beauty pageant won't happen this year. Mayor Lim just won't allow it, sources confirm. A lot of people have been debating over this issue for the past week. Some are furious why it's not pushing through while some are quite happy.




Featured contestants: Ladz, Cherry, Angeli and Cheezel
For more of photos go to this Flickr set.

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