Lana Oasis' Luau Party!

well, that was fast. my baby girl already turned 1 year old last week. she is just the most adorable little princess, sparkling eyes and super cute smile :)

like when we had lance before, lana's arrival brought tremendous amount of blessings to us and eventhough we know that she really wouldn't remember her first birthday, we gave a nice luau party and took tons of photos for her to enjoy when she grows-up. although she slept for the most part of the event. hahaha

enjoy the photos :)



lana and baba... she got daddy's ears :)

lana with her lolas (my mom carrying her). poor baby was crying, she had no idea what was going on but she looked cute with that lei tied around her head. :)

here's kuya kulit lance enjoying his strawberry ice cream. he kept running around and got so sweaty it seemed like he's really at the beach! hahaha

nice kick ;)

nice matching colors eh? lana looks more like daddy right? hahaha.

hey tiff! are you allowed to drink coffee already? :P

this is baby jam... paolo and macel's cute little darling. she's also turning 1 soon!

this is my cousin eric, we used to call him paopao for siopao. hehehe. 'nuff said!

nope, this is not the female version of paopao... hahaha. it's my really really shy sister.

rachel, irma, nina, tiffany, and captain tristan.

hey tristan, dont you think you're a little too big to be with the kids? your breasts barely made it to the picture :)

im guessing that if the flash was turned on in this photo, we would have seen nothing but white light. why? i don't know, im just guessing. :P

ninang katie holmes... er, tania was there too!

happy birthday lana! hope that horrifying-looking lilo on top of your cake didn't scare you. :)

Welcome to the World of Metro Photography

Wait wait wait! This is a sticky blog post so don't think that we have failed to write a new post since your last visit. Check out the post below and it could be something new! If it is, then it's good that you read this first right? :) Otherwise, uh... sorry? :(

We're putting this up here to add a little spice to your visits. It's going to be a place where we put random things that we think about. Ideas, things we do, things we plan to do, things we don't plan to do (=P), announcements, rants... so you get the idea right - just about anything ;) So just comment on about anything you like too!

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Announcements/Whatevers!
08-19: Metorphoto is now on Twitter! Click here to follow us!
08-1: The dates are out! The Metrophoto Team will be in Singapore Sept 20 to 24, 2008. Currently there are only 3 slots available for enagement sessions (prenups). 27,500 Php for non-metrophoto couples and 20,000 for our dear metrophoto couples =) Send us a note if you're interested for some great e-session experience.

Roland + Itchie's Aftershoot

Roland + Itchie's Contemporary Wedding

welcome back! hahaha... welcome back to me that is. :) finally our topics for updates are all lined up and ready to go (august was by far our busiest month ever and we're just emerging from the all the lovely weddings we covered last month) and we're starting with the beautiful wedding of roland and itchie. :)

met roland and itchie (i really like itchie's name, it sounds so irresistable right? i mean how can you say no to it? hehehe). through chi and patty and we had our emergency meet-up just before we left for the US last April. I'm so thrilled that they got metrophoto to cover their e-session and wedding, this couple is so comfortable in front of the camera that we had a lot of fun shooting. Watch out for their aftershoot photos on our next post :)

if you want to see more photos from this wedding, check it out here.


































and here we are after everything... chax looks like a high school kid here. :) tania was with throughout but she was upstairs sipping margarita while we took this. hahaha.

Sneak Peek: A beautiful boudoir photosession

I initially said to myself that I will never post a "sneak peek" photo of a photosession here in our blog. Besides that fact that i feel it's half-baked, it implies that backlogs are alot that the entire set is not available yet.

But let me put honey on that and eat-up my words. I'm now posting a sneak peek of a very recent boudoir photosession that I had in serendra. The fact that this was shot in serendra is problee that only detail that I will divulge right now. :)

I feel that this session is so beatiful and hot that it deserves to have its own teaser. Definitely one of the most beautiful women I have photographed. :) plus, i still dont have permission to post anything else yet (so yeah, i'm as waiting as most of you are), thus the sneak peek.

So do check back once in a while for the complete post about this and for the five (5) weddings I have lined up for features as well. Thanks for dropping by :)

Aldrich + Ada: a contemporary engagement session

Believe it when I tell you that this e-session was initially planned to be in Ecopark, yes, that place where everyone else had their prenup that those orange and blue boat should be charging royalties already. hahaha.

But yeah, we ended up in Colegio de San Agustin with such a lovely, lovely concept. I'm so thankful to Ada and Aldrich for really putting an effort to make this possible (plus all the preparations, you got to love those uniforms - I call them throwbacks!) and to Ernest for the briliant idea.

To state the obvious, Aldrich and Ada are high school sweethearts from CSA and it was such a treat shooting an engagement session that's truly about them :) So enjoy the photos, we had A LOT!

See behind-the-scenes at the bottom of the post :)





















It was a big shoot! no, not just becuase chax was there but because there were eight of us in all. Here we are sans Aldrich, he was looking for a way to open the laboratory. :)

So who's really having their prenup?

Yeah, you'd think it was them.

Here are the angles I took in making a couple of the shots posted above. I love the patterns in the classroom.


It was a hot day! Ate needed to drink coke, Ernest needed a fan, but madge just needed to put her hands together. hahaha.

Everyone liked this quote, but ernest liked it the most :)

guard?

oh, big big thanks to madge for writing those stuff on the board, it was not easy to do, it's not like putting foundation on someone's face - although it's also powder. :)

muddy grouphug :)

told you it was muddy :P

Russ + Sieg: A Metrophoto Premiere E-session

Finally, a shoot i've been aspiring for has happened. Thanks to russ and sieg for making it possible. I'm so happy that you guys are movie buffs and this concept was perfect for you!

Long story, this shoot almost didn't happen because sieg is such a busy person! heck, she didn't have the time to meet me in person before we had this engagement session. so yeah, that meant she booked me only through seeing our work here in the website and reading my boring emails. hahaha. that's why we love her (of course, ang gwapong si russ also) so much!

Read sieg's amusing wedding blog to know more about this shoot.

And if you're looking for our behind-the-scenes shots, i've decided to put them after the official photos from now on. why? nothing really, sometimes it's just fun to mix things up! hahaha.



















love that last painting-with-lights photo. :)

Jason from Pipho was with us during the shoot. that's him on the lower left. It was his first time to shoot an e-session and surely enough we gave him a hard time because it was really dark inside the theater.

We so wanted a shot from the projector room but we can't convince the guards. I wish we had the couple with us already when we went up to check it =|

Guys... i don't mean to be rude and interrupt but... ah... what are you doing there? hahaha

Im not really sure if rachel actually helped me here. She's so strong that she's pulling me too much to the opposite direction. hahaha...

nothing in this one, it is just cute :) the shot, alright, not them. hahaha

This was supposed to be our group hug if only i can determine where the guy we asked to take the photo focused the shot.

This was how it looked like when I tested it... oh sh*t! then I put it on manual focus, then gave it to the guy who is 4 feet behind. so the out of focus shot was my fault? hahaha :P