A Photographer's Photographer - Dar Ramos, Part 1

Dar Ramos handles photo shoots of celebrities and tv shows for ABS-CBN,
has some big school accounts under his belt, and also does wedding
photography.

Last Monday (Sep. 25), we were supposed to do his prenup in Rainforest,
Pasig but settled in his studio because of heavy rains.

There were 4 of us who took turns taking their photos:
- his friend Jay Tablante, a fashion and glamour photographer who shoots
regularly for Summit Publishing (FHM, etc.). He only stayed awhile to
do a cross-lighting setup and took some shots before going back to
Summit for another shoot.
- Anthony Magana of East Digital, part of our WPPP barkada, who also directed
some shots
- my new junior photographer, Carlo Baviera, who I also invited in order for
him to learn from this kind of photo sessions (who else wants to be my VA?)
- and of course yours truly, as we took turns in triggering the studio
lights for each pose, I also contributed some poses and also tried to
capture some candid moments whenever possible.

Overall, though, it was Dar himself who setup the lights,
directed the shots & looked at his reference sheets for poses. We all
had fun doing this high-energy type of pictorials w/ Thei, his bride to be.

The jumping shoot below was one of our ending activities...


and we had Anthony's assistant use his fish-eye lens as Dar & Thei
made their jump onto my stomach as a finale (ouch). :)



Dar & Thei just got married last Sunday, Oct 1 (that's part 2 of
the story - coming soon).

Btw, I am also trying out another software for their slideshow, Click here to view some more selected photos.

Hey, this kind of high-energy studio prenup is a little bit similar to Rizza & Andrew's Prenup, only that time, I had full control of the situation.

Karla is to Shelley and now Dar is to Andrew, dejavu!