Finally, I was able to make a photobook for the P&G Photograhic Society. The photobook mostly contained pictuers from the "Lenses" exhitbit. The exhibit featured photos from P&G employees who have taken part on the monthly photo challenge.

You can browse virtually through the link "share.shutterfly.com/action/welcome?sid=0Act3Dhi1cs2Lxg". For those in P&G, feel free to drop by the SNS area in 23rd floor for the actual photobook.

Interested in making your own photobook? Visit sites like Shutterfly or Snapfish. I'd be glad to help as well.

This was the AVP wedding presentation I made for my good friends Mark Casquero and Rose Bina who got married last sunday! It was a wonderful wedding and I was more than happy to be part of it and doing my share to make it more special.

What made it work as well as it did was the fact that they also made an album of songs they recorded where they played all the instruments and they along with some of their singer friends sang the vocals. I was left to match the music with the theme and the pictures they had available.

I also had the pre-nup pictures by Dave Fabros to cap of the presentation. The pictures were fantastic and I thought to be the best way to end the presentation.

Mark told me about the AVP a week before the wedding! And I had a business trip that week which makes it more difficult to find time to work on it. Fortunately it all worked out and I thought it could have been better but I think it came out great.

How I made this? Well... suprisingly Vista's new Movie Maker works fairly well. Thanks to YouTube, Paint.Net and all the other free services and tools, I didn't have to spend more to get any other software (and I didn't have to resort to piracy either).

UPDATE: The original video below abruptly stops at the 10min mark. Here is the complete presentation split between part 1 and part 2. If you've seen the video below, you only need to view part 2 which was the part that was cut.

Part 1: http://sqlocarinas.multiply.com/video/item/22
Part 2: http://sqlocarinas.multiply.com/video/item/23


Enjoy

Rose, Pollie, Rona, Vic - Remember this?

It's December again! One of the things I love about this season is the carolling. This was the MTV we made before for an office carolling competition - White Christmas 2 years ago.

Unfortunately, there's a lot of background noise on this recording recorded during the live performance. We started out quite rough...but I think we finished "ok". We had one mic each which helped since there was no boom mic.

Merry Christmas!!!

We had some fun times with the Wii here in Cincinnati. I posted a video before on the newest game I had... DDR for the Wii.

But I could only share then some trailer videos of the game and not us playing it. Well, here it is... it was tons of fun just to goof around playing DDR... in the privacy of our homes.

One thing i've been enjoying lately is Shutterfly. An online photo service where you can upload, share and print your pictures. They deliver it to your house and i'd surely miss this service when I get back to Manila.

But what i've loved about it lately is their photobook. You can easily design your own photobook using the many themes, layouts and formats that they have to offer. And the all important question... how much?!? Price ranges from $29-$39 depending on the cover but who pays retail these days? Every so often, Shutterfly offers discounts and coupons even for a FREE photobook! Recently they offered several of these to entice people to move their pictures from the closing service of Yahoo Photos or Sony Imagestation or even for tie-ups with upstarts like Codi.  You just have to wait around for these offers! They even have special offers to individuals or even coupons for free shipping (so you're don't spend a dime!) Even if you pay the full price, it is very much worth it in my opinion. As a gift, for your own collection, coffee table top book, or even as a portfolio of your best shots!

So, if you're a photography enthusiast... bring life back to your pictures. Get them printed on a photobook! I hope there was a similar service in Manila or maybe a way to deliver these there.

 

 

Here are examples of the photobooks i've made so far:

My UK Trip     http://share.shutterfly.com/action/welcome?sid=0Act3Dhi1cs2Lm4
Fireworks       http://share.shutterfly.com/action/welcome?sid=0Act3Dhi1cs2LoA
Mother's Day  http://share.shutterfly.com/action/welcome?sid=0Act3Dhi1cs2LqI