Showbiz's Next Stars in Louis Vuitton - PREVIEW October 2011 Cover

Preview's October 2011 issue is very special to me. Two of my long-time dreams came true. First, because it's my frist PREVIEW cover. I has been my dream, from the first time I bought a copy of the magazine, to do a cover for them. It has been one of my biggest goals as a photographer ever since. The second dream, another long-time dream, is that they included me in 2011's Creative It List(!!!) It also contains one of my favorite editorials, with my favorite girls (click here to see UNCUT VERSION)! BIG BIG THANKS TO THE PREVIEW TEAM!

It's a great coincidence that that first issue of Preview that I ever bought, June 2005 (featuring "Television's Brightest Young Stars' with Anne Curtis, Bea Alonzo, Iza Calzado back when they were starting out), would be the same as my first for the magazine!!! This time with the new batch of young stars and one of them is Anne's younger sister, Jasmine Curtis-Smith. To top it off they were wearing one of my favorite Louis Vuitton collections, flown in for the shoot. I was very emotional (I know, gross haha, but seriously I really was) when I found out I was doing this. I really couldn't believe it. To me, it's like coming full circle. Mayganon??

Showbiz' Next Stars: Julia Montes, Sam Pinto, Kathryn Bernardo, Kylie Padilla, Jasmine Curtis-Smitth, Danita Paner & Lauren Young!

The cover was NOT originally a double cover, it was supposed to be one continuous gatefold cover, but at the last minute, they had to shuffle the blocking cause there was a miscommunication with the Advertising Department (they thought it was a double cover so they sold two ads). In fact, the gatefold cover was already laid-out with cover blurbs and all, ready for printing, before they found out about the Advertising Department-miscommunication. I have a copy of the original one, and I would really really LOVE to post it, but I can't (yes, I tried asking permission for this blog), so we have to respect the corporate rules :)

Julia Montes

Danita Paner, Lauren Young

Sam Pinto

Kylie Padilla, Jasmine Curtis-Smith

Julia Montes

Shamcey Supusp, The New Queen (METRO November 2010 Cover, Editorial + BTS)

A very memorable shoot! The security was BANANAS, there were about 20 police officers in 5 police cars, and another vehicle with members of the SWAT Team (really!) all courtesy of Manila's Office of the Mayor! None of us (even the Metro team) expected that much security! We were outnumbered! Haha!

Michealle Torres, Metro's amazing EIC, had this idea that since our covergirl Shamcey is a licensed Architect (she topped the 2011 Board Exams!) she wanted her in front of Old Manila's grandest architecture. So we shot in three different locations (four supposedly, but we had problems with the Manila Cathedral permit), Fort Bonifacio in Intramuros, Department of Tourism building, and Casa Manila's courtyard! Two locations for a one-day shoot is already unusual for shoots here, but three seemed crazy! Talk about logistics! The sun was so intense, but Shamcey was a trooper! In the end, everything turned out great! I LOVE how everything turned out!

Behind the scenes photos by Magic Liwanag!

Shamcey braving the intense morning sun.

Lol @ my hair. I usually have it slicked back during shoots cause you know how wild my hair gets.

Crowd starts to gather. There so much more people across the street behind those cars, they were freaking out.

Department of Tourism Building. I have no idea whose idea it was to paint he building yellow. NOT GOOD.

Love this shot!

The umbrella was for me. Haha!

Click here for more Behind The Scenes Action!

Metro Society November 2010 ("Modern Muses" Cover + "The Big Chill" Fashion Editorial)

This was shot in Malaysia using Louis Vuitton's Fall 2010 collection. Glamorous? Not quite! The make-up artist (who also had to do the hair for this trip) used the thong found in the ice bucket of the hotel room to make the base of the ponytail stand up!

Definitely one of my favorites this year :)













The Big Chill
Photographed by: BJ Pascual
Styled by: Rex Atienza
Make-up/Hair: Mickey See for Shu Uemura/Kiehl's Stylist Series
Model: Jasmine Maierhofer @ Mercator


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I also did the cover for this issue, featuring "society" models Bea Soriano, Pauline Prieto, and Maggie Wilson. This is Pauline's first cover!





Metro Society Magazine November 2010
Bea Soriano, Pauline Prieto, Maggie Wilson
Photographed by: BJ Pascual
Styled by: Rex Atienza
Make-up by:
Tracy Conlin for Lancome (Bea)
Claire Diokno for Shu Uemura (Pauline)
Grace Daeng for Shu Uemura (Maggie)
Hair by:
Ogie Rayel for Kiehl's Stylist Series (Bea)
Borge Aloba for L'Oreal Professionnel (Pauline)
Bea Misa for Kiehl's Stylist Series (Magie)

Coco Martin (Garage Magazine October/November 2010 Cover)

Backlog of updates, I don't even know where to begin! So I'll just post some favorites haha.

This is definitely one of my favorite covers, here's a version without the cover headlines, thanks, Rey!





Garage Magazine October/November 2010
Coco Martin
Photographed by: BJ Pascual
Styled by: Rey Ilagan
Make-up by: Claire Diokno for Shu Uemura
Hair by: Ricky Diokno for Kiehl's Stylist Series

Trivia: This is also my second cover with actor Coco Martin as the subject. The first time we worked together being my first cover ever, which was just last April! Felt like ages already! This is also my friend Adrianne Concepcion's first cover story :)

Metro Celebrity Issue (GHEY EDITION)

A few days ago, Mike tagged me in this funny photo of his friends spoofing the August Cover of Metro:

I LOVE IT! THANKS GHEYS! HAHA!

Oh, and speaking of funny, this has got to be one of the best reaction videos I've ever seen! I'm sure you've seen it on facebook, youtube, or on TV! But I just thought I'd post it here for memory's sake!






I actually know the three gheys in front, Martin, Veejay, and Aleq! They're super funny in real life :) Thank you so much for making us happy amidst all the chaos that happened in the past few days!

Garage Girl Fall/Winter 2010 (Cover and Editorial)

Finally got to work with super cute Catriona once again :) Always a pleasure working with the Garage team—Rey, Adrianne, and Eds!

Three

Three of the covers I did came out this month! Yay!




L-R Garage Girl, Chalk & Metro August 2010

(L-R) Carmen Soo, Erich Gonzales, Maricar Reyes, Shaina Magdayao, Kristine Hermosa, Kim Chiu, Bea Alonzo, Angelica Panganiban My first gatefold cover (also my first for the magazine). It was definitely overwhelming. Celebrities are so intimidating.

Be sure to check out the 15-page cover story inside

Seeing my name alongside Mark Nicdao, one of my photography heroes, was unbelievable! I cant bilibit!

One of the photos I took for the cover story. Trivia: The cover and cover story took 3 days to complete! We started shooting May 20.
There's also an iPad version!

I saw it in Cheska's iPad a few days ago and it's amazing! Lots of great features. I also found out it's actually the first of it's kind here in the country :)
Download it HERE. It's FREE!Spot me in the behind the scenes photos! Haha!  I also did a Film Noir-inspired editorial in the issue: 

That's all for now! :)

Chalk Magazine April 2010 Cover

April few by so quickly! I haven't posted any of my published work from April and March! I'll start posting them this week when I get the layouts from the magazines :)

Anyway, here's my first cover EVER! They had booked me for the shoot a month before, but they didn't tell me I was going to shoot the cover until two days before the shoot! Haha! Thanks Chalk! Always a pleasure working with you guys!




Chalk Magazine April 2010 Cover featuring actor Coco Martin


I also did the Boys of Summer feature plus the main fashion editorial (which will be a whole nother blog post)!

FYI my first shooting assignment was for Chalk! :)