tagaytay quickie

just a quick food getaway to tagaytay for my friend’s birthday

the birthday girl

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Misibis Bay 2

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obligatory sunglasses self-portrait :p

trampoline time

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new lens test drive

its finally here! i got another tamron! the 17-50 2.8. this lens is pretty sweet performance wise. but what it makes it sweeter is the price!! i’ve been wanting to get a wide-angle lens and i have been secretly regreting that i never did get a kitlens w/ my camera. ive been using my tamron 28-75 2.8 for almost all of my work and i use my 50mm 1.8II for my casual shoots. i think this lens will probably be on my camera all the time now.

i  got to test my spankin’ new lens while doing some research at cubao expo. we found a restaurant where you can play rock band for P10/song per person!

overall i find this lens a bit sharper than my old one.. but its freakingly noisy when focusing. my old one seems to have an ultrasonic motor compared to this one. it gets annoying indoors, is this normal?! i dont know anyone else with the same lens.. hit me up!

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it’s good to help out

to celebrate my friend’s birthday, he decided to share his blessings w/ the less fortunate. us friends joined in to help out build a home for some deserving families. help build a home! click link for the GAWAD KALINGA site.

manong tweeting @bnycastro

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toy flash + point and shoots

i’ve mentioned earlier this month that i played w/ a couple of point and shoots plus that el cheapo mini flash that i have (blog post here). well, i finally got the pictures from my friends’ cameras (an ixus and a sony ericsson).  here are some pix.

w/ a tissue diffuser

and they say you can’t do off-cam flash w/ a regular point and shoot!

[here's how: night mode, no flash.. press shutter and flash test button]

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