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First time at Bob Baker Day & it was wholesome fun! I met up with friends & also got to reconnect with old ones I haven't seen in ages. As one of the generations that grew up in a pre-CGI & AI slop era, it was so fun to see so many DIY puppets & people dressed in their silliest outfits & make-up. I'd also just got a new lens the day before that was more suitable for portraits, so I mainly tried to focus on portraits instead of action shots. I learnt a lot with this new lens & figured I don't need something that opens this wide next time, considering how sunny it was. 😅 Maybe next year I can bring a longer lens, to hopefully get some of those closer-up action photos. The crowds were huge, so it was def hard to get those close-up photos — hence why I also decided to focus more on portraits. Here's some of my fav photos from the day! Photos were made with my Nikon ZF & 24-70mm f/2.8 S II lens. Sharing my photos is okay with credit! I'm on Instagram as @nica_aquino Click any image to enlarge & view from a computer for the full experience.
Variety Stage / Dog Costume COntestThere were a few different categories! Couples, LA icons, biggest goof & I forgot what else. They were all so cute. I wish they all could have won. 🥲
Cirque SchoolThe circus has a special place in my heart & it was so cool getting to see Cirque School do some some circus acts and clowning. While it was small, it was fun getting to be closer up to the performers compared to when I saw Cirque du Soleil. For these photos, I def could have benefitted from a longer lens & will remember that if I go to Bob Baker Day again next year! 
 MiscThe rest are from roaming around the park.
Ran into my former co-worker, Ayrin! She was a teaching artist at my old job & we've not seen each other since before the pandemic. It was so fun getting to see her in action & playing with the puppets for visitors. Here she is with Green Witch & a doggy puppet (I forgot his name!).
 At the end of the day as I was heading out, I ran into my friend Thania, her partner & friend! It was a really cute surprise to the end of an overall very cute day.
By this time of the day, I'd already gotten plenty of sun (although the heat could have been much worse), my legs were sore & I was beat. Hopefully I'll be back at Bob Baker Day again next year. 😁 If you made it this far, thank you for checking out my blog! Please feel free to share your thoughts or any questions in the comments. Make sure to keep checking this space, follow me on Instagram, or subscribe to my YouTube channel for updates on my blog posts.
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Happiest of birthdays to sweet Thania, a dear old friend, a talented cellist & all around creative spirit. Thank you for being generous with your time, energy & space with me, & for letting me play with a new lighting setup I just got! Love you mami. 🖤 Here's a walk through my process below! Photos are from my Nikon ZF using a 24-70mm lens.
I didn't particularly LOVE the lighting on these first 3 the most, but it wasn't terrible for a first attempt! I think what I need to do next time is bring an extra light & maybe more lighting modifiers. 😅 I had a softbox on the light, but the diffusion still wasn't enough for my taste! If there were more time & energy, I would have played a little more. But our time was spent more on reconnecting, enjoying food & chisme together, hehe. Time I wouldn't trade for anything else. I knocked out these portraits in about an hour tho & we still had fun!
I was more satisfied with the lighting on these & I love the very subtle gradient on the cello! This was much more to my liking & a lot less dramatic then what I was trying to go for. But I think maybe a little more fill in the shadows would have been nice. All I did was bounce the light onto the ceiling & I loved the result so much. 😆
 However, my absolute favs are these moody photos I converted to B&W! Can't wait to show you all some new portraits I'll be making sometime this summer. I've been workshopping with a client in the last couple of months & can't wait to help make their vision come true! If you made it this far, thank you for checking out my blog! Please feel free to share your thoughts or any questions in the comments.
Make sure to keep checking this space, follow me on Instagram, or subscribe to my YouTube channel for updates on my blog posts.  I'm excited to share that DoLA invited me to contribute to their weekly editorial column Local's List, their series where they invite LA locals to share about their favorite local spots. When they reached out to me, I knew I wanted to share my favorite places in Northeast LA, where we have lived for over a decade. NELA is home now & I can't imagine ever living anywhere else in LA. Read the full piece: Aside from one of the photos (which I did not originally want to include, but we had to make a last minute substitution that would fit the format), all the photography for the piece is original work by me. I had photography for all of the businesses mentioned, except one — Avenue 33 Farm. If you read the piece, you'll see that the farm is essential to our regular life, so of course I wanted to include them in my recommendations. I reached out to the farm workers & asked if I could take some photos of them for my contribution. The piece itself ended up featuring programming manager, Andrea Oloughlin, but here are some additional photos I took at the farm that didn't make it into the piece! Photos are from my Nikon ZF using a 24-70mm lens.  Gorgeous sunny day shining onto an abundant hillside farm. Peep the baby hummingbird in action!  Photo featured in the piece of programming manager, Andrea Oloughlin.
Some cute photos of distribution manager, Sarah Vargas, among the sage flowers and green bean plants! Now, it was really difficult to narrow down my choices to just 5, so here are some of my NELA honorable mentions:
Cypress Park: Glassell Park: Highland Park: Eagle Rock: Atwater Village:
If you made it this far, thank you for checking out my blog. To be honest, there's probably some I forgot, but let me know in the comments what you think of my NELA recs or if you think I missed any! Make sure to keep checking this space, follow me on Instagram, or subscribe to my YouTube channel for updates on my blog posts. My fav assignment so far, photographed over 2 days! Shout out to my stellar model, C. 🖤 Between the styling, set & lighting, I'm so happy with how these came out. Especially given that some of these were photographed during mid-day, which can be so challenging for the natural light, I gained some really valuable practice in how to use mixed lighting & flash for fill light, between a speed light & strobe. Photos were made with my Nikon ZF, a Fractal prism filter, a Lightpix Labs Flashq Q20ii (speed light) & a portable Profoto strobe. I will indicate which photos used speed light & which used strobe. Styling by me. 🌼 View from a computer for the full experience! Click any image below to enlarge.  
Played around with a Fractal prism filter for these 2 photos. :)
 All photos up until here were photographed with only the speed light.
These 2 photos used both a portable strobe, synced with my speed light via "optical slave" (hate that word, but there hasn't been another industry term made to replace it yet 😕). Wanted to continue using the speed light to create more fill, but with the direct sunlight shining right on it, it had a mind of its own & the sensor that is supposed to detect the flash coming from the strobe just kept going off randomly, or wouldn't go off when I needed it to! I managed to get these 2 shots, but decided to put the speed light away after this. I'll have to research & see about a radio trigger for it next time, but I do know that the trigger that comes with the speed light can sync with multiple units at once via bluetooth. I might have to invest in a second speed light! All compositions below are photographed using only the portable strobe.
Rare photo of myself on the left, haha! The assignment required us to also make self-portraits, but I am just not a selfie kind of gal. However, I was comfortable at least getting in front of the camera for one shot if I was with my friend, & we actually really had fun with it! I also played around with a few other compositions, such as shooting through objects, as well as playing with the "freeze" mode on the strobe again to create the blurry effect of the flower petals dropping in the frame. I also got to practice my compositing skills with that one. 🤠 
This photos came out even better than I envisioned, with some of my classmates describing them as a "vibrant fairytale" & giving "Studio Ghibli vibes" — both compliments to the highest degree. 🥹 If it weren't for time constraints & our energy running low, there's a lot more I would have tried or changed. But for something photographed over 2 days & the amount of compositions I was able to create, I'm still soooooo happy with the results. Somehow I managed to make my friend look like such a movie star! 🤩 To view the rest of the work I've made during my time at GCC, please visit the tag: If you made it this far, thank you for checking out my blog! Please feel free to share your thoughts or any questions in the comments.
Make sure to keep checking this space, follow me on Instagram, or subscribe to my YouTube channel for updates on my blog posts. To see a full roundup of the photo assignments I submitted for my recent time at Glendale Community College, visit the Nica Goes [Back] to College tag! Start at the bottom of the series to see my progress in the order they happened. 🥹 For our final assignment, we were given 2 choices: either create a magazine spread with a front-center-back cover spread, or 3 images for an Instagram takeover for a photo account you follow. I decided to go with the magazine spread. At the beginning of the semester, we were asked to share a magazine we liked that uses lighting in the photography, but wasn't specifically a photo magazine. I submitted Never Too Small's magazine for my entry. I am obsessed with their documentary series! I LOVE architecture & interior design, & it's so relaxing for me to watch. For the final, we were asked to create a spread as if we were submitting photography for the fav magazine we submitted at the beginning of the semester (or another magazine). Instead of making a pseudo-photo submission for Never Too Small, I decided to make up my own pretend magazine called SMALL SPACE STILLS. Hell, I night even make this into an actual series one day?! Featured in my photographs are my artist neighbors, Clare & Andres of Cypress Park's Arvia Projects (plus their soon-to-be little one). The focus on my pretend magazine was to photograph working class artists within their homes, particularly small, modest homes. Unlike the Never too Small series, I didn't want to focus on homes that were overly curated by interior designers & architects for people who have money to blow on those types of services. I wanted to focus on home spaces by artists that were decorated & designed by them. I didn't want "aesthetic" homes or the perception of wealth — just regular creatives in their spaces. Here was my submission for the front cover, center spread & back cover. All photos were created with my Nikon ZF & 24-70mm lens. All photos used Paul C. Buff strobes. Click any image below to enlarge. View from a computer for the full experience. Front cover, center spread, back cover composite: Cover Photo with & without Text + BTS (for Fun):
 For this photo I used 1 Paul C. Buff strobe with a softbox attachment, another strobe for foreground fill with a 20 grid attached, & 1 white fill card camera right (which I just bought from the $1 Tree!). Center Spread Collaged with back cover detail: Similar lighting technique with the cover photo: 1 strobe with a softbox attachment + another strobe for foreground fill with a 20 grid attached. Center spread main photo by itself + full back cover photo:
Back cover photo used 1 strobe with a softbox attachment. This one was particularly hard to light because not only was I trying to light a window so the ambient light wasn't blown out, using the strobe only for fill, but the room was small & I was limited on where I could place the strobe. The limitation in space also made it harder for me to control the light. Even with the strobe set at the lowest power, the light was just bouncing off every surface. Even though I didn't get any particular feedback on this during our critique, I personally feel that the photo is over lit, but I did my best with what I had. I'm still learning, after all. Architectural & interior design photographers truly make it look so effortless & easy! I hope I get to that point someday.
In the end, I got great feedback on my final, aside from some minor lighting adjustments in the center spread, that I was advised to just edit out in Lightroom this time, but definitely be more mindful of in the future. Of course we can fix anything in post these days, but the idea is that we are learning to practice these lighting exercises & create the best images possible on-camera. I guess I just get a little nervous when I'm working with models because I'm still so slow & I feel bad taking up all their time. 😅 Overall, I can't believe this is the end of my advanced lighting class at GCC! I also found out my instructor was retiring from teaching & I feel fortunate for the timing for me to be able to take this class. He was a photographer I got to work with during our time working together at Metro Art. Back then he told me he taught lighting at GCC, but with full time work on my hands at the time, I wasn't able to take it. Currently being underemployed gave me the flexibility to pursue more of my creative growth this year, & while it has been so difficult to regain stability again, I am so happy for everything I've learnt & accomplished this year with my photography. I've truly never felt more motivated & accomplished in a very long time. And with everything I've learnt in this lighting class over just 1 semester, I'm pissed at the thousands of dollars I wasted on a photo degree at art school, where I learnt fuck all in 4 years. (To be fair, I was too immature to attend college at the time & I was not ready at all. I wished waiting until I was older were an option.) Aside from simple studio lighting techniques we learnt at art school, we did not learn anything I learnt in just these 16 weeks alone at community college. Art school was the biggest scam of the 2010s & sometimes I wish I didn't go to college, but that's a rant for another day... If you made it this far, thank you for checking out my blog! I don't know if anyone actually reads this or cares, but it's nice to have a space of my own & thank you for sharing it with me. Please feel free to share your thoughts or any questions in the comments. Make sure to keep checking this space, follow me on Instagram, or subscribe to my YouTube channel for updates on my blog posts. Our 9th assignment for my advanced photo lighting class was intended to be a portrait diptych. There were some parameters for the assignment, but of course, I broke the rules, haha! However, we were given the freedom to use any technique we learnt in the class so far. So I decided to play with the lighting effects we practiced in the Blur/Sharp assignment. I loved learning that technique so much, & I just wanted another reason to play with it again! Here is the diptych as a single composite (top), followed by the 2 image files separately (middle). Later, I decided to collage the images together in Photoshop & I wrote a little haiku to accompany it (bottom). More explanation on the concept at the bottom — keep reading! I'm also planning to make the photo collage into a risograph print. Comment below if you're interested in buying one later! They'll likely be available in the new year (after I wrap up other projects). Photos were made with my Nikon ZF, a 24-70mm lens, a Paul C. Buff strobe with a 20 grid attached, & a red bike light. Click any image below to enlarge. Diptych composite: Individual image files:
Collage + Haiku The parameters for this assignment required that we make 2 photos in the same orientation (either both portrait or both landscape). Originally, I'd played with cropping the left image, but the full image just didn't look right cropped — it needed to be the full thing. And the other images photographed in portrait orientation just weren't as dynamic with the lighting. SO, all that to say, I decided to break that requirement, cuz fuck it. As far as portrait goes, I decided to be more abstract with my interpretation of what a portrait looks like, instead of just creating a standard portrait of someone's face. Inspiration: These flowers are marigolds I'd planted from seeds at the beginning of summer. The whole time, I was hoping they'd be ready in time for Day of the Dead this year (Araw ng mga Patay/Undas/Dia de los Muertos). I spent so much time caring for & tending to them. Lucky for me, they were ready in time & it felt like such a blessing to be able to spend so much time with them & have them finally say hello. When I photographed them, they were in the stage of transitioning out & I wanted to document them before their time with us was up. The red light blurs kind of conveys an otherworldly/metaphysical presence. Process: As you can see in the BTS photos, I used a single strobe for both images (fired at the lowest power) as well as a red bike light (set at the highest brightness). I strapped the bike light onto the tripod for the flower photo & onto the railing for the hand photo. I used a long exposure, set the camera to self-timer & set the shutter to fire 5x in a row. To get the red blur effect on the flower bush, I shook the bush as the strobe & camera shutter both fired. Let me tell you, having the camera create 5 exposures in a row was a genius move, cuz I had various options to choose from later! Then, for the hand image, my partner was kind enough to let me use his hand to fill in as I manually focused the lens, & he shook the bush as I posed my hand in front of the camera. Totally not intentional either, the white flower just happened to land perfectly in the frame & it was then that I knew that was the composition I was gonna go with! BTS/PROCESS:
It's been a while since I've updated this space on the photo assignments I've been working on in my advanced lighting class at Glendale Community College! These photos haven't been my favorite I've produced for the class & I don't think they're my best work, but I want to share the process of what I've been learning & the attempts I've been making to further improve & elevate my photography skills. Not everything I share will always be perfect & polished, but even after nearly 20 years doing photography, I'm still always in a constant state of practicing & learning, & I just want to share this for anyone who's ever feeling discouraged, anyone who's new to photography, or might be considering getting into it. Below, I am sharing assignments 5-8, with the top being the most recent assignments. All photos were made with my Nikon ZF & a 24-70mm lens. Click any image below to enlarge! Assignment 8: |
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Assignment 6:
Flashlight Portrait
Assignment 5:
Flash Fill with Portrait
I used Paul C. Buff strobes for these.
Shoutout to our class teaching assistant for modeling for me & also giving me pointers during the session!
I'm up late trying to finish this photo blog. Shout out to all my creatives who stay up late working on their art, while having a day job in the morning that they need to report to in order to survive & support their creative practice... It's not easy to balance both. I've struggled with it a lot in the past & found that my creative practice always has to take a back seat to wage labor & surviving capitalism. It's hard not to be depressed knowing that is just reality & there's nothing you can really do about it, but oh well, I guess.
Anyways, here's some photos from Heritage Square Museum's Dia de los Muertos event last weekend. It was our first time visiting Heritage Square Museum (despite living in Northeast LA for over 10 years!) & it was really interesting. We would love to go back another time when there isn't a massive event going on & actually check out the historic homes and other sites on the property.
Growing up in Los Angeles, Dia de los Muertos has always been one of my favorite celebrations. In the Philippines we know it as Undas. I've always had a fascination with death. I'm not uncomfortable talking about it — it's just part of life & sadly it's just been around me a lot. In fact, I had a few near-death encounters in my early 20s myself...
Everywhere I've lived as an adult, I've always had an altar in my house to honor the ancestors & invite the spirits for protection & good energy. This is not a practice I grew up with, as I was not raised religious or spiritual in any way, but something I learnt to practice on my own. The good part about not having religion or spirituality forced on me was, I had the freedom to explore different beliefs & study them on my own.
Day of the Dead is something I look forward to every year. And if you know me, you know I've produced a few programs centering the occasion myself.
 | If you're ever interested, one of my favorite photography books I own is Death on the Altar (La Muerte En Al Altar) by Tómas Casademunt. This beautiful photography series documents altars in homes all around Mexico. This book is no longer in print, but if you ever find an affordable copy, make sure to snag it! I would love to do something similar centering funeral altars in the Philippines someday. |
For clarity, I was not paid for these photos. I went to this event & did photography for fun. If you want to hire me for event photography, please get in touch!
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Kaamulan Fest
The Kaamulan Festival is a large month-long cultural gathering of the ethnic tribes of the Bukidnon province in Mindanao. Held in the provincial capital of Malaybalay, it is a special time for the seven tribes to unite. I was told the festival has been going on for a little over 50 years, but some believe it may have been celebrated even farther back.
Although I didn't get to experience any music or performances this time, I got to leave the festival dripping in brass jewellery — something I was hoping to leave with. Throughout the Northern & Southern Philippines, brass is used to make musical instruments & accessories. Brass instruments are played for an array of uses such as communication, ceremony, or celebration. As accessories, brass is worn to ward off bad energies & spirits.
All photos below are from my Nikon ZF using a Pocket Dispo lens. The women portrayed below consented to me photographing them.
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Abbey of Transfiguration
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Eternally grateful to my friend's Nikki & RM for taking the time to show me around Mindanao, & also dealing with some of the unnecessary qualms I came with. 😅 Thank you for everything! Please check out their newest project that is currently underway, Balay Kasamtangan. If you have the means to, please redistribute your wealth & support their one of a kind project!
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Iligan City in the northern Mindanaon province of Lanao Del Norte was the first stop on our 9-day visit. The main languages spoken here are Bisaya, Tagalog, & English is also commonly spoken throughout the islands.
Lanao del Norte & the region surrounding Lake Lanao is the ancestral land of the Maranao, a predominantly Muslim ethnic group in Mindanao. They are one of the largest Islamic groups in the so-called Philippines.
Below are photos of Bai Ming, a Maranao matriarch, who invited me to peek into her world. Her & her family import or create all the goods sold in her shop, Ming's Collection. She consented to me photographing her, & in return I'd love to share about her business! You can find them here on Facebook (if you've got an account), or look them up on Google Maps.
All photos below are from my Nikon ZF. Also first time using my Pocket Dispo lens, gifted to me by my friend & photography collague, Noah B! The lens is great & love the softer texture it creates, but it's def not for everything. It was fun to take it out on a spin for the first time on this trip tho, & hopefully I can find some good use out of it again in the future.
My film photos from this trip will probably come later this year!
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MISC ILIGAN...
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Paseo de Santiago
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"LAPU LAPU — He is the first famous person written in our history that bravely and gallantly defended our land and our race against foreign invaders on April 2, 1521 known as the "Battle of Mactan" that resulted to the death of Ferdinand Magellan and the defeat of his Spanish and Portuguese forces."
Tambo Public Market
I'm sure some of you can tell that these interior photos in the market are dark inside. I had to use quite a high ISO. Once bringing them into Lightroom, they were very noisy. I do not recommend Lightroom's AI noise removal tool, as it makes the photos look way too fake. Instead, use the option to manually reduce the noise. They won't be perfect & noise-free, but the tool does help, in moderation.
Beadwork Workshop at Espasyo Creative HUb
As you can see, the Pocket Dispo lens is not great for close-ups. So that's something to keep in mind when using this lens. It is a lot like a disposable camera in this way! For those of us who are old enough to remember using disposable cameras in our youth... haha!
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Jeepneys of Iligan
I've only visited 3 Philippine islands so far & have noticed a difference in their jeeps & public transit. The last island I visited last year was Cebu, & I noticed their jeeps were mostly the Japanese models, & tricycles were also bawal (forbidden). In addition to the jeeps in La Union (on the island of Luzon), you see tricycles everywhere & it's actually my favorite way to get around (when not driving — we also don't have Grab in La Union). And in Luzon, our jeeps are mostly Mercedes or BMW (what I like to call the n*zi models, LOL). However, in Mindanao, I noticed their jeepneys were a mix of n*zi models & also the Japanese models (I mostly saw Isuzu & Mitsubishi, & probably others). Here's a few jeeps in motion while getting to ride in one! They also didn't have tricycles, but they had Bajaj 3-wheelers which are typically ridden for shorter distances. Didn't get any photos of any, but you can look them up here, if you're curious.
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Butterflies
Upon stepping out to the river, we noticed a black butterfly landed on my arm & flew away. When my dad passed away years ago, I remember a black butterfly staying on the ceiling above his casket for days during the week-long wake. Not sure exactly who was communicating with me this time, but could feel this was a messenger from the spirit world making sure we were protected on this trip.
Part 2 of my Mindanao trip is forthcoming, followed by a special announcement on why I'm in the Philippines again for TWO months!
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Some adult imagery below. Scroll with caution!
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Thank you, Clarisse, for allowing me to experiment with my new Lightpix Labs Flashq Q20ii! And thanks to my homie Art Bueno for recommending this flash unit & for always encouraging me to push my photography boundaries even further.
Fair warning, the first photo with the red gel was a complete accident, but we both agreed we really liked it. 🤣 Hopefully one day I can figure out how to replicate this look on purpose! (For someone who's done photography for nearly 20 years, I've got the photography skills of Britta Perry.)
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I'm usually the one behind the camera, not in front of it. It took us a good 5 mins to figure out how to find the self-timer on my camera, too. 💀
Here's some pics of the cool lounge area at Blue Roof!
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