an exploration of styles

"an exploration of styles"
- a collaboration video by alvin chan and andrew acacio


An Exploration Of Styles from Alvin Chan on Vimeo.

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the idea was to shoot the style of the other photographer.
so i shot tilt shift, which is andrews specialty.
i been experimenting with photography in general, since my camera is a beast..
hahaha, kinda sparked it again, and makes me play even more.
so here some play around shots with tilt shift "miniature fakes"
(fullsize samples on the previous post)
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PHOTO115 Video... IS DONE!

i guess its done, thats my secret? i play with my food. hahaha

Ketchup

holy mother...

vegas put me behind in school, cus now im too lazy to go...

im sick also, and that doesnt help, but its time for me to catch up, cus im a tomato!

get it... ketch-up?

STUFFD BEATS

shot my first 50d club event.
jeezus i think im in love. the camera is 49873126498371269097123 better than the rebelXT i had.
heres some low light, iso800-1600 samples..

bayliens.


baylien dude singin n shit.


testin group shots.


the girls rep GMFB all day, EVERYDAY!


now aint that some muthafuggin magnificent shiet eh?

i got me, a 50D

woo woo woo...

i got me a new Canon 50d
i am currently kickin ass and takin names with this BEAST!


thank you wallet..
and to you sir.. FUCK YOU!

j/k

VEGAS PARTYING!

jsut got done sorting through my photos of vegas... heres the skinny..

the gang.


the me.


calvin and his ladies.


djamel pimpin it.


and some liquor.



most of the time i was either cruisin the strip "frolicking" i guess, or downstairs at TAO gittin my dance on. hahaha. SIICK

MEBORJA

michaelborja.com

here's my cousins art show featured at House of Commons LV

VEGAS TOURISTRY!

back form vegas...
here's my first set of coverage..

THE TOURISTRY

...this is my food


... heres some call girls - $35 what a DEAL!


... margaritaville


... cruisin the strip.


fun trip overall!

IM GOIN TO VEGAS!

oh shiet.. i forgot to post in this beehatch for days now.. whoops.
i jsut found out, or jsut decided actually, that im gonna go to vegas with my cousin this weekend, for his art show.

SO EXPECT A BIG POST SOON

i also found out that we'll be doin gigs @ VIVID nightclub is downtown san jose..

movin on up to bigger venues kids!
come play with us. yadigg? GMFB!

heres one of our latest parties...
DECAF @ TIKI

GMFB halloweeen!

jsut got our halloween video up. thanks david john of gmfb productions.

BOMB MY SAKE

ok.. ok ok...
so im might have a slight hangover.
12 rounds of sake bombs.. i guess will do that.

hahah, louie was drunk as fock, and he had to TKO at my place.. idiot.
anyway. heres some of the incriminating evidence.

LOUIE TKO'd


ORDERIN UP SOME BOMBS


LINING THE SAKE UP...


and me stealin a photo op with mimi


ahahaha..

excuse the bad lgihting in the photos.. i was shootin pretty wasted BRO!

MEXICAN HALLOWEEN

so my mexican friends is hella ghetto.
they wanted to do a halloween party... but since costumes are expensive, they chose to host it the ngiht after. hahah
"because the costumes are like 80% off"

ahahaha.. they do have a point tho..
checkit!

mexican halloween, i was french fries.

mexican-ryu


emo-elmo


nerd-erk

CHOCO-LATE?

ok so me and andy had a meeting with mimi of chocolate sushi..
this is andy.


this is chocolate sushi


this too, is chocolate sushi.



so i guess we got a gig here on the 8th of november.. so come out, and have some sake bombs with me! pleaaasE?
i gotta crank out the flyer ASAP!

MORE PLAY, NOT FOR PLAY

not much comin up as far as events go...
i do have to work on a flyer, and shoot some for that.. since the event is on the 8th, at chocolate sushi in sunnyvale...

maybe ill go tomorrow?

anyway, here's zoe's dumb face... always eating..
chasing her shot of patron down with a lime. hahahaha

MIX AND MATCH?

so the past few days, played around with the strobes...

got some cool pictures of my bro...

positioned one light to his left, and one shooting 1/4th power to his face.
played with the honecomb things too and whatnot, tryin to figure out what they do..

so then, i figured i'd try 2 different colored gels, same distance apart, same power setting, and see if i could split the colors..

checkit!


kinda cool eh?

DAY 2 W/ THE BLUE!

creepy just a little bit?

BLUE GELS!

so yesterday was red, today is blue.
no gang affiliations.


blue strobe behind me, white strobe in front shooting my face, and a little bit of desaturation and clarity adjusting.

NEW LIGHTS?

so a friend of mine gave me his old light setup.
sick huh? i got 6 studio strobes now.

so i was playin around with it, and heres what i came up with.



played with the red gels... might try a different color out tomorrow...
finally got my wireless flash triggers workin right too..
had to clean up some bad soldering that them 3rd party asian brands do so well.

E COIN NO MONEY?!

Uh… like, many of my Tuesdays, alls I do is work. I wake up in the morning, do the usual, make some breakfast, kick back till 4:30, and then head to work. Damn you economy, and your jacked up value of a dollar.

this one is..
"my pockets are empty"

DESIGN

So I had class today, all day, as usual, and really tho, I didn’t pay attention. I had a midterm I think I did aight on, but I drew throughout English class. Hahaha, I got some ideas to revamp my companies website, we goin global!

another photo from mel's party... figured i'd post this one..
upsidedownrotten. hahaha