Teody Reyes

      I've been really busy for a whole week during the last week of January because I was commissioned to do the ID photos for a family-owned shipping/fishing business.

It was in Dalahican in Lucena City, around a 45-minute drive from where I live in Tayabas. That's everyday for five days... whew! (Actually, it isn't finished yet and I'm back there today.)

I had to take over 300 photos of the fishermen of the ship St. Benedict, including the other employees.

As the ordeal went: Drive there (before 7 a.m. because I have to catch the fishermen before they go out to sea), prepare... write names on boards, shoot, drive back here, save the photos, rename the filenames to corresponding names, open them in Photoshop, crop, adjust tone, color, levels, etc., add border stroke, save, drive back to my printer in a Fuji shop in SM City Lucena (30mins. or so away from Tayabas) then have it printed, drive back here in Tayabas, cut the prints, pack them into individually named plastics, pack into an envelope, then deliver to the family back in Dalahican.

Photos to come soon. No, not all the 300+.

But it was all worth it. It isn't very often that I get commissioned by Chinese business-people, and they are very professional. Always on time, always up to standards, and... they serve good food :'D

Thanks to the Yu family!
谢谢 xie xie! (that's "Thank you" in Mandarin (Chinese) ;')
and Advanced Happy Chinese New Year! ='D