I really wanted it to be titled Flaura Puffs, but it seemed weird.

This is just a random set. I just wanted something to post. I came along with Iya and her friends, Jenah and Bianca, to help them with their short film/music video. I was bored after the shoot, so I messed with their heads and disturbed them with my oddity.

I took a part of their green colored cellophane, crumpled it, and put it in my camera’s pop-up flash. The effect was awesome! I love how it looked like lomo shots even without editing.

These photos haven’t been edited too much. The green effect is from the green cellophane I experimented with.

No story for this set… But I found the photos awesome! Yeah?

Modeled by Iya Rojas.

TIPS FOR SHOOTING SOMETHING LIKE THIS:

• Don’t take the shoot seriously, have fun and enjoy.
• Don’t overdo it with using expensive strobes.
• Achieve what you want to achieve with the resources available.
• Experiment with colors and white balances and picture styles.
• Think as if you’re Terry Richardson.

Do you like the set? I hope you liked it and my senseless tips too.

Laughing now,

TheAidxParedes

We dream of the things we want to come true. No matter how hard we dream, these dreams will only be up to there. Unless we do what we can, to make them reach the reality we are in, these dreams will be true.

They say, dreams are better than reality. Are they? They only last a night, and they come back only when we decide to close our eyes and wander away from the truth.

Which is better? The reality that we hold, or the dreams that we forever long for?

These portraits are for Farrah Galang’s debut last January 21, 2012. Dolled up by Trisha Villapaz and styled by Me, assisted by Jackie Cubelo.

Anyway, Farrah’s having her blog giveaway. To know more about her blog giveaway, visit http://farrahgalang.blogspot.com/ :)

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TheAidxParedes

I never thought that denim and fatigue would be complimenting each other. I just went a bit crazy yesterday, wearing this to school. Haha. Uh, I don’t know what to write.

You know I love denim shirts, but I never liked denim pants. Thank God, I have a thoughtful brother. He gave me this denim button down from Wrangler. And my Dad’s old W Brown shoes… gave me blisters. And Dax’s pants fit me well. LOL

Thanks Tiffany Somosierra for the photos! :)

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TheAidxParedes

A COLLABORATION WITH ZHAUN ORTEGA

POETRY BY ZHAUN ORTEGA

PHOTOGRAPHY BY AIDX PAREDES

MODELING BY HAE MI JUN

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TheAidxParedes

A muse is, preferably a woman, someone who becomes a creative inspiration for an artist to grow fonder of his craft.

If Andy Warhol had Edie Sedgewick, I have my own too. You see her often here. We started with a little set, from a shoot in my first apartment here in Davao (See it here). From there, our second shoot was Strange and Beautiful, where she wore a black corset and her hair was tangerine. And then we had our first shoot for SOUL Lifestyle, Bend/Break set. And we had our billboard shoot, All Things Beautiful.

It’s nice, remembering how we both became real close friends because of these art stuff. She’s a dancer, and a singer at times, and sometimes she builds this imaginary joke hall when she just talks and talks and talks.

Her beauty, too is the beautiful kind of exotic. The kind of beauty which I don’t see in everyone’s faces.

She’s Louise Anne Subido, and she is my muse. 

NOTE: In this set, she is raw. No make up, just her in those Pickled and Peppered clothes.

We might get somewhere far, and we might forget each other soon. I’ll look at these photos when I get old, and remember how these photos got me a real friend.

Skyscrapers are high, and to be at the top is what we dream of. But I’ve got a little note in my pocket, and I’d like to share it to you. “It’s lonely up there.”

My dreams are skyscrapers, but I refuse to be blown away by the mighty wind and get me up there. I’d like to be on the ground, where I can be safe and sound, while dreaming of being up there. I refuse to let my feet be off the ground, and I hope you do too.

Be, and stay golden.

CREDITS:

Pickled and Peppered for the clothes, and SOUL Lifestyle too.

Hae Mi Jun and Mark Pidor for assisting.

Louise Anne Subido, for being herself.

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TheAidxParedes

All Things Beautiful - The photoset I owe you, I think. I haven’t posted my outputs during the billboard and ad campaign shoot of Pickled and Peppered, and here they are. These shots were not printed yet, but they will be.

If you’re in Davao, and you have been to Gaisano Mall’s Fashion Walk, you might recognize the PICKLED AND PEPPERED: YOUNG BLOOD big print in Pickled and Peppered’s window display, I photographed that. And honestly, I am proud of that. Plus, just this January, the first month of the year, I received a call from Ate Mimi that my first billboard was already out at Gaisano Mall’s parking lot.

I had the most amazing year ender last 2011, and an awesome, ego-boosting kick off start for 2012.

I’d like for you to see this, the remaining shots. I hope you could drop by Pickled and Peppered sometimes, and shop there of course and look at the prints I have shot for them.

So, here they are.

The billboard shot.

My proposed billboard.

The 87 inch print at the mall.

Yes, again, here I go with the credits.

Ate Mimi Vergara Tupas and your hubby, Jun Tupas, thank you for this opportunity. I wouldn’t say a lot now, but I’d like you to know how much of a blessing you have been to me, and I thank God for that… a million times. James Bautista, thank you for assisting! You da best. Farrah Garcia, thank you for helping out during the shoot. Of course, LUXELAB make up artistry (Tiny Pinilli, Momo Bendanillo and Mae Anne Cortes), for the make up! Models, Michael Lu, Jackie Jimenez, and my lovely muse, LA Subido… Thank you! :D We all did a good job!

Just a thought - I’m seventeen and it’s not common to have these kinds of opportunities. But I’ve worked hard for this, it’s not a feather from the sky falling directly on my palms. It’s a big stone trying to get in my stomach through my esophagus. What I’m trying to say is that, I’ve gone through a lot during my early years. The process of creating an art identity, the process of improving, the process of innovating, and all the processes. It’s so hard, and if you’re patient enough… All the hard work will pay off.

*insert* Concept styling, styling, and photography by Aidx Paredes. :D

It’s a life long journey, take three things with you. Trust, passion, and faith. Trust in yourself and the people around you. Passion for what you are doing. And faith… Faith in Him, that in the end, as He promised, everything gets better.

That’s all for now.

By the way, visit Pickled and Peppered’s blog. http://pickledandpeppered.blogspot.com/

And shop or drop by Pickled and Peppered at 2nd Floor Fashion Walk, Gaisano Mall of Davao.

Last, follow Pickled and Peppered’s big sister here on Tumblr! http://twentyfoursevensoul.tumblr.com

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TheAidxParedes