Last March 1-3, we trooped to Camsur Watersports Complex (CWC) in Pili, Camarines Sur for an internal workshop with Manny Librodo, an award-winning travel and glamour portrait photographer. Manny is on a league of his own and he has created his own unique style of portraits that has given so many accolades here and abroad. I already featured Manny on my previous article for Manila Standard, which, made me more excited because I know he brings a lot of fresh and creative ideas since he is not a wedding photographer and will give us a different perspective in shooting portraits. The first day was the actual shoot with models, the second day was on post-processing of images and the third day was for wakeboarding!  Here’s some of my favorite images from the workshop.

Kharu, Manny’s favorite and popular model/subject who has won for him so many photography contest awards, was able to join and model for our workshop. I must say she really is excellent at what she does and we we’re all captivated by charm and grace. More admirable is her humility and friendliness to everyone. We had lots of fun hanging-out with her and became our new wakeboard buddy.

We had local models to shoot there.

Monique, our mentor John Ong’s wife, also became our model that day.

Along with our beautiful apprentices who joined the fun and  modeled for us. Here’s Tin…

and Marie…

also Shyla…

After our workshop on Day 2, we still could not stop shooting. We were all inspired by Manny’s teachings that we decided to ask more of our Imagine Nation girls so we can practice some more. Here are the results…

Meet Jaja aka Rihanna

The Empress Jamie

and the water goddess Gracielle

Thank you again Manny for blessing us with your time and talent. We learned a lot from you. Also, thank to Kharu and all the Imagine Nation ladies for being such a cool sport in letting us shoot you all.

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