TrueHDR – iPhone HDR

TrueHDR is a little nifty iPhone App which gives the user the ability to create HDR  (High Dynamic Range) images from 2 images capture from your iPhone. The main idea of HDR is to combine multiple exposures from 2 or more images to properly expose a scene. For example, here’s a picture of a scene [...]

My own .com

Finally, after months and months of thinking wheather to get my own domain name, i’ve finally decided. hiligko.com was still available so i grabbed it. So what pushed me to get it? Well since i have been all over the web like wordpress, twitter, flickr, and others more, I wanted to consolodate it and personalized [...]

Camera Concept 001: Exposure definition

What is exposure, to make it simple enough lets get to its root word. EXPOSE – “to make known, disclose, or reveal” So exposing something means you are trying to show it. Now exposure then is the way you actually show the thing you want to show, in this case your images. So if your [...]

Sharp Portraits – Indoor without tripod

Since i got my camera, i have always wanted to take sharp portraits. In a months time, here are the things i have learned to produce sharp portraits. First you need to know your lighting conditions. Most of the portraits that i take are taken indoors which means that lighting is really poor. Florescent light [...]

Disney Pixar’s Cars

Earlier i tried taking a picture of my son’s collection of Disney Pixar’s Cars. We have been collecting it since 2006 when the movie was released and boy its a pain to collect all of them. So far we only let our son open some major characters on the film. Here’s the image i took [...]

Where Photography Starts and Ends – Post Shoot

If you haven’re read my previous posts, please do so as this continues the editorial. You can find the link below this post. The last step based from my understanding of what is photography, post shoot usually called post processing or PP in short. This covers all the things that you do with the photo [...]

Where Photography Starts and Ends – Shooting

If you haven’re read my previous post, please do so as this continues the editorial. You can find the link below this post. Shooting, i say this is the second step in photography and it involves everything you do to your camera. This could range from  using auto settings, panning your camera, placing of your [...]

Where Photography Starts and Ends – Pre Shoot

There are a lot of arguments on how this works. I’m not an expert on this but heres what my take on this. For me there are 3 steps in photography Pre Shoot Shooting Post Shoot Ok, these are not industry standards but i will explain in a while what they are. Lets start with [...]

What is Photography

Does using photoshop or lightroom or other editing softwares discredit the photographers from their photos

Flickr Account

Me and my friend glenn recently ventured in the realm of Photography. We are really in the beginner stage of the craft and we plan to professionally improve the practice. Here’s my Flickr account, though i haven’t uploaded a lot of photos in it yet, i plan to occasionally update it.