5 Days old!

Here are photos of Sarita at 5 days old! hehe We took some of the flowers people gave when they came over to visit and made an American Beauty knock off!

Welcome Sarita Via Lugtu Bustamante!!

Today my baby was born 4 pounds 13 ounces in Asian Hospital and Medical Center in Alabang, Muntinlupa. We got the name Sarita Via from a mixture of names of people who are most important in our lives. Which just happens to mean "Princess" in Hebrew. What are the chances?! hehe Welcome baby Sari!

More photos here!

9 Months Preggerzzz

Shot this in the newly renovated pool area (photos of that to come). My baby is getting quite big and restless. Shes always moving around and kicking! That's good right? Right! In around a months time shes going to be out! Psyched!!

Happy Birthday Lex and Pat!

Lex and Pat celebrated their birthdays today at the newly renovated pool area of their house. (photos of that to follow). It was a surprise party but in this photo they obviously weren't. Happy Birthday guys!

My Nephews

We went to my Dad's rest house in Bulacan for the weekend. Kids went swimming and adults... watched TV. haha

This first shot is Javi at exactly 8 months and 1 day. Cute!


This second one is a photo of the next Michael Phelps! haha we wish! he just loves the water, nothing competitive. It took me around 10 mins to fix up 2 speedlights on stands, umbrellas and a couple of filters. And all he gave me was 2 mins! He isnt even on the national team yet and he's giving me attitude! haha Oh and when I was about to pack up I saw something fall in the corner of my eye. *Crash* I saw my stand, my speedlight with shoot thru umbrella on the ground! OUCH! good thing its still working.

Eraser Heads Reunion Concert!!

The Philippines has been waiting for something like this for a looong time and finally it happened! Thanks Sid for the tickets in VIP! Unfortunately, the concert was cut short because their lead frontman, Ely Buendia suffered from a slight attack of Hypokalemia. Everythings ok now! Get well soon ELY!

Baguio. again.

Went to Baguio again for the long weekend. It was surprisingly COLD! like the weather usually is during Christmas, Christmas in August? hmmm...

Lunch at the Fort

Had lunch in the Fort today and saw supposedly life sized models of Dinos. Enzo had a field day with them. Caffe Puccini brought them in. An Italian resto bringing in Dinos? Don't ask me why but thanks Caffe Puccini coz my little nephew had a blast!

8th Month Preggerzzzz

Went down to the basement and took some photos of my babies!

Gadget Infinity / Cactus / Ebay Trigger Mod

I've read a lot of reviews and instructions on how to increase the range and reliability of the gadget infinity wireless triggers so i decided to just go on and try to make mine.

I'd just like to say that this little tutorial was made after i finished. I did not document the procedure step by step. I was too psyched on making it work and didn't really bother with the documentation.

After this modification, the triggers became more stable. They fired every single time i clicked the shutter. and when I wasn't clicking the flashes did not go off. It just simply made my triggers so much more convenient to use.

Materials you will be needing:
Soldering gun
soldering iron
soldering paste
gauge 26 wire (3 in only)
radio antenna 430-450mhz

Here is a set of wireless triggers.


Next open the transmitter and you will find a little hole on the upper left side of the board. (sorry i forgot to mark it)


in that little hole you want to solder a wire (gauge 26 is fine) because you dont want it to be too thick and become too rigid. you would also want to keep it within 3 inches so that you can keep the frequency.


Next, on the cover side try to find out where you can bore a hole for the external antenna. make sure it clears the board. because the connector goes pretty deep into the transmitter. so the upper right area of the cover seems to be the best place for it. Then when you fix the antenna on the cover of the transmitter solder the wire you got to the antenna connector. Its pretty thin so make sure not to burn the terminal and the plastic around it.


Here is the finished product.


Ive tested it already and the range is really something else. here are a few examples.
This was taken about 30-35 feet away. 24mm on a full frame.


This one was around 80-85 feet away. 50mm on a full frame. I put the red gel on the speedlight so we can see it perfectly.


This next one i ran out of space to move the speedlight forward so i moved the camera back around 15-20feet, totaling around 100 feet. still with at 50mm on a full frame.


I didn't want to go any further cause it was kinda tiring already! haha Enjoy!