Bokeh Magazine by RJ Maliwanag

PHOTOGRAPHER: RJ MALIWANAG www.RJM-PHOTOGRAPHY.com

"life is full of drama and I like to portray that reality in my photography"

PHOTOGRAPHER: JARED BRESLOW ARKHAM PHOTOGRAPHY

PHOTOGRAPHY BY HEATHER HENEAU / RJ MALIWANAG STORY BY RJ MALIWANAG There’s a lot of talk about Instagram these days as it clearly took off to a huge form of photography art and a way of social networking which also is a huge form of communicating with just about anybody and turning a shy person into this social butterfly or a complete creeper. But since photography went from film to digital, there has been so many possibilities to turn the art of photography into a much more creative visual aspect that completely backs up the saying, “A picture is worth a thousand words.” These days are the days of digital photography as technology grows with devices that are small enough to fit in your pocket but big enough to capture the world in a visionary way and write about it too. Just about everyone is seen with a cell phone talking, texting, browsing online, watching movies, checking email, playing games, socializing, and even taking photos of family, friends, adventures, locations, and weird unusual things turning many of them into photography art with the help of applications developed by software programmers to simplify things with the touch of a button altering what was a normal photo you shot of the street you live on into a image that could either be looked at as something from decades ago or worth a thousand words when looked at. Remember years ago when the Polaroid came out with the instant camera where photos were developed within short time straight from the camera and not needing to go to your local photo developing lab for prints cause they developed right from the camera? Some people weren’t even born or are just reading about Polaroid in history books. Polaroid has been around for over 70 years in the making of cameras and printers. The company was all about having images developed instantly in front of you while you wait a

few seconds or so. One of their latest camera’s is the Polaroid Z340 Instant Digital Camera which is a digital camera and instant printer all in one. No ink cartridges to change, simply snap and print. Pretty cool huh?!?! Well with cell phones having a camera on it, someone has a need to develop an easy way to instantly alter the look of the photos you shot through the use of an application software that is either included already on the phone or can be downloaded for free or for a fee. Everyone loves free stuff, I sure do. So Kevin Systrom and Mark Krieger put together what is called Instagram. It’s a powerful application specifically only available for iPhone users. They do plan on future development for Android and possibly Blackberry but for now they have proven to stay strong with where they began, for iPhone. Now there’s many photo apps to download to your phone that can alter an image at an instant, some are great alternatives while others are either buggy or works in progress. But Instagram not only alters the way an image looks that you shot from your phone, it also allows you to share your photo on Instagram’s own social network aside from also being able to share to other social networks like Facebook, Twitter, etc. So you snap a photo with your phone, it optionally saves as an original too and then you get to alter it with special preset filters that alters the look of the original photo so you can always have a before and after photo if you wish to choose so. Then it gets shared on the Instagram social network and where ever else you wish to share the photo you created. It’s that easy, no messing around on the computer with Photoshop which makes it so instant (something the developers take for granted from Polaroid who backed up their products to be instant developing). These photos were captured using Instagram or some sort of camera app on a iPhone or Android phone and then shared on the Instagram network. Every once in a while I would come across a photo shared on Facebook and I was instantly drawn towards the way it was done using Instagram and of course the creativity of the artist. Now why do I use the term as artist rather than photographer? Well because a photographer captures the moment for one to see while an artist uses their imagination to create what they see for you to hopefully enjoy while looking at it. What ever it is you do with the camera on your phone is all up to you with the results. Keep shooting and be creative if you want to, after all….it is what you see and how you see it to be in the end!!

Life with the Angry Fucktard………

He started out as just a normal Sack Boy but then he started to get used to his surroundings. As he just sat around doing nothing, he became grumpy and turned into this Angry Fucktard. Everything he thought of was just not good enough and so it begins…..

This apple product sucks, I can’t hear anything out of it…..

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The bitch squeals like a pig…….

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Just me on my good days…….

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Photo shoot on location……. Venice Beach

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Next time we order Chinese…….

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If I can't travel the world before I die,...at least let my name with my photography do all the traveling for me. ~RJM

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PHOTOGRAPHER: SEAN SOHL DRAGON INK PHOTOGRAPHY MODEL: LEXI STYLES

Story by RJ Maliwanag When it comeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s to capturing the beauty of a woman, there is Sean Sohl from Dragon Ink Photography to do that. Sean has been doing glamour photography since 2008 with your average woman next door to professional fitness models and competitors as well as the grace and beauty of dancers who present themselves to his photography studio located in Hackettstown, NJ. When it comes to Sean shooting, his use of light makes his modelâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s beauty stand out. He will sit there and tweak the position and power of his lights until he is satisfied and it clearly shows in the results from his photos. Sean first learned the basics of photography in a classroom when film cameras were still being used. Once digital cameras came out, everything he already knew from the classroom was applied but he still had to teach himself the ways of digital photography. Like many others, we perfect things as we learn to grow with what we love to do. While Sean focuses on the beauty of women, his wife Jessica is also capturing photography moments in youth, beauty, or the love of a family at what they both share together at Heart & Sohl Photography.

As busy as Sean is with his work and family, he will find the time to capture beautiful photos of women in great locations or in his studio. See the work of Sean at Dragon Ink: www.dragoninkonline.com

PHOTOGRAPHER: SEAN SOHL DRAGON INK PHOTOGRAPHY MODEL: LEXI STYLES

PHOTOGRAPHER: SEAN SOHL DRAGON INK PHOTOGRAPHY MODEL: NICOLE MARIE

PHOTOGRAPHER: SEAN SOHL DRAGON INK PHOTOGRAPHY MODEL: CAITI BOYLAN MUA: THE UPDO GURU

PHOTOGRAPHER: SEAN SOHL DRAGON INK PHOTOGRAPHY MODEL: BRITTANY LYNN

PHOTOGRAPHER: ANTHONY BRYANT JABryant PHOTOGRAPHY Facebook.com/JABryantphotography

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Through The Lens By photographer RJ Maliwanag Each day, no matter where we are…we always see something different. Throughout or lifetime, moments are captured not only for ourselves but for others to see what you once came across though the lens of your camera. Many of these images bring back memories of the past from a happy moment to a sad day or just makes you sometimes wonder what were you thinking when you took the photo. It could have been something that nobody would have ever seen before unless you showed it to them the way you saw it. I have been a photographer for many years, back when I would have a camera that used film, take many photos and would be too broke to get them developed. I would end up with dozens of rolls of undeveloped film canisters laying around or tossed in a box and forgotten about until you come across it again 10+ years later and sit there staring at it wondering what you were taking photos of that never got developed. It’s a damn good thing that now we have digital cameras so we can look, click, view, save or delete the photos within seconds of taking the shot. But what happens later on when you go back to look at the photo saved on your computer, you sit there and stare at it and vision it to look a different way, a way that someone never thought of seeing it. Being creative and altering your photos can be time consuming. Some people take minutes to hours at creating a totally different photo from what originally came from the camera the moment it the subject was photographed. Some people have great skills at editing photos while others just push a button or two on a program that automatically changes the look of the photo within seconds like when using Instagram or any photo altering application. Sure some of the results come out great but I like to do things the hard way, sitting at a computer and making changes to the photo manually through editing software like photoshop. Now I may not be the greatest at what I do, but I’m usually happy with the results and if not then I will keep learning different ways to edit since I’m self taught at everything about photography. No classroom or hands on training in photography from any school. I actually went to school and graduated in automotive engineering and computer repair. Yeah complete opposite of what I’m doing now. But that happens to everyone and I love what I do in photography. I don’t shoot with just one type of subject. I feel that if I want to be great at what I do, then I have to be good with at least everything that pertains to photography. In the end it’s the final shot, but it really never is the end unless you see it that way.

PHOTOGRAPHER: RJ MALIWANAG MODEL: CRYSTAL O’SHEA www.RJM-PHOTOGRAPHY.com

PHOTOGRAPHER: RJ MALIWANAG MODEL: RAISSA RESTIVO and CHRIS RYAN www.RJM-PHOTOGRAPHY.com

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PHOTOGRAPHER: RJ MALIWANAG MODEL: JUNE HUROWITZ www.RJM-PHOTOGRAPHY.com

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Some of the most interesting photos are not just what appears in front of your lens but rather what comes from a little effort, a little ingenuity and a lot of experimentation! PHOTOGRAPHER: ANTHONY BRYANT JABryant PHOTOGRAPHY Facebook.com/JABryantphotography

PHOTOGRAPHER: ANTHONY BRYANT JABryant PHOTOGRAPHY Facebook.com/JABryantphotography

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PHOTOGRAPHER: JEFF WICKLIFFE www.JEFFWICKLIFFE.com

"For me photography started as a hobby and grew into a passion, now it's a mental release that I can't do without." PHOTOGRAPHER: JEFF WICKLIFFE www.JEFFWICKLIFFE.com

PHOTOGRAPHER: JEFF WICKLIFFE www.JEFFWICKLIFFE.com

"Speed, the rush hiding deep inside in every one of us; it canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t be touch, it has no smell, and I am one of the luckiest people that can capture it with my camera up closeâ&#x20AC;Ś ", H. Michael Cheung

PHOTOGRAPHER: H. MICHAEL CHEUNG www.MichealCheungPhotography.com