Hi all! First and foremost I would like to thank all of my supporters: friends, family and anonymous — you all mean the world to me! It pleases me to no end when I hear that people appreciate and are inspired by my work. You all inspire me to continue doing what I love to do :) Thank you all so so much! I’ve created a Facebook page for my business, so please keep in touch! I’d love to hear from you all!
On another note, I’ve recently joined forces with Motionscope Studies! I am incredibly excited and honored to work with such a talented and inspiring team. Please show them some love! In case you missed it, here’s the link to my introductory blog post with Motionscope (or you can scroll down if you’re lazy; photo samples included!)
“I’m Jennifer Cabugao — freelance photographer, life enthusiast and starving college student at UC Berkeley. A little background: sui (jen)eris is a play on words with my name from the latin phrase “sui generis” meaning “unique” or “of one’s own kind.” It was from this word play and an exponentially increasing passion for photojournalism that Sui (Jen)eris Photography was born in 2007. Since then I’ve worked along side many notable artists/dancers/etc. such as Gabe Bondoc, Ramiele Malubay, Poreotics, Main Stacks, The Cable Car Stars, etc. Outside of my personal business I’ve had the pleasure of working with The Golden Gate [X]press, The Daily Californian, SUPERB Productions… and now, Motionscope Studies! JJ [Casas] reached out to me from my work with The Common Cam project, led by the creative entrepreneur, Kevin Huynh. I’m extremely excited. This is my first collaboration and portraiture photography is my favorite and forte. I love people and the relationships I create with all my clientele (I promise I’m not uncomfortable to work with). Aside from shooting, I dance for UC Berkeley’s [M]ovement, am an avid video-gamer and I love to cuddle my pet hamster, Stella.
Through the camera lies my infinite reservoir of creation. “
Cheers, everyone!
The two trends that I’ve found to be consistent with photography are the vintage and fish-eye effects. While the vintage effect can be created by film cameras, smart phones or photoshop and fish-eye lenses tend to be on the more expensive side, I figured — why not make something cheap and portable that is capable of producingboth effects? Nothing compares to the gratification of creating something on your own. This is the process it took to make a simple, affordable ($10) and fun fish-eye lens:
(Captions describe images from left to right.)
You can purchase a door peephole at your local hardware store. I purchased mine from Home Depot. For some, it may not be easy to come across film canisters. Fortunately, I have plenty of these lying around. This will be used as the reinforcement for the lens. I took off the cap and cut off the bottom of the canister to make a hollow cylinder.
It isn’t guaranteed that your peephole will fit perfectly into the film canister. To make it more fitting, I rolled up a thin piece of cardboard that would be thick enough to fit tightly into the canister and hold the peephole.
The outside of the of canister looks really plain, so I placed some stickers from my sticker bomb collection onto it to make it more aesthetically pleasing :) And that’s it! Place it into your bag whenever you go out with your point and shoot. Hold it over the lens, zoom in and shoot! Unfortunately the weather has been harsh so I haven’t had a chance to go outside and take some pictures. But here are some I took around the house:
ENJOY!
Coincidentally, I am participating in Word/Play, a genius idea by Kevin Huynh that forces you to create something new every week. Here’s how it works:
The rules are super complicated…
You have 24 hours to create something (anything) based on today’s word. When you’re finished with your earth-shattering creation, post it on your blog and send the link to kevin@kiwimonk.com. A recap will be sent out soon after. TODAY’S WORD IS: CIRCLE!
To learn more about Word/Play, visit: http://www.playonword.com/
Disclaimer: Again, sincerest apologies for the delay! There have been issues with bandwidth and my first round of midterms have finally finished! It feels good to catch a break and continue working on photography. If you are able, please notify the dancers of the following teams that their photos are up. Thank you all for your support! Enjoy!
Disclaimer: Again, sincerest apologies for the delay! There have been issues with bandwidth and my first round of midterms have finally finished! It feels good to catch a break and continue working on photography. If you are able, please notify the dancers of the following teams that their photos are up. Thank you all for your support! Enjoy!
Photographer: Jennifer Cabugao Stylist: Julia Joung Make-up: Ariel Rodriguez
Photographer: Jennifer Cabugao
Stylist: Julia Joung
Make-up: Ariel Rodriguez
I took this photo for the Peanut Butter themed shoot for BARE Magazine, one of UC Berkeley’s fashion magazines. These ladies were so fun to work with!
Final business card mock-up! Finally :) Collaborative effort with creative genius, Kevin Huynh! Thanks bud!
Love that it’s consistent with the new website layout too!
Although I haven’t quite recovered completely from my tonsillectomy, I somehow managed to harness the energy to enjoy a day out in Lake Merrit with my best friend Adriane. Here are some photographs from today :)
So blessed to have a friendship as beautiful as ours <3
Promoting one of my clients, Ramiele Malubay, former American Idol (Season 7) 9th finalist. She’s beautiful and very talented, and a joy to work with! Support her work!
Hope you guys like the photo!
I worked on this project for someone very special who I am indebted to greatly. He loves to travel, and I came up with this idea based solely off that. I hope this inspires you all to do something kind for the important people in your lives :)
Vision: to create a large world map with customized pins to mark places traveled, favorite places, places he aspires to go to, his home and an icon of his face to indicate his current location :P
I started off by cutting out the tiny symbols out of paper, soon to be superglued onto thumbtacks.
Believe it or not, to make the paper cut outs more sturdy, I layered each pin with nail polish to create a glossed look! I also cut out a rectangle of styrofoam to keep the pins in place.
The styrofoam cut out was measured to fit a card case that I had lying around my apartment. I used my Sticker Bomb graffiti collection stickers to decorate the case.
Inside, I left a little message :)
Face pin, hehe.
I also cut out letters to form a traveler’s quote on the board. “No matter where you go, there you are.” A special thanks to my good friend, Jon Legarte for helping me acquire this immense cork board!
Here’s the complete project! I can’t believe he managed to use all the pins… what a well-traveled fellow :)
By far one of my favorite models to work with! More to come soon :)
All thanks to the creative master, Kevin Huynh, my website www.sui-jeneris.com is finally getting the ball rolling after 3 years! Here’s a preview of the new layout:
I hope you all are as excited as I am :) Yay for more pictures of your favorite artists! Thanks for all the support! Spread the word!
To see more of Kevin’s work, please visit:
http://www.kiwimonk.com
http://www.kiwimonk.tumblr.com/
Are you ready to be inspired?
The Cold War Kids came out to UC Berkeley last semester, but I figured I’d post up the photos I took of them after I saw this neat video. Better late than never, right? SUPPORT SUPERB!
Can any of you spot me? :)
Click through for more photos of the free concert!
