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Fractal Orgone Pyramid Idea

Hello this is a blog post about the Orgone Infinity Concept Shoot, it is composed of a Citrine sphere stone, a Pyramid Orgone and two mirrors. The basic idea is to just create an infinite look or evoke and expansive feeling when you see the photograph, seeing the artwork behind orgone items I figured this will be a cool blog post.

CAMERA AND LENS

I will use a Nikon Entry level 3500 camera for this one, a low budget concept shoot for the website. Lenses I used are 11 – 50mm AF-P and 70 – 300mm AF P kit lenses. The two lens usually is with the d3500 camera as a package. AF-P lenses has good AF response and focusing system.

FIGURING IT OUT

The basic idea was in my head due to going to barber shops. As a kid it is amusing seeing an infinity effect on a face to face mirror, you see multiple versions of the same thing it is trance inducing while getting a haircut, experiencing that  made it memorable. I decided to create something of that nature and used the orgone pyramids I bought months ago. I placed it in a pattern like manner and took a photo. It looks good now lets duplicate this and make this like a sea of orgone pyramids.

THE CHALLENGE

First problem I had is how do I take a photo of the infinity when my camera is too big. If I buy a big mirror that would be really expensive. Taking the photo with a camera on the right or left side to be erased in photo editing was an option but doing it seems hard. I can’t fit the camera inside the frame and the only camera I have that is small is the Nikon sb5100 point and shoot. My phone was an option but its quality is not that good in my mind.

NOT ENOUGH MINERALS


 

Not having enough money to buy a micro camera (go-pros) or even do the amount of work necessary to materialize my imagination I decided to work around the subject by changing angles taking sample photos making the most of what I can capture just to get a feel on what will be possible and what approaches could work.

Camera placement and angles was explored, sometimes adapting to the condition is a better option than buying your way into a desired situation. Film making made me realize that quick.

TAKING THE PHOTOS

Doing my thinking for a couple of days before doing my formal shoot and concept I decided to slack and just have fun doing the shoot, it took me a couple of hours to finish my shot by just taking multiple focused exposures and using the infinity concept as a peripheral rather than my main focus. Taking good photos over obsessing with the idea. I still managed to get some infinity effects on camera but I will not publish all of it in this website. You can contact me to see it via email contactus@martinbelgica.com

Here is a Gallery of some Images I took with some processing.

ORGONE INFINITY
Produced in MJB STUDIOS
Produced by Majos Belgica
Camera : Nikon 3500
Lightsource : 50watts Bulb 
Lens : Nikkor AF-P DX 18 – 55mm
 and AF -P  DX 55 – 300mm 

Studio and Slack Photography

Update on MJB studios: 

We now have the Wardrobe Room at second floor and additional Carpets. There is still a long way to go, I need to purchase for the computer and editing rooms and produce 3 self portraits before I put money in production shoots to promote the studio and my photography. There is a rule in progress that a person who pursues things needs to complete a body of work before you get noticed by the people who would work or appreciate what you do, there is no distinct correct style in my understanding of photography but there is always a form of aesthetic style that caters to things that creates your identity as a photographer. Doing portraits is my weakness but finding my identity is doing self portraits before I do other peoples portraits in a studio setting.

The month of march is a big waiting game for me, money is scarce and I am still not selling any brackets I bought years ago. Money the past years is tight due to covid and photographic opportunities cost money like going to locations costs a $100 at least to get a decent set of photographs, doing the best I can with what is around saves me money and time and provides me content for this website. I can show you now a photo of the moon during late afternoon.

In some instances I get bored and I stack up my rock collection and compose it on Gimp to just have material to post, running ideas in my head seems too corny for me to put effort and publish on this website. Here is a photo of a rock stacked up inverted in Photo editing just to create some intrigue and change.

Shutterstock Updat
Due to me being broke and putting all my money on the studio I was forced to stop using shutterstock for the coming months for it saves me a couple of dollars. I use shutterstock a lot for it is cheaper to upload licensed photos than to produce good ones just to put some content up, on the upside it will force me to get my production senses on for future photography productions for this website and also my studio, dependence on licensing companies is kind of a lazy game but it supports the economy and other photographers on which is a good thing.

FASHION PHOTOGRAPHY LOOKS
What else I was looking for gear on BandH photo for the coming shoots and also Lazada Mall items. I already have formulated 3 looks for the self portraits. The said looks and styles are just my imaginings and not of professional stylistic sense, it may look good or bad but definitely something I will publish on this website for future remembering on what works and doesn’t work on portaits and fashion.

UPCOMING SHOOTS 

GREEN MAN – All are green from bottom to the top, a willing me to pose for a green themed shoot. All are fake items and this will be a cheap shoot for the cheap photographer. Inspired by the color green and nothing more.

RUDRA FASHION – Looking at shiva sense of fashion I decided to modernize the look and do a Rudra Fashion sense look, I gotta get my ears pierced this weekend or this month for this shoot. Composed of mala beads, scarfs and earrings.

THE PIMP – A red and pink themed with coat and mink and a staff with fake CZ crystal jewelry. A pimp culture inspired shoot that portrays the feminine side of men dealing with women in full manhood.

These shoots will be uploaded this year and be produced by majos studios as self portraits. Other shoots to be funded by Majos studios will be announced on the website and feel free to send us your services to be listed on my contacts.

Email : directorylistingadmin@martinbelgica.com

Glamour Photos I like on Shutterstock

Let’s explore Glamour photos from other photographers on Shutterstock to create an environment for this years shoots.

PLANS FOR THE YEAR

Months ago, I was planning to do a ‘Guess’ Brand shoot for 3 looks or stylings, so for this year, one brand in my mind is the ‘Guess’ brand with 35mm or 50mm Nikon primes. I am also planning to do 3 fake brand shoots for the price and comparing what is really the difference why fakes are not better than authentic clothes, is it the response of a model to the fabric or the subconscious impression of it being fake. I will not omit the reality that it is fake on shoot, so I will really straight forward tell the the brands are fake. Comparing the Authentic brands to towards the fake will give me 6 shoots, that will give me 6 more to produce. I am still thinking of what to shoot for portraits for the rest 6 as a ‘warm up’ year for portraits and glamour photography.

MY GLAMOUR PICKS FROM SHUTTERSTOCK

 

These picks might be a projection of what I like based on my mind and character and what will be produced by me or how it might look, or an atmosphere we can work on, these photos will give a sense of how I think and how it might come out after the year.

MY PROJECTED STYLE IN GLAMOUR

Glamour for me is just scarcity and longing. How can you be that exposed yet not touchable, like a high value person, a lustful fantasy or just plain “I don’t deserve it.” Yet in publication of such photos the observer can kind of taste what is hard to experience. A private jet trip to somewhere expensive is a perfect example of glamour that most people can’t do. 

COMMERCIAL GLAMOUR

Commercial glamour on the other shade of what is glamorous is what is desirable attainable with restraint, an example of glamour photography that is commercial is the advertisements we see on TV and internet it is attainable yet very temporary and held back for it creates fanaticism when in momentum and consistency. A taste of insanity in a package. “You can taste it but you cannot get addicted.” That is what commercial glamour photography means to me. 

Overall, these things sell glamour photography. A sense of longing and a taste of tempting delights. A perfect harmony of indulgence and discipline. Portrait photography on the top of it is a different story. I will talk about that next. 

PORTRAITS, HONOR, INTEGRITY AND HERITAGE

A good portrait for me is of meaning, at that level finding and scouting subjects for it is a challenge, in a small level we can just accent what is present and make good of it. Portrait is honor, integrity and heritage, what does it represent? What is it about? Who is this person? Getting good at this style can get you published. Finding what is good is the challenging part of good portraits. finding what is best on a person already the best full of honor, integrity and heritage. Good luck on that, at that level I am not yet familiar.

So that is it for today, I will write about other things the next week. I do weekly posts. 

 

VALENTINES DAY POST

VALENTINES DAY

I ‘Majos Belgica’ seriously stopped dating girls after 2012, when I realized that a woman has a fragile mind and labelling it as a ‘Relationship’ should be deleted in my vocabulary. In my mind the only thing that exists is pro-creation and marriage, a commitment to the gene pool. Hearing about Valentines day is like remembering that it was a tragedy. Saint Valentines. I do not put that much mind into my dating life, basic categories of dating are sexual relationships, social relationships, family alliance type of relationships (Asian thing) and marriage relationships. All of these are in distinct purpose in a man’s life, the word romantic relationship and love relationship are no longer in my vocabulary as a go to. It is either marriage or social.

PHOTOGRAPHY AND VALENTINES

So, for valentines I was thinking of buying some flowers and taking photos of it. I changed my mind I wanted to save money for the studio, so I decided to just take photos of the color red around the house. As simple as I do on this website. I just did that. My photography projects are stale and is going down. In all actuality I just do it for the goal of opening a 10,000 sq ft studio, transitioning back to film or sticking to still images would be a secure place for me in the future. taxes are nothing compared to a risky portfolio. I repeat that on every blog, so it gets reinforced in my brand. Taking photos of red things and mapping them on Gimp is so boring that posting this feels like throwing away an old pair of sneakers.

Here is a photo of a pig that is red in color. A pig can also have a Valentines day right? It’s a piggy bank made of plastic.

Here is a photo of a budding flower a very weird flower but it is red and so I took a photo.

if you do not like grain here is another version. 


Here is a old red can of Jhonny Walker, I just picked a spot and took a photo of it. Viola “200 years.” 

Now here is a heart shaped candle.

 Now my problem is how to make sense of all this non sense. My mind went to that place where I invent stupid ideas out of stupid trashy ideas and form a bigger trashy idea to publish on this website. A pessimists best talent.

ROMANCE AND FOOD
My sister and mother decided to just buy food for Valentines day we ate some burgers from some in and out type joint named XYZ homies. I forgot the name of the burger place, but it does taste good. Moving forward we at the house with my aunties talked about retirement age and dating. We laughed about it and joked about it during dinner.

Basically that is it on the day of valentines. May Saint Valentines be in peace. I will post other stuff when I get active again. I will focus on portraits this year and so please bear with my content for it will suck till I finish setting up my little studio.

Happy valentines day though may your sexual relationship be responsible and enriching.

Heineken beer empty bottle of heineken

Choice of Beer : What We drank 2022

What kind beer do you drink? Me I drink all types and kinds but my favorite of them all is the ‘Super dry’ brand of San Miguel unfortunately I didn’t drink it this year because I no longer drink that much due to yogic reasons.

Out of habit and boredom lets take photos of empty beer bottles we drank last 2022.

Beer we drank 2022 Pale Pilsen, Heineken , Red Horse, Engkanto and San Mig light.
Beer we drank 2022
Pale Pilsen, Heineken , Red Horse, Engkanto and San Mig light.

Our brands are Pale pilsen, Heineken, Red horse, San Miguel Light and Engakto Green Lava.

Last year was an okay year it came out well, health wise ending with me being covid positive and surviving it, money wise it sucks, paying debt and getting nowhere. Stagnation is common space during 2022. What made 2022 a good year I guess it was when it went by with no one getting hurt although We lost somebody 2022, a relative in her old age and I think it is proper and right that I do not talk about it. Overall 2022 was an okay year, not a great year but just an okay year.

BEER IMAGES 

By the way my update on the studio is we have now new wall panels installed. and for that I can say it deserves a beer.

Honestly this is me writing just to fill up the 500 words target. I am super lazy like a super saiyan on hibernation. Goku post eating a number of bowls.

So here it is the San miguel Light.

San Miguel Lights Bought at Suking Tindahan
San Miguel Lights Bought at Suking Tindahan

A very tasty beer for the pussified mind. This is for the ladies but men still do drink this brand of San miguel for they are already married or their gf said so, imaginary or not. San Miguel Light tastes like a good beer that is diluted in sparkling water. It is definitely for the ladies and gentis.

Next Beer is the Heineken the German brew.

Heineken beer empty bottle of heineken
Heineken bought at gilmore wines manila,

 I like the Heineken for it tastes like good old beer,malt, lager or whatever drink that tastes like bitter sweet rice. This brand is a straight gulper. It tastes like a solid smooth grain on a sparkling brew that takes you to a place of thirst quenching and gives you a buzz. It is always a go to brand for good drinking. It tastes superb and lasts you a good tolerable hang over.

Next beer is the Red Horse. This nasty sweet beer is a power house.

Red Horse Beer Bought at 7 Eleven
Red Horse Beer Bought at 7 Eleven

Red horse Beer is a Gin beer taste with lots of sweetness. This drink is for the one who wants to get wasted. Drinking 4 of these will make you drunk on your shoes and a couple of bottles more you will be dropping or puking sisig or whatever you ate during or before drinking. Red Horse beer has a good taste but also has a very powerful toxication effect. You decide if you want to bloat and get drunk go indulge. I also recommend this to college kids who wants to get laid. Just remember to buy your ‘manoy cap’ better safe than sorry. The Hangover experience is sharp.

Next on the list is the Pale Pilsen. The best beer in the world based on my taste buds.

Pale Pilsen the best beer in the world. San Miguel Pale Pilsen

I have tasted quite a number of beers from my teen years till today, look at it as a normal beer drinkers perspective from Eagles to tigers, buds to diablos. I think you get what I mean. The taste of the Pale Pilsen is right on the money, it tastes like beer, feels like a beer and gets you buzzed up like a beer. A bitter sweet balance of the perfect taste for beer drinkers. It makes other beer brands look like they lack what Pale Pilsen has. Authority and a solid jab. It doesn’t knock you out but it does make you feel hit and still capable.

Last beer on the list the Engkanto Green Lava.

A filipino start up brand that can be considered an okay and interesting beer. It takes risks like a brewer on acid. The beers doesn’t taste bad nor good it tastes different. My tastes buds are not yet adapted to their flavors, it is like a college beer that you drink for fun but not for a relaxing evening to take you to states of rest. This drink has a good aroma with a lingering bitterness and a hidden sweet spot when you drink it. I recommend it to college kids who wants a fun night, not for middle aged men or real belly gulpers. 

That is my blog post for this week………… ciao 

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Glamour Photography Goals

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MY GOALS ON THIS WEBSITE

My goal on this site is to create a good profile and provide good photos for my website and share it here as  a mode of scouting potential models. I can promise this site to write regular blogs about sex I think or maybe my life venturing into glamour photography.  Let’s start to ask why glamour photography? I like glamour photography in a way due to me collecting glamour photos from local models who sells their photos online. I like to collect things on my hard drive and computer but not as stolen photos but as owned copies. I like owning the photos as a goal a contribution of some sorts and also create my own. I also like glamour due to the point is sexually stimulating in the brain. It excites the senses. I do plan to write a book about glamour photography but my skills in portrait photography is not that good. I will cross post on this social platform as a main archive then release it on my website as photographic works. 

REFERENCING FOR STUDY 

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Collecting photos is also a good way to study other peoples work before I dive into the genre of Glamour photography deeper. Swimsuits, Underwear, Boudoir, Erotica and Modern Glamour is kinda intimidating, working with a woman who expresses sexuality on set sure is a challenge. It will be a bit hard but we gotta do it for the work and growth of my photographic skills. Collecting photos from other photographers and making my own will be assisted by analysis and creative referencing. So feel free to plug your work and galleries on my account. I do purchase photos, license and own copyrights. It is a good study and attractive archive library to own. 

WHERE DO I START? 

First I want to get into the adult and sensual side for a year and take photographs of non professional models and aspiring models before I spend money on production costs taking photos of professionals. Working with professionals as a carry shoot is not ideal for me but it is a risky rewarding move, financially it could drain my finances. $4000 dollars of travel and production costs could be used up and not knowing what I am doing can be a bad idea. I do know how to take photographs but working with professional glamour models is not my comfort zone. I do not fear it cause I am a very courageous ‘sexy man’ but the money side of things might be a little hassle. 

HOW DO I SEE GLAMOUR PHOTOGRAPHY AS A COST 

Glamour photography might cost a lot of money, location wise taking a sexy professional model on a small studio like mine is not glamour, Glamour as the word translates to luxury , sexy, fame , fortune and extravagance so taking that into account you do know that the clothes are less but the location is rich and luxurious. A cheap motel isn’t glamorous but a Presedential Suite definitely is glamour. Flight into locations, model costs and their travel expenses will be really a cut in my bank account. Me having only a small studio to work with, this site would really help me scout for more affordable alternatives.

Value estimates 2023 from Blog post .

(Estimates not Accurate based on cost from Philippines) 

PROFESSIONAL WORK (Major publishing) 

Location  @ $4000 

Travel expesnses @ $4000  

Food and After party Expense @ $2000 

Model Costs @$5000 

Crew and MYself @$4000 

Other costs @$5000 

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$25,000 – $48,000

NON PROFESSIONAL (minor publishing/not published)

Location  @ $1300

Travel expesnses @ $1300 

Food and After party Expense @ $700 

Model Costs @$1700 

Crew and MYself @$1300

Other costs @$1700

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$8,000 – $15,400 

LOCAL SHOOTS 

NON PROFESSIONAL (For archives and Not publlshed)

Location  @ $400

Travel expenses @ $400

Food and After party Expense @ $200 

Model Costs @$500 

Crew and Myself @$400

Other costs @$500

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$2,400 – $4,600

Studio Moments for 2023 Pre Purchasing

             Hello 2023. The 50 watts bulb for the cheap softboxes just came. Price is like 5 dollars per bulb, around 500 Philippine pesos. I tested it to see if it will work compared to continous light Yungnuo. I am having struggle to complete my budget for this small studio. My purchasing month will be march and before I can use the studio for projects it will take time, for now let me show you some of the pictures the studio can produce pre purchasing of equipment. #Hardtimes.

I took my Video light and plugged the softbox. It looked like shit.

But lets still check on how the lights would look based on a wall background rather than a Cloth or paper backdrop.

NIKON COOLPIX SB5100

Nikon Sb5100
Nikon Sb5100

I used 2 cameras for testing, the Nikon point and shoot sb5100 and my Oppo Reno6. Oppo has good exposures while the old Sb5100 is kinda struggling with the Auto Focus so I had to take a number of shots just to get something in focus.

In monochrome
In monochrome
Underexposed Photo using Coolpix SB5100
Underexposed Photo using Coolpix SB5100

Old Nikon Cameras can still produce good images but you can tell the developments from modern coolpix cameras that sb5100 is very old. Last photo for the Nikon Coolpix.

The light was received okay using the coolpix but not as good as newer Coolpix cameras. My exposure meter was right on the middle not overexposed but just right.

OPPO RENO 6

The Oppo Reno6 had better exposures but the quality is much more less in terms of texture and pixel. The technology and Ai of the oppo produced better looking pictures but with less quality.

I had fun with the Oppo its focus system was better and it was just tap tap tap. A very usable device to take decent portraits for Social Media and blogs. Who needs a Bridge and a point and shoot?
“I still prefer point and shoots though. Shhhhhh….”

Mobile Portraits is fun. I am not into portrait photography but sometimes I take photos of family and friends. It is not my forte but it is also a fun style or type of photography. Taking portraits is also one of my lack in terms of photographic imaging and style. I am planning to venture in depth with this style in the future. Portrait photography is also the unescapable image for everybody wants to be photographed and be seen in a rectagular space or square. It brings memories or maybe just pure vanity.

I can’t post family portraits here or portraits I took cause it feels weird to post family pictures specially if it is your family. I can post maybe some simple portraits just for reference on how I take portraits. One is landscape square and one is a traditional portrait.

 

PORTRAIT PHOTOGRAPHY NAHHHH!!!

Some say that cropping is done not on the joint but I just think of it this way, do not crop out of context of your shape. That is my simple rule but if you do not like my rule then shit. I suck at portraits. I just prefer to crop in context of the shape. A round face must be contained what is within that round face must be expressed. It is that simple cropping rules can go to the trash bin but most of the times cropping rules still fit with my technique I just don’t like thinking of it. 

SELF PORTRAITS

Self portraits is just selfies. It is challenging and fun and so the only thing I can do with it is to practice my posing, my gestures and my directing as per models. To know how to direct a model is to slightly know how it works.

So to end this blog is to just say lets hope this studio goes somewhere in the future and produce good photographs to be published and be seen by the people who supports it. 

Mosquitos Feast On My Body

The mosquito Scenario.

Here we are after working out and doing some wanna be ‘kung fu’ moves I sitted in meditation and the mosquitos approached my body and went to feast. I let the mosquitos feast on my body for a couple of seconds then warned them for a good afterlife. The mosquitos agreed. The drank and feasted for their very last meal.

What is a mosquito? it is an insect that is very popular in the world, it is silent sometimes deadly with the right immune system, it is not harmful but a weak body system these insects might cause a deadly disease. I like mosquitos it makes you feel like part of an evolved kind of species, looking at these little insects getting drunk on your blood is like a vampiric nostalgia. What is a vampire? who knows maybe some vampires are mosquitos pre evolution, are vampires real? I think so.

WHAT DO I FEEL WHILE THEY SUCK MY BLOOD?

Them sucking my blood feels like it is natural. I am sometimes the prey, it humbles down the being, it makes us think life is a cyclical thing, sperm to dust. In the middle is being a host of nutrition for insects. Yum yum yum , Nom nom nom. I feel weak but not really it is like giving, the problem is when they get drunk of blood they no longer fly away. They stay like a greedy insect too drunk to move away, and so I swat them with my palms.

I took my towel and killed a number of them laid them down to see their corpse ready for disposal. Do I care about these insects? not really but they are part of nature that I think maintains the balance of our ecosystem. I heard that in my science class before, even fungus is that important, decomposing the dead. Talking about vampires and decomposing dead feels like this is getting darker. Luckily my towels are white. So lets arrange these insects into a beautiful pre burial ceremony I mean pre ‘disposal’.

AFTER THE MOSQUITOS WHAT ELSE?

I think what is next is a great deal of debt, not having a high income and lacking projects for years since covid 19 and the 2018 – 2019 mix up and the studio rent. 4 to 5 digit debt in dollars and 6 figure debt in pesos. If I can manage to pay everything that I doubt will happen due to economic projections I will just endure the debt and sell whatever. I still have money to survive but not enough money to do things. My 1000sqm Studio vision might be a long game after all.

Anyway that is it, this is another post for the month of january. You can comment below on what type of photography you want for febuary. I am thinking of doing some glamour and portraits but paying for models that can do things correctly might be costy. There are people who would pay me to get photographed but not really professionals, shooting aspiring models might work but I think practicing the wrong things might halt the 150k formula. less than 10 a year will do. What I mean about less than 10 is you can practice the wrong things but not enough to fuck up your art. Music school know how.

“It is not how long your practice it is how you practice.”
-1st violin Miss Anon from Paul  

MID SHOOTS < 10 == PROPER PRACTICE 

Catching Covid 19 A 10 day Quarantine Boredom

I am writing this 8 days after quarantine. I tested positive of Covid 19. I took up some meds and a lot of sleep.  I will describe my experience using photos taken by Oppo Reno 6.

I first had my symptoms thiking it was just a common flu, I took some medicine and went on doing what I do. I even did an unboxing of a 50w light bulb explaining the big difference in perception and exposures. 

50 Watts
45watts

Having some dry cough and stuffed nose being noticed by my mother she deicded to persuade me to take a test. It turned out positive and by then I needed to go to quarantine. 

Getting stuck inside a house with no computer and just having a mobile phone sucks. It is good that I also had my guitar with me at the 5th day during quarantine time. 

Dizzy waking states are present during covid, I felt like having a huge cloud up my head, I feel this when there is a heavy density of 4G or 5G waves. It is more intesne when you have COVID 19. Dehydration is alse present. Oxygen intake is best. 

Days of rest water and meds fixed it, on my 8th day I tested negative. 

Having covid is not an eye opener or a life changing event it is more like that times are changing and what can we do? Endure? The feeling sucks and I learned no lesson at all it was like a big bundle of further confusion about nature and the future of biology and health. Also my moles started to pop out all over my body. 

For everyone to have a peaceful mind. Take your meds, be hydrated and always drink your vitamins. 

I am still alive.