PORTFOLIO #03 : The Not-So-Modern Family
(Book Title: Good Old-Fashioned Family Values)
This first book was shot in the very beautiful home of young couple, Navotas City Mayor Mr. and Mrs. John Rey Tiangco. Mrs Barbie Pardo-Tiangco, an Interior Designer, and Associate Editor at Metro Home Magazine, made half our job easy by prettifying their home. Every corner is picture-perfect as you will see in the pages of their book. Every detail is an extension of her personality. Her design style is classy, and she has a good balance of traditional and modern pieces. A lover of art, Barbie has an art piece in every room. It was a perfect venue to shoot our chosen theme: Good Old-Fashioned Family Values.
In the planning stage, Barbie shares her ideas on how to capture her family's portraits. She wants classic and elegant. We felt her images should best reflect her taste and ideals with regards to 'family matters'. This modern woman confesses she still holds the same conservative family values she grew up with. And now extends it to her daughter Taylor, 1yr and 6 mos, and son Two, 3 months old.
In the planning stage, Barbie shares her ideas on how to capture her family's portraits. She wants classic and elegant. We felt her images should best reflect her taste and ideals with regards to 'family matters'. This modern woman confesses she still holds the same conservative family values she grew up with. And now extends it to her daughter Taylor, 1yr and 6 mos, and son Two, 3 months old.
Production design also takes on the 'old-fashioned-look'. The house interior is not exactly vintage, but it is sophisticated and elegant and polished. It can pass off as being "old-fashioned" because it had a certain formality in the layout of the furnitures. Everything was arranged, organized, and exact. It was a perfect location for our shoot.
For costumes, we're happy to ransack the closets of Taylor and Two for clothes that could pass off as classic or vintage. And we brought our accessories just to supplement the look.
This is how the book turned out:
For costumes, we're happy to ransack the closets of Taylor and Two for clothes that could pass off as classic or vintage. And we brought our accessories just to supplement the look.
This is how the book turned out:
(Left page: It is time for those who talk about family values to start valuing families again.
Right page: Laugh as much as you breathe. And love as long as you live. )
(Left page: What you teach your own children is what you really believe in. )
Barbie's make-up and hair also went retro.
(Right page: The best teachers of humanity are the lives of great men. )
(Right page: A good example is the best sermon. )
(Right page: Let kids be kids. )
(Right page: Chivalry is not dead. )
The couple brought out their 1960's MB to be our car prop for the shoot.
(Family always comes first.)
(Right page: Behind every good man is a good woman. )
(Left page: One father is more than a hundred schoolmasters. - George Herbert )
(Left page: A child seldom needs a good talking to as a good listening to. - Robert Brault )
We had this miniature bed made for Baby Two. He looks super adorable.
Thank you John, Barbie, Taylor and Two Tiangco!
And to the entire household who helped out.
And to the entire household who helped out.
