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SuperAquello interpreta Latarde photoshoot

kx0101 — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 23:20:10 +0000

SuperAquello, originally uploaded by kx0101.

Great experience working with such an interesting and enigmatic group. Photoshoot took place in old san juan at Casa Herencia a beautiful mansion in the Old City, became the lifework of a family of entrepreneurs in the 1890’s. This family found a special space for all the antiques they acquired from their travels. Mirrors from Venice, Persian carpets from Morocco, chandeliers from eastern Europe and style their place with great glamour and a timeless touch. This space spoke magic and I guess the pictures reflect this character as well as the band who were absorbed by it.

Los Melancolicos de Marte photoshoot

kx0101 — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 21:33:33 +0000

Los melancolicos de marte__0253, originally uploaded by kx0101.

Just a pleasant evening with Los Melancolicos de Marte right in the epicenter of the Isabela Music Club at Cano’s. Cool grooves great times and photos to watch.

check out the photosession here

Habitat Promo ’09

kx0101 — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 05:26:27 +0000

Habitat Promo ’09 from KX0101CreativeArts on Vimeo.

Project: Habitat Promo ’09
Artist: Habitat
Dir. Karlo X. Ramos
www.kx0101.com

Recently finished editing this promo video for Puerto Rican rock band Habitat . Shot during one of their live gigs last week using the d90 and a 50mm f1.8 lens. Footage was edited in Premiere and color corrected using Red Giant’s Magic Bullet Looks plugin inside After Effects. The audio track was done using Ableton live. to mix the 3 songs used in the promo.

One lesson i learned during this project was that you can’t color correct every clip in Premiere’s timeline because it will make your project chunkier (it will add a filter to every clip!). I found the best way is to color correct using an adjustment layer inside after effects and start adding toggle hold keyframes from shot to shot to make the color variations change accordingly within your composition. This will save rendering times, cpu and would help you work leaner and meaner with big file sizes.

Regarding the audio it was really simple. I started with 3 songs from the artist in mp3 format. I load them on Ableton and chopped until i got the power intro from the first song and the choruses form the last 2 songs. Then i sequence the clips in the order i wanted (power intro-laidback chorus-outro chorus) overlap them a bit crossfade beween tracks and export as aiff.

Photos here

Farewell Don Vitorio Torres-Crespo

kx0101 — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 17:24:03 +0000

Don Vitorio, originally uploaded by kx0101.

Don Vitorio passed away today at 11:30am peacefully in his house with the company of his family and friends. He was soon to be 102 years old next week. However He lived enough to see his family grow with a solid bond and planted in them the seed of respect and honor for his fellow man and his country which he hold dear to his heart.

May he rest in peace

Aurasonico PK

kx0101 — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 23:22:40 +0000

Aurasonico, originally uploaded by kx0101.

Single page presskit for Aurasonico a Puerto Rican powerpop band from Mayaguez and Cabo Rojo

Aurasonico

kx0101 — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 04:43:57 +0000






Aurasonico, originally uploaded by kx0101.





Last Sunday started for me around 1 pm, after a late night out i felt really tired and slept till late. However   I knew I had to do something to shake off the laziness so I went to Cafelados in Aguada and got coffee the fix that i needed to get going. As I was driving down to Mayaguez from Aguadilla, a typical 40 min drive. I noticed that it was getting cloudy as i approached Mayaguez i was a little suspicious but i kept going till i arrived to my meeting with the guys from Aurasonico.  
I'm no weather man but I did see it coming, around 4:30pm it started raining hard first thing a thought was i "Now this isn't going to happen" (thinking about the photo shoot) and we have to cancel the shoot  and my trip to Mayaguez will be worthless. Never the less after 15 min of rain the sky cleared and we had enough natural light to shoot in outside and be able to walk around to find more spots. 
We went guerilla style and invaded the UPR Mayaguez campus camera in hand and my SB 800 flash mounted in my tripod. Deep in the belly of the university's Physics building we found a maze of corridors that connected the 2  amphitheaters the building has. it was a great spot and well lit. We manage to do  5 locations inside the university moving as fast as we could without  driving too much attention to ourselves until the sun went down around 6:30.  After reviewing the others I find this shot to be my personal favorite.  
Aurasonico's photosession



A piece of my country that not many people see…
kx0101 — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 13:10:45 +0000

			

				

			
		

When I took this photo my intent originally was to capture a family portrait but as i was taking pictures i couldn’t get my  eye out of the old man. This man is a 100 yrs old and is taken care of by his son who has been living with them for the last 11yrs. To me his expression was really saddening. I felt like i was looking at a piece of my country that not many people see. A place so hidden that it was like a hole in the wall and no one dares to look thought it. This family built this house with their own hands in a piece of land that has been passed away from generation to generation. I felt amazement that there are still people out there in this age that still live in their own world apart from society’s rule and consumerism they even trade fruit for milk and vegetables they grow in their garden in order to have a meal. It was really something nostalgic the kind of thing that you listen in tales of how people lived back then. I would never imagine in my lifetime that I would see something so powerful like that.
If you want to see more of that set click here