Hostaria Da' Vittorio

Last week I was asked to shoot Hostaria Da' Vittorio for their new meter long pizza that is to be launched any day now.  This restaurant is one of the best Italian restaurant around.  The main man Vittorio is a master chef for over 20 years now.  Great guy too!

The setup was for two location at the restaurant, one, where the magic happens for the pizza, damn that area was hot!! Sweating like crazy. And the other was for outside where the fun was eating the pizza and some real cold beers to cool me down from oven area.

Inside setup was very simple, two reflective umbrellas one in each corner with speedlights set @ 1/4 power.  Camera setting was ISO 1000 f10 @ 1/80sec.

This was a great challenge for me that day because I had to move fast 'cause my friend Vittorio wasn't at snail speed.  This man was fast and had to be too, since the pizza only took a couple of minutes to be ready.

This the oven Vittorio uses.  Only one among the islands here. Uses wood for the oven which give the pizza an unique taste.

Fresh ingredients are used for the pizza. Nothing better than fresh ingredients people!!

 

 

This was my favorite part of the pizza! You get different toppings when you ask for such a big pizza.  If I'm not mistaken it get divided in four sections.

This is when it's coming out of the oven ready to eat!! This oven runs around 700 degrees!! Hot mama!!

Vittorio just enjoying himself with the pizza!

We got served by the man himself!!!

Setup for outside was camera left reflective umbrella @ 1/4 power with speedlight and camera right behind girl in the middle just of the frame @ 1/4 power. Camera setting was ISO 2000 f10 @ 1/8 on tripod with remote cable.


The girls ate almost the whole thing.  They say girls don't eat much???? Yeah right!!!

Well it was fun sharing this. I know I'm heading back real soon for more pizza!!!

Cheers

Tosha & Mike

Couple of days ago I got to shoot Tosha and Mike for their honeymoon pictures.  They recently got married in Mexico and decided to spend their honeymoon here in Aruba, which btw is cool! Who wouldn't want to come to Aruba???

Here are few shots of them:

We had just a little fun that is all.

Happy to say they had a beautiful sunset! It was a great day!!

Kids!! What is it about water and kids??? They had fun which is best part! Me too!!!

Well just have to say it was really fun doing this shoot with this beautiful couple.

Cheers!

Gasparito Restaurant

I got a call couple weeks ago from an old school buddy Danny Barros.  He and his parents runs Gasparito Restaurant & Art Gallery . They bought the restaurant some 10 years ago. The restaurant is actually and old Aruban house which was transformed into a restaurant.  Not only a restaurant but it is also an art gallery.  They display local paintings and also jewelry which can be bought at anytime.  The restaurant serves typical Aruban dishes, from stew goat, curry chicken, local caught fish served daily and a whole lot of more!! Can't mention all 'cause that list is a little long for me.

Ok, enough about the place now, you can go to there site which is going to be updated soon. Just click on the name above and you are directed to there site.

This what is look when you arrive.  The water well on the left is a real well which water was used from.

Here is the inside of the place.  Paintings hanging all over the place. All local artist!

A few local jewelry. Sterling silver and multiple stones and beads.

Here a shot from the outside.

This is one of the main dishes. Fish and shrimps served with mashed potatoes and lime grown from there back yard.

Another main dish, stew goat and chicken served with mashed potatoes.

This is a shot of the man himself who does all the prep work and cooking Danny. If I was you,  never mess with the chef!

Don't let this pictures scare you. Danny is a very down to earth dude! We really had fun making this shot.

I hope you enjoyed this. I know I got to go back and try out more of his food.  I was drooling so much just shooting these shots.

Cheers

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CS5 has many new features that is just sick! :-)

Well go ahead and download it, what are waiting for!


Cheers