Sud was a high-end, direct-mail magazine patterned after Beverly Hills Lifestyle. It featured personalities, current events and hot spots in southern Manila's millionaires row. I also got to direct two fiercely talented (and patient) photographers, Frank Lee and Menchit Ongpin.
This issue was all about flowers, using a brown Adam & Eve as lead characters taking the reader around various garden settings. These two photo composites were my favourite. The first was shot from a scaffold with the photographer shooting down a makeshift lagoon fashioned with a black tarp, cinder blocks, and just a few inches of water. I photoshopped the canopy reflection in. The second "mountain bodyscape" was all about perfect colour matching.
Special thanks to Al Quitangon and Joey Sunico of then Quill Publishing Inc.