Cardholders of RCBC Bankard are in for a treat – Free registration on photography seminar series by Jay Jallorina and Karlo de Leon. Two photographers who have considerably made names for themselves. After receiving this good news together with my billing statement, I cannot help but be thrilled.
Incidentally, if you are an RCBC Bankard cardholder. Here is the schedule for the series.
July 17, 2010
2 PM – Landscape photography
5 PM – Travel protraiture
8 PM – Travel photoraphy
I know I haven’t exactly gotten the hang of basic photography but I cannot help but admire spectacular lightning photography images from the photography sites that I frequent. I used to love daytime photography, where exposure settings are easier to figure out. But it really is an inconvenience for me. Here’s one of my favorites from LightningPhotography.com -
One of the things that I would very much like to learn about is taking good product shots. Aside from wanting to venture into selling stuff online and showcasing some stuff that I would like to sell on online auction sites like eBay, I really hope to be able to give justice to the products I review and post online.
Before digital imaging hcame, we were all freely snapping our shutters away. Snapshots make for a huge collection of a family’s memorabilia. Although everyone will agree with me when I say that a snapshot’s quality may not be as good as that of a thought of and well-composed portrait. Portraiture requires effort, snapshots don’t. That’s the bottomline.
As a photography hobbyist, I was only able to attend one class on photography and that was it. Basic Digital Photography was the class that I took almost a year ago. Since I cannot squeeze the time in to physically go to a class I am actually looking into signing up for an online one.
People in general will agree with me when I say that babies and children are two of the most endearing and appealing subjects for photography. My Project 365 entries will prove just that. I am a parent and it is just inevitable that I take pictures of my son, who I’m obviously very fond of.
It is a delight to be able to capture in photos the emotions and innocence of a child. In all honesty I used to take pictures of my son without really taking into account the quality of the pictures that I take. That is what I hope to grow up from. Balance. It would be a total waste of owning a DSLR, albeit the entry level type, if I do not learn how to take better pictures.
A parent will gush over their children’s photos with delight regardless of the quality of their pictures. Never mind if pictures are totally out of focus. Although I can fully understand where they are coming from, I am hoping to take a step back and learn photography so I could finally gush over how I am finally able to do justice to the subject.
As I hope to launch this photo blog, I am hereby uploading the sole photo that got a positive feedback from the very first photography class that I took in July 11, 2009. With the hope to get serious at photography, the plan is for me to review the lessons that I took in Sir Nicolay’s Basic Digital Photography class last year and finally take better pictures in 2010. I don’t hope to be rigid at this. I am going to take it slow, so please bear with me.
Allow me to just learn as I go. 