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Basic Photography Workshop 2

March 5 & 6, 2011

Amandari Cove

Mabuhay Road,

Gen Santos City

Day 1 8am to 4pm
Introduction to Photography
Photography Terminologies
Camera and Accessories
Basic Camera Settings and Functions
Exposure Control : The Light Triangle
(ISO, Aperture and Shutter Speed)
Introduction to Composition
Aperture and Depth of Field
Slow Shutter and Low Light Photography

Homework :
Low light and Still Life photos

Day 2
AM 8 am to 12 pm
Basic Protraiture with Model Shoot

PM 5pm to 9 pm
Critique and Open Forum
Mini competition with prizes

Fee : Php 2,500.00 inclusive of
2 Meals and 4 Snacks
LIMITED SLOTS

DSLR Required

50% for slot reservation
50% 3 days before the Workshop
Early Birds : Less 200.00 Paying in full before February 18, 2011

For payment details and other inquiries.

Text or call ED Altares.
CP 0920 908 5332

or Marx Talacan
C.P. 0920 506 9300

1. For reservation, 50% downpayment is required.
2. The D/P is non-refundable within 5 days prior to seminar/workshop.
3. Registration must be paid in full, 3 days before the seminar, otherwise slot will be given to the wait listed participants.

Generally, your 2 days (Saturday & Sunday) workshop fee includes:
1. Instruction Material
2. 4 snacks and 2 meals
3. Printing of photos for critique
4 .Certificate of Attendance

Basic Photography Workshop 1

January 29 & 30, 2011

Amandari Cove

Mabuhay Road,

Gen Santos City

I held my first Workshop on Basic Photography in GenSan last January 29 and 30, 2011 at Amandari Cove. This is mainly due to the encouragement of a former colleague, Edmar Talacan. I reconnected with Edmar mid of November last year. With our new shared passion for photography, we sensed that there's a need for inputs in the locality for basic concepts in photography. For the previous months, most of those workshops held were rather on advance topics like portraiture, lights and post processing but not much on the fundamentals. Edmar encouraged me to hold a workshop with the commitment to gather participants. I spent several years in the academe myself so teaching is not a new field to me. The fact is that when the use of computers was still new in the city and when the people educated in the use of the technology was still limited to a few, was already teaching Lotus 123, WordStar and DBase III+ in a vocational school which by that time was a hit. I was then a 17 year old kid teaching computers to people twice or thrice as old as I was. And with this new opportunity to be in the position again of sharing my knowledge, I felt elated and excited.

The workshop turned out successful although with little glitches along the way. It was attended by 19 participants with different backgrounds and age brackets. Some had owned their DSLR for quite a while already while other got hold only of their units in the past couple of months.

I tried to keep the workshop as light but as informative as possible. I kept the topics to the bare basics with the intention of giving the participants a true introductory course into photography. I prepared activities that will supplement the inputs I gave with the aim that the participants go home being able to put into application the learnings that they get. Part of the workshop was a session on still life photography in the afternoon of the first day and a session on portrait photography on the morning of the second day.

Amandari Cove provided a very fitted venue for what I wanted to achieve during the workshop. The management gave us enough space to work on and for that I will be forever grateful to Mr. Ricky Almanzor and all his staff -- specially Nina -- at Amandari Cove.

It's also worth noting that other than the accommodation, they also provided us with delicious meals and snacks abundant enough for our appetite.

The response we got from the participants was very humbling. The produced outputs that surpassed all expectations. We also got inquiries after the workshop as to our next schedule so that we are considering.

With the aim of sharing the passion for photography, the participants decided to bond together and for a group. With the leadership of Edmar Talacan, the PixLit Photographers' Society was born.

Participants to the said workshop are

Arapoc, Princess; Arellano, Kimberly; Balayo, Jo Barrie; Campaner, Gabriel; Cuevas, Bon Jon; Del Anno, Fritz; Dolor, John David; Doronilla, Rogen; Edjic, Mary Roxette; Gil, Elizabeth Palma; Kintanar, Jeffrey Luy, Peter; Mariano, Jay R; Mutia, McDonnil; Nebran, Erick Gerald; Pascual, Alma Sid; Salubre, Jerwin Trabado, RD; ~, Francis

I am now arranging future schedule of workshops for those who are already making inquiries.