Basic Photography Workshop 2

Workshop on Basic Photography
March 5 & 6, 2011
Amandari Cove,
General Santos City

The workshop turned out a huge success. I am so happy and grateful for everyone who attended - participants, models, visitors and co-organizers.

This workshop was participated by 24 in

dividuals with various backgrounds and of different age levels. We have so

me students in the group, some are businessmen and entrepreneurs. There are also a some civil servants and

privately hired professionals. This group also has a lawyer who's getting into photography as a means of relaxing himself from the burdens of everyday tasks. Amazingly, many of the participants in this workshop got only their DSLR with in the past 60 days.

Following the same format I had in the first workshop, me and my co-organizer, Edmar Talacan, made it a point that we are able to close the gaps that we had previously. We added 2 more models in the workshop from the original 3 so as to give participants more opportunity to

practice on portraiture. We also prepared more

materials for still life photography session

which was really enjoyed by the participants.

We had two challenges for this workshop. The first one was that there's also another workshop on basic photography that was held on the same date organized by GenSan Camera Club. I do not know what twist of fate had happened that our schedules fell on the same date. Me and my partner had earlier worries that we will have lesser participants on this workshop since our registration fee is higher that that of the other. I should thank the participants of the prior workshop for really backing us up here and helping us promote this event. With 24 participants coming, this told me

that I did a descent job on the prior workshop and that my partner and friends are helpi

ng me promote this one.

The other challenge that we encountered was the power outage during the second day. I would like to express my deepest gratitude yet again to the management of Amandari Cove for making our stay as comfortable as possible -- with or without electricity.

The participants to this workshop are Adelfa Santillan Arca; Amerah Polog Mamongcara; Anwar Salvador; Arnel Labao; Remigio P Rojas; Bryan Garcia; Glory Del Cadano; Cherry Faith V Aboro; Cheryl F. Torralba; Cleng Monuz; Danielle Franco; Gerome Patrick Odango; Joanna Genoviva Lorenzo; Johanne Lu; Jose Gabriel Francisco; Joseph B Arguelles; Jostin Vega; Raul F Miramon Jr; Karen Aimee Payunan; Laarni M. Asa; Faustino Anos; Randy Cabangbang; Reynaldo M. Farrofo Jr; Samer Paporo.

Thanks to all the participants, to our models -- Ms Caroline Lim, Ms Hanyline Nono, Ms Christine Taporoc, Ms Frances Gonzales and Mr Genel Labiana, our HMUA - Fele Pareno, to Mr Darvin Cajuaro for the visit, to Mr. Ricky Almanzor and all his staff at Amandari Cove, to my project partner -- Marx Talacan -- and to The Great and Majestic God in the heavens.

Participants' Feedback BPW1

Here are some comments from the participants on Workshop on Basic Photography 1 that I was able to gather from Facebook. Some comments I was not able to note immediately. Kindly click on the image for a better view.

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.