ThOuGhTs, iDeAs, oPiNiOnS, cHaTtEr

Hands-on Photography

Today promises to be fun. We would be going to Roxas Boulevard in the morning, go back to PCCI after 10am for a few more lectures and critique the pictures we took that morning, then go back again to Roxas Boulevard for some picture-taking.

The downside? We have to be at the meeting place (Rajah Sulayman Park, infront of the Aristocrat) by 7AM! Hello...?! I normally wake up at 7AM during weekdays.

I was second to arrive at the meeting place. At least, it's not The Amazing Race that I would get booted-out if I arrive last. Hehehe!

We received the following things to do that morning:

PHOTO SHOOT ASSIGNMENTS

Early morning (ISO 100)

1. Shoot landscape/urbanscape/seascape
a. panoramic view (wide angle)
b. distant view (statues, buildings, boats) (telephoto)

2. Shoot people
a. people at work (street cleaners, policemen, vendors)
b. street photography (people talking, people sleeping, people buying, sitting at the park, etc.)

3. Abstracts--details of buildings, churches, cars, vehicles, etc.--and colors--close-up shots of flowers, walls or facade, etc.)

4. Nature--flowers, etc.

Later in the morning

1. Shoot your buddy's portrait using a wide, normal and telephoto lens; changing the format to horizontal and vertical.

2. Shoot your buddy's portrait with the light source coming from different direction: in front; 45 degrees to the subject; sidelighted; backlighted. Shoot him/her under the light and under the shade.

3. Shoot your buddy's portrait using a simple background--sky, sea, facade of the building.

4. Shoot your buddy's portrait using a busy background--street scene--using 50mm lens. Use an exposure with the lens set to f/16. Step down one stop interval until you reach the widest opening of your lens.

5. Take the picture of the marble balls on the sidewalk of Baywalk.
a. Use 50mm and focus somewhere in the middle ball;
b. Use the widest opening your lens has and then step down at one stop interval until ye get the smallest opening. (use aperture priority setting)
c. Focus on the marble ball infront of you and use the widest possible opening.
d. Focus on the marble ball farthest from you and focus on infinity.

6. Shoot the moving vehicles on the street facing the church
a. use a slow shutter speed (i.e. 1/30s).
b. use a faster shutter speed (i.e., 1/250s).
c. use the panning technique.




Around 11AM, we went back to PCCI for a lecture on composition, lunch and critique on the pictures we've taken. Considering... I think I took fairly good shots.

At around 3PM, we are on our way back to Roxas Boulevard. We would be waiting for the sunset. But, around 4:30PM, rain fell! While the rest managed to take shelter at Aristocrat, my buddy and I have to make do with small cafeteria nearby. It really is good to be a "girl scout"--I have my umbrella with me. LOL.

We may not have taken good shots of the sunset, but the rain provided me good images on reflections.

posted by ~GFA~ @ 12/13/2006 08:41:00 PM