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Basic Photography Seminar (Saturday Sessions)

September 29 – Basic Theories and Principles of Photography

October 6 – Composition Techniques

October 13 – Basic Studio Lighting

October 20 – Basic Photoshop

October 27 – Basic Color Management and Guerilla Shooting Techniques

All sessions shall be from 2pm-5pm.

There are only fifteen (15) slots available.

The seminar fee of P4, 500/participant is the total fee for all five sessions. All participants will receive handouts and a certificate of attendance.

All seminar sessions will be held at Unit 114, Gold Building, 15 Annapolis Street, Greenhills, San Juan.

You may view more details regarding Jo Avila’s photography seminars at:

http://web.mac.com/misterkodaker/iWeb/Jo%20Avila/Welcome.html

You may register for a seminar by sending an email to pinakamagalingako@gmail.com

Capture One 4 is a brand new application building upon cutting edge technology. It keeps its predecessors’ great toolkit, but improves upon existing features and offers you several brand new ones.

The workflow orientation is still high in Capture One 4, and the simplified new user interface leaves more room for your images.

Providing best possible image quality is a cornerstone of Capture One. New tools for this and improved out-of-the-box results are part of Capture One 4. Check out some of the new features here:

• High Dynamic Range
  • Easy recovery of details in highlights and shadows in images with a high dynamic range
• Variants
  • Experiment with different looks from one RAW image with virtually no disk and performance overhead
• Web contact sheet
  • Set up theme-based web contact sheets to share work with clients
• Multiple up viewing
  • View up to 12 images, full resolution simultaneously in the new Viewer

Capture One 4 includes much more, so visit their new web site www.phaseone.com/4 to learn more - and check out the beta version! It is available now for download. Free of charge.

PAL Photo Contest Free Photo Seminar will be held at SM Bacolod today, August 31, 2007, 2PM to 5PM.

Jay Alonzo currently celebrates his 11th year of teaching photography. He authored the pioneering “Primer On Lighting” workshop after realizing the need for an in-depth photographic lighting seminar among the short courses offered locally. Though known for his series of workshops on photographic lighting, Jay A has also conducted basic photography classes for companies and institutions such as the Accenture Photography Club, Microsoft Philippines, Procter & Gamble and Caltex/Chevron-Texaco and Pilipinas Shell. He also teaches at the Alcove Gallery-Ayala Foundation.

In between lectures, he shoots for the hotel and restaurant and travel industry. He has also done poster and publicity photos for the local movie industry that includes “Mano Po 3″, “Aishiteimasu” and the international award-winning movie “Sigaw”. Jay is also a contributing photographer for Mabuhay magazine, Philippine Airline’s in-flight magazine and High Life.

Register online for Jay Alonzo’s Free Photo Seminar in SM Bacolod.

Advance Photography Seminar

September 2, 2007 - Sunday
8:30am to 1:00pm

Speaker: Mr. Jaime Elizaga

Description:

ADVANCED PHOTOGRAPHIC COMPOSITION
1.. Lines and Curves
2.. Shapes and Patterns
3.. Colors and Contrast
4.. Lights and Shadows
5.. Selective Focusing
6.. Perspective
7.. Mood and Emotion

ADVANCED DEPTH OF FIELD APPLICATIONS
1.. Shallow Depth of Field
2.. Deep Depth of Field photos

ADVANCED SHUTTER SPEED APPLICATIONS
1.. Slow shutter speed applications
2.. Fast shutter speed applications

FLASH PHOTOGRAPHY
1.. Guide numbers and sync speeds with manual flash
2.. Electronic Flash
3.. Flash modifiers

AMBIENT LIGHT PHOTOGRAPHY
1.. Types of Available (ambient) light
2.. Quality and Quantity of light

ACTIVITIES TO BE DONE… (Please bring your camera. Any camera)

PHOTOGRAPHY CRITIQUES
1.. Actual photo shoot
2.. Critique photos taken

Venue:
Capinpin Place
23 Gen. Capinpin St., San Antonio Village,
Ortigas Center, Pasig City

Fee: 350

Register online at TPC Events.

Basic Studio Lighting Seminar

by Ken Go

Sept. 14 Friday (5:30pm to 9:30pm)

Sept. 15 Saturday (scheduled shoot)

Sept. 17 Monday (6:00 pm to 7:30 pm) for Critique session

Unit 602 Cityland 10 Tower 2, H.V. Dela Costa St.

Salcedo Village, Makati City, behind RCBC Tower

Maximum of 10 Participants

Topics:
1. Types of commonly used studio lights
2. Light modifiers
3. Trigerring lights
4. Measuring light
5. Light positions
6. Types of portrait lighting
7. Dealing with models

1st day of seminar will be on discussion of the topics, there will be no shooting to be done. Though there will be a hands-on practice in measuring lights using a flash meter.

2nd day, scheduled shoots for the group (9am, 1pm and 4pm), models will be provided. Participants should only come on their time slot, to avoid over crowding. During the shoot, each participant will be asked to conceptualize a lighting set-up to be done with their model, other participants on the same group will be assisting. After the participant finishes the shoot, other participant on the group will do the same, so the previous participant will now be acting as the assistant. (round robin system)

For the Critique session which will allow fellow students and me to critique ones work, as they say getting better needs one to realize its faults as to make sure to correct it the next possible time.

Kindly bring 1 to 2 of your favorite photo from the photo session printed on 5R, ink jet prints on photo paper are acceptable. All photos will be posted together on the wall for viewing. Ken will also discuss some questions regarding post processing during these critique sessions.This guarantees a hands-on set-up, thus learning from actually doing it rather than just listening. This will also make sure that the participant will the only one shooting at the time of his/her set-up, so he/she gets all the needed angles to complete the shoot, no more wrestling for a spot just to get the photo.

Seminar Price is P. 2,500.00 - inclusive of handouts.

If you want to sign-up kindly send Ken the following info:
Name:
Email:
Cel. No.:
Preferred time slot for Saturday (9am, 1pm or 4pm):

seminars@photosbykengo.com

Sample work of the past participants:
http://gallery.photosbykengo.com/seminar/

Boh Raan and Mai
Ancient meets Modern

Digital Images of Thai Culture exhibit as photographed and digitally enhanced by Photographer/Multimedia Designer Victor Michael “Mike” Mariano.

Mike Mariano is DPI Photocenter’s featured photographer for the Month of September 2007. The exhibit features the historical sites of Ayutthaya and the city of Bangkok; a showcase of Thailand’s rich culture- from age-old buildings, revered statues, to blitzing tuk-tuks’, and modern day shrines rendered with the latest digital technology.

The exhibit will be from September 1 to 30, 2007 10am to 6pm at the DPI Photocenter, Astoria Plaza, Escriva Drive, Ortigas Center, Pasig City Phillipines.

Check out the directions to DPI Photocenter in Astoria Plaza.

 Seminar: Upgrading to Adobe Photoshop CS3

by Jun Miranda

Adobe Photoshop CS2 is the newest version of the professional industry standard in desktop digital imaging. In this overview seminar, an Adobe Certified Instructor (ACI) will demonstrate in detail the new features and enhancements of Photoshop CS2 that will provide users the capabilities to get started faster, create outstanding results and work more productively than ever before.
What will be covered

• File handling with Adobe Bridge
• Vanishing Point
• Multiple layer control
• Smart Objects
• Multi-image digital camera raw file processing
• Image Warp
• Advanced noise reduction
• 32-bit High Dynamic Range (HDR) support
• Customizable workspaces and menus
• Spot Healing Brush
• One-click red-eye correction

Who should attend

This seminar is for photographers, graphic designers, video/film professionals and web professionals who already use Photoshop as their primary digital imaging application.

DATE: September 7, 2007 (Friday)

TIME: 9 AM to 5 PM

SPEAKER: Jun Miranda

FEE: PhP 2,250 (USD 48)

Includes materials, lunch and snacks.

To register please call 63.2.759.308 or email registration@pcci.com.ph

2007 Ateneo Art Awards Global/Vernacular Winners Announced

Established in 2004 to honor the memory of the Gallery’s founding benefactor Fernando Zobel de Ayala (1924-1984), Gina Fairley of Art Monthly Australia calls the Ateneo Art Awards “the most prestigious prize…for an emerging artist of the Philippines.”

The Awards are bestowed upon three Filipino visual artists, 35 years of age or under, who have made an outstanding and significant contribution to the definition and development of modern and contemporary art based upon a solo or group exhibition in any public venue. In keeping with the Ateneo’s intent to maintain institutional and professional collegiality, works by artists appearing in exhibitions conceptualized or curated by museum staff within their own premises were not considered.The 2007 Ateneo Art Awards, the country’s premier contemporary art prize, were conferred on three young Filipino visual artists for their outstanding contribution to the definition and development of modern and contemporary Philippine art at a formal ceremony at the Rockwell Tent on 8 August 2007 following the 2007 Ateneo Art Awards exhibition at the North Court, Power Plant Mall from 2 - 7 August 2007.

The three winners are Lyle Buencamino for the exhibition “A Bowtie for John Lyle” at Mag:net ABS, Wawi Navarroza for the exhibition “Saturnine: A Collection of Portraits, Creatures, Glass & Shadow” at the Silverlens Gallery and MM Yu for the exhibition “Thoughts Collected, Recollected” at Finale Art Gallery.

The winners were also each bestowed with the Ateneo Art Gallery International Studio Residency Grant, the only program of its kind organized by a Philippine cultural institution. Buencamino received the Ateneo Art Gallery - La Trobe University Bendigo, Australia Residency Grant, Navorroza the Ateneo Art Gallery - Artesan Gallery Singapore Residency Grant and Yu the Ateneo Art Gallery - Common Room Bandung, Indonesia Residency Grant. It provides them with roundtrip airfare, allowance, accommodation and a work studio for three weeks, as well as an invitation to exhibit at their respective host venues.

The other artists short-listed for the awards were Racquel de Loyola, Bembol dela Cruz, Nona Garcia, Winner Jumalon, Yasmin Sison, Jay Ticar, Mac Valdezco and Jevijoe Vitug.

The theme for this year’s exhibition, Global/Vernacular, is recognition and credence, acknowledging Philippine art has its own nuances yet believing it moves beyond local context to reverberate cross-culturally. The theme realizes the question of national identity in the face of increasing globalization and the challenge to increase the profile of Filipino art and artists abroad.

Ateneo Art Awards 2007: Global/Vernacular is presented by the Ateneo Art Gallery together with Unionbank, Metro Society, Power Plant Mall, Rockwell Land, Smart Gold and Y Style with the support of Artesan Gallery, Common Room Networks Foundation, Arts Network Asia, La Trobe University Bendigo, Timbuk2 and Absolut Vodka. The exhibition runs at the Ateneo Art Gallery from 21 August to 24 September 2007.
For further inquiries on the Ateneo Art Awards, please contact Clarissa Chikiamco, Ateneo Art Awards Project Coordinator, at 426-6488 or at cchikiamco@ateneo.edu.

Photojourn program opens November; admission going on

Applications are now being accepted for the third offering of the Diploma in Photojournalism, the latest program of the Konrad Adenauer Asian Center for Journalism at the Ateneo de Manila University (ACFJ). Deadline is September 15, 2007.

The program, a distance learning program using a hybrid of online and face-to-face methods, will run from November 2007 to October 2008. Admission is limited to 12 students from all over Asia.

A joint project of ACFJ and the World Press Photo, the Diploma in Photojournalism seeks to raise the bar for photojournalism in Asia by providing comprehensive training primarily to working photojournalists. The Netherlands-based World Press Photo, the world’s leading venue for competitions and training in professional press photography, brings into the program, among others, consultants from its international network of teachers and practitioners. Among the recent guest lecturers were: John Echave, senior editor, National Geographic, D. J. Clark, Panos Pictures; Alison Morley, head of the documentary photography program, International Center for Photography (N.Y.) and Shahidul Alam, founder of Drik Gallery and the Chobi Mela Festival of Asian Photography.

The one-year diploma program will provide students a mastery of the photographic, visual and newsgathering principles and skills as well as the ethical foundations of photojournalism. Comprising the curriculum are three core courses, three specialized courses and a final output which is a portfolio. Each course takes about two months.

Some courses are taught entirely online, while others are taught using a blend of online and classroom teaching methods - a strategy ACFJ has been using successfully since 2001 to bring its programs to media professionals. The hybrid strategy lends flexibility to the course schedule and allows working journalists to attend classes from their homes or workplace.

Only 12 students will be admitted to the program. Five full scholarships will be awarded on a competitive basis.

In its two offerings the program has attracted young and talented photographers and photojournalists, including those from wire agencies and prestigious Philippine newspapers.

Applications for admission and scholarships are available from the downloads page of http://cfj.ateneo.edu or upon request to newsroom@admu.edu.ph.

Established in 2000 by Ateneo de Manila University and the Konrad
Adenauer Foundation, ACFJ is dedicated to the continuing professional training of Asian journalists. Among its major programs is the M. A. in Journalism program, also a hybrid distance learning program.

For more info, contact:

Connie Rubio
Konrad Adenauer Asian Center for Journalism at the Ateneo de Manila University
Tel Nos. (632) 9263253 / (632) 4266001 local 5215
Fax No. (632) 9263254
E-mail: newsroom@admu.edu.ph
Website: http://acfj.ateneo.edu

Thanks to Tammy David for the info.

Basic Studio Lighting Seminar

by Ken Go

Schedule:

September 14, 2007 Friday (5:30pm to 9:30pm)

September 15, 2007 Saturday (scheduled shoot)

September 17, 2007Monday (6:00 pm to 7:30 pm) for Critique session

Venue:

Unit 602 Cityland 10 Tower 2, H.V. Dela Costa St. Salcedo Village, Makati City, behind RCBC Tower.
Maximum of 10 Participants

Topics:
1. Types of commonly used studio lights
2. Light modifiers
3. Trigerring lights
4. Measuring light
5. Light positions
6. Types of portrait lighting
7. Dealing with models

1st day of seminar will be on discussion of the topics, there will be no shooting to be done. Though there will be a hands-on practice in measuring lights using a flash meter.

2nd day, scheduled shoots for the group (9am, 1pm and 4pm), models will be provided. Participants should only come on their time slot, to avoid over crowding. During the shoot, each participant will be asked to conceptualize a lighting set-up to be done with their model, other participants on the same group will be assisting. After the participant finishes the shoot, other participant on the group will do the same, so the previous participant will now be acting as the assistant. (round robin system)

For the Critique session which will allow fellow students and me to critique ones work, as they say getting better needs one to realize its faults as to make sure to correct it the next possible time.

Kindly bring 1 to 2 of your favorite photo from the photo session printed on 5R, ink jet prints on photo paper are acceptable. All photos will be posted together on the wall for viewing. Ken usually also discuss some questions regarding post processing during these critique sessions.This guarantees a hands-on set-up, thus learning from actually doing it rather than just listening. This will also make sure that the participant will the only one shooting at the time of his/her set-up, so he/she gets all the needed angles to complete the shoot, no more wrestling for a spot just to get the photo.

Seminar Price is P. 2,500.00 - inclusive of handouts.

If you want to sign-up kindly send Ken the following info:
Name:
Email:
Cel. No.:
Preferred time slot for Saturday (9am, 1pm or 4pm):
Which Seminar:

seminars@photosbykengo.com

Sample work of the past participants:
http://gallery.photosbykengo.com/seminar/