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Lito Sy Photography

presents

Lito Sy Workshops 2008

International award-winning wedding & portrait photographer, Lito Sy, will demonstrate what it takes to become a leading photographer in your area. He will share with you his ideas on how to create a solid business image and also how to develop a strategy for a successful wedding photography business. From shooting and post processing that make your images stand out in a crowd. He will demonstrate a few key posing and lighting techniques, as well as provide you with a breakdown of his workflow secrets. This program has a little something for everyone, including lots of before-and-after examples.

PhP 5,000 outside Metro Manila (with free lunch & snacks)
PhP 7,000 within Metro Manila (with free lunch & snacks)

Limited slots available!

20 students only per workshop

Deadline for registration: July 30, 2008

Workshop will be held in the following cities:

August 05,2008 ( Tuesday ) - Dusit Hotel, Makati City
August 10,2008 ( Sunday ) - Zamboanga City
August 12,2008 ( Tuesday ) - Cebu City - Weddings
August 14,2008 ( Thursday ) - Iloilo City
August 16,2008 ( Saturday ) - Cagayan De Oro City
August 18,2008 ( Monday ) - Batangas City
August 20,2008 ( Wednesday ) - La Union
August 21,2008 ( Thursday ) - Baguio City
August 26,2008 ( Tuesday ) - Legaspi City
August 28,2008 ( Thursday ) - Angeles, Pampanga
August 29,2008 ( Friday ) - Bulacan

For more information please call:
+63.2.893.0891 or +63.2.894.2726 or +63.917.700.5001
Visit http://www.litosy.com

Basic Lighting Seminar BATCH # 28

• August 16, 2008 Saturday (1:00pm to 5:00pm)
• August 17, 2008 Sunday - Scheduled shoot
• August 18, 2008 Monday (6:00 pm to 9:00 pm) Portable wireless lighting and Critique session

Venue is at Unit 602 Cityland 10 Tower 2, H.V. Dela Costa St. Salcedo Village, Makati City, behind RCBC Tower. Visit http://www.photosbykengo.com/misc/map.jpg for directions.

ONLY 5 SLOTS LEFT (All 1pm slots have been taken)

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
8. Portable wireless lighting (Strobist)

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. You will not be required to bring anything during the 1st day.

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) 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.

3rd day, Portable wireless lighting discussion, includes gear needed and how to apply basic lighting techniques to this type of set-up. For the Critique session we 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 discusses some questions regarding post processing during these critique sessions.

Seminar Price is P. 3,000.00 - inclusive of handouts.

If you want to sign-up kindly email Ken at seminars@photosbykengo.com the following info:
Name:
Email:
Cel. No.:
Preferred time slot for Sunday (9am or 4pm):
Which Seminar:

Red Mansueto’s Walls of Transition at OWG Art Gallery Café
Cocktail opening at 6:30PM, July 22, 2008

Long before the terms “ecology” and “environment” became buzzwords, Red Mansueto was already alluding to it in his greenhorn days as an artist in the early 70s. As part of the legendary and seminal avant-garde group Shop 6, Mansueto incorporated discarded objects into his art pieces and used photography to document areas of environmental forms of artistic concerns.

In his 14th one-man exhibit “Walls of Transition”, at the OWG Art Gallery, running from July 22 to August 22, he continues exploring environmental issues in a new set of adventurous paintings. Once again, the wall is his focus, both as a literal surface and as a metaphor.

Walls have many meanings and uses: barrier, fortification, fence, enclosure, precipice. They can be taken literally and figuratively.

As a motif, walls offer a rich lodestone for texture, mood, effect, symbolism and lyricism.

Mansueto defines this series of paintings as part of a transition because he takes a journey into new realms, synthesizing experiences and galvanizing materials (metal, plywood, found objects) into mood pieces that suggest a cityscape in flux. He even goes further, calling some of his pieces “sculpturals” because they project volume, a solid physicality.

A viewer cannot help but see vestiges of graffiti, architectural details and rough surfaces in his works; at the same time one can feel the artist’s passion for the environment, albeit conveyed poetically.

Mansueto’s walls can be those that man builds around him, separating him from the rest of the world. They can also dramatize age and decay. They can be a cry of silence in an indifferent universe.

Stone and cement surfaces meld with bold colors of black, brown, red and ochre. Critic Alice Guillermo writes that a Mansueto painting often “conveys an atmosphere and mood one can call lyrical.” She adds, “He paints his abstractions after nature, like landscapes.”

Indeed, the titles of his works “Walls of Venice”, “Syquia Wall” and “Numeric Summer Wall” are suggestive of a particular place and time.

Mansueto is a veteran of many one-man shows and group exhibits. As a student, he was mentored first by Martino Abellana in Cebu when he was still taking up Architecture and then by Florencio Concepcion when he moved to Manila to take up Fine Arts at the University of the East.

Gallery hours are from 10am to 7pm except Sundays. The OWG Art Gallery is located on the ground floor of La Fuerza Plaza II, Don Chino Roces Ave. corner Sabio St., Makati City.

Taga-UP ka ba?Capture those uniquely UP places, faces and moments with your Smart MMS-enabled camera phone as way of celebrating the UP Centennial celebrations!

UPiktyuran Na! with Smart: UP Centennial Smart MMS Photo Competition urges University of the Philippines (UP) students, alumni, faculty and employees to share their stories about experiences in the university through words but via MMS photos taken using a camera phone and submitted through Smart’s MMS service.

The contest started last June 22, 2008 and you have until September 29, 2008 to submit your entries. Here is a snippet of the contest rules:

2.1 The competition is open to all Smart and Talk N Text subscribers who are affiliated with the University of the Philippines as: (1) student, (2) alumni, (3) faculty member, and (4) employee.

2.2 Participating Smart subscribers must register by sending in UP REG (Name/UP Campus participant is from/Position or title in UP) to 5355. Example: UP REG Bona Sy/UP Diliman/Alumni. Registration is free of charge. Participants can start sending entries on June 22, 2008 until 11:59 pm of September 29, 2008.

2.3 The subscriber or participant will receive an SMS confirmation message if registration attempt is successful. Each MMS photo entry sent will cost P1.00.
Welcome to the UPiktyuran Na! MMS Photo Competition! To send your photo entries, create an MMS message, type UP (title of photo), attach your photo and send to 5355. P1.00/MMS photo entry. All photo entries must be taken with your camera phone.

2.4 MMS photo entries must be taken with a camera phone. The subscriber/participant is not allowed to send his/her photo entry other than through their mobile phone in MMS. Photos must be taken within the competition period only and should be connected to the theme mentioned above.

2.5 Apart from the registration, the subscriber’s cellular phone number will serve as his/her identification (ID). A participant can opt to register several mobile numbers under the same name and can send as many entries/MMS photos per phone number.

2.6 There can only be one (1) registered name per cellular phone number. Should a subscriber attempt to register twice, he/she will receive an error message and will be charged P1.00 from his/her load.

2.7 To send a photo entry, subscribers must simply create an MMS message, type UP (title of photo), attach their photo entry (taken with their camera phone), and send this to 5355. Example: UP MMS Sunken Garden

More info at http://upiktyuran.smart.com.ph/

Gray Area Studios

and

Michelle Morelos

present

Maximizing Your Point and Shoot Workshops 2008

Join this 2-day workshop and impress your friends and loved ones with spectacular photos taken with your point-and-shoot camera!

Choose from any of the 4 upcoming workshop dates:

Batch 3: August 2 & 9, 2008
Batch 4: September 6 & 13, 2008
Batch 5: October 4 & 11, 2008
Batch 6: November 15 & 22, 2008

Workshop fee is PhP 2,500.00 inclusive of snacks, handouts and a certificate of completion.

All workshops run for 2 Saturdays each month from 9AM to 1PM at Gray Area Studios 5/F 116 VA Rufino St., Legaspi Village, Makati City

Get in touch with Isa at +63.917.526.8676 to reserve your slot now!

STRANGER by Frankie Callaghan
SYMMETRY | DUALITY by Johann Espiritu

July 10-August 9, 2008
Opening reception: 6pm on July 10, Thursday

Silverlens Gallery invites everyone to the openings Stranger by Frankie Callaghan and Symmetry | Duality by Johann Espiritu, at 6pm on July 10, Thursday. The shows will run until August 9, 2008.

Stranger is an exhibit of night photographs by Frankie Callaghan. His love for photography began while just a boy growing up in Baguio. It wasn’t until after studying finance and management at the Wharton School of Business that he gave into his calling to work as a full-time photographer. He first exhibited his photographs at the age of 21 in Philadelphia. He was one of the participants of the “Photography as Expression” Sense-I workshop at Silverlens Gallery.

Symmetry | Duality is an exhibit of pairs, shot by Silverlens Sense-I instructor Johann Espiritu. Espiritu has had several exhibits, and is currently working on two book projects. His work has been displayed in newspapers, magazines, billboards and even featured in limited-edition postage stamps. A lawyer by profession, Johann was admitted to the Philippine Bar in 2001 and to the New York State Bar in 2004.

Saturday Gallery Activities:

July 12, 3-5pm : Artist Talk by Johann Espiritu

July 26, 3-5pm : Artist Talk by Frankie Callaghan

August 2, 3-5pm : Urban Architecture Talk

August 9, 6-9pm : Game Night

Visit Silverlens Gallery at 2/F YMC Bldg. 2, 2320 Pasong Tamo Extension, Makati City, 816-0044, 0905-2650873, manage@silverlensphoto.com. Gallery hours are Monday to Friday 10am–7 pm, Saturday 1–6pm. www.silverlensphoto.com.

Images:
(left) Frankie Callaghan
Clothes Lines, 2008

(right) Johann Espiritu
Untitled, 2008

Counter-Photography and Swarm in the Aperture
Guided Tour by Silverlens Director Isa Lorenzo

New schedules:
3-5pm, July 13, 2008 Sunday
3-5pm, July 20, 2008 Sunday

Meet at the 4/F elevator lobby, 2:45pm
North Wing, Museum of the Filipino People
Rizal Park, Ermita, Manila
Limited slots available. RSVP 8160044

Join Isa Lorenzo as she gives a guided tour of two current shows at the National Museum — Counter-Photography presented by the Japan Foundation and the Japanese Embassy, and Swarm in the Aperture curated by National Museum Curator Patrick Flores.

In it, Lorenzo will discuss the history of contemporary Japanese photography, of which the Japanese show is packed with fine examples, both in content and quality. She will also be giving a brief introduction on the infancy of photography in the Philippines.

For more information, contact Silverlens Gallery at 2320 Pasong Tamo Extension, Makati City, 816-0044, 0905-265-0873, manage@silverlensphoto.com. www.silverlensphoto.com.

Note: Previously registered participants are required to give their preferred tour date.

Images:

(left) Hiroshi Sugimoto
Chapel de Notre Dame du Haut, Le Corbusier, 1998
Gelatin Silver Print

(right) Neil Daza
Detail of Mystica’s Nails, 2006
Metallic Print