Basic Photography Workshop Day 1

It was something that has been on my bucket list for more than a year now. I remember distinctly writing it as one of my "to-do" for 2010, take up photography lessons.

Honestly, I got my Nikon DSLR camera for no specific reason. I got it in December 2009, as a "remembrance" of the very generous Christmas bonus we got at that time. But save for few occasions, I wasn't really using my cam. Most of the time, I got my Olympus point-and-shoot camera with me. I've never gotten around to really enrolling in a basic photography workshop for the whole of 2010 either, since my work load back then didn't allow me to do so.

This year, I resolved to finally chucking out an item or two from my bucket list. Yep, a language class was also among them. And yes, photography workshop.

I have been browsing FPPF's website since 2010. By 2011, I knew that they have the cheapest fee for a 5-day workshop, this and the option to attend a weekend workshop has done it for me. I paid for my 5-day workshop fee on  July 2011 with the intention to attend the August 2011 Sunday workshops . Thankfully, nothing major has cropped up between the time I paid for my fee and the workshop began. And so on August 7, 2011 I officially became a digital photography student. :)

FPPF Batch 22 with Sir Ador Pamintuan

There were 22 of us in the class, which according to one of our professors is "konti"; since during the summer season one class can have as much as 60 students. Our group was composed of a doctor, 3 or 4 psych majors, 1 or 2 who are into IT, a housewife, 2 businessmen, etc.

On our 1st day, we were taught the so-called "triangle of photography", namely: Aperture, ISO and Shutter Speed.  We were also taught how to use our cameras properly. A funny thing about this portion was that a lot of us were going like "ah yun pala yun". We were made to shoot using Depth of Field (Deep and Shallow); Motion Freeze and Motion Blur and the most exciting of all, what they call as Panning. Haha!

See the photos below on some of my attempts:

Motion Freeze

Motion Freeze (Panning)

Shallow Depth of Field

Oh, and not to forget were the "homilies" of Sir Lito. For Day1, this is what he said: Talent will not make you successful; what will is your determination to overcome your fears.

At the end of the 1st day, we had our assignment composed of 8 shots! I shall let you see what I submitted on my next entry! Until then!