I attended a Basic Photography Workshop last 28-29 March 2009 arranged by our Camera Club in the office, and since it was subsidized, the fee was very minimal, Php500.00 only for 1.5 days. It was a good deal already, so I grabbed the opportunity.
The workshop was conducted by Mr. Nathaniel Salang. He was good and he was able to cover a lot of topics in just one day. The 2nd day was photo shoot and we were given a chance to take photos of anything around our office building; one of the criteria was to apply what we have learned from his lectures. We were asked to submit one photo and then he asked the group to make some comments and suggestions on how to improve the photos; and of course, he also made his own comments on the photos that we submitted.
This was the photo that I submitted. One of the most important thing that he told us was we should avoid a distracting element in the composition of our photos. For this photo that I submitted, he said that the distracting element was the wall on the left side; he said I should have moved a little bit forward so that it wasn’t captured in the frame.
While I was taking a photo of this spiral staircase, Nathaniel also happened to be there, and he said that the distracting element here was the signage which was positioned right in the middle of the winding stairs below. So, when one of the attendees submitted a photo of this spiral staircase, that’s what Nathaniel said. He said the photographer should have taken the time to go down the stairs and put the signage away from the camera frame before going up again and take the shot.
This was taken below the staircase. It was a hit and miss shot because I would have to lie down on the floor if I wanted to frame the shot correctly.
Can you see the chairs here? One of the attendees took a close-up shot of the seat and it turned out really good. When he showed it to me and he asked me to guess where he took the shot, I couldn’t tell. His photo almost won him a prize.
I love this shot and should have submitted this. It was a plant in the courtyard which looked like a flower taken from this angle.
Nathaniel’s comment was, our office building has lots of opportunities for photo shoot using the different creative techniques that he showed us especially the Lines, as shown in this photo.I really enjoyed this workshop, and I’m looking forward to the Advanced Photography Class later this year. Finally, my camera is not so alien to me anymore!
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