“Any arrangement of everyday objects that forms a please composition, but has not been put together specifically to be photographed”
Still working my stuff in doing still life. Maybe by tomorrow, I’d get it better this time.
ISO: 200
Camera used: Nikon D40
Aperture: around f/5.6
Shutter speed: 1/80 sec
Venue: Liwasang Bonifacio/Arocerros Forest Park
Pictures taken during our tour of duty for NSTPCWS in Baseco Compound.
Forgive me for the overexposed shots. I tried doing good shots manually 😀
Fotogra DMA1
ISO: 200
Equipment: Nikon D70, redhead, Lightstand, Tripod, Backdrop
Model: Christopher King
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My own critique: I’m quite disappointed as to how this shoot came out. First, my model can’t act nerdy enough. Second, the kind of facial expressions that I wanna make him do doesn’t show in the output (even if I demonstrated it myself on how he could effectively do those expressions on face). Third, he found the costume I brought for him too large for him to wear, which was basically the point. He pretty much preferred the other shirt I brought for my studio still life shoot. And lastly, he can’t act the way I want him to act in some of the shots. Sorry though I need to say these things so I could roundhouse kick my face to do better. Beh 😀
Oh well, first time to be an art director. Next time, I will have to make sure my models do listen to me. Grrr…Why oh why do I have to be the nice guy? 🙁 Hehehe
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Mga kumento, kritisismo, at suhestiyon ay higit na inaasahan.
Pics from the Benildean League, and the Study Opportunities seminar from the representative of New- Zealand-based Wanganui School of Design.
Please comment on my found still life photography.
I just came back from being sick last night and was hoping I could slow things down nice and easy. I know I had some stuff to do for this day we call “Wednesday”, but I was kinda expecting something that could kinda not get me back to the SDA clinic once more.
But turns out, it didn’t.
A. As I Open My Eyes
-I was kinda wondering where I put my cellphone. I may have placed it somewhere in my room but I was kinda in a hurry to sleep right away that I figured that my mom would wake me eventually.
Quarter to 6 was the time, and my mom suddenly yelled me wondering, “Do you have classes today?”. I was surprised by her call, but my brain’s still working. So I took a quick bath, dressed up but skipped breakfast. I know I have to prep my things for Fotogra so I quickly search for props I’m gonna be using for my portrait photoshoot and some clothes in my closet to be used for still-life.
As if that wasn’t enough, I turned on the PC to print out my research about the theme I’m using for my portrait shoot.
I had all the clothes I need placed inside a plastic bag while the books that I’ll be using as props were placed on my big multipurpose all-in-one black bag pus my usual handcarried bag.
B. Off We Go!
– As it has been whenever have early morning classes, I would join my mom and my brother in a carpool that would fetch us to our respective places of work and study. Not to far from our subdivision, I checked my bag if I forgot anything (I almost left my wallet inside my camera bag which I did not intend on bringing it to school for the meantime). I can’t seem to find my Ipod Nano which I often use as a flash drive. I thought I left it on the PC while printing what I was supposed to print.
Fortunately, I failed to check the other zipper that my bag possesses and when I saw what was found inside, I finally got some reliefe after finding my Ipod from inside my bag.
C. Kargo
-I decided to have breakfast in McDonald’s-Taft so coming out from the carpool, I was armed with a medium-sized handcarried plastig bag, a big black bag that’s as heavy as a big screen TV. Add to that was my Fotogra folder where I keep some important files and mymega-ton heavy “Book of Photography” which I’ve been borrowing for 3 weeks now.
Imagine having all of what I’m carrying all the way to SDA!
D. Set Up, Pack Up, Set Up, Pack Up
As early as 8:30 AM, I started setting up equipment I borrowed from the ML-0 of the 10th Floor SDA in one of those photography studios in the 11th floor. I checked if there was someone who already reserved one of the rooms and thank goodness that one of them is good until 11 in the morning. Although I have to go back to another nearby photography studio (A1116) for this week’s Fotogra session with Ms Dolly. She just came back from her trip in Camarines Sur with the other photography professors and students; and was showing to the class all the shots she took plus those from one of our classmates who actually tagged along to CamSur as well.
Astonishing as it may sound, I had to resume my photoshoot for my still-life. Jus before 11am, I was already done. I had to leave the stuff there for now so that I could submit something important for Miss Dolly and also asked if I could pass my studio portrait and still-life photos later in the day.
So I had all the equipmnt moved to another room. Quite unsure if it was already reserved, me and my partner decided to have lunch. Early in the afternoon, my partner started setting up the equipment while I was checking CSB’s iReserve if someone already saved a spot on the room that we were in. Turns out there was a reservation.
We all had to pack up again but despite this, I finally found the right room that we could use, our classroom A1116. Eventualy, half-an-hour before 3pm, I was finally done with my shots and had all the equipments returned sans the Nikon D70 and a USB port cable I need to transfer my files.
E. Nerderrific!
-The problem though while shooting my partner-model for my studio portrait is that I find it difficult for him to fully grasp the kind of convincing factor to believe that he is a nerd (which is my theme for the shoot). One factor, he doesn’t look nerdy at all, second, he’s not comfortable with the long sleeved polo shirt I gave him to wear as his costume. So many of he good shots I took of him aren’t that much convincing.
F. Stairs and Up
-Then I almost forgot that I also am going to print out my assignment for Profes1 so after finsihing my midterms early for the subject, I quickly went to a comlab and accessed the Profes1 Yahoo Group. I was kinda hoping I could download my ile from the Files section of the group but turns out it’s no longer there. I told my prof that I can’t find my file, she recommended checking the Sent folder from my Yahoo email account but told her that it was off since the moment I have this email for 6 and a half years.
She finally gave me my file from her email add so I quickly went to the techroom at the 11th floor and had it printed. But the report is 6 pages long so I have to pay for the last three of the six pages. The tech guy told me to go down to the 3rd floor fast to pay for the printing just before they close down for the day. Good thing that I did manage to reach the accounting office as fast as I could.
G. Photocopied
-After getting my printed report, I climbed up the stairs to the 9th floor and went to the xerox center so that I could have my course cards photocopied before submitting it to my academic advisor.
H. The Return
-I had both the D70 and its USB port cable returned finally. So I was more than happy to see my ID again. I left my stuff for some friends to watchover while leaving the building to have my files for studio portrait and still life burned into one CD.
J. The Giving
-Now feeling very tired, I went to the 14th floor to submit my CD for Ms Dolly. And after that I went to the caf to arrange my things so I could finally go home.
K. Quicktrip
-I made a quicktrip to the 7th floor to renew the book I mentioned a while earlier for another week. I also headed for the 3rd floor’s SDA clinic to give myself some strepcil candy.
L. The Road Home
-Finally, I got the chance to go home! As you could sense from G below, I’m already getting sleepy by now after writing this entry for about an hour. But just to wrap this up, I had a hard time commuting because of the extremely heavy load I was carrying from school all the way home. But thank goodness, I could now finally get some rest! 😀
END!
The Big Z
At first I thought I was hallucinating when I saw someone awfully familiar stepping inside the classroom where I was in and where he was welcomed by my professor. Then it happened again the week later when it happened again.
Turns out I was right, he’s actually the baritone-voiced Joshua Z of 99.5 RT or Zahn Paul Yu in real life.
When news broke out that Sir Henry Bolo was about to leave town, he named Sir Yu as our section’s Sondesn prof for the rest of the term. A lot of us were saying a lot of things like:
“Magaling kaya siya?“
“Mabait siguro siya, ‘no?“
“Nagbibigay kaya siya ng one hour break? Ehehehe…”
One thing’s for sure, all of us in DMA1 are headed into the right direction!
On our first day under Sir Zahn, we pick up where we left off like knowing Sony Soundforge’s family of audio editing software programs and friends (Pro Tools, Vegas Pro, Adobe Audition, etc) as well as getting oriented on the fx capabilities of the abovementioned programs. After the half-hour break, we were then directed to do a rendered version of our exisiting sound files we recorded ourselves.
The Big Reveal
The funny thing though is that, just as how Joshua desribed it how small the world really is when he found out, turns out we actually knew each other way back as fellow PEXers from PinoyExchange.com. When I found out that my prof’s going to be Joshua, I was really excited because I finally got have the opprotunity to meet one of the “living legends” of FM radio as some would put it.
He shared to me that since RT has grown to become a sort of an institution in radio, people would likely revolt if any aspect of 99.5 is changed. Something that did happen when the owners changed RT into HiT FM then later to Campus 99.5 before reformatting back to RT.
Throughout the duration of the break, we discussed a lot of things radio-related. At first I thought he might laugh at me on how he would react if he finds out I’m j5bata. Turns out, I was wrong. 😀
Glad I met the cool dude. He’s actually a pretty nice guy on and off-air. Now, I’m pretty much looking forward every week for his Sondesn class!
A lot of us were shocked when news broke out that Sir Bolo was leaving the country. He accepted a very promising job in broadcasting in Singapore. That means he had to leave his current job in CSB and leave a lot of the classes under him in limbo. But it looked like he thought of a good plan such an event like would offer.
Last Feb. 23, we were supposed to have our midterms with Mr. Zahn Yu serving as a substitute for Sir Bolo (he was in Singapore that time) but things got awry beyond anyone’s control except PGMA’s when she turned the 23rd into a national school holiday. Fortunately, the next Monday would serve as our midterms under Sir Bolo while at the same time our last session under him.
Sad but we all have to accept the reality that nothing’s permanent in this world. What we ought to do now is support sir’s new ventures and hope for the best.
Thanks for the memories sir!
DMA1’s first Sondesn class under Sir Zahn Paul Yu
First photoshoot for Fotogra.
CP: Portrait
Model: Christopher King
Theme: Nerd
Equipment used: Nikon D70, redhead, tripod, and lightstand
Location : Darkroom a.k.a. Rm. A1115, SDA Campus
ISO: 200
Comments, criticisms, praises and suggestions are pretty much welcome.
Note though, I’m gonna reshoot againt next week. Kailangan ko lang talaga ng backdrop for this plus the time given for me to shoot was inadequate so I decided to continue it by next week. 😀
Buti walang nakakakita sa’kin na may kakaibang suot. Much more kung walang nakahalata na may suot ako beneath my green-striped shirt I was wearing the whole day! Hehehe!
I was even lucky that not one of the people I know came crashing inside A1114 kung saan ginaganap iyung photoshoot na ginagawa namin ng ka-partner ko. That would have been embarassing, kung hindi man fatal!
I might gonna tell you what I was wearing but definitely I might post some pictures of me modeling for my groupmate’s photoshoot (for Portrait that is). Embarssing pero siyempre hindi masama kung ipapakita ko rin sa inyo. Baka may kinabukasan ako bilang modelo, bwahahahaha! (:ehem:)
Ah, basta! Habang nakahiga, nagmumukhang lumilipad!