Capturing Black and White World with DSLR

Goodbye SLR and hello to DSLR for this exercise. DC 89 A class went to Brgy. Lapasan to immerse with families living near seaside, and it's our first outside campus activity. We were instructed to set our cameras to black and white shooting mode and  grouped ourselves by 5 for each family and spent time with them. Some took pictures of them (family) but for me I was more into things around them. I took outdoor shots and it was horrible. Although I'm a newbie but its not my first time to use dslr. Its just that I haven't tried taking photos under extreme hot climate yet. The light was too bright and I was having trouble adjusting the settings. It's hard to determine if the darkness and lightness were blended properly when you were looking the LCD under the sun until it was viewed using laptops but of course this is perfectly understandable. Some were frustrated, some got cool shots, but what matters most was the experience we had that taught us so many things.  I'm so looking forward for more exercises exploring the world of photography.

Eeny Mini my Nemo

Using Light box and miniatures was fun last week for our second photography exercise. We still have to use SLR for this session but ain't that hard anymore compare to our previous exercise aside from asking for a few more pairs of hands to hold the halogen lights for you. I really wanted to take photos with my little toys but unfortunately I left them. So I don't have a choice but to fine something totally cool from classmates, and I found Nemo. Its nothing compare to my action figures but I find it cute at the time.

OLD SCHOOL BUT COOL - SRL

Last week was our first time to use Single-Lens reflex Camera also known as SLR. We were suppose to have the first photo shoot exercise in Agora but unfortunately we have a problem with the permit thing for some reason so we have to stay inside campus, nothing much to shoot. Personally, I thought the only difference with SLR from DSLR is just the the film and the digital LCD monitor thing but it's not. Well it is pretty understandable because I'm not a camera savvy. The camera needs to be taken seriously, SLR is kind of hard when you’re used to take photos with Digital Cameras or  DSLR but it’s not far-fetch to think that we can master it like pros, if you have all the time in the world LOL. Seriously, it was hard to take the very first shot because we were allotted approximately 9 shots each in a group and was so afraid to waste the film. So we really have to be very careful not to under or over exposed each precious shots. Around 11am while we were in soccer field looking for subjects a Military Huey Chopper passed. After several minutes the chopper rerouted and was approaching very fast. I grab the camera and adjusted the shutter speed and the aperture and really wanted to capture it. CLICK! In your dreams Joe. I was hesitant and the chopper was too fast for me, I missed it. The photo could have been taken like this If I was using the DSLR ( photo taken www.wingweb.co.uk). Now it is starting to make sense why professionals who were using the old school camera earned a lot of respect from the modern photographers. Now I can imagine how cool is it to be a world renowned photographer using the old school cam.

Poverty of progress, progress of poverty

I have recently noticed a lot of changes here in Cagayan de Oro City. Infrastructure development is everywhere like road constructions and erecting buildings for hotels and malls. Pizzaterias and burger outlets grew like mushrooms together with chicken proven along Dvsoria streets. Well I guess I smell progress and development in our city and I’d like to believe it that way. But little did we know that in places we don’t usually see ( like under the bridge, riverside, landfill), poverty is on progress too. Why is that? Are we really progressing?