tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-58351049063311445982010-05-23T05:02:59.302+08:00My digital doodles on teaching Photography, a view of anything I could think of at the moment I viewed and opened the internet.Alphonsus Corpusnoreply@blogger.comBlogger13125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5835104906331144598.post-84987933941739012502010-05-07T03:23:00.001+08:002010-05-08T17:11:48.762+08:002010-05-08T17:11:48.762+08:00

Since my Photography class is basically generic (basic photography), therefore we covered lots of topic and therefor exhausting. Before they went on a Christmas vacation (2008 going to 2009), I gave them assignments and that is to document Christmas and New Year. Already tucked in their "portfolio" are the topics on Product Photography, Photojournalism and Portrait photography before the 3rd

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That's A Line!  In photography, a technique of photography is to use lines to draw attention to the subject. Lines technique is a variation of the framing technique. This technique is commonly seen in many photography books. Again, people tend to find unnatural things in nature. If nature seems random (because it is), finding human-made arrangements would make it unusual. And unusual things are

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So my students managed to give me really decent pictures while their teacher struggles to have a camera of his own uses his own laptop webcam that can take pictures. I used the camera to take pictures of them for my own class documentations. My students don't seem to ask me why I don't bring my own camera. If they do, I will tell them that its an expensive proposition (TRUE... because my

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A technique in taking pictures is called framing. In framing a shot, one has to frame (surround) the subject by something that would draw the viewer's eyes to the subject of the photograph. Some frames can be  literally around the subject partially around the subject points to the subject by a certain pattern causes the isolation the subject In any way, this framing technique is unconsciously

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After posting several pages of blogs, I have never shown the names of the students who have their photos shown in here. Here they are: Norhossin Masilum, Mariele Dara Tanco, Krista MaeVillamor, Meshaq Dangel, Floritel Alave, Medelyn Castre, John Carl Biera, Jandrey Abejo, More names will be added as I continue my hourney . . .

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In Photography, a technique of taking shot is panning. This requires that you follow your object as it moves with your camera. This makes the subject clear and the background a bit blurred. But the blur implies action. It implies speed. Most Photography books however emphasize motion by freezing a moving object. Or deliberately blurring the moving subject on a static background. Whatever

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From the 20 students that I train in Photography, less than half of the students have a camera of their own, Even if they do have a camera, its an MP3 player. About 5 students however have good quality cameras though they're' digital. The rest have a theoretical knowledge of the lesson, These students are a bit of a problem on my part because it is harder to train them. They almost always have

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I encourage my students in joining a photo-contest. This is a most recent one although I suppose they couldn't join anymore here since its so close to school year ending with them very busy in their requirements.This is the third contest held by Hulagway Photographic Society and Clique-the MSU-IIT Photography Club. This contest is also sponsored by Kodak Express of Iligan, which is found in

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Close Up Photography Macro Photography is a rather unknown term to many people. Its just a term for a type of lens that does well in making Close-Up pictures. Close-up are good in making small things look big. It literally focuses on a subject. Now a subject is the object you want the viewer of the picture to look at. In this exercise, I wanted the students to take close-up shots of anything

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The next subject of our output was fire. It was actually too early (I learned much later). After reading that a good subject source is light-source, I thought that fire shots are good. Or so I thought. But some students managed to give me shots of burning things like this one (taken with a Canon Powershot A400 digital camera) I did not know then that in taking pictures of fire, one needs to

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There is however a saving grace for me and that is, I have an Acer Aspire LAPTOP. So I lectured with it in front of them and read and made examples from books, tirelessly scanning them and posting them in Powerpoint presentations. The digital lectures that I made, plus some students wanting to prove something came up with some results. Some borrowed cameras, some cameras were lent to them. No one

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I was chosen as a Media Arts teacher because I was good enough in computers. However, since the SPA (Special Program for the Arts) Media Arts offers a variety of sub-courses that is comparable to computer based (Photography, Broadcasting, Videography, Layouting) courses and all related to Media. I chose Photography since I thought, it is close enough to Physics- with the mechanical (Mechanics)

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So I decided to use Photography as the main topic of this blog. Its a continuing voyage of learning and discovery. So join me in my travails as I travel a new path in being a teacher of Media Arts. I learn as I teach, but I retain the respect and trust of the students, much like a coach of a football team. I may not be as good as some of players of this field but I try to bring the best of out

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