Kristan Jan Q. Franco is rooted from General Santos City, and is a 20-year old student of Notre Dame of Dadiangas University. With the course Information Technology, he is into web designing, graphic designs, ads, and photography. Having been introduced into digital tools such as Adobe Photoshop and CSS coding, he began designing variety of graphics in his high school days. When he stepped into college, his interests expanded. With a cheap digicam and a Single Lens Reflex camera, he was engaged into photography and sees it as a hobby. As a photography hobbyist, joining photography-related workshops and photo-walks is a great way to develop one's skills. Composition and proper lightings, these are one of the very basic learnings a hobbyist must understand in order to come up with variety of good shots.
Photography has been my hobby since my junior years in high school. Since this hobby is quite expensive to pursue, owning DSLR cameras and use of certain gadgets should be the very foundation.
I borrowed an Olympus E-500 from Orman Manansala, author of Ganda Ever So Much, to suffice my needs in shooting. I only got a handy-dandy digicam so far. My first official photography workshop happened last December 21,2009 at The Farm, Koronadal. That was my first time in The Farm.
Jojie Alcantara's workshop lasted for 8 hours. The event was jampacked by SOCCSKSARGEN Bloggers. Bloggers from Koronadal city and General Santos were there, most of us bagged cameras. The SOCCSKSARGEN Blogger's Christmas party was also held that afternoon.
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The event started 15 minutes later after we settled inside the place's function hall. Everything was in order, each blogger then introduced their blog. Later on, the workshop proper started with a dose of the colorful photos taken by Ma'am Jojie. The Opera Campus Crew of MSU also introduced the features of the Opera browser, led by Alexis Chua, author of DeBlogged.
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In summary, what we all learned in composing photographs:
1.) Consider Rule of Thirds
2.) See for patterns
3.) Leading lines
4.) Perspectives
5.) The Worm's eye-view (shooting from the bottom)
6.) The Bird's eye-view (shooting from the top)
7.) Reflections
8.) Details
9.) Horizons
10.) The foreground, subject, and background.
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