Servier with doctors at La Casas Filipinas de Acuzar, Bataan

Yesterday, I had a pleasant roadtrip to Bagac, Bataan. This was for a Travel and Landscape Photography Lecture to be held at La Casas Filipinas de Acuzar for Servier and their doctor clients at The Medical City. It was just a short lecture but a fun one since I could see the doctors were very enthusiastic about the topics discussed. We drove after to Sisiman Bay but I wasn’t able to shoot as much. Sisiman in Mariveles has marvelous landscape that I would like to visit again some time soon, same with La Casas. But in the mean time Iwould like to thank Servier for the opportunity to do a lecture and the doctors for attending. It was my pleasure.

Participants at the Basic Photography Workshop

This is a bit late but I would like to thank the Doctor’s of Dipolog for participating in a Basic Photography Workshop organized by Nestle Philippines last September 11. I enjoyed sharing my knowledge with you guys. It’s great you people are really enthusiastic in Photography. Many thanks as well to the Nestle folks there for the being a gracious host and letting me do this Photo Workshop.

Am excited to do another Photo Workshop again on Travel and Landscape  this October in Bagac, Bataan for another group of Doctors.

DPP Travel Photography Lecture at Fully Booked

Last June 27, 2009. Digital Photographer Philippines, the premiere Photography magazine in the country and certainly one of the best printed mags here celebrated their Third Anniversary. It was a whole day of lectures on three different venues inside the Fully Booked building at Bonifacio High Street. The event is not without any hassle as there were some confusion with the lines, signing up for lectures and getting their goody bags. I guess the people at DPP didn’t expect the influx of hundreds of participants (around 650) at the venue, but I think most were quite happy still.

Jam Packed at U-view

There were different lectures on several topics each hour and happening at the same time on three venues. Olympus Philippines tapped me to do a talk on Travel Photography for an hour there. It was one jam packed session. The U-view room on the basement is like a mini theater that could house around 80 participants. I heard from Nick Tuason that it is one of the most popular lectures people were signing up that day, so I thought I had to deliver well. I heard there were a lot more who wanted to go inside the session, even friends who I was expecting to attend wasn’t able to come in because it was already full. Maybe a bigger venue next time would be great.

It was a truly jam packed but good thing it was really cool inside the U-view room. And for the “Improving your Travel Photography” lecture I discussed the following:

• a brush through on the aspects of Travel Photography
• venues to show and publish their works
• Tips on taking Travel Photos in context on what travel publications would consider and what they are looking for in a Travel Photo
• A real interesting Q&A at the end of the session

Participants clicking through each slide

Q&A Session

I really enjoyed doing the talk and I was grateful that the participants were clearly paying attention. Even made me aware that I only had 9 tips instead of the 11 which I wrote. But hey watch out for the other 2 as I summarize them here. That’s the plan. And the numbers of questions at the end clearly shows the interest of the participants on the lecture. I think it was well deserved.

I wasn’t able to attend the party in the evening as I had to rush to Manila for the Balangay Easing at Sea but I heard it was one heck of a party.

So thank you very much for Olympus Philippines and Digital Photographer Philippines for inviting me to talk on this lecture. It was fun. And big congratulations to Digital Photographer Philippines for their 3rd Anniversary. Thanks to Mike for the Photos.

DPP 3rd Anniversary Poster

Digital Photographer Philippines, the premiere photography magazine in the country will be celebrating it’s 3rd anniversary this June 27 2009 at Fully Booked High Street It will be a whole day event starting from 10am to 12 midnight. There will be free workshops on several topics throughout the day. I will be conducting a 1 hour lecture on Improving Your Travel Photography at the venue. Other lecturers would be Jo Avila, Ben Chan, Nick Tuason, Pilar Tuason, Nino Carandang, jay Jallorina, jay Tablante to name a few. Check out below for details.

Date: Sat / June 27
Venue: Fully Booked High Street
Time: Open 10:00 am / Finish 12:00 midnight (WOW!)

Schedule: 10:30 am to 7:00 p.m. Free Workshops
8:00 p.m to 9:00 p.m Live Judging
9:00 p.m. to 12:00 Midnight Party

12:00 – 1:00 p.m.
Improving your Travel Photography by Ferdz Decena

Check here for the whole schedule of activities.

What to Expect:
A whole day affair. Workshops start at 10:30 a.m. and continue all the way to 7:00 p.m. simutaneously on the three different lecture rooms listed above. After the lectures we will be having a LIVE JUDGING of the Top 10 images of our photo contest. This should not be missed by anyone as it will be really fun and also very educational.

Raffles and Goody Bags:
There will be raffle prizes given out throughout the entire day from our sponsors. Don’t expect things like DSLRS to be raffled, but our sponsors have pledged some nice products. CANON PHILIPPINES and NIVEA have already pledged 300 Goody Bags for the event.

Registration and Entrance:
NO ENTRY without a DPP PARTICIPANT PASS that comes included in every issue of DPP #26. This applies the same to subscribers. You must have your PARTICIPANT pass or you will not be allowed to attend the free Lectures or our Party. The rule is ONE PASS PER PERSON. If you bring a wife, friend, mistress, or whatever, that means you need to have a pass for that person as well. Registration will be done at the Fully Booked Customer Service area in the Ground Floor. We will have our staff there where you will register for your workshops, receive your Goody Bag, and fill in a raffle stub. The first 300 registered participants will receive Goody Bags. Once supplies run out we won’t be replenishing.

Dress Code:
We are going to be implementing a dress code for our Anniversary Party. The attire is Casual Chic (no shorts, slippers, or sandals will be allowed).

Others:
Canon will be offering FREE sensor cleaning throughout the entire day and also product demonstrations at their booth.

All Photography Books will be at a 20% DISCOUNT in Fully Booked so if there is a book that you have always wanted to purchase, this Saturday will be it.