Himala
Ahahaha... I won a photography contest today. It's just a small contest amongst the other participants of the Workshop I took. You have to understand that I absolutely have no formal training on photography whatsoever and it kind of shows in my work. I took the training to help me "See New Ways" of taking pictures. To win first prize was a shocker. =D
I hope you bear with me. It's a first for me in this field, and I don't know if I'll ever win anything like it ever again. The other participants, my workmates, actually submitted better pictures (in my opinion). Their photos were fab -- clear, poignant, dramatic, romantic, shows technique.... but I guess the pic I took made them laugh. And that's probably why I won. The emotional tug of laughter is surprisingly buoyant and that's probably what they remembered. Of course, I'm just using "headology" here. I so wanted to pass another pic which I thought was a bit more artistic, a bit more professional...hehe, but the judges were not technical professional photographers so I went for the emotion rather than the technique. Guess it worked.
The shot was taken at Boardwalk near Manila Hotel. I chatted with the kids for a while before I started taking the pictures. And this is the best of that series.
The one below is a framing shot, the opportunity of which came to me as an accident.
And another personal favorite -- the kids in the shot below were hesitant to have their pictures taken at first. Had to win them over by chatting with them. I was taken aback when Jem (the boy on the right) told me, "taong grasa" lang kami!" But later on, when I showed them the pic through the digicam's LCD, he innocently remarked, "Ay, pogi pala ako??" =D
I hope you bear with me. It's a first for me in this field, and I don't know if I'll ever win anything like it ever again. The other participants, my workmates, actually submitted better pictures (in my opinion). Their photos were fab -- clear, poignant, dramatic, romantic, shows technique.... but I guess the pic I took made them laugh. And that's probably why I won. The emotional tug of laughter is surprisingly buoyant and that's probably what they remembered. Of course, I'm just using "headology" here. I so wanted to pass another pic which I thought was a bit more artistic, a bit more professional...hehe, but the judges were not technical professional photographers so I went for the emotion rather than the technique. Guess it worked.
The shot was taken at Boardwalk near Manila Hotel. I chatted with the kids for a while before I started taking the pictures. And this is the best of that series.
The one below is a framing shot, the opportunity of which came to me as an accident.
And another personal favorite -- the kids in the shot below were hesitant to have their pictures taken at first. Had to win them over by chatting with them. I was taken aback when Jem (the boy on the right) told me, "taong grasa" lang kami!" But later on, when I showed them the pic through the digicam's LCD, he innocently remarked, "Ay, pogi pala ako??" =D
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