All the best for your exams!

On behalf of the KE Photographers EXCO, I'd like to wish all of you the very best for your examinations. Study hard and may you all do very well.

(:

We will meet up after the exams for planning for the holidays (December) and the programme for January - March 2008, which will be very very busy.

Here's what we will need to prepare for:

1) IHG Sports Photography

2) Exhibition (prepare by January, set up in February, run in March)

3) Subsequent Hall events - Hall Play, Dinner and Dance, etc.

Details to come soon.

Cheers,

jonk

Get a Personal Photo Site

Hello KE Photographers,

I encourage each of you to get your own photo site. This will be good for you to showcase your photographs, and have a sense of pride and achievement in your own photography. Furthermore, it will be a means for you to have your photos critiqued and a way for you to improve.

May I suggest these two sites:

http://www.flickr.com
http://www.multiply.com


Flickr is a great place to view other people's photographs and learn from the pros, as many of them are professional photographers and graphic designers. There is much you can learn from observing their works. Flickr offers a free account, which is very good funcionality but is limited in a few ways.

Multiply is good for storage of photos for display/sharing with friends as it is both FREE and UNLIMITED. However, it is not as avant garde as Flickr, in my opinion. It is very easy to use and highly recommended though.

Looking forward to our next meeting.

Cheers,
jonk

KEVII Internal Cultural Night

Celeste, originally uploaded by jonkk.

I'd like to thank the photographers for coming down to learn, and to photograph ICN.

Thanks to our new photographers Weiqin and Melvyn, and also to the old-timers Zhen Ning, Wang Shuo and Wen Jun.

Photographs will be uploaded to the KE Photographers photosite soon.

EVENT PHOTOGRAPHY

All those photographing the upcoming events, namely:

18 Oct - ICN (evening)
26 Oct - Board Games Fiesta
31 Oct - CD / E Block Halloween Event
7 Nov - KE-ok (KE7 Karaoke event)

Please see me on:
18 October, 7pm - 7.40pm
KE Lounge (outside Dining Hall)

I will give you a quick run-through of important things to note for event photography.

All others are encouraged to be present. I will also cover the following topics:
- Event photography
- Low light photography
- Sports photography

-jonk

Photo Shoots Coming Up

Dear KE Photographers,

I will be involved in two Official KE Photoshoots:

1) JCRC Photoshoot
2) KEVII Hall Play Publicity Photoshoot

These will be coordinated and directed photoshoots involving portraiture and creative composition and lighting, similarto the one below.



I will be opening up 2 places per photoshoot, depending on how many photographers I can take on to learn from me. If I have assisting photographers, I will be able to allow more to come and learn.

These will be the pre-requisites:
- have attended training sessions before and/or understand exposure and WB
- have a keen interest in portraiture/theatreworks
- interest to learn about photography in this field.

Projects Dept will update you guys soon.

- Jonk.

Composition

Dear KE Photographers,

Please view the following articles for an insight into photographic compositiong..
http://ct.essortment.com/photographycomp_rejl.htm
http://ronhashiro.htohananet.com/photography/art-composition1.html
http://www.colorpilot.com/comp_rules.html
http://www.photographytips.com/page.cfm/6

This is the next step to taking better photos, after learning the fundamentals of exposure.

- jonk.

Training Objectives for Session 1 and 2

Session 1
The camera as a Light Box
Understanding Exposure
Correct exposures vs Over/Under exposure
Exposure is controlled by:
- aperture – which also determines depth of field
- shutter speed - which allows you to freeze action, or show motion; may lead to BLURRING (wanted/unwanted)
- ISO – how sensitive the sensor is to light; increasing it allows shooting faster but increases grain

Session 2
Review of Exposure
Answering of any questions you might have
How to take a photo: Look, Focus, Shoot
Focussing
Metering
White Balance
Composition