Cookies&Coffee
The Photography Sharing Edition by Shaun Uy & Friends
photo by MATOY ELIPE
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et me give you a little retrospect on Cookies & Coffee. This is my column in BusinessWeek Mindanao Newspaper which mostly delves into marketing and advertising insights and anything under the sun. Now, Cookies & Coffee will share with you photography techniques, tips, and tricks along with my friends, to help guide newbies and advanced hobbyists. The featured photographers here are hobbyists and members of the Oro Photographic Society (OPS) as this is one of the thrusts of the group, as a member; it is my duty to share to others what we learn. One way or another, this will help our fellow hobbyists and newbies in photography to fully understand the technicalities and aesthetics of our chosen art form. Also, I want to share to our photos Model: Yssa Nere ISO: 100 Aperture: f/4 Shutter Speed :1/128 White Balance : K4000 Metering Mode: Spot Focal Length: 85mm Camera: EOS 7D PHOTO BY GILBERT GULANG
to the community, especially businessmen and entrepreneurs. Their busy lifestyle and sometimes stressful world could use some LIGHT. There you have it. Now, on with the sharing… Starting out in photography at an early age, I was either asked to photograph a family portrait or just a simple snapshot using the old Kodak Mini Instamatic-, this lead to my passion for photography. Now, do you kids still wonder why the term “Magpa-Kodak” exists? Without Kodak, the world of photography now would be somewhat very dull, as it was George Eastman who popularized photography with “you push the button, we do the rest” as their credo! It’s now the digital age, the simplicity of the instamatics have been replaced with mind-boggling buttons. There is also an on-going debate about to Photoshop or not to Photoshop. We’ll dig deeper photo by COOKIE NOBLE
into that in the coming months. Now, to really get into photography first we need to have the basic tool – and this comes for free, it is called LIGHT. Photography literally translates as Drawing with Light and this is the first basic element in photography. Next you need a camera. Now this is where the confusion comes in – why? Let’s say you bought your new DSLR, let me guess – you opened the box in awe and much to your delight scoured through the plastic and attached the lens and memory card and started shooting right away. Forgot something? The USER’S MANUAL!!! Tip # 1: READ THE USER’S MANUAL this will help you a lot in starting out, so please do. That’s my only tip for this issue. The next ones are from my friends. Let’s start with what we commonly photograph – people. CONTINUED ON PAGE 18