Hobby as art
Raffy Paredes
Jovi shares that he has always loved drawing and painting with oil, watercolor, acrylic, and pastels since he was young.
He has also tried sculpting and other media. However, he has lately been drawn "updating my God-given talent by using modern means of expression such as graphic arts and digital photography," even as he maintains interest in classical art.
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| Cat's eyes by Jovi Atanacio | |
Jovi was introduced to photography in a multimedia workshop that he attended last year at the Ateneo de Manila. He says that he prefers keeping his images unedited or devoid of digital enhancements even as he wants to learn more about image editing. Foremost among his photo subjects are nature and Catholic images (churches, processional or antique icons).
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| Happy Faces by Katrina Lim | | Thirteen-year-old Katrina Lim has not stopped improving on her craft ever since she began taking pictures two years ago. Her interest was further boosted when she received a DSLR as a graduation gift from her parents. Today, Trina shares the result of some lessons she picked up from artist Borj Meneses who "gave me ideas on how to edit these photos." She also shows us an image of children she encountered, after visiting Paradise Ranch, who enjoyed having their picture taken. "I felt the joy inside them and their closeness to one another," she says.
Vermont Coronel, dedicated pinhole photographer, sent over individual images of the montage
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Dr. Jose Rizal by Vermont
Coronel | | featured in this column last week. He achieved image clarity by using a very small pinhole (between .15mm and .20mm) and the formula: focal length divided by pinhole diameter = fstop for his exposure time. How did he measure the pinhole? He scanned the aluminum sheet with the pinhole at the highest resolution, cropped the resulting circle, and then measured it in millimeters. Vermont has been using photo paper on his homemade pinhole camera instead of film.
World Pinhole Photography Day is only 5 days away (Sunday, April 27) so ready your equipment to take images for uploading to the www.pinholeday.org website. Images submitted from around the world will be put in the 2008 gallery. If you still do not have your equipment, you can either download instructions from the internet or try to purchase a "toy" but working pinhole camera that may still be available at some toy stores at the malls.
You can also try fabricating cardboard cameras by downloading the printable file from www.pinhole.cz or the wackier designs from http://pro.corbis.com/creative/readycam.
Announcement: Please visit www.nseries.com/soulofthenight and see the images taken with the new Nokia N82’s cell phone camera (5mp with Xenon flash). Your columnist was chosen as one of the phone’s ambassadors.
For comments, suggestions or simply to share an image or idea, email rfyparedes@yahoo.com.
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