2/29/16

It's Feb. 29! We don't get to experience this day every year so I wanted to have a post today.

Last Saturday, I attended Henry's Professional 1-day Basic Photography Workshop. I just found out about it on the same week so I was quite lucky that I was able to reserve one of the limited slots. I was initially hesitant to join as I was not ready to share my work with other people who might be good at photography already. But I didn't want to let fear prevail and figured that everyone signed up to learn just like me.

I've had my mirrorless camera since last year but I've never really got to explore it as I am still trying to get the hang of using a camera that is more complicated than a point and shoot digicam. I've read a bunch of articles about photography but I wanted to actually learn more to understand it easily. The workshop didn't disappoint.

There were more or less 20 participants of the workshop which was held at the Big Brother Manila studio in Makati. The location was quite easy to be found which is one of the reasons that I wanted to join. All of the participants are already working professionals who shared the same interest in photography. I wanted to bring some people along like some participants did but being solo wasn't so bad. In fact, I found out that one of the instructors was the brother of my high school batchmate who was also there so I got to catch up with him. It was initially intimidating to see other people with their high end cameras but we were taught repeatedly that the camera is just a tool and it's not as important as our skills.

Despite struggling to keep myself awake the entire day due to the lack of sleep from the previous night, the lecture was enlightening and it helped me clear out some things that was hard to understand. They provided snacks and lunch as well as answered all of our questions. 

By the end of the day, I enjoyed the workshop and hoped that it was actually longer, not just for lecture, but for more time to practice hands-on as well as getting to know each other which we didn't get to do. They hold workshops every now and then and I'm looking forward to joining more including one of their upcoming workshops which will tackle on travel photography.

I still don't consider myself as a good photographer nor do I plan to take this up professionally but I really want to take this interest to a higher level and add this to my skill set.