Ultrasonology Workshop in Bangkok

5th Day, Last Day of FPPF Basic

My notes:

The topic for the morning was Digital Darkroom.

Some tips:
Blur: most come from hand movement so don't go below 1/60. Aim for higher shutter speed. Thus, don't go below 1/focal length.

A review of exposure was done including some tips on histogram reading.

Find sweet spot of lens---------> avoid extremes.

Highlights indicate lost details on a photo.

Exposure adjustment

Before printing 8R, crop it first before going to the printing lab.

Work flow aka post processing:
-capture and import
-organize and archive
-global adjustments
-local adjustments
-cleanup, retouching
-creative edits and alternates
-output-print, slideshow, web

calibrate monitor
-software, hardware
-getty image test

Fourth Session of Basic , My Notes

Our lecturer for the 4th day was Mr. George Cabig, an award winning pro photographer from Laguna. The topic for the morning was still life and for the afternoon was portraiture.

A soft box aka light box was described and was used for a demo. This provides good, even lighting for still life.

The rest of the morning was hands on and also the afternoon.

More notes:

Idea --> arrangement --> unity

Small aperture---> tripod (God, I need a better tripod.)

Most still life need high DOF so subject is sharp: f/16, up

Portrait f/5.6 or lower

For background--> seamless paper or cardboard may be used

Some problems usually encountered:
tonality
luminosity

Plexiglass (Ha ha! I was looking for panaflex!?! What da!)

Third Session

The FPPF Basic Workshop continues and is now on its third day. The morning was spent on group presentations: group cheer, introduction of group members, presentation of the photo assignments. It was followed by a photo presentation of Prof. CS Angeles.

A lecture on the history of photography and art was delivered by Prof Joey Tañedo, a teacher in UP College of Fine Arts.

The exercise for the finals was also given: portrait and still life. The subject for the former is egg.

Books I'm Reading Now

These books are not easy to find here so I had to download electronic copies of them from torrent sites. These are by Bryan Peterson and were actually just iteration of what I learned in the workshop I'm attending in Manila.

Another book I'm reading (not shown here) is Scott Kelby's Digital Photography Book which has lots of tips too.

Egg and Egg Tray

Session 1 Notes

Exercise No. 1B

Panning and aperture modification.

 

 

Exercise No. 1

Exercise on aperture and shutter speed inside Fort Santiago.

 

 

  

 

FPPF Basic Workshop in Intramuros

After this workshop, I should:

1. Know by heart all the capabilities of my camera.
2. Be able to take better photos, manually and not relying on the camera's computer or on post-processing.
3. Have developed a "photographer's eye".
4. Learn more about art appreciation.
5. Be convinced that it's worthwhile to take the Advanced course.
6. Have more friends. He he.

Book: In Our Image by Stanley Karnow

I didn't like history in school but this book presented Philippine History in an interesting manner. The book is easy to read and presents some topics that were omitted in our textbooks which makes it more interesting.

My Most Visited Post

I'm using Statcounter in this blog, since 2005. It's one of those sites that provide important stats for a site. An example of which is Popular Pages.

In this blog, the most popular post is Glycolysis Mnemonics. I posted this on November 22, 2007. The mnemonic is not originally mine, I just stumbled on it while I'm taking a subject in Biochemistry in graduate school.

Among my chemistry subjects, biochemistry is one of my favorites. It's actually the third chem subject that UPLB Vet students have to take. The first one is Inorganic Chem (Chem 15) while the second is Organic Chem, Chem 40 (which I didn't like and also known as Chem 80 or Chem 120 for some).

I remember during Prevet in UPLB, that I was not able to attend Biochem classes for more than two weeks because I was hospitalized (in UPLB Infirmary!!!) due to an infection. I had to bring that thick, black Biochemistry book in the hospital so I can read the scheduled lessons. I was not able to take the first exam, so I had to take the final exam to makeup for that missed exam.

Exerting more effort for this subject paid off because Biochem is one of the core subjects of medicine. Biochem resurfaced in Physiology 1, 2 (under Dr. Elito Landicho) and 3 (Dr. Rhea Anunciado) and also in the Medicine subjects.

Biochem questions, surprisingly, were also included in the 2003 Veterinary Licensure Examination. Thankfully, I didn't forget my Biochem basics!

Graduation

What lies ahead for them?

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Frisking during the processional; maybe due to this incident.

Thesis Defense

This entry is post-dated, just like a check. Right now, I'm having my final thesis defense with the faculty of the graduate school and external evaluators. I'm totally new to this kind of defense, since in undergrad, it's just the advisory committee.

I'm done with the advisory committee defense last week. They recommended some revisions which I have done over night. With the new set, I don't think I can do the revisions with just one sitting. Note that they have no info, whatsoever, about my thesis. They'll just listen in this morning.

Good luck to me!

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UPDATE: It went well. Graduation is Monday after Good Friday.

Editing Stage

Yup, I'm still stuck in the editing stage. It was even harder to edit because there is no style guide to follow. I've read American Psychologist's Association Style Guide, but I don't think that this one is what they're using at the school I'm in.

At this stage I'm appreciating the "style" feature of MS Word. It's neat because in my case, every part of the paper is tagged accordingly. So, if I need to change for example all the headers (the section titles in my paper), I just need to do it once and it's automatically applied to all.

This was also very helpful in creating the table of contents, list of table, list of figures, etc. For example: I tagged all the figure titles and descriptions with "Figure". To create the list of figures, I didn't need to type again all the infos, instead: Insert>Reference>Index and Tables>Table of Figures.

My defense was scheduled last week, was postponed and I don't know the schedule now. It appears that they're not in a hurry after all. I heard that the other students thatare about to graduate are still in the data collection and writing stage.
We'll see what happens next week.



PS. Did you like the new layout?
PPS. Try the Google translator on the second column. It can translate from English to Filipino, although per word and not by context.

Crunch Time

So many deadlines with so little time:

1. All data will be in by Feb 28 :)
   
2. Deadline for (internal) defense: March 7 :(
3. Deadline for defense with external evaluators: March 13 :$
4. Graduation: April :))
5. Summer: Rest
   

Five Years Ago

Five years ago:

1. I'm in Los Banos, staying at the cheapest but the best dorm in Rhoda's Subdivision.
   
2. I am reviewing for the board exam on my own because I didn't have 10, 000 to pay for formal review classes at the VMLE Review Center.
   
3. I'm focused on finding a work, but I don't have any particular field in mind.
4. Other than my parents, I don't have other source of money.
5. I own a blue Alcatel cellphone that is always on ALL CAPS whenever I compose SMS, unlike Nokia phones that on default is in Sentence case.
6. I think I lost my baby pic that I'm supposed to submit to the class for our hooding ceremonies. It turned out that I am the only one without a "before" photo being projected on the screen while my name is being called. *Sad*
   
7. I was given a sermon by my thesis adviser before he gave my grade to me, because I failed to do something that he wants. Looking back at it now, I have to thank the adviser for giving me that sermon. In a way it worked, because in times of difficulty, I recall this instance and I'm able to say to my self that "You know you can do it!".
8. My favorite comfort food is Lucky Me Pancit Canton with hot and spicy Century Tuna.
9. I easily fall asleep, unlike now.
10. I watch television like mad. From morning to past midnight. I actually read my old notes in front of TV. At that time I was thinking that if ever I fail the board exam, I would blame it on TV!
    

High School Classmate

He's performing as soloist here.
Wow! Perfect.

Back to School Post

Here are a few slides about how and why we breath and how and why our blood circulates.

Second Semester Classes Begin Tomorrow

I'm excited about going back to school tomorrow after a very long semestral break. This semester I would be taking four (!) animal science subjects: 3 majors and 1 elective.

I have already asked permission from my employer that I be allowed to attend my classes on work hours on every Wednesdays and Fridays this sem. The trade off is for me to come to work in Saturday mornings. Not bad.

This sem would be different from my previous because last sem my subjects were mostly unrelated to my specialization (except for one, Biochem). I was enrolled in Experimental Design, Biochem, CISM (a computer course which I really enjoyed) and Economics. Considering that I didn't have any background in econ, this is the subject that I appreciated much and since this is an econ subject that focuses on project analysis, it's very useful in my kind of work. Yup, from planning, conceptualization to analysis and evaluation of agricultural projects.

My personal acad goals this sem:

1. Relearn the basics. This would give me fresh perspective on the cases that I handle.
   
2. Learn to read faster than usual.
3. Enhance my mental and manual computation skills. To be able to calculate fast without using a computer.
   
4. To be able to make fast qualitative evaluation of RMs with just my senses.
   
5. Thoroughly understand all the analytical tests being done in the lab.
6. To ask the questions I failed to ask when I was on college. :-)