Basic Photography

This hands-on workshop covers all the fundamentals of photography and is a good starting point for those who want to pursue specialized photography, like wedding, advertising, studio portraiture, etc.

This course caters to all kinds of participants — from amateurs to professionals in the making — and will cover digital SLR (single-lens reflex) and prosumer cameras. It will concentrate on basics of photography.

• Objectives of photography
• Lenses and their attributes
• Camera controls: Focusing, aperture and shutter speed controls
• Getting the correct exposure
• Understanding depth of field
• How to capture motion
• Creative exposure and advanced exposure techniques
• Developing your eye: Composition
• Filters and hoods
• Creative use of camera flash

This workshop is for serious photography hobbyists or anybody who is considering a career in photography. Even long time shooters who never had a formal training in photography will also greatly benefit from this workshop.

The participant must have a digital SLR camera (any brand) with controls for aperture and shutter speed. Participants with digital cameras should also bring their camera's user manual (if available) and USB/FireWire cord.

Participants with digital cameras are advised to attend our Digital Camera Fundamentals seminar before taking this workshop.

Jun is the first Adobe Certified Expert (ACE) and Adobe Certified Instructor (ACI) in Photoshop (2000) and Lightroom (2008) in Asia. He is likewise a Canon EOS Brand Ambassador and a Canon PIXMA Brand Ambassador.

He is the president, creative director and resident photographer of PixelMagic, a digital imaging studio and service bureau since 1996. He is a CompTIA Certified Technical Trainer (CTT+ Certified Professional) and is also the president and program director of PCCI.

Jun is past president of the Camera Club of the Philippines, and was founding president of both the IdN Club Philippines (the country's first association of digital artists) and Club de Camera Digital (the country's first association of digital photographers). He is also a member of the National Association of Photoshop Professionals.

He is a product of the Maine Photographic Workshops (Rockport, Maine), Dynamic Graphics Educational Foundation (Peoria, Illinois) and United Digital Artists (New York). He also took Creative Training Techniques under Robert Pike and a class on Corel Painter under Jeremy Sutton, instructor, lecturer and author of several books on Painter.

Jun writes a regular column for Manila Bulletincalled “Digital Focus”, and lectures at different trade shows here and abroad.

At last count, Jun has taught well over 400 classes in photography and digital imaging, including more than 150 classes on Photoshop (both basic and advanced) and more than 30 classes on Lightroom.



Tino Ley

Tino himself is a walking example of his own premise: He got hooked on photography at the age of nine, and today runs a portrait and video studio servicing De La Salle (Manila and Lipa), Letran, PWU, U.P., International School, to name a few. A longtime member of the Camera Club of the Philippines, he himself has attended many of PCCI's classes on photography and Photoshop and is also one of the Center's success stories.