1st Day

It was our first meeting in our Visual Communication and I must say that we are very fortunate to have Mr. Rey Mendoza to be our instructor since he’s a very successful professional photographer. Truth be told, many aspiring photographer in our class was inspired and motivated by him. The first day was just probably started by some sort of meet and greet and afterwards he discussed some basics in photography. I must admit that the class was very interested in everything that was discussed and even those who are not that familiar and not that very much fascinated in photography seems to be very captivated on how the talk goes by.

            Mr. Mendoza was very considerate since he started the lesson from scratch and basic essentials of photography. He understands that not all of us has a background knowledge in terms of this course. The first lesson was the three things that controls light, namely, shutter speed, exposure and the IOS. To be honest, even if I have my own DSLR I’m still a bit unfamiliar with these three things. I learned that their usage is all for light but it just differs on the way it is controlled. Our instructor quoted Henry Besson that our first 10,000 photos are our worst and it only means that after having 10,000 shots then we’ll probably be a good photographer.

            After our discussion I reflected something about Mr. Rey’s question regarding what makes a good photograph. Wrapping things up, I can definitely say that a good and knowledgeable photographer is what makes a good photograph.