The A-Zs of Photography are easier to understand when you’ve got a master to guide you.

Get the chance to ask your photography questions to Ibarra Deri later today (June 4, 2009) from 6:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. at the Main Stage, Trade Floor of the 14th Graphic Expo, Philippine Trade Training Center (PTTC), Roxas Boulevard, Pasay City.

Map to the venue…

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This is open to all visitors and is free of charge.

Ibarra Deri, a renowned portraitist, is the first photographer to be included in Huwaran Filipino Achievement Awards’ Who’s Who in the Philippines.

Deri (as he prefers to be called) started photography as a simple hobby. He has three college degrees unrelated to photography: a bachelor’s degree biological sciences, a masters degree in teaching in biological sciences, and a degree in dentistry. For love of portraiture, he founded the Society of Portrait Photographers of the Philippines. An avid magician, Deri spices up his photography lectures with magic tricks. He owns and operates three photography studios in both Metro Manila and Bicol.

Deri is also a faculty member at the Philippine Center for Creative Imaging (PCCI).

See you later at the 14th Graphic Expo!!! 

I heard about this upcoming seminar for the would-be photography enthusiast or someone who simply wants to make use of their point and shoot camera.

Its aptly titled Photography for the Rest of Us, and is going to be conducted by the Philippine Center for Creative Imaging (PCCI) this month.

Since there have been a number of inquiries thrown my way regarding a seminar like this, I lifted some relevant content from PCCI’s website for my reader’s benefit.

This workshop addresses the needs of the layman to squeeze the most out of his digital camera without dealing with technobabble. That definition covers most businessmen, students, housewives, and other technologically challenged laymen.

Who should attend

• Anybody who threw out his camera manual in frustration.
• Anybody whose blood drained away from reading the course descriptions of most photography workshops.
• Anybody who wants to maximize his camera for work, home, or school use.
• Those who skip the science pages of your paper for the entertainment and sports.
• Anybody who thinks photographers are from Mars.
• The beginner who intends to graduate to “serious” photography but needs to start somewhere, gently.

What will be covered

• The only two rules of composition you need to get out of trouble
• Goldilocks and the Three Bright Bears
• Four faults every beginner makes
• Five ways with flash
• The only six picture settings you will ever need–three if you can’t count to six

Prerequisites

• Come as you are: we don’t expect previous knowledge or experience with photography or cameras
• A point-and-shoot camera
• SLR’s will be tolerated, but will be treated as point-and-shoot

The instructor
Ed Yap understands cameras and photography well enough to write about them in i-Mag Photography magazine, but he could never program a VCR either. He knows the mathematics behind the apertures, but can’t figure out the new cell phones. Out of all this experience he knows one thing the camera-makers haven’t figured out: cameras are just too complicated for the man-in-the-street.

Class hours
June 4 to 5 (Thursday to Friday) from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Course fee
The course fee is P 5,300, inclusive of handout materials, lunch and snacks.

Inquiry & registration
Phone: 759-3087, or email inquiry@pcci.com.ph