Abueva by Cid Reyes - Only at Yuchengco Museum

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Laro: Child's Play at the CCP

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Net 25's Landmarks Season 2 Launch @ Yuchengco Museum

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Press Viewing of Bulawan

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Lee Aguinaldo: In Retrospect ArtSpeak

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Pelicula 9th Spanish Film Festival Schedule

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Art Flood 2010

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2nd Pandayang Lino Brocka Political Film and New Media Festival

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RP Gears Up for Arts Fest

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UBOD Literary Works Set for Release

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Ateneo Art Awards 2010 Exhibit

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Homage to the Masters @ Metro Gallery

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This August at the UPFI Film Center

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"Seeing Art" in Boracay

SEAIR - The Boracay Beach Resort - OneWorkshop
Present
"Seeing Art" in BORACAY
"I can't teach you to be an artist; all I can do is help you learn to see. (J. P. Loveless) "

Rosscapili Travel Photojournalism & Art Discovery Photography Workshop

August 7&8, 2010

August 7 - Basic Photography
August 8 - Higher Level Photography

August 7 (Saturday) - Basic Photography Workshop

8am - 830am - Registration
830am - 10am -How to operate a DSLR / Point and Shoot camera - and its function - A slide presentation with hands-on exercises
10am-12nn - Actual practice shoot
12nn-130pm - Lunch
130pm-3pm - Composition and Framing lecture with hands-on shooting exercises
3pm-330pm - Break
330pm - 530pm - Preparation to shoot a sunset with a tripod (participants must bring a tripod)
530pm - 7pm - Actual shoot of the sunset using slow shutter variations
7pm - Basic Photography Workshop by Ross Capili ends

Workshop Fee: Php 2,000 with Certificate of Participation
Reserve now! - Pls call OneWorkshop at 8368799 or cel 09174700360 (for Manila based participants or Ms Nenette Graf at 09209516321 (for Boracay based participants)

August 8 (Sunday) - Higher Level Photography Workshop (this workshop is a pre-requisite of the Basic Photography Workshop by Ross Capili or with those attended already of similar basic photo workshop)

430am - Call time at Bolabog
430am-5am - Guided and hands-on exercises on how to capture effectively a sunrise scape (all participants must bring external flash)
530am - 6am - Actual sunrise shoot
6am-8am - Breakfast on site while shooting around the area (Exploring panoramic and slow shutters using attached filters)
8am- 9am - Instruction and hands-on exercises to shoot fashion bikini or portrait
9am - 11am - Actual fashion bikini or portrait shoot at the beach front
11am-12nn - Seeing "Art" in everyplaces slides presentation
12nn-130pm - Lunch
130pm - 330pm -Seeing "Art" in everyplaces - actual photography location shoot (Exploring panoramic and slow shutters using filters)
330pm-4pm - Break
4pm - 5pm - Conceptual shoot- Preparation to shoot sunset with fire dancers
530pm-7pm - Actual shoot of the sunset as background with fire dancers at foreground (participants must bring a tripod and external flash)
7pm - High level Photography Workshop by Ross Capili ends

Workshop Fee: Php 3,000 with Certificate of Participation
Reserve now! - Pls call OneWorkshop at 8368799 or cel 09174700360 (for Manila based participants or Ms Nenette Graf at 09209516321 (for Boracay based participants)

Best images from the participants will be published at SEAIR's InFlight Magazine. Gallery exhibition is scheduled in December 2010 at The Boracay Beach Resort and Galerie OneWorkshop in Makati City

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SM CINEXPO 2010 - Being Digital!

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Ikebana Demo-Workshop at Glorietta 5 Atrium

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RN Caasi Recent Works on Canvas and Paper at The Drawing Room

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