Photography Workshop (Edaly)

On this year's GLW, I decided to choose the Photography Workshop. I had always been interested in photography, so when we were told to choose between all the workshops, it wasn't really hard at all for me to do it.

The workshop was given by three people: Tomás Rubin, his girlfriend, Desiré, and his mother, Coral Rubin. The first three days we worked with Tomás and Desiré, and the last day with Coral. Here is a reasonably detailed day-by-day descrpition of what we did on those days:

Day 1

After meeting Tomás and Desiré for the first time, they thaught us about the ISO, which is how sensitive the image sensor is to light, the diaphragm or iris, which is the opening at the camera, and it's job is to control the amount of light that's coming through the lens, and finally, the shutter speed, which is a term that represents the time that the shutter remains open when taking a photograph; this along with how open is the diaphragm, determines how much light reaches the sensor, or ISO.

Minutes later I noticed that my camera had turned off, due to lack of battery, and there was nothing I could do. Nevertheless, I went outside with the others to take some test photographs, and a very nice camera was lended to me.

Day 2

On this day I went fully prepared, with a different and better camera, and, of course, the battery was to it's fullest.

We had a type of Photography "Rally", where everybody went outside and individually took photographs that represented "Beauty", "Order" and "Disorder". It was a really fun activity because each of us had a different idea of these concepts and everybody was going to every part of the school to see what they could find.

Day 3

The Photographs we took the day before were shown on the proyector and we discussed which one we liked best out of each category, and why. It was very interesting to see what the other's pictures looked like, and compare them to the ones I took. This was Tomás and Desiré's last day with us, and before the final goodbye, they cleared all our doubts related to Photography.

Day 4

Our first day with Coral. From the very beggining, she told us she wouldn't be teaching us any technique, but the artistic aspect of Photography, to give your heart and soul in everything you do, and she also showed us how things worked between the photographer, his assistant and the model. The photographer explains to his assistant how he wants the model to act, and while he takes photographs, the assistant motivates the model to satisfy the photographer's needs.

Then we made an activity where each of us took the role of a photographer, an assistant or a model. It was very interesting, and I've got to say I prefer being a photographer, rather than a model.

Conclusion

To sum everything up, I have to say that this year's workshop was very well given, was lots of fun, and I learned a lot of new things which will be very useful whenever I'm talking a photograph in the near future.