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La Union joins World Wide Photo Walk

For the first time, La Union will be represented in the upcoming World Wide Photo Walk (WWPW) which will be on it's first run in San Fernando City on October 2, 2011 Sunday at exactly 6:30 AM. The meeting place will be at the Rizal Shrine/Statue in front of the City Hall.  All attendees will have a chance to win the following: 

In our locality alone, one will win a book of Scott Kelby's book  "Light it, Shoot it, Retouch it"

Unfortunately, there are only a limited slot of 50 participants for La Union. So out of these 50 local participants one will certainly win Scott Kelby's book. But everyone has a chance of winning the Grand Prize and be among the 10 finalists. For each participant you have to send me just one photograph, post processed or not.

Remember there is no registration fee required. As this is a first come first serve basis, I am encouraging potential attendees to first register at this site and 

http://www.worldwidephotowalk.com

locate La Union in the Google Map and click on that pin to reveal the event, click on the highlighted event and provide details therein. Lastly, click on the Join the Walk button. Simple... you're in (if you're among the 50 participants)

Thereafter you have to create a new account or open your account in flickr.com. Once registered you can then join the flickr group for the La Union Photo Walk at:

http://www.flickr.com/groups/2011launion

This will be the repository site of all attendees photos. Just follow this video on how to post to the flickr account: 

http://blip.tv/skphoto/walk-leaders-creating-a-flickr-group-2397855

One last thing, you have to understand that  THE ORGANIZER/S IS/ARE IN NO WAY LIABLE TO ANY INJURY, DEATH, OR DAMAGE TO EQUIPMENT of any of the participants especially within the given time frame of the 2-hour photo walk. Please sign the waiver containing this provision on or before the event. So please, please, please be safe at all times

So good luck to everyone and see you on the 2nd of Oct, 6:30 AM

Why be immersed into photography when you're an eye surgeon/doctor?

This is a question I am often asked by my colleagues and friends in the medical field. But here's my answer to their queries:

    When one is in a creative mood of painting or photography, the instant you visualize an object as being worth a capture by whatever medium you start to use your right brain involuntarily. The right hemisphere of the brain sub serves all visual activities and processes information in an intuitive and simultaneous way, looking first at the whole picture then the details - from matching colors, lighting, positioning the subject, arranging the elements in the set until the picture is processed into a final image or until a painting is mounted into its own frame. 
  
  Once I put on my scrub suit and go into the operating room, the left brain dominates - the hemisphere that subserves critical thinking, the analytical and sequential processing of the job at hand.


  So the reason I do both art in between my day job as a medical specialist is for me to get both the left and right hemispheres of my brain pretty much at par with each other, keeping them polished and as productive as they should be.  


   I just hope that by keeping them in tip top shape I will lessen my propensity to develop the dreaded Alzheimer's disease.


   Now for some details of the picture above, here I was trying to emulate the effects done my noted Dutch painter Rembrandt van Rijn, better known simply as Rembrandt. He mastered lighting his portrait subjects such that the highlights fall mainly on one side of the face creating shadows on the opposite side and fading into deep shadows. There persists a discernible detail in the shadows as the human figure is still cut out by a hint of background illumination, thus giving the 2 dimensional image a feeling of a 3 dimensional effect - the Chiaroscuro effect.

Color Management by Mark S Johnson

Here's a 4-part video tutorial on color management by a known Photoshop guru, Mark S Johnson:
at msjphotography.com