It is usual for Xavier University-Ateneo de Cagayan students to see their fellow Atenistas taking photographs inside the campus. However it was unusual for me to take photographs using a single lens reflex SLR camera.
In our photography laboratory class, we were taught about Do's and Dont's when handling a camera, parts of a camera, how to take photo then loading and unloading the film.
June 28, 2011, was a memorable day to me since it was this date I took my very first SLR photos. But before that, we were instructed first and taught how to load the film, which we find very difficult. Our group really do it with care. We are so careful upon loading it to the camera because we don't want to have it over exposed.
The different parts of a camera also was introduced to us. It was a great help for me who has no SLR and DSLR ever. It was sophisticated then, I realize. There are a lot of settings new to me such as shutter speed, for I was only used to typical cameras only-the point and shoot one, that's all we got in the family.
As we step outside the DevCom-AVR, I have thoughts in my mind that this really it, the start of my journey as a photojournalist. I took photos in all angles, now then all things become new to me. I was amazed of the campus' beauty hidden. Truly beauty is in the eye of the beholder. As I take photos, I really enjoyed it yet with a bit fear of what will be the result of those clicking the shutter release. For an SLR cam doesn't have a preview setting. Once you take it, that is the only you can have. You can't erase those pictures you don't like. I was also challenged then when taking photos using that typical SLR cam we have. For it doesn't have a zooming lens, aperture and shutter speed. Thus, we need to draw closer to our subjects and we need to ask permission from them as to take them picture as a requirement in our photography class. It was not easy then, because some of the declined and it was very "sayang"!
Other thing I had learned is that a photographer must be as quick as a winking eye to click the shutter release button. Ihad spotted a priest walking along the hallway in the Lucas Hall. I was so amazed of that moment when he move along with me. My mind is telling me to click the shutter button but I look back to my class as they encouraged me to click, but when I get back my eye to the subject, had gone out. I lose the desired angle of that subject. Nanghihinayang talaga ako!
I learned that you need to keep an eye to your subject and capture those moments in a click. Ever second passed by, is a history, so I need to link history with my fingers as to clicking it.
All fears and worries had left us when had submitted our film canister to our professor, Sir Evans. My day was just a click away.
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