:: theredcoloredsky ::: Whole New Perspective

I gathered some courage to attend the Olympus ES & PEN Comprehensive Workshop that was held yesterday night at the Olympus office at 1Mont Kiara tower. The class was conducted by David Chua and it's a small group of 15 of us (I think). The reason why I signed up for the workshop is because I wanted to learn more about the functions of Olympus PEN E-PL2 that I’ve got. Cos since I got the camera 3 months ago, I’ve been using the iAuto and Art Filters function most of the time and it’s kinda frustrating that sometimes, I cannot achieve the effect that I want. Super frustrated that when I know very well that the camera does wonders and it’s such a perfect camera (at least for me) and I cannot even fully utilise it. I actually also wanted to prove to friends who doesn’t understand why I chose the PEN instead of some DSLR, that I’ve not chosen the wrong camera for myself.

I've learned some basic stuff about photography before from friends who are avid photographers (like Uncle Mun and Jazzmond), so yesterday's workshop was more like a recap to me and I definitely learned a lot about the functionality of the camera. Though I understand the theory (not fully yet), but to successfully implement it, is another story altogether. Not forgetting to mention that the lack of creativity and art sense in me makes it more difficult for me. So before I jumped into investing more money on lenses that I’ll end up not using, I’ll try to make full use of what I’ve got now. I’m taking David’s advise to challenge myself to make 12 print worthy to be hang on the wall (with my kit lens) before I get another lens. So he is my critic sifu now. HAHA! Of course, I hope that more people will be criticising my experiments so that I can improve faster.

After yesterday’s workshop, I noticed that I started to feel differently about photography. I really enjoyed the workshop ad will definitely put more effort into photography now. With encouragements from David, I started a Flickr account to post up some of my experiments shots. And I believe that I’ll learn a lot from there. I’ll also be posting up more of my experiments on my abandoned Tumblr account, which will be more like a photoblog from now.

Here are some shots that I took for the assignment yesterday. We need to submit one photo and everyone can critic it. I kinda cheated and submitted a black&white photo :P (what.. it was night time and and nothing much to shoot also at that place ma..)