Photographer's Lessons @Canon Harbourfront
This post is being dated 20 October 2006. Just to inform you guys.
Woke up pretty early today around 8 plus am with a smile forming me =).Seems that the day will be good for me.Luckily not late for School as it's Promotion Assembly today. YIPEES =)
If i'm not wrong, by the time i woke up from my bed, the P,V/P and teachers will gather together and will officially start the Promotion Assembly 2006. Hope all of our Westwood teachers will say good things not just about me in my attitude of learning and pushing myself to suceed. But also, to my dearest friends who know me (whether a lot or less) and my SCs people. Wishing them to relax and also all the best in their overall results from the SC Photographer =)
Nothing to do much in the morning, just started to MSN people in my precious laptop.Marven immediately was online after i just sign in.Only got 1 or 2 out of 15 Westwoodians online.Sigh...Talk to Marven for a while :(
The day does'nt end there.Have to get ready to go to Canon showroom at Harbourfront for my free Digital Camera training course as i bought a brand new camera during the IT Fair @ Expo in September (not sooo.. outdated one).
Decided to register myself for the training as some of the new functions are not pretty familar to me and to me, that is a chance for me to learn something new from the course. The last time i attend the course was 2 years ago when i was Sec 1.
Have my lunch before leaving home, took the train to Harbourfront.and walk to Canon showroom. I must say, that their showroom is extremely gorgeous and also still keeping their film cameras and their previous lenses which are usually long and heavy in the showroom. Went to confirm my course registration at the registration counter and went to find a seat at the training corner. The ambience & lighting was very peaceful and calm. Saw other people who are also attending the same course as me.The other people who i'm refering to are working adults with their cameras with the latest on sale. Have a diffrent camera as them as their cameras are the IXUS series, while my camera is the Powershot A530 which has a little lesser camera functions than them.Overall, it does not affect my camera a lot (which i'll be using it for my upcoming photo shoot). Forgot also that i've also saw a teenager who's also attending the course, she's a little older than me.
Waited for the trainer for a little longer.He came a little late. Did a little introduction about him, he's also a friend of famed photographer Ian Loyld (who's also a very good friend with Canon) which is also one of my favourite photograhers in my list.
Began the training, the trainer commented me that i'm kind of a little advance thinker in using this new camera as i'm the only guy with a diffrent camera series ! Anyway, come back to the training,took some key pointers which i believe it will help in my upcoming photo shoot.Have to read the manual also as being adviced by my trainer for the day as he cover quite of the basic part of having a good photo shoot during the course.Continue the training, was pretty interactive with trainer and the adults there. Took a break around 3 pm and came back,having the trainer giving us the range of ISO speeds which helps me in using the right ISO when taking pictures in WWSS. Before coming to the closing of the course, the trainer gives us an opportunity in taking picture round the showroom with diffrent modes in the camera.Beneficial for me though.
Untill suddenly, the trainer told me to stand at the back of the trainer corner. At first, I don't know why he told me to stand at the back of the corner. Untill (this is a big 'scenario' for me), the trainer told the rest of the people to have their cameras focusing on me ! (using the correct camera mode they suppose to take a shoot of me).Honestly, i felt a little malu and my mind was like 'WHY ME ?!'.
Have to remember that i'm an Ambassodor for WWSS.RAHHH... Oh well, the SC photographer has to become the first model of WWSS for the day. Put my best pose (looking at the window) for the camera as possible. Worse (to me), they told me to look at them to take a good shot.Some of them called me you know 'Mr Handsome'. I almost started to feel red immediately. Grrrr... went to focus the loads of cameras waiting to take a shot of me. The trainer told me that he'll will treat me, did not treat me at the end anyway.But never mind. The adults taking me commented that I look a little 'serious' (Well that's my style of being cool) jokingly told me that my photo will be shown around the city.I almost fainted now! Luckily, that photo shoot of myself ended soon after each adult have taken a photo of myself. Have to make sure that they will remember me by keeping my photo =).
Round up the 2 hr 30 min course with a little debrief for the course. After the course ended, I decided to stay in the showroom for a while as to take some time to look at their cameras & printers. Bid goodbye to my adult friends (who have taken me earlier) and my trainer.Went back home, feeling tired but happy that I have learn something from this course which will be beneficial for me in future... =D
David C.E Lau
10:33 PM
