TILT-UP SHOT: Media Arts Photography

A tilt is a vertical camera movement in which the camera points up or down from a stationary location. For example, if you mount a camera on your shoulder and nod it up and down, you are tilting the camera.

My media arts students had to position the camera on the ground and tilt it up to 45 - 90 degrees angle to make small subjects appear big or tall.

The Use of Macro in Cameras: Foliage Photography

Taking an extreme focus on the leaves of the flowers was challenging to my media arts students. Everytime they zoomed to obtain a very close shot, the photos' sharpness sagged and their blurry pictures puzzled them. 

The foliage photography taught them about the use of MACRO in digital cameras. A macro setting changes the focus of the camera so it can focus on very close objects. The macro setting is for photographing objects  within a few inches or feet away. The tulip icon in cameras is a symbol for macro.

Below are some of the photos produced by my students using the macro setting.

Tuna Festival

This year's Tuna Festival has launched a thousand ships and received a flooding support from the Generals. Here are some of the shots my media arts students had taken during the Streetdance Competition.

Photography - Flower (Media Arts)

           I thought flora and fauna would be easy for my media arts students. It took them four timed- rounds before they were able to take better shots. Since the sunlight was very harsh, using an amateur digital camera was a challenge to them. Here's what they had at the end of our class for the second output:

PHOTOGRAPHY - TEXTURE

The media arts (Grade 7) students of New Society National High School take pride in their first photography output during the onset of the Second Grading Period of the current school year. They were given five minutes to take a stunning shot within the school premises. Here's what they captured:

UNHIDE FILES HIDDEN BY A VIRUS IN A USB

Are you bothered of your saved files that were hidden by a USB virus? Worry no more for as easy as 1-2-3 steps you’ll be able to retrieve your files. Here’s what you should do:

1.      Insert your USB/ memory card to an empty USB/ memory card slot. Take note of the drive letter. For example, F: (for drive F). Press Windows + R, and type “cmd“. Click Ok.

2.      Enter the command shown below:

	attrib -s -h –r  f:/*.* /s /d

 

Note: You have to change f: depending on the drive letter where you inserted your usb drive. Observe the spaces between the characters, they are also significant.

3.      Press enter and wait for the command to operate. Open the usb drive again and you should see the files that were hidden by the virus.

Now you can see your hidden files in your USB. Problem settled!

TOP TEN MOST EXPENSIVE MOVIES IN THE HISTORY - as of 2013

Film making is considered a good business in the media industry. To make a good movie, a producer has to invest millions to ensure a big hit. The challenge remains for how much revenue they can get from the alloted movie budget.

What are the most expensive films in the history of movie making? Here's the top ten;

10. The Avengers (2012) - $220 million 

9. The Chronicles of Narnia (Prince Caspian)      
 (2008) - $225 million

8. Pirates of the Carribean (Dead Man's Chest) (2006) - $225 million

         
7. Avatar (2009) -$237 million

6. Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince (2009) - $250 million

5. Spider Man 3 (2008) - $258 million

4. Tangled (2010) - $260 million

3. Pirates of the Carribean: At World's End (2007) - $300 million

2.Oz, The Great and Powerful (2013)- $325 million

1.  and the most expensive movie in the history of film making with its $375 production cost and film marketing is the Disney's John Carter (2012). Disney technically failed to earn the expected revenue. It was a downfall that the company loss almost $200 million for this movie.

The Avatar still holds the highest earning movie approximately at $2,782,000,000.00 followed by the top 14 most expensive movie Titanic (1997) approximately at $2,185,000,000.00.

WOW SURIGAO! CAPTIVATING THE ENCHANTED RIVER OF HINATUAN

After the amazement brought by the Britania Islets, we took another single motor ride from La Entrada Resort to the Enchanted River of Hinatuan, Surigao del Sur. The road is a sacrifice for the travelers. It was a 12 km bumpy ride going to the mountain top. According to the driver, the local government has plans for road concreting but it may take a year. That must be a good plan since there are a lot of tourists coming in and out of the place everyday.

Despite of the stressful experience going to the river, Surigao never ceased to surprise us. When we arrived at the Enchanted River, here's what left us open mouthed....

There were stories that there are two ladies with long hair and a color green man walking through the surface of the water and mysteriously disappear in the air. Whether it is true or not, one thing that I am very certain, that the Enchanted River is worthy to be visited.

At 12 noon, we have seen the fishes fed in the river. It was like magic, the fishes in all colors in their unique appearances appeared visibly in the water.

We decided to spend our night at the place. We sailed through the river going to the cottage which is at the center of the sea in Hinatuan.

The rooms were not that big, they are not concrete but the place is truly relaxing. What I really liked at the cottage is the CATCH YOUR ORDER. The fishes are not ready at their chef's kitchen. We had to do fishing - to catch the talakitok from their cage. That was really exciting.

ENCHANTING BRITANIA ISLETS, SURIGAO DEL SUR; A SUMMER TO REMEMBER

For ten months of tiring day to day work at school, I've been dreaming of going to a vacation somewhere in Visayas or even in Luzon. I thought of  going back to Boracay or Puerto Princesa or spend a whole week in Zambales or Baguio. But plots changed due to some unexpected events.

April 17, 2013, I ended packing my stuffs for a long road trip going to Surigao del Sur with my cousin and her two friends who were all excited for the itinerary I set. Since there were only four of us, we decided to have a bus ride instead of renting a van.

We left GenSan at 9pm then reached Davao City Bus Terminal at 12mn. Unfortunately, we haven't caught the bus with the Davao-Tandag route which will pass by in our dropping point - Salvacion (La Entrada Resort). So we took the alternative, Davao - San Franz (6 hours travel/ P275) then San Franz to Salvacion (1 hour van travel/ P75), then a single motor ride from Salvacion Highway to La Entrada resort for P40. Whoah! We reached there at 10am. I chose to drop at La Entrada because of good reviews I read from travelers who had stayed in the resort. We planned to stay overnight, but when we reached the place, we thought of staying in another resort. So we decided to just place our order for our lunch and pay for the boat ride going to the Britania Islets (P1000).

And here we go, when we reach the four islands, the breathtaking place made us forget that we were very tired and sleepy.

BRITANIA ISLETS, SURIGAO DEL SUR

Truly, Philippines is blessed by the wonders of nature. I'll surely come back in this paradise.