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Sony Alpha Basic Photography Workshop













Learned quite a bit on photography at the recent Sony Alpha Basic Photography Workshop held on 12th September 2009 at The Grand Continental Hotel, Jalan Raja Laut.

Traffic going into the city was pretty bad, with the Hari Raya holidays just next weekend, many were in town shopping and clogging up the roads.

Our trainer, John Shum, talked about all sort of photography tips and tools. It was interesting to know more about how to use the Shutter speed, Aperture settings, Manual mode, ISO, flash, exposure and so on. The attendance was at about 35 and there were 2 young lady models also present for practice shooting.

In addition, invited guest Ms. Denise Chan, who has been into photography for 2 years and shoots every weekend, shared her work with the participants.

I guess this is one of the advantages of being a Sony Alpha dSLR user. There will be another workshop on using Flash planned for 18th October 2009. The next lens I might look to get is the recommended SAL75300 which retails at RM899/US$257.

Did I mention the workshops are free?
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  1. kevvySeptember 16, 2009 at 1:45 PM

    teach me some tips too! haha...i just took over my big bro's camera.

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  2. patchrisSeptember 16, 2009 at 1:52 PM

    great! what camera is it? i'm still a newbie, but having lots of fun with it...

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  3. JunyuOctober 2, 2009 at 8:46 AM

    i was there =D im the small lil 13 year old kid =D check out my pics on my blog.

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  4. patchrisOctober 6, 2009 at 5:45 AM

    hi Junyu! i like your blog and your photos. your approach is fresh and interesting :) met you at the alpha workshop. spoke to you a little bit. i sat in front on the left.

    by the way, I can't comment on your blog la. the icon is blocked because of formatting problem. cheers!

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