UST AB Photography Refresher Topics (Lesson for Sept 2, 2013)

Dr Abe V Rotor

Prelims will include critiquing and analyzing photos, essay and objective  questions from previous lectures.
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Lecture Topics 

Topics:

1. People 
2. The natural world 
3. Animals
4. Buildings
5. Sports 
6. Babies and children
7. Lighting - contrast, background, lighting effects 
8. Black and white photographs
9. Looking for subjects, and variety 
10. Using lines, parallels,  curves, weaves 
11. Shutter and aperture, exposure
12. Composition 
13. Viewpoint, effects of the horizon
14. Framing
15. Balance, colors as emphasis, contrast 
16. Lenses, effects, creativity 
17. Filters 
18. Flash 
19. Parties, celebrations
20. Night photography 
21. Still life
22. The Tripod
23. Camera effects
24. Using movements
25. Combining images

Friendly Monster

Dr Abe V Rotor 

Living with Nature - School on Blog

Paaralang Bayan sa Himpapawid with Ms Melly C Tenorio 

738 KHz DZRB AM Band, 8-9 evening class, Monday to Friday

You hide in the dark and deep,
     Then come out into the open;
You sail the seas along with ships;
     Or stay lurking at the bend.

Seemingly you're tame and kind,
     As you roam free in the wild,
Your music from pipe and lyre,
     Tempting, lovely and mild.

Sometimes you come to our call
     To scare naughty children,
To temper them brave and tall,
     In finding you their friend. ~

Which one is more famous - the Banaue Rice Terraces or the Great Wall of China?

Dr Abe V Rotor

Banaue Rice Terraces, Philippines and The Great Wall of China

I walked the rice terraces
from Earth to moon and back;
on the moon I saw the Great Wall
gray, with color of crimson spill,
cries of Genghis Khan I heard,
and echoes of moaning chill.

I walked the rice terraces round the Earth
many times the length of the Great Wall,
green on one side, golden on the other;
songs I heard are thanksgiving,
in ritual rhythm rise echoing a past, 
a past still living.~

NOTE: Both the Banaue Rice Terrces and the Great Wall of China are among the top wonders of the world and adjudged UNESCO Heritage sites.

The Pig - Uncouth Friend

Dr Abe V Rotor
Living with Nature School on Blog
Paaralang Bayan sa Himpapawid (People's School on Air) with Ms Melly C Tenorio
738 DZRB 8 to 9 evening class, Monday to Friday



Old folks tell us of many unusual things about pigs. It is uncouth to call a person a pig, and these are the reasons.

• Pigs, by their physical built, can’t look up in the sky. They always look downtrodden.

• Pigs are the only animals that will drink hard liquor voluntarily – and you know what happens next.

• Pigs are carriers of diseases and parasites transmitted to human, such as tapeworm and hookworm. Pork is high in cholesterol and uric acid that cause many ailments.

• They are voracious (sarabusab Ilk) and omnivorous, eating on almost anything, including spoiled food and wastes of other animals.

• They have a poor digestive system; the smell of their sty is almost unbearable.

• Their barrel shape bodies are a perfect model of obesity.

On the brighter side of these obnoxious habits and other undesirable characteristics that we may attribute to the pig, it is surprising to know - and we should be thankful - that the pig's heart, being compatible with ours, has been used in heart tissue transplants. Thousands of heart patients owe their lives to the lowly pig.

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Respite

Dr Abe V Rotor

Living with Nature School on Blog
Paaralang Bayan sa Himpapawid (People's School on Air) with Ms Melly C Tenorio
738 DZRB 8 to 9 evening class, Monday to Friday

Lifesaver's high chair

A pair of beach sandals

Rescue boat sits still

I am the wind that blows the sail, the waves to the shore,

     I ride with the sea, far and wide, again and again;

I tire not 'til the sun sets into the horizon brief for the night, 

     then find rest in the stillness of the sea and plain;

I am the sea, boundary of land and sky, blue when deep, 

     silver in fury, incessantly advancing, retreating;

I cover most of the earth, home of creatures in my depth, 

     I too, deserve a break, respite until morning. 

I am the sky, golden in the morning, ember in the sunset,

     a rainbow I build,  a cathedral for the faithful,

I carry the birds migrating and airplanes crisscrossing,

     then rest in the doldrums before my goal.   

I am the soul restless, living in transience and searching

     for that island happy, devoid of pride and ego;

I am the tourist of the world without country, without name, 

     vagabond in the ways of the gods of long ago. ~  

UST-AB Photography Assignment: Photo Editing

 Dr Abe V Rotor 
3CA1, 2, 3, 4Choose eight (8) of these unedited photos taken in Bohol recently to be edited. Come up with a theme or subject for your choice photos. Write the caption for each photo, and a story that relates them together, in essay or poetry. Vary the sizes of the photos to fit with the layout you have in mind.   

The objective of editing is primarily to enhance the quality of photos for print publication. Avoid alteration that may destroy the photo's  naturalness and authenticity.  Print your output on two-page regular bond. Avoid decoration and fancy arrangement. Suggested fonts: Arial 14 for text, 12 for caption, and 18 for title. Use these adjustments with the Adobe Photoshop program.

• Cropping
• Alignment 
• Brightness
• Contrast 
• Color Balance 
• Hue

This assignment will be part of your prelim grades. Please submit this Friday (3CA3 and 4) and Monday (3CA1 & 2). 

BONUS: If you are involved in rehabilitation, assistance to victims of the recent typhoon, have joined relief and medical missions, feeding programs in evacuation centers, and the like, submit photos showing you in action.  Write a story regarding your involvement. 

 

UST-AB Photography: Leaf Skeleton

Dr Abe V Rotor 

 Describe the technique this specimen was prepared and presented here. Interpret the verse. 

                        Skeleton of a samat leaf, by VP Langit.

Caterpillar, when you are gone

two things come to mind:
the butterfly you will become,
and the damage you have done

and left behind.

Art, art, whatever way defined, 
the subject on the wall,
or dripping on the floor,
art, art you aren't hard to find

after all. ~ 

Leona Florentino: Mother of Philippine women's literature

Dr Abe V Rotor

Paaralang Bayan sa Himpapawid with Ms Melly C Tenorio

738 DZRB AM 8 to 9 evening class, Monday to Friday 

8th Year (Phase II)

Leona Florentino (1849-84)

Citation 

For her works exhibited in the Exposicion

General de Filipinas in Madrid 1887, and in

 the Internationale Exposicion in Paris

“She sung the customs and tradition of their race, the thoughts and ideals of her people, the glory of Filipino womanhood, and the romanticism of her nation.  Her mastery of Spanish and Iloko was unsurpassed by any other woman writer of her time, Because she was a devout Catholic, her poetry proved that art and religion can mix to express the glories of God, beauty and Fatherland.”

Encyclopedia Internationale des Ouevres de Femmes

International Encyclopedia of Women’s Work, 1889

Leona Florentino was a Filipino poet in the Spanish and Ilocano languages. She is considered as the "mother of Philippine women's literature" and the "bridge from oral to literary tradition".




Blasted Hopes
Translation from Ilokano

What gladness and what joy
are endowed to one who is loved
for truly there is one to share
all his sufferings and his pain.

My fate is dim, my stars so low
perhaps nothing to it can compare,
for truly I do not doubt
for presently I suffer so.

For even I did love,
the beauty whom I desired
never do I fully realize
that I am worthy of her.

Shall I curse the hour
when first I saw the light of day
would it not have been better a thousand times
I had died when I was born.

Would I want to explain
but my tongue remains powerless
for now do I clearly see
to be spurned is my lot.

But would it be my greatest joy
to know that it is you I love,
for to you do I vow and a promise I make
it’s you alone for whom I would lay my life.


*Original poem in Ilokano

PANAGPAKADA 
(Last Farewell)

Timudem man! O Imnas ni ayat,ti un-unnoy toy seknan ni rigat;
imatangam, O puso ket imutektekannak
anusem a paliiwen toy daksanggasat.

Daksanggasat konak a ta maipusay
toy naldaang unay a bangkay;
ngem ni lagip dinto met bumalakday,
agnanayonto laeng a sitatarabay.

Kas panagpakada dagitoy nga innak baliksen,
ta toy bagik maipanaw kadagita taeng;
taeng ni ragsak, liwliwa nga innak lak-amen,
dinto met mapunas nga innak pampanunoten.

Silaladingit toy puso nga agpakada,
Adios laing, napusaksak nga asusena;
Iti sayamusom ti barukongko ipenpennaka,
tapno dinto maumag ti agdaplay a banglona.

Siaaddaakto laeng, ti taeng ni alinaay,
ta ditoy panunot salemseman ni tarumpingay;
tarabayennakto ni napait a liday,
ket isunto kaniak ti mangay-ay-ay.

Dios ti kumuyog, O napnuan sayaksak,
nga esmanto dagiti agay-ayat;
Dios ti kumuyog, salimetmetmo mangalasag,
ta tapno dayta sudim, taknengmo ti di marakrak. ~

Statue and plaza in honor of Leona Florentino, Vigan, Ilocos Sur.  Note old Spanish houses, original in her time. This park is in the heart of this UNESCO Heritage City, the only kind in the world. Fronting the monument are Plaza Burgos, and not far, Plaza Salcedo, the historic cathedral and palace, seat of the Archdiocese of Nueva Segovia. Adjacent is the Divine Word College, then Colegio de la Imaculada Concepcion where the author studied in high school, and the old building of then St. Paul College of Vigan.      

Enduring Old Caleza

Abe V Rotor
Living with Nature - School on Blog
Paaralang Bayan sa Himpapawid with Ms Melly C Tenorio
738 DZRB AM  8 to 9 evening class Monday to Friday

Old Spanish settlement, UNESCO Heritage City 

Children scrambled aboard the carriage one Lent,
Breathless, sardine packed, doldrums silent;
Reliving a colonial era in a modern world,
The quaintness of tradition of old.

The cochero gave a crispy note,
Nodded his lifelong partner, mute.
The hame tightened, wood strained,
The wheels struggled and complained.

Rattan striking the spokes was horn,
Like dull sound of xylophone,
Joining riotous shouts and laughter -
Orchestral potpourri altogether.

The past leaves remnants to the future,
New to the young, but dying bit by bit,
Flickering the last rays of old adventure,
Like the old caleza bidding exit. ~

Window of an old house

Dr Abe V Rotor
Living with Nature - School on Blog
Paaralang Bayan sa Himpapawid with Ms Melly C Tenorio
738 DZRB AM  8 to 9 evening class Monday to Friday

                                                                                                                                                                 Vigan, Ilocos Sur
Time has come to tell yet unknowing,  
       outside and within,
with all the years this prison crumbling,
       dreams, home and being; 
for far, far away, stars are only twinkling
       sweet empty calling;
thus the life of one too many leading,
       waiting for nothing.~

Our buses speak of our culture

Dr Abe V Rotor

Living with Nature - School on Blog
Paaralang Bayan sa Himpapawid with Ms Melly C Tenorio
738 DZRB AM  8 to 9 evening class Monday to Friday

Here are photos sent to us by our audience on Paaralang Bayan sa Himpapawid radio program which I would like to share with our Weblog audience. 
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Clean and simple look.  It's a bus typical in many countries. The rear view is unobstructed for safety and convenience, for the bus driver, the vehicles behind, pedestrians, police, and the public. Less accident, less holdup, less traffic violations.

Camouflaged aging bus. Dangerous.  Potential hold uppers are hidden from view. Road accidents are more likely to happen, anti-culture, blatant violation of laws and regulations. Scotfree!   

There are hundreds of buses in Metro Manila that are mobile billboards. Distracting and distasteful. Support the movement to ban these buses. Support MMDA, kudos to City of Manila for initiating the movement. 

Whose fault?  Whose responsibility? All of us actually because we believe in peace and order - and in decency and dignity.

Vietnamese Pinawa or Brown Rice Hand Mill

Dr Abe V Rotor
Living with Nature - School on Blog
Paaralang Bayan sa Himpapawid with Ms Melly C Tenorio
738 DZRB AM  8 to 9 evening class Monday to Friday

Dr Felipe Briana of NCBA demonstrates an indigenous dehulling hand mill. The mill works on a rotary motion as the operator pushes the handle back and forth in continuous motion.  Paddy rice or palay is fed on the top and slowly goes down the wood block.  The hull which consists of 25 percent is separated at the junction of the moving block and the stationary stone block.  The recovered whole grain is called pinawa or brown rice.  It contains the bran which is rich in minerals and vitamins, oil and digestible fiber. Rice bran is traditionally used as animal and poultry feeds.

It is therefore recommended that rice should be "unpolished." However, white or "polished" rice is preferred in the market.  There is need to re-educate rice consumers the value of brown rice to fight malnutrition especially in marginal communities.  

During WW II, rice am was used for infants and nursing mothers in the lack or absence of milk.  Am is actually the thick soup of rice while it is being boiled. Am from brown rice is more nutritious than that of white rice. This milk-substitute was developed by Dr Manuel Zamora and was named tiki-tiki.  It was later commercialized as United Tiki-Tiki by a transnational pharmaceutical company.  

Modern rice mills use twin-rubber dehullers to separate the hull, then the brown rice undergoes a series of polishing, and the process produces bran in two or three grades. The fine grade is prepared like the original tiki-tiki, while the inferior grade is used as feed components. By the way, rice brokens or binlid is fermented into beer. This reduces the cost of local beer, otherwise original beer which is made from barley (which we don't produce here) would be very expensive. 

Make tiki-tiki at home  

Why don't you make your own tiki-tiki at home? Add water more than the usual when cooking rice.  Harvest the thick soup and make it as porridge or lugao, without the rice. Add a little milk and sugar, or just sugar, and serve it as milk supplement or substitute for weaning food for infants, and convalescents. 

Another pinawa hand mill made of bamboo basket lined with clay. Former Farmers' Museum, National Food Authority, Cabanatuan City.  In the picture is Dr. Romualdo M del Rosario, former deputy director National Museum, and a staff member of NFA.  

UST-AB Photography Review: Apply the Human Attributes and Multiple Intelligence through Photography

 Dr Abe V Rotor  

Living with Nature - School on Blog

                 

The Camera and the Computer revolutionized Photography, from an exclusive, sophisticated technology to a popular one. Almost anyone today – young and old, irrespective of educational attainment, creed, ideology, status in life, canhave access  virtually to these magic duo. The Cam-Comp however is a mechanical-electronic tool, a machine, complex as it may seem. Its potential efficiency still lies on the man behind the lens: the human person as thinker, builder, player – and as praying man. Who has the faculties in eight realms of intelligence. Photography requires man’s both  attributes and faculties, which guide him in the use of photography in communication and in arts.

ASSIGNEMT: UST Faculty of Arts and Letters

Photography

Identify what Human Attribute, and Realm/s of Intelligence, each of these photographs applies.  Explain. Give the sub-title of each photo. (printing the photos is optional)  (Handwritten on a short bond)  

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All of us are endowed with a wide range of intelligence which is divided into eight domains. It is not only IQ (intelligence quotient) or EQ(emotional quotient) or any single sweeping test that can determine our God-given faculties. Here in the exercise, we will explore these realms. With a piece of paper (1/4) score yourselves in each of these areas. Use Scale of 1 to 10, like the previous exercise

1. Interpersonal (human relations)

Sometimes this is referred to as social intelligence. Leaders, politicians excel in this field. “They exude natural warmth, they wear disarming smile,” to quote an expert on human relations. Name your favorite person. I choose Nelson Mandela, Condolezza Rice and Henry Kissinger.

2. Intrapersonal (inner vision self-reflection and meditation) Priests, nuns, poets, yogis, St. Francis of Assisi is a genius in this domain. Didn’t Beethoven compose music with his inner ear? Didn’t Helen Keller “see” from an inner vision?

3. Kinesthetics (athletics, sports, body language, dance, gymnastics)

Michael Jordan excels in this domain. Now think of your idol in the sportsworld, or in the art of dance. Lisa Macuja Elizalde is still the country’s top ballet dancer.

4. Languages or linguistics

There are people who are regarded walking encyclopedia and dictionary. The gift of tongue in the true sense is in being multilingual like Rizal.

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5. Logic (dialectics, Mathematics)

Marxism is based on dialectics which is a tool in studying and learning. Likewise, this realm includes the intelligence of numbers – math, accounting, actuarial science, etc. This is the key to IQ test. Einstein, Newton, Socrates, Plato, Aristotle are my choices.

6. Music (auditory art)

Mendelssohn, Mozart, Chopin, Abelardo, Cayabyab, Lea Salonga – name your favorite. Beethoven is one of the world’s great composer, yet he cannot dance. I like to listen to Pangkat Kawayan play Philippine music.

7. Spatial intelligence (drawing, and painting, sculpture, architecture, photography)

The great artist, Pablo Picasso, was robbed in his studio. Hog-tied, he carefully studied the robber, the way an artist studies his model. After the incident he sketched the face of the robber and gave it to the police. The police made a 100 arrests but never succeeded in pinpointing the culprit. The sculptor Rodin wanted his subject to look as if it is melting. What could be a better expression of poverty for his masterpiece, The Burghers of Calais?

8. Naturalism (Green Thumb, Relationship with the Natural World)

There are people who are said to have the “green thumb”. Their gardens are beautiful even with little care. There are those who can predict weather, and tell you if the fish bites, or it is a good hunting day. They pick the reddest watermelon, fullest macapuno nuts, just by feel and sound. Good doctors, I suppose have the green thumb too.

What are your top three? Can you see their relationships? Relate them with your strength. On the other hand, in what ways can you improve on the other realms?

Make full use of your strength. And remember there are early and late bloomers. Nothing is too late to be able to improve on one’s deficiencies.

Maybe you lack a good foundation to explore your talents in a certain domain. But why don’t you catch up? Do you recall late bloomers who succeeded in life? As you reflect on your scores I’ll play for you on the violin On Wings of Song by Felix Mendelssohn. Fly, fly high and be happy like the birds. Just don’t be Icarus.

Reflect on the following:

1. Your strength and you weakness

2. Your “idols” and models

3. Resolution and affirmations ~

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Lesson on former Paaralang Bayan sa Himpapawid, author with Ms Melly C Tenorio

738 DZRB AM  8 to 9 evening class Monday to Friday