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Some of you seem to be curious about DSLR cameras when this topic is brought up during the last meeting.
 
So, what exactly are DSLR cameras?
 
DSLR cameras – otherwise known as Digital Single Lens Reflex- is the type of cameras that most professional photographers use as compared to a Point-and-Shoot (PnS) camera. So, are [...]


Posted at: November 28th, 2008 - 12:24 am - Number of Comments » 0

Hi Students,
 
This is a self-enrichment article on photography. As I believe that all of you have a fundamental knowledge of photography, I will choose to bypass the basics and proceed straight to the analysis of photos.  I will primarily be focusing on portraiture photography.
 
In addition, although the technicalities of photography are deemed to be [...]


Posted at: November 9th, 2008 - 7:31 pm - Number of Comments » 0

In the near future, will video eventually replace photo?
Throughout the years, photography and video have existed alongside each other with their own strengths. However, it seems that video is slowly replacing photos. Read the details here.
Below are some questions that you might like to ask yourself:

How is this development going to affect my career (as a [...]


Posted at: October 17th, 2008 - 12:06 am - Number of Comments » 0

Dear students,
Singapore is hosting the first Singapore International Photo Festival (SIPF), which might be of interest to you, especially for those of you who have intense interest in photography. It will subsequently be held once every two years.
The official website is as follows:
 Singapore International Photo Festival
Some details of the event that you might like to know:

The event is [...]


Posted at: October 6th, 2008 - 8:13 pm - Number of Comments » 0

Dear class,
There are various ways that you are able to make class/public presentations, and what follows are some examples. While these presentation styles may not be appropriate for your presentations on say, research methods, it does helps you in formulating a style in your presentations, even if it means just talking to your friend(s) in [...]


Posted at: September 25th, 2008 - 12:51 am - Number of Comments » 0

The old media and new media are converging in recent years. Just take a look at the newspapers. Some papers are publishing pictures sent in by citizen journalists via the internet. Some comments from movie reviews are also retrieved online. Readers of some newspapers are also able to submit their comments to the paper’s forum section via email. 
The same can [...]


Posted at: September 18th, 2008 - 11:45 pm - Number of Comments » 0

As the internet becomes more prominent globally, the media is soon realising that it has to change to keep pace with it. This is especially so for news content. While it has solely been the privilege of the media to provide news content to the world in the past, the internet has supplanted the media [...]


Posted at: September 17th, 2008 - 12:44 am - Number of Comments » 0

Dear class,
I believe some of you might have already heard of Tony Buzan, the man who is most commonly associated with the use of mind maps. However, what’s not really known about him is the fact that besides the renowned “mind map” technique, Tony Buzan has also introduced to us other methods of recall that is [...]


Posted at: September 15th, 2008 - 7:04 am - Number of Comments » 0

There are certain individuals who may have a tendency to dominate and create a consensus in their teams not through the willingness of team members to collaborate but through the domination of discussion sessions. This is, in fact, an issue of groupthink, which is defined by Thefreedictionary.com as “the act or practice of reasoning or decision-making [...]


Posted at: August 24th, 2008 - 3:26 am - Number of Comments » 0

In the midst of one of my lessons in class, I have brought up the fact that each of us has our strengths in some areas. For those of us who do not feel this way, it is because we have not found our strengths, talents and abilities yet. As I feel that this is something [...]


Posted at: August 21st, 2008 - 6:34 am - Number of Comments » 0