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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

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

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

I am reading a book on leadership when I came across a sentence which states that leaders always live their lives with values. However, this point is not elaborated further and I am left wondering what the values are.
Personally, I feel that living lives with good values is important not only for leaders but every [...]


Posted at: August 17th, 2008 - 11:51 pm - Number of Comments » 0

Dear class,
I have noticed that there is a tendency among some of you to stop midway in your speech when you are presenting your points in class. Below are a few observations that I have made when you are unsure of your points:

Give up trying to find a way to complete your sentence
Informing your audience that you [...]


Posted at: August 13th, 2008 - 11:24 pm - Number of Comments » 0

Dear class,
With the easy accessibility of the internet in campus, it’s not surprising to see many of you using internet as the primary source for research and learning. After all, one just needs to key in a search term in any search engine of one’s preference and the information will be found. While online research [...]


Posted at: July 29th, 2008 - 12:51 am - Number of Comments » 0

In life, I believe that all of us have dreams. It is easy to have a dream in life. The challenging part is in turning our dreams into reality. Some of us didn’t put in the effort, some of us think that it is too difficult and some of us give up midway. If you were [...]


Posted at: July 24th, 2008 - 7:29 am - Number of Comments » 0