PREFACE

In 2009, I started taking photos of everyday lives with my first DSLR, the Nikon D60 camera that my sister May gave me as a gift when she got her first salary as a public school teacher.

I began to study and master the essentials that should be included in taking pictures on my own experiences.

I further understood the techniques of telling stories using images when I attended the workshop of the Photojournalist Center of the Philippines (PCP) Batch 9 or as we are called NUEVE, in Benguet, Mountain Province in November 2014. All of our mentors here are seasoned Photojournalists in the country. That was the beginning of my career as a Photojournalist.

The cameras I have used are also different. Starting with Nikon, until I bought a Canon 550D with video capture capability, where I was engaged telling stories through film, the Fujifilm XT10 mirrorless camera, and my most used smartphone now, the Huawei P30 Pro.

Nowadays the smartphone is one of the easiest to use for taking pictures and documenting events and is not far behind the pictures taken by DSLR.

In this book you can see a series of images portraying the lives of devotees in Barangay Wawa, Nasugbu, Batangas as they imitate the Passion of Christ during the Holy Week.

It will also show the importance of Lights and Shadows in applying to photography through composition to make the final result more impressive. It also adds drama to the image and storytelling of each documented event.

The different genres in photography is clearly discuss which will ultimately help you decide what genre you want to focus on in your photography career.