Starting early from Central Chidlom, we went to Woodland Resort by Nakornchaisri River for the 2 hours lecture on basic photography and having lunch. The lecturers were Khun Nitikorn Graiwichien, the President of the Photograph Association and Khun Tach-cha Ratanasakdi. After lunch, we proceeded to Sanamchan Palace for the afternoon practice. Before taking off to have a shoot, we received an honour from Khun Gawita Hongsakul to talk about the history of the palace. As I remember, the palace was built about a hundred and a few more years ago by King Rama VI, while he was the Crown Prince under King Rama V. At that time, there was the invasion of the powerful countries to the eastern region. The King initiated to build the palace out of the city for the strategy to overcome the problem. Nakornpatom was a good place because it was not far and the communication was available.
Khun Doughnut, a movie star and our programme speaker. Khun Doughnut was a member of participant and her picture taken was shown to our last session for the criticism. She had a good talent in idea.
Woodland Resort in front of our lecture room. The scenery was like the countryside whereas it was only one hour drive from the city centre.
Walking path along side the river. The water tide was high in the 12th month of the Thai calendar.
Nakornchaisri River was zoomed for the opposite river view. It was still the farm land
Group picture in front of King Rama VI palace. I was standing on the right. This was one of my best time and I enjoyed practising shooting. Not forget to mention that this was the full day course, free of charge, serving to the customers.
The front view of the palace where the King lived.
In memory of a dog, named "Yalay" He was the most beloved dog of the King. When he died, the king was to build the statue for reminding. He was a well trained and tamed dog.
The building looked very western. Our king studied aboard and spent many years in Europe. In front of the building there was the window, looked like the place where the king looked out for the soldier marching. Our king was the commander in chief of Thai Military.
My camera was Canon 450D from Power Buy with the price of 24,000 baht. But the trainers told me that the best pictures could come from any one, DSLR, compact or even the mobile phone camera. The story of the picture was how we took, how much light from the scene and camera. The qualified image depended upon technique and art.
My first practice, I tried to use manual mode to control the shutter speed and focus number for light. the slower the shutter speed, the more vibrate the camera. We might use a tripods for slow shutter. Also, the depth of field or calling f-number was the hole to receive light. The smaller the hole, the higher the number, the picture was deeply clear. If we wanted to focus only one flower, we might change to lower f- number by which in this case, the picture was clear but the background was blurred
I calculated light by light meter in the camera and enjoyed looking at it. Until, my group instructor told me that I should mainly use mode Av which I could control only f-number. The shutter speed could be automatically adjusted by the camera. He said that the news reporter even used only P-mode [Professional] which was semi automatic. They needed the fast taking for the good timing incident. Then I tried Av mode and the picture quality was better.
For the Professional mode, ISO was the sensitivity of image sensor[a place in the camera to record pictures] ISO should be high in shade or dark and lower in sunlight. The high ISO could make the grain broken appearing in the picture when we enlarge it. The best way was to lower ISO or turned to automatic mode except when we wanted to take a night scene.
White balance. WB. It was the mode to control colour in the picture. Shade, daylight, tungsten, fluorescent and cloudy. The natural colour was examined by looking at the situation, daylight-white, cloudy-light blue, shade-blue fluorescent-green and tungsten-yellow. If there were shade and day light mixing in the scene, we changed to automatic white balance.
Single shot and continue. Usually, the single shot was always used, but, in case of the object moving such as kicking the ball, continuous shot gave us to select one good picture from many. In this case the photographer could catch player touching the ball. When we watch any performance, we might like to set the continuous shot too.
Spirit house. This one might just be built, it looked new to me. However, it looked match to the scene, beautiful Thai design
Poultry pent in the stream. They looked lively in the palace park. Natural decoration
Thai style Building. The house was made of wood and looked comfortable to live in
I tried to take against the sun light. How it looked.
Beautiful view of the building connected bridge over the pond. Every one took pictures in this direction
Wooden Building. Since I was young, I have seen a lot of building like this. Now it was hard to find one in the city. But there still be in the countryside.
Every where, the palace had to be furnished with park and trees. We are nature and belong to it. Everytime, being in the park, we are able to have a good rest.
This could be our souvenir of the old day and our ancestors. I was glad coming to see all here.
Windows were decorated in Thai style. They were our art and matched this building
Beautiful window as well. It suited to the warm climate like Thailand. Look at the wood. They were hard and strong.
I and Mr. trainer of our group. He recommended me to use Av mode instead of manual. He was a professional. Other young lady, Nina was a member sitting beside me on the bus from Bangkok.
Trees were green. Colour of nature. I tried the tungsten mode, it was beautiful but it was not natural colour
Beautiful view, I repeated taking pictures in this area. The walking bridge reminded me when I was in the kinder garten age at Wattana-witayalai School. There was the walking path between the building. It was my memory of the first school in life.
Quiet road. There were many tourists today, but before taking this picture, I was waiting until the area was free. It was easy to take a picture of the surrounding environment. But my pictures were so common, they were not lively.
I saw this tree since I was young. But I forget it's name. I was not sure if there was a fruit.
Tree with the roots around the trunk. These aireal roots make tree looked older. This spot could show the tourists particularly the foreigners. Green natural park of the palace.
Other member of our group were actively taking pictures. I saw everyones enjoying it as well as me. Surprisingly, how to get a good picture to show.
Picture of trees and shade. I thought it was beautiful to look at the contrast of light in the nature scene.
King Rama VI was a founder and the first commander of boy scout in Thailand. I was a boy scout when I was a student. I used to join the mourned marching and singing a boy scout song once to pay respect on his dead anniversary, November 25th. at King Rama VI Monument, Lumpini Park. I remember everything about boy scout including camping. This statue was King Rama VI in his boy scout uniform.
Other view before the end, it was late in the evening and I had an appointment to go to a wedding in Bangkok. How I could manage it.
Last picture with other beautiful view. They were always beautiful in the evening and at the end of the session. We would like to stay longer.
The second place runner up in the contest which was the last session in the programme. The compact camera was given to the 2nd place winner .
The third place, he got the picture printer as a prize. Good job. And,
The first place. The winner got a good compact camera.
I saw the pictures in the contest and I never thought of these ways of shooting. It was a kind of art. I had just taken pictures with the simple action, standing or kneeling. Later, I must adapt myself to the art style.
Thank you very much for the one card programme staff. This was very fruitful to my furture camera use. I will take all the idea with me when I go out shooting. Need not to say that, I have been the honest customer of Central department Store, Power Buy and One Card. Saying that I go to Central everyday and buy everything there. One thing I doubt is the car parking charge, it is so expensive for the retiree to stay in the longer hours like me. Thank Mr. lecturers, trainers and all staff for making the day very valuable. I met two friends there too. Nina and Ple [a staff] Chavalvut
The first place, black and white. Look like a place in dream.
The third place. The building behind the foreground, around by the trees. The intension of the picture was looking deeply to the building
The second place. The tree and the building roof. The component of the objects were balance. If I remember some criticism
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