Thats another Filipino thing that makes me laugh - often you'll see signs 'fall in line' . One day I think I will do just that (do the actual falling over onto the line) and see the reaction. Also, I love the way the aircraft boarding annoucements at NAIA always end with "...all a-board please' as if its the skylark. For those needing the toilet, you must ask for CR (or comfort room) or restroom, or WC. Any attempts at asking for a toilet will get you blank looks.
Those graves are just like the ones in Spain. I can see where the influence came from. BTW, Photo 1 is great Jim Was it hand-held without flash?
Thanks Mike, yes I had a series of about 10 or more shots all hand held no flash the 5D did not have a flash and it would have spoiled the atmosphere. It was 1/50th of a second at f4 and ISO 3200, focal length was 35mm, 1/50th is about fine for a focal length of 35mm as it is comfortably better than the old 1/(focal length) as a minimum shutter speed rule in this case.
thats correct and it does work..its far cheaper than that off lotion and you can drink it too..win win.
That made me LOL, Al. Thanks for the comment :vhappy: It made me realise that photography can be confusing for people who don't do it regularly.
Thanks for the reply, Jim. All I can say is (even though you are at ISO 3200) you must have hands as solid as a tree. I get nervous at 1/60 I am hoping you are going to tell me you were propped up against a wall and pressed the button when every last bit of your breath was expelled
To take a picture handheld without it turning out blurry there is an old rule that says set the shutter speed to a number equal to or greater than the focal length of the lens you are using. Lens focal lengths go from say 10mm (wideangle) to 800mm (long telephoto) and the minimum shutter speed fraction of a second needed to get an sharp photo is 1 divided by the focal length of the lens (which is usually written on the front of the lens) this is the slowest you should go, so for example for a 35mm lens, 1/35th of a second would be the slowest shutter speed you would want to use 1/50th of a second would be much better. The problem in photography is that there are three variables Aperture, Shutter Speed, and Sensitivity, sensitivity is also known as ISO or ASA, this is the sensitivity of either film or a sensor. The problem is that all three are linked and you can only get some shots right at the limits of all three, to get that shot that Mike commented on I had to push the sensor sensitivity to the maximum possible on my camera, so that at the widest aperture of my lens I could get a shutter speed quick enough to let me handhold the camera and get a shot that was not blurry All that can be said quickly and in short form as 1/50th of a second at f4 on ISO 3200 The shutter speed rule was explained in the rest of it however my punctuation could have been better, I've been working a lot of late nights recently
No I think that one was free standing, the wide end of the 24-105 like most wide angles is not that hard to use and can be fairly easily handheld and remember too the 24-105 is stabilised as well so I have no fears using it this way, the real value of the 1/50th of a second shutter speed was to freeze the motion of the subject, but the IS did help here as well. I do have a natural instinctive pause to my breathing when I am about to release the shutter, always had that ever since I started in Photography
Well Kuya, at least when it's raining the dogs are not barking po... and since everyone in the Philippines has one or several of them per household, which one do you prefer? barking dogs or rain drops? up to you po. Don't say "mosquitoes"... say: the dengue that mosquitoes infect you with till you have to go to hospital to buy one of those red bottles to do a blood change in your body... oh, and don't forget the dogs with rabies in the streets of bigger cities where you can find dog biting clinics always there for you... and also the cockroaches climbing the walls and coming in through the windows at night to crawl up your legs and feast in the kitchen garbage, along with the rats and armies of ants coming in from every impossible spot in numbers larger than what you can handle... get used to eating rice with ants and sugar with ants and ants with everything... that is, assuming they left you anything after crawling into every corner of the house, of course. Think that about transportation? wait untill you reach the point where locals routinely exploit you even in the very food you eat and water you drink. When you get screwed simply because you are alive, you will then understand some things abut the philippines that you never understood before. That's one of the "eureka" moments when you say: "now I finally understand that I don't understand anything about this." When it comes to appearance, how come you didn't mention gays and transgendered? But anyways... employers putting apparently happy smiling young women with white faces that are brown underneath??? how about family, friends and neighbors recommending honest, joyful, faithful and respectable young woman in search of a foreign husband because in their neighborhood they are full of secrets, lies, promiscuity, adultery, violence, torture, extortion, alcohol, etc, etc... and then you see them put talk powder in their face to pretend to be white when they are really brown underneath and you secretly wish to yourself with all your heart "I wish that was all they were doing" That happens when you do it by yourself, but the worse is when they make you do it... like when you're in line and another person points away from you and says: "there is someone over there asking for your name" and after you're unable to find anyone, you look back and realize what happened... which is the reason why people started to take a friend along with them to be there and do the talk while the other one is doing "you know what" in your back. and then they smile at you in the face and say: "welcome to the Philippines, Joe" and if you confront them they make sad eyes and say "sorry" and then you believe them and in the next day they do it again in the exact same way and that's when you realize that they were never sorry for having done it in the first place... they were only sorry that you caught them. LOLOL And once again... "welcome to the Philippines, Joe"... maybe that's why they removed the American flag from the new peso bills... they must have given them the boot. And you know what's most hilarious? That the person who did that had a t-shirt saying JESUS in big bold capital letters written with every color of the rainbow across their chest. LOLOL... I'm making fun of all this, but I dunno if I should laugh or cry. After the temperature shock of the blazing hot days and cold night air makes your throat and lungs inflamed try to have a fan next to your head to circulate the air and make it even worse and then watch people trying to cure disease symptoms such as fever by singing and massaging and then you'll start understand how the people in the Philippines work... in other words... you won't understand absolutely zip! Have you ever made a contract/agreement/compromise with a person in the philippines and one day you wake up and you never see them again because they did whatever without telling you anything? You never see them again and you better not try to find them to try to make any sense out of the whole craziness because it's even more weird after you find them than what it already is. And you're still complaining they show up late? Be glad that they show up at all... while they do. How about when you give them something and they tell you "I don't want what you gave me with this hand... I want what you have in the other hand" In the streets out of the city wear masks because of what you said and in the streets of the city wear masks because of the heavy traffic dirty air. And before departing... you know what's most funny of all? Is that everyone in this list would already be targeted for taking down by the local MILF members who wear t-shirts with "Jesus" written in bold letters across their chest and by the neighbors as "persona non grata" for saying these truths instead of saying lies with a smile on their face. And remember... always smile while in the philippines.
A bad case of "culture shock" IMO An "old hand" in Asia, my minder in Singer's, experienced in China, HK, S'Pore, Burma Etc. advised me when I was first in The East = "Their Country - their rules". "You dont like it - leave".! "Weather, bugs and any other things you may dislike here are as nothing compared to a miserable summer day or a harsh winters day in Blighty'. :freezing:. IMO much more truth in that to-day with the miserable, and worsening, financial climate, in €Land & UK, reflected in the miserable look on people's faces Now I am the "old hand" with 35 years experience in PI, Burma, S'Pore, Indo, China Etc. and any Country in The East is preferable, for me, than Uk, Eire, €Land or OZ & NZ. ;-) PI = A "Smiles per mile" glorious Country. :vhappy: Tom
Calm down Berfan.. This list was written with a hint of humour, as was the other list I made for the things about the Philippines that I love
OK La... 1. I do hate the 02.45 crowing Cockrell but the resident Cock is dinner the day we arrive. Father obliges. 2. Kareoke on V.poor quality BOOMING speakers 3. Oh 2 is enough... Tom
Actually the OP's list isn't that bad at all. One could title it subconsciuosly as "10 things to be different then from home." I also did not had the Impressions, that the Poster really "hates" those things. I actually ( and many more) had the samefeelings in the beginning,then i started to "tolerate" them, later "accepted" them, and when it came to human traits, started slowly to like them (YUP !) "Time" - isn't it great, that one does not have the "stress" to be punctual ? No more haste and all this frustration when the guy waiting is giving you a hate tirade first because he "waited" 5 minutes ? The associated pressure and frustration waiting for a delayed Train or bus, getting stuck in Traffic and appointments are falling apart ? I remember them well from Germany and it probably aged me 10 years. Now its simply a mumbled excuse( not even required) for being late and its "foggeddaboutit." because a Filipino does not care if you are late, he waits for YOU and isn't a slave of his watch. Same with "noise".(Karaoke) Party with them or ignore it. They are just happy and love to sing. Is it maybe that we are disappointed because we can not be happy? ( envy ?) And maybe we all should remember (being young) back home when we had good Parties with friends and suddenly the Police turned up to say, we should turn the Music down,.. or else. Of course the complainant was ( mostly) the bitter old man or lady next door/building, the same one patrolling the road for wrongly parked cars etc. Did we became like "them " now ? (Better not, lol) It's not bad intention when one gets enerved with all the little things, its more a symptom of our "stress" that we get annoyed. For decades we were forced to adapt to a "stay in line" life according to local strict standards and the sudden freedom is hard to adapt too. Try rather to enjoy the same freedom as the Filipinos do, than to educate them to our western strictly regulated way of life. Because our western life is boring as hell, all we got is work, the odd visit to the Pub and TV. Then 4 weeks holiday every year and if we are nice and work hard for 40 years we may get rewarded with a small pension before we hop in the box.
I "suffer" for the first few days because of tiredness. So the cockrell is dinner upon our arrival. The happiness of neighbours is most enjoyable BUT the low frequency BOOM of cheap struggling speakers does grate on my nerves. After 2/3 weeks the warmth of the climate, the people and the relaxed clock free athmosphere has me chilled to a locals level. Tom
