Lhar Santillan Gil

Lhar talks about Nex-5 and being his own worse critic.

Gerome Soriano

Tell us about your background?

Lhar Santillan Gil

I am a computer science graduate from the University of San Carlos, Cebu. Professional experiences include serving as a faculty member for the mathematics and computer science department as well as a web developer of the same university. I entered photography at around my 2nd year of teaching for the same university. It was out of necessity (need some documentation for the high school "mini" reunion) rather than a sudden surge of artistic juice. My first ILC (Interchangeable Lens Compact Camera) was the 1st generation NEX-5.

I learned my basic photography from nathaniel salang. batch 69. hihihihi. It is from him that I learned to  "be your worst critic!" 

Nathaniel Salang

Nathaniel Salang talks about Sony Alpha Pilipinas and International or SAPI for short, his photography workshops and his Sony genes.

Gerome Soriano
ok let's start with SAPI

Nathaniel Salang
ok

Gerome Soriano
Sir Nathaniel Salang, please introduce yourself? What is your background? How did you got started on photography?


Nathaniel Salang
Background: I studied Philosophy at UP. I started out as a copywriter for a PR firm.
After that, my firends and I formed a Promotions and Events management company
In my PR and...., I was able to work with professional photographers.
When we were doing events, we worked with lots of female models.... these models submitted photos to us when they were applying for jobs. Many of the models were rejected outright because hey gave poor photos, even if they looked really good in person.
I decided that presenting good photos to my clients (decision makers) was key to making my life easier.
Just in time, somebody "pawned" his flim slr... very timely....I decided to study photography so i myself could be the one to take the pictures of models...... good photos ---> more models would get invited to interviews ----> less effort for me...
that's how it started.

NEXT.

I bought the film slr that was "pawned" to me, by the way... and I used it when I was studying photography
It was a Minolta 5xi