I remember a promise I made myself when I graduated from college. I told myself that one day I would shoot the yearbook photos of my alma mater. I managed to achieve that goal within two years.

Does anyone else have any personal photography goals that they would like to share?

After the Blue Eagles won the 2002 UAAP championship title I told myself that the following season I would shoot them from the best seat in the house: courtside. Did that twice in the 2003 season and since 2004 have been shooting each and every Blue Eagles game, save for a couple.

Funny how some would define that by the number of "L" lenses they'd acquire over the next couple of months or years :)

Seriously, all I really wanted to do was take "nice" pictures.

Nobody ever warned me that "nice" was a BIG word of various permutations that's going to keep me awake at night.

I want to be as good as the main man, Jo Avila!

Funny how some would define that by the number of "L" lenses they'd acquire over the next couple of months or years :)

Seriously, all I really wanted to do was take "nice" pictures.

Nobody ever warned me that "nice" was a BIG word of various permutations that's going to keep me awake at night.

Ahahahaha! Couldn't agree more Raul! :)

Back in the 80's... I had that dream of "shooting" and pressing the trigger without hurting or killing anyone... without destroying LIFE.

Now, I have realized that dream... I am shooting to capture and promote LIFE.

My goal is to be the best! And if I cannot be the best of the best; I'd settle at least to be one of them. :)

My most recent goal... to put up my own photography website by early next year... TING! Para maging one-click away lang ako sa aking mga mahal sa buhay...

to hold a photo exhibit... realized that last mar 2005:)

im aiming to put up a simple website... crossing my fingers (early next year):)

I plan to be as big as the biggest name in advertising photography here and abroad. I wanna earn millions and not peanuts. Then I'll have my own art and photo exhibit when I retire. Nothing is impossible!

ayaw ko magpromise..... baka mapako :Grin:

being new to photography, still a long road ahead for goals... i'll get back to this thread once i get hold of my photography-related goal:)

Graduate from College cause it's taking me forever!!!

Photo related goal. January 2005, I decided I wanted to be a photojournalist and December 2005, I got published in Newsbreak thanks to luck. I still have a long way to go though *sigh*

Indonesia, Thailand, India and other Asian countries ay nagpapa-tournament na sa professional tennis, i hope someday magkaron din sa pinas (since i like tennis sport a lot and an average player).

then, if that time comes (matagal pa for sure), siguro naman medyo marami na kong alam sa photography... so it means, i hope i can be one of the photograhers to cover that tournament. definitely, i'll do my best.

Does your wife know this? :D

I want to be as good as the main man, Jo Avila!

Being also new to photography, learn and improve the skills needed, maybe someday make it as a profession.

to compete against other nationalities in a photo competition here in Dubai and win...achieved that last September 2005...

http://photos.friendster.com/photos/03/83/9643830/1811535029340l.jpg

Im a kid. I have a long way to go.
First: Graduate. Mechanical Engineering isnt exactly the easiest course out there.
Second: Set up Engineering Consultancy Firm.
Third: Have my own Photography Studio/Ad Agency.
Fourth: Bang a swedish pornstar
Fifth: Make my Engineering and Photography businesses grow
Sixth: Asia
Seventh: COMPLETE AND TOTAL WORLD DOMINATION.
Eighth: Eat a tornado plate at Ghirardeli Square... Mufu*kin 20 scoops of ice cream... only men with iron stomachs can handle this.

After the Blue Eagles won the 2002 UAAP championship title I told myself that the following season I would shoot them from the best seat in the house: courtside. Did that twice in the 2003 season and since 2004 have been shooting each and every Blue Eagles game, save for a couple.



i love your shots, nono... hope your passion to shoot the eagles never ceases... :)

go Ateneo!:)

Im a kid. I have a long way to go.
First: Graduate. Mechanical Engineering isnt exactly the easiest course out there.
Second: Set up Engineering Consultancy Firm.
Third: Have my own Photography Studio/Ad Agency.
Fourth: Bang a swedish pornstar
Fifth: Make my Engineering and Photography businesses grow
Sixth: Asia
Seventh: COMPLETE AND TOTAL WORLD DOMINATION.
Eighth: Eat a tornado plate at Ghirardeli Square... Mufu*kin 20 scoops of ice cream... only men with iron stomachs can handle this.


hahahahaha!!!! good luck! :Grin:

Im a kid. I have a long way to go.
First: Graduate. Mechanical Engineering isnt exactly the easiest course out there.
Second: Set up Engineering Consultancy Firm.
Third: Have my own Photography Studio/Ad Agency.
Fourth: Bang a swedish pornstar
Fifth: Make my Engineering and Photography businesses grow
Sixth: Asia
Seventh: COMPLETE AND TOTAL WORLD DOMINATION.
Eighth: Eat a tornado plate at Ghirardeli Square... Mufu*kin 20 scoops of ice cream... only men with iron stomachs can handle this.

Hahahaha! This made my day! Balitaan mo kami kung na-attain mo na yung goal number 4! ROTFL :D:Grin:

Bakit lahat ng goal ko goal nyo?

ako, dati gusto ko lang makita yung shoot ko at yun name ko sa magazine.. ok na ako at masaya na dun.. ngayon gusto ko isang cover sa NatGeo.. :)

one of my goal is to go back to my fathers root in Mindanao, and shoot some photos with the people, the rebels there, the local tribes, the landscape.. everything Mindanao.. specifically Cotabato :)

to compete against other nationalities in a photo competition here in Dubai and win...achieved that last September 2005...

http://photos.friendster.com/photos/03/83/9643830/1811535029340l.jpg

Sandro from Lightform Photography Club congrats nga pala from winning first price in Old and New Dubai photo competition. :)

still figuring out what i want to do with my life... so i guess that's my goal for now..

Levi,
Thanks.

Orlando,
#4 is the least of my concerns. I have a few scandanavian friends and they look like pornstars so I guess I have that part set. :)

Wow! Congrats Sandro!

Care to post that winning photo?

when jo avila shot my wedding i told myself that one day i would cover important events.

2 years later i got back into photography.

since then i've shot both my kids' cs deliveries (despite the fact that i hate the site of blood), i've shot both their baptisms, both their first birthdays...

a few months after my first kid's birth i got published shooting some sports (hardly seems as important as the milestones above but it's there under other good stuff :) )

now i'm just taking things as they come shooting the eagles when i can.

For me my goal as a wedding photographer is to be able to produce photographs like the works of the people I admire in this field such as Dino Lara, Pilar Tuazon, Lito Sy and more. Of course my clients should be able to appreciate my work. Fame comes secondary for me.

for now i want to make classic greeting cards out of the black and white portraits i took of my dogs. i plan to sell them come christmas time and some of the earnings (that is if they sell) will be given to the Philippine Animal Welfare Society (PAWS). i eventually plan on becoming a good pet photographer. i'm a work in progress =)

I have several levels set to my mind. Just started out photography with a PnS a few months back, luckily achieved level 1 in no time coz one of my pic was featured in a daily newspaper, now I'm off to level 2. I'm will not dreaming of the impossible such as make a history in photography. Just a more decent recognition/award would definitely be the last level , at sana maging 1st photographer na makilala sa family namin and lastly, sana maging raket ko photography pag may decent cam na...hehehe

For me, my main goal before the year end is to buy a new Canon S3 IS digital camera, so that i could start learning basic photograpgy and camera handling, though for now im not planning to make photography a career, i just goin to take it step by step, i hope this forum will help me gain more information about this hobby.. :Grin:

to win the WORLD PRESS PHOTO OF THE YEAR 20?? then the Pullitzer award 20??
thats my goal not a wish...hehehehe!!!!!

for me ,no plan at all. I just want to be an amateur , photography for me is just a hobby (retirement hobby) no business, if want to earn money from photgraphy ,not by shooting picture but selling equipment may be. " insha Allah":)

It doesn't have to be a professional goal.

It could be something else. Some photographers enroll in my class simply because they want to take better pictures of their children.

for me ,no plan at all. I just want to be an amateur , photography for me is just a hobby (retirement hobby) no business, if want to earn money from photgraphy ,not by shooting picture but selling equipment may be. " insha Allah":)

to be able to attend one of sir jo's classes before the year ends. :)

and also to shoot at my heart's content. :)

I guess the first goal that i set was to be recognized and earn from this hobby without giving up my corporate work. so far, everything is working perfectly and i have been managing to combine work (banking) and passion (photography) for the past 6 years.

next goal i have set is to be instrumental in bringing photography business in the philippines to a higher level. very vague yet but slowly working on it.

fol

I've been wanting to get a photo published in a magazine and I've done that. And someone has asked to use my photos for a newspaper article to come out soon. I'd love to be sent on a travel story where I'd do both the writing and photography.

main goal? dont know, hopefully my photos will lead me there....

during my last 2 years in college, I wanted to take photos of the most memorable places in UPLB, that was suppose to be my grad gift to myself. For some reason I did not get to spend time plus I did not have my own camera then (until now actually!) The story board was already in place and its still is up to now. Sad lang what happened to LB because of Milenyo... Hay I dunno if my memorable spots are still existing or just plain memory na lang... I heard the hanging bridge is no longer hanging...

Pero still, i have to work on this project... I plan to fill up our walls at home with my photos (and my husband-to-be's photo's as well).

Siguro, this is my ultimate lifetime project... fill my home with frames of moments in our lives thru photos... there! my goal. :)

Ana,
I'd love to also be able to fill up the walls in my room with photos. All black and white... all film :D

BW medium format landscape, travel photos, mounted and framed.

short term: have my sensor cleaned
mid term: 70-200 f4L, 100 2.8 macro and a new body siguro
long term: life long memories of places, people, things... :)

my goal is to take (most of them) photo that when somebody sees it they will say " ang galing" ... not something like " ai i can do that also!" hehehe i think most people underestimate the craft,,,

short term goal,,, take a photo of close friends ( something that is really good, ) 8 x 10, b&w, give it to them as christmas presents :)

OT @therat: good idea!

Enjoy the moment each time I press my shutter button.

It doesn't have to be a professional goal.

It could be something else. Some photographers enroll in my class simply because they want to take better pictures of their children.

I think that is what i am doing , taking picture of my love ones. I enrolled in Photo school because of that....salam.....

There were 2 specific advertising work on my list (Nikon and Apple). I accomplished the Nikon ad as I did the Nikon pre-shoot with Kate Moss this year through our agency. On the other hand, I may never get to shoot Apple. Sigh.

Ana,
I'd love to also be able to fill up the walls in my room with photos. All black and white... all film :D

Yeah, that would be some place to go home to... Just your room? Fill up the whole house! :)

short term goal,,, take a photo of close friends ( something that is really good, ) 8 x 10, b&w, give it to them as christmas presents :)

MY brother's been doing this for the last 5-6 years ata. Except for last year. Xmas 2004, He collated pictures he took and made it into some sort of a collage... He was still using film then... THis is a great idea for xmas gifts. Personalized and "inexpensive" (not cheap) :Grin:

Short term: To attend Sir Jo Avila's Basic Photography workshop

Medium term: To attend Sir Jo Avila's Advanced Photography workshop

Long term: To attend Sir Dino Lara's OWG wedding workshop next year

Ipon muna. :D