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Celebrity commercial model Patricia Fernandez engages a group of participants in the Advance Photography Workshop. Their smiles say it all.

The FPPF Advanced Photography workshop had a real treat Sunday when top commercial model Patricia Fernandez dropped by for their fashion photo shoot in the studio. Miss Fernandez was modeling dresses by Deseo, a Philippine clothing and designing firm.

The Advanced photography class regularly features professional models for their fashion photo sessions as well as in bridal portraiture. Once in a while, celebrity models do come in for the shoots.

Commercial model Patricia Fernandez, who also appears as weather girl on the TV show Unang Hirit, shows off clothes designed by Pia Lizares of Deseo Clothing. Photos by Chris Malinao.

The Advanced Photography class in action, with celebrity model Patricia Fernandez.

Last Sunday’s fashion shoot for the Advanced Photography class also featured model Catherine Saw. The Advanced photo workshop is held regularly for 5 weekends at the FPPF studio in Intramuros, Manila. The classes are handled by veteran professional photographers Vic Sison and Rod Banzon.

Warning: you will print a lot of photos if you wish to create your own version of this video.

Olympus Europe is celebrating 50 years of the PEN camera series. The original PEN has long been gone but the company is happy about the successful launch of the camera’s modern reincarnation, the Olympus E-P1, being marketed now under the same PEN brand name.

To celebrate both the golden anniversary and the successful PEN re-launch, Olympus created a video using stop-motion photography, and it’s viewable here. The Olympus video clearly pays homage to an earlier work by Japanese artist Takeuchi Taijin (that video above) which was posted on YouTube on April 9, 2009 and has already drawn over 2 million views in just a span of three months.

The video is not hard to make; it only needs a whole lot of energy and time, and loads and loads of imagination (and yes, a lot of prints!). You don’t have to wait for the PEN either – which is just now trickling in to dealers in Europe and America – any camera will do.