
Tom Balete won top honors at the graduation last Sunday of the July-August batch, Batch 6, of the Advanced Photography Workshop of the FPPF. He is shown here being congratulated by professional photographer and Advanced instructor Vic Sison, right.
Tom Balete won First Place Overall in the Advanced Photography Workshop conducted July 5 to August 2 by the FPPF. He garnered the highest overall score in a class of 32. The scores were tallied from 3 categories in the photo competitions: Bridal Portraiture, High Key/Low Key Photography and Still Life Photography. Tom earlier aced his Basic class by also winning First Place in the still life category.
The 5-day Advanced workshop further honed the photographers’ skills in studio and outdoor shoots and placed more emphasis on portraiture and glamour shots, as well as in product photography.

The Top 5 Overall of Batch 6 2009, Advanced Photography Workshop. From left to right: Tom Balete 1st Place, Nilo Nequinto 2nd, Ronald Pilaspilas 3rd, Laarni Castulo 4th and Paulo Xavier M. Cabantog 5th.
The Top 5 Overall:
1st Place – Tomas Balete
2nd Place – Nilo C. Nequinto
3rd Place – Ronald Pilaspilas
4th Place – Laarni Castulo
5th Place – Paulo Xavier M. Cabantog
Categories:
Bridal Portraiture
1st Place – Jennifer P. Corpus
2nd Place – Laarni T. Castulo
3rd Place – Ronald R. Pilaspilas
High Key/Low Key
1st Place – Tomas T. Balete
2nd Place – Katherine P. Nery
3rd Place – Clarence J. Regondola
Still Life
1st Place – Hiram Y.C. Abanil
2nd Place – Paulo Xavier M. Cabantog
3rd Place – Russel A. Dulay
Their winning photos have been posted in the Gallery.






August 7th, 2009 at 9:29 am
congratulations to batch 6 advance class winners and graduates!!
November 12th, 2009 at 3:54 pm
it was a fun experience. congratulations to all!