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Aside from new readers writing in, this column has also been receiving a lot of images from others who had been featured before. As a way of accommodating as many contributors as possible, we will be featuring the images (including some that have been submitted since January) by theme starting today. This means that the theme will probably change every week, to be determined by a survey of the available material.

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This month of October, we will also be allotting space for authentic and seemingly authentic (in other words, creatively done) ghost photographs from readers. For instructions on how to create such images, readers can refer to Benjamin Rivera’s column (Photography 101) last week here on Picture Perfect.

Second year U.E. Manila Journalism student, Gelyka Ruth Dumaraos, starts off today’s featured new readers. She says, “I started to love taking photos when we had our photography class two semesters ago.”

Ray Bart Manoguid, 4th year Communication Research student in PUP writes about an experience two years ago in Intramuros that got him interested in photography. He shares: “May nakita po kasi akong bata na umiiyak, hinahanap yung nanay nya. Feeling ko kelangan ko i-capture yung moment na yun kaso sayang at wala naman akong camera. Doon na po nagsimula yung interes ko at ayon kahit papaano, pumupunta-punta ako sa mga bookstore para tumingin ng magagandang konsepto sa photography.” Unfortunately, Bart says that he only has a cellphone camera for pursuing his hobby.

Raymund S. Pilapil submitted images that he describes as among his early attempts to become a photography hobbyist. He says that he is always on the lookout for “perfect locations and moments” to shoot using his DSLR. More of his images are at www.flickr.com/photos/raymundp25/.

Today’s image theme is “Pagsisikap.” Featured photographers are Glenn Disu of Framed Shots Camera Club, Heinz Reimann Orais (www.heinzorais.co.cc) who shot around Cavite City, Eric Tan who took photos at a Las Piñas dumpsite, web developer Paolo Sarangaya who photographed rice farmers in Isabela, and Rommel Esmeralda who continues to use a cellphone camera.

We end with a tip on a freeware that reduces the noise in images. We found this to be particularly helpful when we had to brighten underexposed photos showing a lot of noise in the process. The freeware is Noiseware Community Edition downloadable at www.imagenomic.com. The program has control levers that users can experiment with.