Autobiography

Jon Bucks Carlos was born In 17th March of 1974. He is the eldest in the family who’s musically and arts inclined. He first flocked doorstep of photography about 4 years ago. During his sophomore years, in Workman High school, US, he learned about film photography, used pinholes and developed his own photos. Photography also runs in the family as his aunt use to run and manage a photo studio and his step father was also into photography.

It was in 2007 time the he got more serious about photography. He has always like to take photos, but he wouldn’t have considered his earlier to be noteworthy. He has tried other form of art at first, looking for a way to balance everything. He first had his Sony and Canon cameras and started to take snap photos. Basically his older pictures focusing in street photography and landscape photography are among the early attempts. Since then, it has been a wonderful journey exploring his creative side.

Photography Career:

He first join photo contest when an opportunity strikes sponsored by Photoworld Cup’s (PWC) monthly photo contest. In November 2008, he was able to catch the 1st place on the same. In January 2009, his works were published in Imag Photography magazine and Manila Bulletin’s Picture Perfect’s Photo of the Week. More of his photo works were featured in MBPP as Photographer of the Week. He was able to get 1st place for I Love NLex Photo Contest which was participated by top heavy and professional photographers known all over the Philippines. Just recently, he won 2nd place for the Travel on Great Roads Photo Contest. He was announced as a Grand Prize Winner for the Best Shot Online Photo Contest sponsored by ESL Portal. After going through a very keen detail of judging, by 50 judges including Jim Paredes, Borj Meneses, Ross Capili and many others, proved his hard work is all worthy. This opportunity gave Jon the opportunity to work and compete with 25 other professional photographers.

Due to his strong technical background he understands most facets of optics and sensors. He can use this knowledge to get the most out of any situation. This gives him the advantage to focus more on the creative side of photography, which he’s been trying to improve during the last few years or so.Comparing him to top notch photographers such he knows and understand that he still have long ways to go. Vic Sison and many other’s work has been a great inspiration for him and kept him going.

Post-Processing

Definitely one of his strengths is his proficiency with photo processing in Photoshop. Making a photo consists of two parts. Taking the shot and developing it. In the digital world this means processing the image. It is also a form of art that is often overlooked or not credited enough.Currently he’s been organizing series of Photography and Photo Manipulation Workshops. With the workshops his is putting together it takes the reader through the whole process of developing a RAW image. Every photographer has their own personal Workflow and some guard their secrets very well. It took him quite some time to learn and master the craft and figure all the work out.