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Students will see how different types of photography use natural and artificial elements to achieve a final product, and learn how architectural photography is like staging a scene in a movie. Students will walk to the National Portrait Gallery to use their smart phones in visually imaginative ways to capture images of the exterior and interior of the Gallery. Students will learn how to process their final photographs using the software in their own smart phones

Ron Ngiam, architect and photographer from CGS Architects, has 35+ years of experience in master planning, architecture, and interior design. His numerous design award work ranges in mixed-use development, commercial office building, multi-family residential, public sector, interiors and broadcast facilities. He is well verse in the design field, engaging design process with collaborators and bringing complex situation and requirements into an elegant solution. He earned his degree from Texas Tech University and has been in Washington DC area after graduation.

Locally, he has been serving in his neighborhood architectural review committee board. Growing up, he has developed a passion in photography, currently still pursuing architectural photography after hours with published work that can be seen in popular architectural magazine.