Last Day Reflections

1. Things I now know about photography that I did not know before are actually a lot!  To start off with, I didn't know anything about shutter speed, or even how to work film cameras.  I had already had experience as a child developing, but at the age I was, I didn't understand what I was doing or why the things I were doing was necessary.  I also learned that photography is much more complicated then I ever thought, and there are many techniques involved in taking a good photo.  Using Photoshop I learned how to edit photos to make people look small and fake, levitate, and make into a panorama.  Though there are many interesting things I learned this year about photography, the thing that amazed me the most that I did not know before, was that you can take a picture through almost any object if you set it up right, and I really enjoyed learning to take the pictures from a can.

2. Something I learned about myself is that I am able to capture almost any object or moment and turn it in to something beautiful.  I now know that I am capable of using my imagination to take interesting pictures, and even though I didn't have the time to do most of them, I have many creative ideas when it comes to photography. The last thing I learned about myself was that I actually really enjoy Photoshop and I could probably spend all day editing just one photo, it takes patience which now I realize I have.

3.  There is nothing I wish we had done that we didn't.  This class actually taught me more than I ever expected to know and I feel accomplished.  The only thing that I wish could have happened for this class, was more time on our projects.  I personally think that this class needs more than an hour and a half!

4.  My mane struggle was making time to get the photos done on time.  I feel like if I had more time, I would have been able to do more of my creative ideas and actually make some really interesting photos.  Another struggle I had was with the panoramas, I found it difficult to find three different spots that met the requirements for making it into an earth.  I also struggled with figuring out the silhouettes, but after I got extra help on that I realized it wasn't as difficult as I thought it was. The last thing I struggled with was my computer, it wouldn't post anything on my blog, and it was slower than the other computers. 

5.   The thing I feel I conquered the most was the portraits.  I really enjoyed taking the portraits of myself and my little sister (I didn't like the ones with my mom because she wasn't very cooperative).  I think I did well on those because I was really able to capture emotions on my little sister that I had never seen before, plus some of the lighting I found was really cool.  For my self portraits I also had a lot of fun doing those and coming up with ideas. 

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 The one above is a lamp , with background blur

 My hand doesn't looked as blurred as it did with color

 The one above is just extra, it's a picture of my hand moving really fast and I thought it was cool because you can see the lines in my skin

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I learned a lot about how to work with light and how to work with different angles.  I also learned that capturing certain angles with certain light is a lot more complicated than I thought, and takes technique.  Doing the silhouette was the hardest thing for me to do, and it took me several tries to get it right, when I finally got it right though I really enjoyed finding different pictures to take and experimenting with it. 

WEB ASSIGNMENT #5: Beauty

How would you define beauty in photography:  Capturing someones emotions or being able to create a feeling when looking at the photo.  Also by creating a story in the photo by using the surroundings.
What are characteristics of photographic beauty: Good composition, captures emotion, tells a story, unique, good detail, and a unique perspective
can something ugly be photographed and be considered beautiful: Yes, because if you capture it correctly or at the right angle, with the right kind of lighting you can make something ugly beautiful.  An example would be the project where students took pictures of dog poop.

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