Thursday, January 24, 2013

Last Day Reflection

1. What did you learn about photography that you did not know before?

  •  Something I learned about photography is that a blurry photo can one of the most amazing photos you've created. I learned that the different settings all help you capture different types of photographs and I learned how to work with light when I'm capturing a picture. I also learned that you don't need some big fancy camera to capture photos, you just need to know how to take them and make them your own style.

2. What did you learn about yourself this semester?

  • I learned that when I came across a challenge during a project I had keep on trying different things to make it work and I ended up with a great final project.

3. What do you wish we had done that we did not?

  • I wish we would have worked with more film, because one of my favorite parts about this class was the film project and spending time in the dark room learning how to develop pictures.

4. What was your struggle?

  • I think my main struggle was the blur project, because I had never even thought that a blur photo could be any good. I think another struggle would be the portrait project. I think I could have made more conversation to get more and better photographs. Also, thinking of unique idea's, because I always want my pictures to be different from other peoples so they represent me.

5. What did you conquer?

  • During the semester I conquered to use many different settings on my camera and how to take a beautiful picture. I also conquered how to take a picture with many different lighting choices, like how backlighting can actually created a cool photo. At the beginning of the semester, I thought I would just be taking a bunch of different pictures, but I learned how to use the many different settings on my camera and how anything can be a beautiful photograph. 

Wednesday, January 9, 2013

Light Project


With this lighting project I learned that you need to mess around with where you point the light. I also learned that if you are using an animal, don't move them, just move the light around until and take a picture. I discovered, because my dog has a cone, that light bounces off of it. This can help make the picture more interesting, but it can also make your picture turn out differently than you wanted. I also discovered that it is sometimes more challenging to use an animal as your object because of how much they move, but it also makes it very interesting because you can capture them in a different position every time.