I have learned a lot over the course of this class. At the beginning of this trimester, I didn’t know a whole lot about how to take quality pictures, and I certainly didn’t know how to work with photoshop. I decided to take this class because I thought it would be fun to learn more about taking pictures since it is something I do all the time on my phone. I also thought it could be useful to know how to use photoshop. Something that I really enjoyed doing was my blog. I spent a decent amount of time improving my blog at the beginning to this tri. I added in an about me page, and a contact page which I enjoyed. I now know a lot more about how to make a blog and website for myself. My first photo assignment and one of my favorites was the Composition Assignment. This is were I think I learned the most about photography. I spent a lot of time getting good pictures and I was careful to use all of the techniques that I had learned. I also had a lot of fun taking pictures outside. Here are some of my favorite pictures from that assignment: After the composition assignment, I was then given the task of choosing my own topic taking my own pictures. This I found to be harder then the composition assignment because I didn’t have a certain type of picture I had to take, I had to come up with my own which proved to be harder than I though. I had a hard time coming up with things to take pictures of that fit my topic description. This turned out to be a recurring problem. For this class, I didn’t have a hard time with camera technique, I had a hard time coming up with things to take pictures of. For composition, it had been so open ended that I had not run into that problem. I think that my first photo assignment turned out ok in the end, but in my photo assignments to come, it was still a problem. For my next photo assignment, I took picture of the sunset which was very pretty and I had a lot of fun with it. All of my pictures looked similar, however, because I had been taking pictures of the same thing. Though I never got rid of this problem completely, I feel like I have improved throughout this tri. Another one of my favorite photoshop assignments was the Photoshop Tutorial assignment. I got to chose what I wanted to do for this assignment, so I decided to take portrait picture of someone and make it look like it was from a comic book. I had some trouble with adding textboxes, but other then that I had a ton of fun with this photoshop assignment to. |
AuthorHello! My name is Clara Cronin! I play Clarinet in concert band, and in marching band. My favorite book series is Harry Potter and I also really like Marvel. I thought that digital photography would be a fun elective because I have always enjoyed taking pictures. |