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In one of my previous posts, I talked about some of my favorite/least favorite posts. To be honest, I think all of the assignments helped me grow significantly as a photographer. Before this class, I never used a camera; but now, I know I will continue to photograph my life and the world around me!Continue reading “Evaluation”

Today I tried to complete the Big Mac challenge by taking photos on my phone with a lighting set up made with a box and flashlight. It wasn’t very successful but it was fun to try! I’m thankful my parents were willing to take part! I’ll have to experiment more with my phone and differentContinue reading “Big Mac Challenge”

During this class, I’ve done quite a few projects that have challenged me and made me a better photographer. My 2 favorite projects are Pictorialism and Nighttime photography because of how great the pictures turned out. These projects allowed me to be more creative and focus on color. Pictorialism allowed me to take a photographContinue reading “Favorite/Least Favorite Assignments”

For my virtual museum visit, I checked out Musée d’Orsay in Paris, France. I chose this museum because the focus of the museum is paintings done by distinguished artists like Van Gogh. I find a lot of inspiration in paintings because a person has to put whatever they saw in real life onto paper orContinue reading “Museum Visit”

Pictorialism is essentially editing a photo to look like another piece of art like a painting or drawing. It can be done physically with real paint on a picture or digitally with filters. I was inspired by one of the stories within Letters to a Young Artist. Elizabeth Murray talks about her memories of walkingContinue reading “Pictorialism”

https://www.blurb.com/books/10074073-my-artistic-journey This is my book for our class. I focused on my artistic journey through the years by taking picture of many of my pieces and compiling it into this book. It was an interesting process because I had to keep so many pieces out. If I made a longer book, there would obviously beContinue reading “My Book!”

This past week, I went on a little walk with my dog around our yard. I tried to find things that interested me, like the little babbling creek nearby and our full kumquat tree. And I am so proud of the one loquat on another slowly growing tree! It is slowly turning orange and ripe,Continue reading “A Little Outdoor Excursion”

For my portrait project, I asked my dad to be my subject. We took these photos on Sunday afternoon in a room we could control the lighting in. We used a portable LED light (which I covered to dim it a little) to be the source of light. Some came out pretty good and workedContinue reading “Portraits”

I took these photos for our nighttime project over the weekend. Obviously I had to wait until the sun went down and my room was pitch black, and on Friday night I was photographing until midnight. I wanted to try a few different methods, such as light painting and different colored lights coming from differentContinue reading “Nighttime Photos”

A camera is a box that allows light into it, which processes the light onto film as an image with chemical reactions, and how we capture moments in time. Manual: I control the various settings in my camera (like aperture, zoom, etc.) and gives me to freedom to make the picture as I want. Aperture:Continue reading “Midterm :)”