Last Day Reflections

 About photography, I learned that there are many types of it! I honestly didn't really know anything about photography other than you get a camera, push a button and get a picture. The different types of photography like the pinhole photography was new to me me, I had no idea that that was possible to do. I also didn't know the processes of developing photographs. Like in the dark room, everything we learned in there was a new experience to me. I didn't know how to work photoshop, and I'm really grateful that we got to learn about that, because I feel like that is an important skill to know for life, for different jobs and whatnot. I learned how different cameras work, and the parts that come together to make them. About myself, I learned that I really enjoy photography, but in general, I learned that I lack motivation. This semester has been really hard for me for some reason. I haven't been enjoying things as much as I have before, and I have almost given up on trying. The word I use to describe is apathy. I really think I could have put more effort into this class, and gotten a better experience from it, but from my weird downturn of motivation, I didn't do that. But, I didn't do that with any of my classes this semester really. Don't get me wrong, I did try, and I really enjoyed this class! I just know I could have done better and tried harder and I feel a little disappointed with myself.  There isn't really much that I wish we had done but didn't. I don't know what else we can do with photography! Maybe I wish that we would have had one on one time with you so we could learn more specifically what we should do from your critique, but that's it. My struggle was again, my lack of motivation. It was so weird, I've never been this apathetic about things before, and this semester has been such a brick wall for me. I'm really disappointed in myself and the effort, or lack thereof, that I have put into with all of my classes this semester. I have been struggling so much with this..This post is starting to turn into a bit of a therapy session..sorry to rant! I conquered my fear of being terrible at photography. I think I had at least a few pretty good pictures. But that's just my opinion. Thanks for having me in your class!

Blur

Light Photos

I really enjoyed this project. Working with the different angles that the lights could be at was really fun. It was hard to get my lamp to stand up while taking pictures, so that was a struggle. I learned to not accidentally drop your lamp because I broke a bulb..whoops. I liked the pictures of the perfume bottle the best. The light on the side angle was my favorite as well. I observed that it was harder to take the sillouteteish pictures than the direct light because it was hard to get the light backing it to look not like it was blinding the camera. I hope my pictures look okay, have a great day!

Levatations

World!

Clone/Panorama/Scanned Face

Portraits

These pictures are of my family and my best friend, Lily.

I took the pictures of my family in my backyard, because I really like the woods in the background. I took the one of my Dad in the kitchen when he wasn't expecting it. The one of Lily was in her kitchen. 

I took the one of Lily after school, when we were making fries in the oven. Lily is a super talented amazing singer, so she sings whenever she can. Even when making fries in the oven. She was singing and didn't know I was going to take a picture of her, so that's why she isn't smiling or such in her picture. I took the one's of my family one night after school, so everyone was pretty tired, and my brother wasn't really in the best mood..if you could tell from the pictures. The one of my mom was from when we went to downtown  Portland one weekend. I chose these people because I wanted to take pictures of people I really care about. My family was helpful for this, and they did what I asked them to do. Lily is my best friend, so I obviously wanted a picture of her because I care for her a lot. Everyone was really cooperative for me.