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Final Project ?

This semester has been loads of fun! Between taking pictures with friends and doing queer poses I have had a fantastic time! Photography has become my favorite class, I love walking around the school taking pictures with friends! In every project we did I faced some kind of challenge that I had to get through. These challenges can range from trying to find a new and interesting angle for a photo to trying to do a sashay step leap at the same time as my friend. (we never got that right) What I thought the class would be like and what it was like was different. I thought we would learn how to use a regular camera instead of taking pictures with our iphones almost the whole time. Besides that, I didn’t know what to expect. Because of this class, I now look at things and think oh that would make a great photo! This can be very annoying, especially when I don’t have a camera with me. The way I take photos has changed a lot from when I fist started. I learned some really cool tricks through this class. They include taking a photo while on the ground so the noun you are photographing looks higher than it is, and the longer you leave the shutter open on a camera, the more light comes in. These two tricks helped me on multiple projects and made my photos better. I now take most of my photos on an angle or on the rule of thirds. My favorite project would have to be Action. I loved leaping and dancing with my friends in photos. I tried new dance moves my friend recommended and did them to the best of my ability. Overall this project was tons of fun and I would definitely do it again! I don’t think I would want to do photography as a career, I would want to do it more as a hobby. I really like photography don’t get me wrong, but I wouldn’t want it as a main job. I’m not sure if I will take photography in high school. I am debating if I want to do photography, drawing, or drama. They are all a lot of fun and I wish I didn’t have to choose only one. All in all, because that’s how I end all my posts. Photography was a very fun class with a lot of freedom to it. I loved hanging out with my friends and taking photos. Writing up my post was also fun, it was nice to reflect on what I did. Below is my favorite photo from a project I did.

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Up Close

In this project I had to take pictures inside and outside. These pictures had to be macro photos, in other words photos taken close up. I took pictures of non-living objects because they don’t move. While taking some of my pictures I ended up using a new app called VSCO. This app allowed me to take photos close up without them getting blurry. I also used the regular camera on my iPhone and zoomed up a lot on the object. If I tried to take a photo on the regular camera on my phone without zooming in, the photo would end up very blurry. The biggest challenge in this project was to not get blurry photos. One thing that annoyed me a lot was, my friends had newer phones than me. When they took a picture of something it didn’t end up blurry, but when I tried, my picture would be blurred completely because of my phones older camera. Finding things to photograph was fairly easy, you can take a macro photo of pretty much anything. If I was able to take a good quality close up photo of something, it would probably be of water droplets or something in the snow. I would also like to take a macro photo of ink going through water. You can see the rest of the photos I took here.

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Action

This project was very action based. I jumped, leaped, twirled, and made other people jump, leap, and twirl just to get a good action photo. All my pictures were taken outside. Occasionally I would take a photo of the lone ball flying through the air, but I mostly took pictures of people. My friends and I would ask one another if we could do weird things like twirl in a circle and sashay, step, leap. I would try to do anything that sounded fun! To capture the best images I could, I put the rule of thirds lines on my camera and took a burst to capture all the action. Later I went through my bursts to find the best photo. A tip I have for someone taking action photos is, if the person your taking a picture of is jumping in the air, lay down on the ground. This will make it look like the person jumping is jumping really high. Also, take a burst! If I could photograph any sport or action I would photograph dance. I would want to photography dance because there is so much movement going on. People are leaping, rolling, and moving all over the place! You can see the rest of my photos here.

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Set on the Street

In this project I took pictures of people and posed in pictures. In this project I had to pose like I was at my kitchen table, when I was actually in the schools entrance with a yellow painted background behind me. I posed by myself and with my friends, we did many odd and normal things! This project was a mixed replica of the works of the New York based photographer Justin Bettman and influential contemporary American artist Carrie Mae Weems. Justin Bettman creates sets on the streets of New York in the oddest places. Anyone can come and take a picture in these sets. For example, you might be sitting down to dinner in the middle of an intersection. We used Carrie Mae Weems’ Kitchen Table Project as inspiration to the table in the middle of all our pictures. I had to make the photos black&white and I had to make it so above the light was darker than underneath. In Photoshop I used Black&white to turn my photos from color to black&white. I then cropped my photo to make sure the light was in the center of the photo. After that, I used the ellipses tool to select under the light. I feathered the selected part of the image to 200 and then switched the selected area to the non selected area. I used curves to tamper with the fading from the light. Soon my photos looked as if the light was giving light to only below it. If I had to choose a place to tell my family’s story, I would choose our dining room. Every night we eat dinner together and talk to one another over food. (usually chicken) You would probably see us eating or playing a game. This project was very fun and I would definitely do it again! Below are a few of the images taken at the table!

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7 Days

I’m thankful for my phone. It is always there for me when I need it. Whether it is to look something up or just relax!

Paper, a beautiful thing. Paper is always there for me. If I need to write a note, or class assignment, I always know paper will be by my side.
Books, I don’t know what I would do without you! You have shaped the way I look at the world, through all your characters and supernatural powers. Your unforgetting life lessons have taught me a lot and helped me navigate through the world, thank you!
A single pencil. Together we can achieve greatness! I use you everyday for many different assignments. Without you I wouldn’t be able to get through the school day.
“The pencil is mightier than the sword.”

Ahhh, that pure delicious sweetness! Ice cream, I couldn’t thank you enough for what you’ve done for me! Your lovable sweetness is always there when I am sad, happy, sick, in pain, etc. You always make me feel better!

Yes, I know what your thinking, Pinterest? Yes Pinterest! Always, when I board, or in desperate need of an idea, you have been there. You are a cloud full of good ideas and memes! Without you many things would not be as fascinating and impressive as they are now!
Water: beautiful, delicious, calming. You keep me alive and healthy. If it wasn’t for you, I would not be on swim team. Thank you for keeping me alive and providing me with a fun sport to do!
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Then I Asked Them to Smile

The project “Then I Asked Them to Smile” was challenging and tested my social skills. I had to go up to random strangers inside and outside of school and ask them if I could take their picture. Most of the time the interaction between me and the person I was photographing was awkward and weird, but occasionally the person getting there photo taken was exited about it. One thing that was difficult was what the whole project was about, TAKING PICTURES OF STRANGERS! It was uncomfortable and difficult, especially when the person I asked to take a picture of awkwardly said no and looked at the ground! In all the people I photographed, I saw little emotional change from when they didn’t smile and when they smiled. Sometimes I messed up because I thought the person I was photographing wasn’t smiling when they were. That ended weirdly with a “umm I was smiling before.” But then they did a big smile so that was good. If you were bias toward boys or girls then you would probably have more boys or girls in your photos, depending on what  gender you are bias towards. If I were hired and I was told not to take bias photos and to make the photos “fair” I wouldn’t have a particular game play. I would just walk around a city and ask approachable people who are walking past me if I could take a photo of them for a photography project.  I wouldn’t take pictures of them based on age, height, gender, etc. I probably wouldn’t asked them any questions either because that would probably make it weirder than it all ready is between us. All in all, this project was challenging, awkward, and weird. I would not want to do this project again!

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Light Graffiti

Creating light graffiti was challenging but fun. My group and I took our photos in the gym with the lights off, it was hard to see each other. We set the camera up on manual mode so we could make shapes with our flashlights for as long as we wanted to. We took photos of one person all the way to a large group of people. My group members and I stood in front of the camera making shapes with various flashlights of all colors. We stood on the bleachers as well as on the ground for our pictures. Controlling how long to keep the lens open work better than letting the camera open and close by itself. This is because we could make more intricate shapes and squiggles without having to rush. Trying to make shapes with a flashing light didn’t work out well at all, you could hardly make out what it was you were drawing. A frustration I had was working very hard on a shape and it not coming out very well. It is the worst when you go to look at a picture and it looks like you were swinging the light around randomly. To make the photos we took look cooler, we could go outside at night. We could climb on trees and create swings or make it look like we are walking on a tightrope out of light. All in all, this project was frustrating but fun! In the photo below, I am the red stick figure. You can see the rest of my photos here.

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Rule of Thirds

In “Rule of Thirds” we had to find someone or something to take a picture of on the line of thirds. The rule of thirds are invisible lines that you put objects on to make your photos more interesting. I used all different lines in the rule of thirds. For me, taking pictures of people worked better than a stationary object. This is because I can move the person anywhere I want in the frame, whereas the stationary object usually can’t be moved as much. Taking pictures with motions didn’t work out as well because the pictures usually got blurry. At the beginning of the project, I thought the rule of thirds was hard an I couldn’t find good ways to place my objects. In the end, I became better at taking photos with the rule of thirds, with both people and objects. All in all, “Rule of Thirds” was a challenging but fun project. You can see the rest of my photos here.

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Portraits with Infinity Background 2?

To take my photos I used a camera and a light and a black background. There were three people in my group. We put the camera in front of the person getting the pictures taken of them, shut off all the lights, closed the blinds, and adjusted the shutter speed to take less light in. The person holding the light had to check with the photographer to make sure they were not creating a shadow. The light holder also made sure they were shining the light on the person and not the background, so the picture didn’t look like a really bad night photo from an iPhone. The person getting the picture taken of them was in charge of making scary and/or weird poses and faces. Using one big bright light worked really well and using two small flashlights from two iPhone’s did not work at all. In the end it was a lot of fun and I would probably do it again. You can see the rest of my photo’s here.

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Portraits with an Infinity Background?

To take my photos I used a light, white background and a camera. I had three people in my group, one person to take the pictures, one person to hold the light against the background, and one person to get photos taken of them to edit. All three of us took turns doing each job and did each job more than once. When I was the camera person I had to adjust the shutter speed to take more or less light in. It was hard to find the right shutter speed to take the photo with. When holding the light my job seemed easier than it was. U might think it is easy to hold the light against the background, but you have to hold it so the light shines perfectly on the person so you don’t create a shadow. Getting your photo taken, is getting your photo taken. The hardest part for that was finding a good pose.  Adjusting the shutter speed on the camera to about 1/25 made our photos the least shadowy and shining the light more on the person than the background did not work out so well. All in all, this project was challenging but fun! You can see the rest of my photos here.