The Final Project

Overall, my photography class has been really enjoyable and a nice break from all the work in school. I have learned many new techniques on how to improve your photos, I think what I have learned will definitely help me in the future somehow. Also, honestly photography in my opinion is an easier class, so it is nice to be able to be more relaxed and not as worried about getting stuff done. Last year when I was choosing my classes, I wasn’t quite sure what photography would really be like; but overall, photography class is not very different than what I expected. This class has definitely changed the way I take photos now and how I will take photos in the future; and has also helped me imagine all the possible angles for things and what the best shots could be. Looking back, my favorite project from this year would have to be our first project, the 24 crayons project. This was my favorite project because it was fun to go around our school and find all the possible and most creative places to hide our crayons. It was especially fun when I got down to my couple last crayons but couldn’t find anything that matched the color, it was fun to venture around the school for those last few colors. I’m not quite sure photography would be a future job for me, because I don’t really think I would be good enough to have that for a job. But I probably will continue to do photography in high school, because it seems like it is an easier class; and also it could be another AP class to have in high school. There is still a possibility though that I will not continue photography if I see a class that interests me more.

This is probably my favorite/best photo I have taken this year.

Getting close

This time, for this project, we had to take pictures of things really close up so you could see all the little details. In order to do this, we had to use the super macro setting on the camera so it would focus on the object when we were up close. What worked pretty well for the project was some what the weather. One of the days it was frosty outside so all the plants had a beautiful frost coat on them. Also another thing that worked well for this project was the location we are in, we had tress, grass, plants, etc all around us. For the most part this is not a new thing to me, I tried doing a similar thing with the camera last year. The most difficult and frustrating thing was getting the camera to focus on the object I wanted it to. Most of the time I would have to hold my position for a while in order to get a good picture/for the camera to focus. Although we had lots of things to take pictures around us, most of it looked the same so it was a tiny bit hard to find something new to take a picture of. Finally, if I could go anywhere to take macro pictures, I would definitely go to a rain forest area. I would go here because of the wide variety of plant life, animals life, and insects.

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