Digital Photography has been a great class for me because after taking it I have gained some really useful skills that I can apply to my everyday life. In this class, we touched on essentially every aspect of the process, from taking care of your camera to adjusting the settings to taking photos to finally editing them in photoshop. It is obvious that I have come a long way in all of these areas since the very first day. Here are some of the first pictures I took on a digital camera from the first week: My perspective on these photos is very different now compared to when I first took them. It is clear that the creativity and intent is lacking and that I was still learning the ropes of camera settings. I took all three of these in Auto mode. Also, the composition is lazy. Some are taken from odd angles or don't have a clear subject or message of intent. I'm happy to say that my skills have improved a lot since these photos were taken. I think that this improvement started to occur once we began weekly shooting assignments. Since I was taking 50-100 pictures a week of different subjects, I started to get a lot more creative and better at adjusting camera settings according to the situation I was in. Here are some of my favorite images from various shooting assignments I did: Photo 5, People Photo 2, Black and White Photo 7, Architecture After taking so many photos, I still did end up with some really bad ones. Here is my worst photo compared to my best photo: Now that I've discussed my improvement in the realm of taking photos, it is important to address the editing process that follows in photoshop. We did a variety of photoshop assignments in this class that covered everything from photo retouching to completely changing the context of an image. Some of these assignments were harder for me than others, but it was typically the hardest assignments that taught me the most about all of the things one can do in photoshop. Here are some of my best photoshop projects: Photoshop #4, School Context Assignment I had a lot of fun with this assignment and I like how many different aspects I added to the photo. I was nervous about doing this assignment well but I am proud of the result. Photoshop #6, Open Tutorials I really like this piece because of how pleasing it is to look at. I had fun playing with the gradient tool for this one to create the rainbow. Now, here are some of my worst photoshop projects that didn't turn out as well as I'd hoped: Photoshop #9, Multiple Me This photo is dark and has lots of distracting shadows. I should've adjusted the camera settings or done more with levels and brightness on photoshop to fix lighting and clarity issues. Photoshop #6, Open Tutorials I liked the concept of this piece however it didn't turn out as well as I thought it would. You really have to squint to see the full picture. I think it could've looked better if I took some time to make the dots smaller. All in all, I had a great time in this class and the improvements I made in my photography skills are evident in my work as time progressed. I think there is still a lot I have to learn, but this class gave me a really great introduction to the world of digital photography.
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AuthorAnna Weaver is a high school student and an aspiring photographer. Archives
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