Photography Final
Overall, this year in Photography for me was a major success, while also being a major learning experience for me with picture taking and using a camera. By using Blogger to make blog posts over my pictures, I've looked back and remembered my greatest moments while taking these pictures. Blogger has really helped me to see how art really can change your view on things in the world. It also helped me to chose my best picture from each photoshoot, and learn what I did correctly so that I could incorporate it into other photoshoots. Although they may not be the best, I still enjoyed Photography and learned many rules and principles, while also adding some compositional strategies into the mix. One of my most impressive photos on Blogger would be from Semester one, being the Color Composition picture. I focused truly on the main point of the photoshoot, color, and I managed to get a predominantly blue picture. The image uses elements of design such as color through the blue sky and the blue pieces of the monkey bar, line, also through the pipe-frames of the money bars, and finally texture, which was used through the sky and the smoothness of the pipes and the rougher texture of the bolts holding the monkey bars together. In conclusion, the main purpose behind using Blogger was to show our growth, to show us what we have done correctly, and what we could improve to make our images better. Blogger is a very nice way of showing growth and room for improvement, and it gives us a feeling a joy when we look back at all of our progress throughout the year.
My piece that I chose, the color composition one, is, in my opinion, one of my strongest pictures I took this year. This picture is extremely strong in the point of color, while also having a strong sense of texture in there as well. My second favorite picture, the one I will be analyzing, is from the "foodie" photoshoot. I focused on lighting and appearance for the picture of the donuts. Although the donuts were nasty and old, the picture made them look nice and ready to eat. There was some repetition in this image through the donuts. The space the donuts took up prioritized the donuts, while also avoiding the distractions within the rest of the image. The foreground was mainly dominant in this image, as the donuts were taking up this space. You want to get a nice close-up picture of food, but you also don't want to be too close, so the donuts were mainly in the foreground, but they also began to go into the middle-ground. The background in this image was mainly just blur or a single color because of the fact that the donuts were the main point of the image. By using a little bit of blur, the background was not an issue, focusing mainly on the donuts. I took many shots of the donuts, some turning out decent, others bad, and this one turned out really nicely. Although this image is nicely made, the composition is lacking a little due to the light. However, this negative aspect doesn't take away from the main part of the image, so all in all, it is not the biggest of deals. The emphasis, the donuts, helped create an eye popping donut picture that would make anyone come and try the donuts in a real life scenario. Food photography is a great way to help boost your company's sales and profits, as it makes people interesting in what you are selling and they want to try to see if it is just as good as what it looks like or not. Overall, this photoshoot helped me learned how to use colors, textures, lighting, and even my camera as a whole.
Voice as a whole is your own thoughts and expressions towards other things within the world. Voice was a major part of our photoshoots, and was often one of the most important parts in making a good photoshoot. You could use voice through far-away pictures by expressing your favorite places in their entirety, or by getting up close to show the detail in something you enjoy such as a painting, or using the shape of something interesting and expressing your thoughts and opinions on it based on what you have seen, and many other ways. My artwork normally focused on using my voice to help express my own opinions. For example, on the close and far photoshoot, I chose to go to my neighborhood park to take my pictures. Since the park has had meaning to me since I was a kid, I felt it would be a nice choice. Another example of a good photoshoot with a lot of voice would be the portrait photoshoot that we just finished. Although it wasn't my strongest photoshoot, it had the voice in it within any photoshoot I had done previously. The picture with the most voice to me in that photoshoot was the one where my brother and I were holding baseball materials. Since I played baseball as I kid and I still enjoy playing (although i'm not very good), it was a picture that had meaningful voice to me. In general, my photoshoots dealt with doing what was asked, but also adding my own voice to the piece. Things that influenced me were things that I enjoy, or things that used to have meaning to me as a kid. I tried to add a touch of more important influences to me in most of the pictures that I took for the photoshoots. Overall, I tried to give people a feeling of remembrance of their past memories through things such as a playground or an open field. Voice played a major role in my photography skills that I picked up this year.
Overall, I had many strengths, but I also had a few weaknesses. Overall, my strengths were influenced by my voice and my skills that I had picked up in photography. My mom was actually the one who inspired me to take photography. Since my mom takes pictures anywhere we go, such as the zoo, I wanted to also take "cool" pictures and save memories of me and my family as we went places. My main strengths were in the element section, with color, line, and texture being the main ones. Using the skills that we had learned were normally my strengths with a few subsections being the weakness of the photography. However, with things such as blur motion and night photography, that is where my pictures almost fell to pieces. However, things in the element section saved those images. My main weaknesses ended up being blur motion, night photography, and camera usage (only for the first few months.) The strengths override the weaknesses, and therefore in the end, I would call this year a major success for me and my photography life. Overall, I feel my main theme or voice was focusing on things that have meaning in some way. This helped me to really view photography as an art and not just a hobby. This year in photography helped me really enjoy different types of art, instead of just 2D Drawing.
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