1st Hour, Digital Photography
Frank Parkinson, 1st Hour, O'Donnell For me to show and explain my growth as a photographer this past fall, I must start at the beginning. My first day I walked in unsure of what to expect from the class, of course I knew I had to take pictures and learn about photography, but what specifics. I had taken photos before with my family's camera but all using the auto feature which requires minimal camera knowledge. I knew nothing at the time and practically just walked around and snap whatever I thought looked cool. I remember the first few days of class we had to take some practice pictures that I luckily saved. Which can be compared below to a picture I took later in this class using learned knowledge about the exposure triangle. To go into greater depth of my growth you must also look at two of the biggest parts of the class; photoshop and shooting assignments. My shooting assignments is an amazing way to demonstrate and give a better understanding of my growth as a photographer. During this class we had to do seven shooting assignments, where we chose a category (i.e. animal, motion, nature, etc.) and used what we learned in class to take the best photos. Once we've sifted through and picked out our six best, we blog them. With the pictures is also an explanation of what we were tasked to do, but more importantly the What I have Learned section. Which is a great way to track my growth from assignment to assignment. I have varying levels of difficultly from assignment to assignment, but I can say I enjoyed every one of them. From setting up the camera, running next to my dog, and waiting for by friend to hit a wiffle ball I could find joy in each one no matter if I was completely satisfied with the outcome. Photoshop is another way to show growth, but it's harder to show from assignment to assignment, because they're all completely different from each other and all require different aspects of photoshop. It's a greater showing of growth if you take into account that before this I had barely ever used photoshop. Coming into the class with minimal knowledge of photoshop, this was the most challenging and interesting part of the class for me as I was entering "uncharted waters." Throughout the class, probably about once a week, we were given a photoshop assignment. Mr. O'Donnell would give us a brief overview and tutorial of the assignment to us. Then we would go to Mr. Bush's website to follow directions until we completed the assignment. From my first day when I was lost the second I opened photoshop to know where I know so much about the tools and how to use the program effectively.
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AuthorI'm Frank Parkinson, a 1st hour student in Digital Photography. I'm currently a sophomore at Saline High School. Archives
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