11/20/2018 0 Comments final reflection postOriginally, I took this class just to fill my tech credit. Going into this class, it was pretty tough for me because I didn't have that many friends, and I thought I'd be lonely on days where we were allowed to go out and take pictures. When I'm taking notes, everything makes sense, but as soon as Mr. O'Donnell said, "Go take pictures." I was utterly lost. I kept fumbling with my manual settings, and struggling with the concept of exposure and aperture. Like, come on! It's still hard. But as time went on, I developed friendships with a few people in this class, and I started to realize, I made taking pictures to be way more complicated than it actually is. I started to love taking a camera home every weekend, and deciding on my subject, working on my manual mode and taking time (and patience) to capture what I was aiming for. I started off pretty rough, but I started to get the hang of it around week 3-4, which is when my pictures started to progress. When we started to do some photoshop assignments, I was just terrible with it. I didn't know where the buttons were, how to make a layer mask by myself, blah blah blah...and then things started to look up when I could stop tasking Natalie for help, (haha, sorry Natalie!) I have a digital camera at home, and was dumbfounded on how exactly to use it. But after taking this class, I'm going to be way more intone and knowledgeable on how to use the camera I've had for years but didn't have the will or desire to learn about. My experience with class have been positive, and at the end of the day, I'm so thankful that I took and was able to learn the in's and out's of how cameras work, learning about composition and getting myself familiarized with photoshop, which may come in handy one day. (Let's just not speak about how awful my first few photoshop assignments were...) Now that we're at the end of this trimester, it's going to hard to part with my camera. Here's an example of my pictures as they slowly went along, from week 1-7.
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