Final Reflection

I originally took this class as an easy way to fulfill my technology graduation requirements.  I thought that it would be an easy and fun class to add to my otherwise stressful junior schedule.  I had never really picked up a camera aside from taking a few quick snapshots every once in a while.  When we first started learning about the elements of composition, shutter speed, and aperture I quickly realized that this class was not going to be as easy as I thought it would be.

When we first started taking pictures to demonstrate how shutter speed and aperture could affect a picture I had no idea how hard it would be to balance the two.  Whenever I would attempt to get a motion blur by lengthening the shutter speed I would end up with an over exposed picture from my failure to properly adjust the aperture.  Shutter speed and aperture continued to confuse me for a few more weeks, and I bombed the quiz.  Once I finally learned how to use a camera I had to start looking at what my photograph was really composed of.

I started learning how to capture personality and atmosphere in images.  This is the biggest thing that I will take away from this class.  I went from someone just trying to get something mandatory over with to a person who can now capture any little moment in time.

Worst photos:

Best photos:

Lastly, I put together a slide show of my favorite photos that I took this year and all of the photo shop assignments that I did.