Thursday, Feb. 3rd: Class Critique #1.

Today we all had to choose one individual photo of our own, out of all the ones we developed so far, and hang it on the board in front of everyone to (critique) It. My photo was, of course, the only photo I have developed, which Is a picture of a computer on top on a microwave sitting kind of but not right beside three large dumpsters. It was a little fuzzy to see because I am not used to film photography just yet but It was enough in focus to be able to know what it was, and it was a little over exposed which really bothers me but everyone else seemed to like it. Haha. There was a lot of students at the critique, a lot more then I'm used to at least. It was because the whole class from beginning digital was there, and they have a pretty big class. The wole class from intermediate B&W was there, and they have an even bigger class, haha. And then everyone from my class was there. So We only talked about each image for about two minutes and then they give the artist a chance to come up for 30 seconds and talk about It or answer any questions people asked.

I thought a lot of the photo up on the board were really nice, especially this one photo of a girls hands lightly touching a piano's keys with the sun coming in from the background. I thought It was really cute :')
I also noticed that a few of the girls in the digital class liked anime a lot because I also be seeing their pictures of people In the little costumes and whatnot. I love that, It's so posed but then again It's so real to, haha.
We did the critique for the pretty much the whole class time except for about 20 minutes in the beginning of getting everything situated and in place. I actually stayed a little bit after to help clean up.

Tuesday, Feb. 1st: Devolping/Photoshoot.

I finally developed my first photo today!! It was cool to see my photo just show up on a piece of paper out of no where...well okay It was caused my chemicals but still you get the point. Haha. The first photo I ever devopled by myself was one I took on the scavenger hunt a couple of weeks ago. I was suppose to take a picture of "something old" and so I was walking by these big dumpsters thinking 'well a lot of old things have been dumped in these things' so I went ahead of everyone else to go take the shot. When I got there I realized there was a old computer sitting on top of an old microwave. How perfect right? Hahaha well I guess for it being my first photo ever developed, not so perfect, but at least it worked really good for the assignment :)

Later on in the class we had a discussion on lighting with samples. Our teacher, Sam, talked about all the different light settings that can be used in a photo for example: light bulb light vs. sun light, moon light vs. street light. It's actually really interesting learning about the way lighting on such a huge impact on the way a photo can turn out, but,  unfortunately I already knew and learned about lighting awhile ago so I was somewhat leading the discussion at first then I stopped because I could tell Sam was getting mad at me. After we had that incredibly   looong discussion on lighting, one of our mentors partnered us up into groups of two to three and then they had us take five pictures each of each other anywhere around the building. I suggested we go outside on the deck and they agreed and so we went out, spent quite a bit of time taking turns with the camera, and then before we knew it the camera roll was finished and it was time to go back inside.
Our homework assignment this week Is "Photography someone in your life."