After this week of taking photos and editing them, I can say that I LOVE pictures. You can do so much with them and change them in so many different ways. I can change an ordinary object into something spectacular with different colors and different settings. It was awesome!!
- Photoblitzing was by far my favorite activity this week. It was a challenge that got me thinking quick and I got some really cool pictures. I wanted to experiment with a camera, but I couldn’t find ours at home. So I ended up using my iPhone, which I just got a few weeks ago and am still a bit challenged with. Overall I really liked the whole experience. I thought it was really cool going into the ds106photoblitz tag and seeing every one’s ideas. They are all so different! I also got quite a few extremely cute photos of my cat and dog playing. In my post I only included my favorites, but I think the whole set deserves to be shared so here it is:
Cats and Dogs do not belong together
Interesting Angle?
The End
Paw
Sad Tissues
Converging Window
Abstract Grass
Wide Open Spaces
Single Color Dominance
Ordinary to Interesting Object
And it begins…
- I had so much fun looking through the visual assignment page. I really liked how we got to choose how many posts we did and which ones. Some of them I wasn’t all that interested in or looked like they would take me a lot longer than the time I had this week. I thought that was very thoughtful. There were so many to choose from. I actually ended up attempting to do two more than I needed too, but couldn’t find the right tools for one and the other I just didn’t like the product. They both were not fitting into what I had in mind so I ended up ditching them. The assignments that I did come up with turned out awesome. I’m also really glad I found Pixlr. I am starting to use this website for not only my dailycreates, but even for some of the pictures I upload to facebook. I ended up finishing 5 posts for a total of 10 stars. Each star pointage ranged from 3 to 2 to 1 stars. I posted the thought and processes behind each assignment.
A hint of Color was 2 stars
Normal to Extraordinary was 3 stars
Common Everyday Object was 2 stars
Draw it was 2 stars
Over editing was 1 star
- Since I felt bad last week I neglected the daily creates a bit, I decided to contribute a daily create to the website. It was Thursdays! I am thrilled and honored that my idea was added to this class. I feel like I am leaving something great behind for other ds106ers to enjoy and get their creative juices flowing. At the begging of the week, I just had the idea in a post. I pictured me adding it to the website and even went ahead and did the dailycreate myself. Then, on Thursday I went to the site and noticed that it was added! It was so cool too look through what others had already done. It definitely made my Thursday.
This is by far my favorite daily create, but I could be a bit biased 
Normally for dailycreates I like going out and taking a picture instead of uploading one I have on my computer. However, for the dailycreate of taking a picture of someone bald in your life I knew the picture that had to be used. It is of my boyfriend that passed of cancer a little over a year ago. We dated for three years up until God called him home. He made such an impact on my life I try to find as many ways to honor him. He had always had a shaved head, but his treatments made him bald. He embraced the fact he had no hair.
This dailycreate is of something yellow. The first thing that pops in my head is a duckling. So I started drawing away with my pens and highlighters. I then didn’t like how the background was so white. I used my trusty pixlr website and made the background a yellowish green color to add more yellow. Even though I’m not the best artist, I still think he is kinda cute.
- When I went to pimp my flickr up, I found that I had already done most of this stuff. I had forgotten about some of my previous pictures on my flickr and it was nice to go through and reminisce on them. Throughout the week I added more pictures to my best pictures set. I also noticed that they have captions and went through and changed them so it makes the show prettier.
Jon.
Cats and Dogs do not belong together
Converging Window
Ordinary to Interesting Object
Abstract critter
snowman
Other dog steals ball
A dog and a ball
A dog
Spin the bottle
A morning at the River
Stonehenge
My and my Mom at stonehenge
My family at Stonehenge
London Eye
Tower Bridge
Big Ben
Harrods
OSHA Dog
Big Ben
Fulvis Whistling Duck
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Bandit and Lilo
- This week really made me love pictures even more than I already do. I am obsessed with pixlr and am slowly learning more about the different tools. Overall, the photoblitz was my favorite assignment. I really liked going out and trying to express what I thought the different themes meant by expressing them with a picture. I did wish I knew how to add effects on my iphone and could enhance the pictures more. Unfortunately I did not find pixlr until after I had done the photoblitz and have no gone back through to enhance the pictures. The visual assignments this week were also very cool. It was fun to change things around and really express things differently. I have also been communicating this week with my group for the radio show. One of the other members posted our assignment. We are planning on doing a family road trip radio show. We want to create a story around a typical goofy family that is bonding, but then of course the car breaks down. I believe we are planning on meeting to really get everything on a roll. I have always thought that it is easiest to meet in person with a group rather than communicate through email. This week I also listened to a bit more of the ds106 radio. I didn’t catch a live show or anything, but just jammed out during homework. I also spent a lot of time going through other people’s posts. I wanted to see what assignments others were doing and if they had any good tips on editing pictures. I saw some really cool pictures, but didn’t really get any more tips than I already had.
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