So, we’ll start with the daily create post. It’s very exciting and required reading for this blog.

Next, I really want a new camera. Like a nice digital slr, a nikon d3100 or something. All these photo assignments made me self-conscious of my awful camera, which requires near perfect lighting to deliver anything really spectacular. I did fool with trying to set my camera setting myself, play around with the flash, but there’s almost no hope. I love angles and really would like to spend more time working with them to get some awesome shots.

Here’s my photoblitz. It was hard because I had worked 12 hours straight and the lighting everywhere was sucky. Oh well. I did my best.

I think from the photoblitz I really saw that everything is different from behind a camera. Our eyes can adjust to lack of light, or blurred images, but cameras need that Goldilocks moment of everything just right. I kind of wish we could have built in cameras, so that whenever there’s a moment that’s completely priceless, we could capture it. I feel like behind a camera, we wait for moments like that to happen and it ends up being like a watched pot…it never boils. My difficulty is not seeing the image I see with my eyes conveyed on the image produced by my camera. I am kind of torn, maybe it’s because my camera is a POS but I can’t say right now that photography is my favorite medium at the moment.

My visual assignments: ONE, TWO, THREE, FOUR.

I had a lot of fun completing these. My favorite had to be splash the color or the newspaper blackout poetry. I like the focus required by staying within the desired colored object and also the creativity of creating poetry out of words that are already there. The troll quotes and collage were fun, but they just didn’t grab me the same way the other two assignments did. STAR TOTAL OF THE WEEK: 10 or 12 because I did 2 splash the color

I learned a lot about photoshop, including the layer process which was somewhat daunting. To those of you who made tutorials, I salute you! I also learned a lot about the magic of google for nearly every question I needed answered. Google, you are so dependable. I love visual stories in that you don’t necessarily need words to narrate the story. I like to make up stories about people and things, so I am more visual oriented. I am also a partial visual learner, so I like diagrams and all the other fun stuff that goes with that. I am also kind of stubborn, so no matter what the setback is, I will more than likely stumble through it instead of give up, which I had to do several times this week.

To tell a story visually, there need to be images or something that appeals to the eye. Much like with the Hemingway 6 word stories (Baby shoes. Brand new, never worn.) an entire narrative can be created out of just one image. Composition doesn’t necessarily matter, nor does the image quality. I am a perfectionist, so I had trouble accepting some of my sub-par images but they definitely tell a story, even if that story is Kelsey needs a new camera. Also, the photographer or graphic designer needs to be conscious of there audience when telling a visual story. If there are pop culture references, you want to be sure your audience will understand. Other than that, I think it more of a just go for it attitude. I feel like there’s more wiggle room when creating a visual narrative because it’s not so word heavy (like this blog post.). Emotions often come through better in photos than writing, because when we see images of emotion, we know how to relate to them better on a subconscious level. I liked this week a lot because it made me think and troubleshoot a lot of problems, which I was able to.