Photoblitz:

All photos were taken in my house

Single Color:

This is a tapestry of Ganesh, one of the main gods in Hindu.  I got this about four years ago when I was over in India.  I’m not gonna lie and say that it has some real deep meaning behind it, I just like how it looks.  In the end, a perfect example for a “photo dominated by a single color.”

Unusual Angle:

I just find it rare to see a trash can at such a high angle, definitely don’t see that everyday.  Unless you have a dog, which we do, so our trash can is constantly up high, so maybe not that unusual to me actually.

Human Emotion:

Ghostface Killah’s smile always makes me laugh when I see it.  Human emotion at its finest.

Someone else’s hand/paw:

Two things that don’t belong together:

These last two pictures were actually taken together, sort of.  I got our dog to sit still next to a beer bottle, while trying to take a picture of his paw, and when I got that first picture, I backed up a little to try and capture both for the “two things that don’t belong together” but he immediately started prancing around so my finishing result was not exactly what I wanted.  I guess it’s a little harder to take a picture of a non-cooperating living thing.  And yes, I know what most people are thinking, “Who says a beer and dog don’t belong together, they’re man’s best friend?” and my response to that is, “He’s underage.”

Daily Create:

Something Brand New

Actually, just wrote my acrostic poem last week about these shoes (Sperry’s).  I think they’re the most recent new thing I bought, not exactly shiny as the assignment somewhat suggests, but I’m not really one for shiny things either.

A Place You’ve Been, But Never Want To Go Back To

My best attempt at drawing a dorm room.  I have several problems with living in a dorm room: A) not having my own room, B) I’m 6’3, these beds are not conducive to my height, C) two people can barely be walking around at the same time.  I’m good on dorm rooms.

Easy answer, greatest triumph is raising this dog.  Been a little over one year now, he just needs to learn how to sit still for a picture.

Pimp my Flickr:

Not too much to do here, at the beginning of the class when we had to set up accounts for all our social media sites, I had already customized my Flickr URL to read http://www.flickr.com/photos/kdex914/, so that got crossed off my to do list for this week.  Similarly with titles, I had already been giving them titles, perhaps not the most creative or exciting, but they certainly get the point across of what the picture is of.  Although some for the daily creates simply say “Daily Create.”

Now for the “Best of” part of the assignment, I only have 14 photos to begin with, so I tried to be a little picky, especially since only 5 don’t have to deal with this class.  So, I chose a few photos that displayed good memories, specifically happy ones from the past.  Two dealing with India, and one of a smiling Ghostface, always good stuff.

Visual Assignments:

Common Everyday Object

This is our remote for the living room, where I spend the most of my time cause I don’t have a TV in my room.  However, I chose it to be black and white since we forgot to pay our cable bill, so I feel like we’re living in the old black and white days.

Optical Illusion

A “tall glass of water” was taken in my living room, with a stool placed about ten feet behind it.  The example of the Washington Monument shrunk down was much more creative, but I was just trying to use an everyday object.

Buddy Photo

This is a wooden figurine of Ganesh, and he’s just about to help me fix my door with the help of these tools.  It’s the only “buddy” I have around my house, and although I don’t like transporting him due to the fact that he’s fairly fragile, I just keep him around the house to lend a helping hand anytime I need it.

Art Comes to Life

For this one, I chose a more recent portrait of the former president George Dubya.  Unfortunately only few can really master his facial expressions.  I just searched for “portraits of famous people” and decided to switch it up from the more known ones (Mona Lisa, Frida Kahlo, etc…) so I came across Bush.

Weekly Summary

So, as I’ve maybe hinted at before, I’m not a particularly huge photographer.  However, with my first smartphone, I’ve been easily introduced to uploading pics via Flickr.  So with that being said, the whole process of taking a photo and uploading has been simplified 100%.  Of the “ten ways to improve my craft,”  I found that getting pickier was probably the most useful tip I came across.  One of the reasons I’d say I’m not a good photographer, bordering on bad, is cause I oftentimes take a picture just in order to be done with it; however, this tip allowed for me to take my time and relax, rather than rush through the process.

Although I’m starting to get more comfortable with the process of taking pics/uploading them, I’m still trying to improve my visual storytelling, but it seems like practice and repetition is the best way to go about it.