My photo blitz began at 10:11 a.m. EST and finished at 10:31 a.m. EST. Below is the list of pictures I needed to find for my blitz. In all honesty, I pressed “click for another list” about 20 times until I found one that I thought I could do. Finally, I found one. My first picture … Continue reading Photo Blitz

Think you can guess what this is?!?! For this 4 start assignment, I took a close up picture of something I hope all of you guys are able to figure out!! Please leave comments of your guesses!!!

  My photoblitz began at 10:43 pm EST and concluded at 11:03pm EST. You’ll notice the quality difference- I remembered I could screenshot on my computer instead of taking a photo of my laptop screen. Whoops. I did this at my team’s study hall in an academic building, figuring there would be plenty of stuff … Continue reading Photoblitz: I Weird Out My Teammates and Steal Their Stuff →

My experience with doing photography is very minimal unless you count instagram and selfies… Usually the photos I take now are for instagram and Facebook. I try to capture how people are feeling or doing in my photos. Mostly I … Continue reading →

…. After a tough 5 years of ups and downs Brittany and Todd make it to the night before their wedding. They have it all planned to be held in Hawaii with their closest family and friends. The anticipation of getting married has been killing them and all the jitters and cold feet are beginning … Continue reading Love at first SHOT

★★★☆☆ (Warning: Long post, lots of images) I was flipping through the Visual Assignments in the Assignment Bank, and found an assignment about glitch art that seemed pretty neat. So I downloaded this image of the Mona Lisa from Wikipedia and opened up the image in Notepad++. I decided to see what...

I thought that this Daily Create was too weird. Who comes up with this stuff? Nonetheless, I easily thought of a song for the wood nymph could dance too in the nearby woods. I’m not sure why this is the first thing that popped into my head, but can’t you see it dancing along with […]

My experience with photography is limited to the pictures I take with my Iphone. However, I do put my Iphone...

After reflecting on the Becoming a Better Photographer piece, I began to surf Flickr for examples of how the techniques are used by professionals. I was surprised that many of the photos that stood out to me were portraits of individuals. These are the photos I chose: This first image makes use of contrast to tell a story … Continue reading "Becoming a better photographer"

Currently, I do not take as many photos as I would like too. However, I would say that I take more than most of my friends. A lot of the time, I try to enjoy a specific moment rather than live it through snapchat or Instagram. The only down side of this is that I … Continue reading "Photo Reflection"

I love taking photos… If you follow any of my social media accounts you would know how much pictures I post on a daily basis. Every time my friends and myself go out to do anything there is always either a group photo being taken, a selfie, and always a snapchat. While I am on … Continue reading Photography

Make a creative photo of some sort of boundary The theme is blue. Blue Monday? Blue bird? Or something else blue? Find a grid pattern…

September 14, 2016: @ds106dc Soundtrack of the wood nymph:https://t.co/EInHX6qhXt#tdc1711 #shesatafestival — Corey Staier (@umw_cstaier) September 14, 2016

I don’t have much “professional” experience with photography at all. I mainly take photos of whatever is around me that I think looks good or cool. I try to make sure that there is good lighting and good positioning in the photo. By positioning I mean whatever I am taking a photo of and also the ...

Light This photo is a good example of light in photos. I think it’s beautiful because it shows one of my favorite things about nature: when light from the sun shines in through the trees. It is breathtaking. Lighting in pictures is extremely important, as you must have it placed in the right spot in order […]

I would by no means ever refer to myself as a photographer, but I do enjoy photography. I’ve always loved taking pictures of just about anything, whether it be of nature, people, or memories. I am most likely that person who has to take photos whenever i do something fun or out of the ordinary. […]

I’m sitting on a beach right now, in my land-locked neighborhood in my land-locked state. The moon reflected in the ocean is full, but the moon above me is just a sliver. Everyone else in my family is in bed, but tonight I just couldn’t sleep. My dad loves having an ocean in our backyard, … Continue reading An Ocean Behind My House →

Growing up the ocean in my backyard was as big as my imagination wanted it to be. I could stay there all day swimming and playing with my friends. When it rained the ocean grew deeper and in the winter it froze over. It was my own private ocean that only I could see. Just … Continue reading The Ocean at the End of my Backyard →

For this assignment I had to make a poster warning everyone about a danger. For this I chose to make a poster warning everyone about Bigfoot! What would you choose to warn everyone about?

This visual assignment was a lot harder than I thought it would be. I had to find something and take a close up photo of it for you to figure out what it is! I chose to blur my photo out and make it a little bit more challenging to really get you thinking. I ...

For my last assignment I chose a 2 star visual assignment called My Favorite Lyric. I immediately thought of my favorite song, Murder in the City by the Avett Brothers. My favorite lyric in the song is referring to his family, when he sings: “Always remember there was nothing worth sharing like the love that let … Continue reading The Feels

Another assignment I chose was worth 3.5 stars and was called 4 lines, 5 dots, 1 curve: where I had to draw a picture using 4 lines, 5 dots, and 1 curve. First, I sketched a few ideas in my planner before drawing it on my computer. Once I was sure that I followed the … Continue reading Art

I chose to do a goofy, 1 star visual assignment called: cat breading. All I had to do was frame a cat’s face with a slice of bread, which proved to be harder than expected. I think I have mentioned before that this cat and I do not get along, and this assignment did not … Continue reading Cat-Breading

@ds106dc Today's daily create is this big pile of 12 books. #tdc1709 pic.twitter.com/7RSpxcYD2O — Matthew Froelich (@FroelichMatthew) September 12, 2016 For today’s daily create we had to take a picture of a dozen of anything. The one thing I had was A LOT of was textbooks in the Physics Department at UMW.

The final assignment I did for this week was worth 2 stars. The goal of this assignment was to edit a picture of something creepy in your window. I used preview on my mac to complete this assignment. Here is the link to the original assignment: http://assignments.ds106.us/assignments/what-wanders-outside-your-window/ I picked a clown because I think they are … Continue reading Assignment Bank

The second assignment I completed was worth 3 stars. The goal of this assignment was to create a collage of your 5 favorite vacation spots and upload it to flickr. I used befunky.com to create the collage. Here is the link to the original assignment: http://assignments.ds106.us/assignments/a-collage-of-your-favorite-vacation-pictures/ The 5 places I picked were Amsterdam, Dubai, Florence, Greece … Continue reading Assignment Bank

This is my first assignment bank project for the week. The goal of this assignment was to remake the iconic Brady Bunch cover and replace it with your own friends or family. It was rate 3 stars for difficulty. I used photocollage.com to make this collage.  Here is the link to the original assignment: http://assignments.ds106.us/assignments/were-the-real-life-brady-bunch/ The … Continue reading Assignment Bank

My experience with photography is… slim. Very slim. I got a camera for my 13th birthday and used it indeterminately until I got a smartphone. Once I got a smartphone my camera fell by the wayside. My phone camera I’ve mainly used for Snapchat, honestly. Lots of terrible selfies never meant to be seen by … Continue reading I Know Nothing About Photography (and I’m Kinda Scared) →

My first visual assignment is called “Me and Bae” which is worth 2.5 stars. Here’s me and my “bae” as Beyonce and Jay-Z. I used Face in Hole because I have used it before and it’s very simple to use. As soon as I read the assignment I knew that I had to use Beyonce & … Continue reading Queen B + Jay-Z

Contrast: Here is an example of contrast, which I found on flickr from Theophilos Papadopoulos. It has a near and far perspective, with the fishing nets up from and then the boats in the water in the background. The colors also contrast, because up front is a very noticeable orange while everything in the background is … Continue reading Analyzing Photos