After I read the description for this assignment I immediately started looking around the room for something that I could use as the main object. The first thing I saw was a pumpkin but I had some difficulty figuring out how to make a pumpkin more than just a pumpkin. But alas, Sitting right in … Continue reading Flower Power

Visual week. So far my favorite! As I’ve said before, and as it says in my About Me, I love pictures. Instagram is my hobby. No shame, I bought the newest […]

Monday, September 21, “Print All Over Me!” For this daily create we had to make an idiom into a print so I chose the idiom of “wearing my heart on my sleeve”. That idiom was very simple to visually portray so I simply added a heart to my sleeve in the photo to express that. … Continue reading This Week’s Daily Creates →

Hey guys and gals! One of our assignments was to try our hand at some photography under a time limit. This definitely required for one…

The second visual assignment I chose to complete this week was “Splash The Color.” This is a 3 star assignment. The assignment instructions were Color splash is a technique to emphasize details- you remove all color from a photo, and then restore original color to a single object, e.g. a green apple on a table. … Read More →

The subject of this week was visual storytelling, with photography and pictures. And the most important thing I learned this week: I still have a lot to learn about photography. Before, I was happy with a lot of the pictures I took, thinking they were decent, if not fairly well-composed. Turns out, my photography needs […]

For this daily create, we had to create our own road sign!   #tdc1358: Design your own road sign.     Of course, me being an ice-cream lover, I decided to create one about an ice cream truck. I decided to make my sign from a real Traffic Signs site. This was cool because you … Continue reading Daily Create 9/27/2015

This week’s best of pictures are filed under my “Best of” collection. These are the photos, excluding the photoblitz pictures, that I thought were my best pictures from the week. My favorite ones are from the hike I did this week in Crozet, Va. I have an ongoing theme in my life on how exploring … Continue reading This Week’s Best of Set

For this week, we had to look through some tips on creating better photography, and then try to apply them to the photos we took this week! It turns out, this was a lot harder than I imagined it would be. It was interesting though, and it got me to slow down a little when […]

This week was a week for lots of comments. 2 for each member of our radio show group, so that we could get to know their content better, and 3 comments for other blogs. It was also a week where there weren’t really reflections, and a lot of creative things. And it was really fun, […]

One of the visual assignments I chose to complete this week was the album cover assignment. The assignment is worth 3 stars. Here are the instructions for the assignment: So here’s something fun for everyone to do, should be quick and easy, but try to make it pretty. First, go here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Random The title of … Read More →

My first Photoblitz was a fun experience. It’s interesting how some of the pictures turned out kind of cool, even though my goal was just to complete the assignment. I’ve taken a lot of pictures that I was trying to make “cool” before but they didn’t turn out that way. I think having some guidelines … Continue reading First Photoblitz

This week has been one of my more challenging weeks for a number of reasons, the first being that I’m just not the comfortable with photography. I tried a long time ago to get into it, and even have a professional camera, but I never really found anything that ‘clicked’ for me. I tend to … Continue reading Looking Back: Week Five

This week I’m trying out some new techniques with my camera. I got the ideas for the techniques after looking at a photo story post by Rob Wall that you can view below. 8 Photo Techniques from Rob Wall All of the photos that I took were from this week, except for the last one … Continue reading Exploring Photography Techniques

9/22/2015: Crossing Abbey Road! Today we had to take an image of Abbey Road and edit it so someone new was crossing it. I love Super Smash Bros., so I decided to use stickers of Mario and Princess Peach. I thought it would be funny to have Mario saving Peach like he does in the … Continue reading Week Five: Daily Creates

This week, we got to experiment with photography as a form of digital story telling. We took a lot of pictures, did a lot of editing, and spent a lot of time looking for that perfect angle. Now that we’re at the end of the week, and the camera roll on my phone is ever … Continue reading Pride and Joy

Tip #1: Tap and hold to lock exposure and focus I took my first tip from an article talking about ways to improve the photographs you take with your Iphone. While I do have a Nikon at home, I don’t typically carry it around with me. Instead, I often use my Iphone 6, which has … Continue reading You’re a photographer when…

My daily create on September 27th. This is my fourth daily create of the week. I had to create a new road sign. I snagged a couple of pictures off of Google and used GIMP to create this image. A new road sign for #tdc1358 @ds106dc pic.twitter.com/SHYYq...

This week I have received many compliments on my daily creates and how much I have improved, which has been really encouraging. I also have been enjoying making daily creates a lot more now that I know how to use Photoshop Elements 11 as well as other tools that have helped me develop my internet voice. […]

My new road sign. I’m glad there are not real signs like this because it would create more accidents than without it. This is an example from The Design Museum. Here is the flickr and twitter link to this daily create. 

   Here is the prompt to this assignment.    “Find something in your house. Take a picture. Let your imagination churn. Make as many different augmented versions as you can think of. Help others see what’s in your head.” As you can see, I took a regular TV stand and turned into a tee-pee, ice cream […]

    Is that a green raccoon tail hanging on the wall? Nope, that is just a plain ol’ feather...

Hello everyone, you may have seen these images before, but it wouldn’t hurt to see them again! Earlier this week,...

I’ve done a couple of things to pimp out my Flickr. The first thing I did was create a custom URL. I thought about making it more complex, but that would make it harder to remember, so I went with a simple name that I also use on other sites. https://www.flickr.com/photos/bbrady92/ Then I took a … Read More →

I just took all of the pictures for this week’s photoblitz assignment. First, the pictures themselves.     Start time:   Photo dominated by a single color:   Two things that don’t belong together:   Unusual angle:   Abstract:   Somebody else’s hand:   Interesting shadow:   End time:   Alright, now to discuss the … Read More →