For my photo blitz challenge I waited to take my picture until I went on fall retreat at Mar Lu Ridge in Maryland.I chose Mar Lu Ridge for my photoblitz challenge because it is away from school and I got to take good nature pictures.The the picture were taken on my hike to shock rock. The experience of having to

This week was all about photography and how to improve our photo taking skills. I learned that you can use the environment around you to an advantage when taking pictures, and that you can manipulate the environment to better your photos. I also learned that taking a good picture is not as easy as it … Continue reading →

We were assigned to pimp up our Flickr pages and see if we could figure out how to embed a set into WordPress. To embed a set into my blog, I googled the html code for how to embed sets into WordPress. By doing this, I found a website called flickerslideshow.com that takes the link to your … Continue reading →

Throughout the week, I used some tips to help me better exhibit my photography skills: Change My Perspective By Changing Yours: Find different and unique points of view. Look down, up, lay down on the ground. Seek perspectives of lines. Look to the light. Probably the most key lesson- be aware of light that works and what … Continue reading →

Blue Ridge Mountains This photo is taken from Skyline Drive of the Shenandoah National Park. It is about one hour away from my house. The mountains are the most beautiful this time of the year because all the colors of the foliage are out and very vibrant. After paying attention to the tips of how to … Continue reading How to be a better photographer

The Work Itself: This visual assignment asked to take a picture of an object and create as many augmented versions of it as possible. My object is a recycling bin in the convergence center. I chose this object because since it has a lid on top, it makes sense that fictional objects could be emerging … Continue reading Apophenia “Recycling Bin”

Hey photographers! This week we had to read up on/watch some handy tips and advice on becoming a better photographer and get to work with…

What could be worse than a killer whale or a polar bear? How about a polar whale? For the assignment titles “Here Kitty Kitty” the task was to Combine two or more animals together to make it an unusual type of animal and place it in it’s natural habitat. I chose the polar bear, and the killer … Continue reading →

This week was by far one of my favorites in the class! I really enjoyed the visual assignments and learning more about photography and visual media techniques. I definitely learned a lot about creating visual media. For most of my visual assignments and daily creates I have been using a free online editor called Pixlr, […]

I’m finally done with all of the work for this week. Thank God. I’ve been way too busy this week and I’m looking forward to taking the rest of the night to relax. I learned a lot about editing images this week. I couldn’t do much with GIMP before this week’s assignments, but I feel … Read More →

This assignment was a lot of fun! I chose to do this in my room because there is such a variety of objects in there that I thought it wouldn’t be too hard trying to find things to take photos of for each different thing. The time limit made it more of a challenge because … Continue reading Photoblitz →

These week we had to use at least 3 different suggestions when photographing/producing images for our visual assignments this week. I pulled all of my tips from the eBook written by David duChemin. I started using these resources first for the Photoblitx challenge. For this image I decided to use my new found knowledge in […]

Hello everybody! This week’s assignments all focused on visual creativity and storytelling. I was glad to spend some more time in photoshop. I used to…

Here is my street sign!

The weeks done! And it’s only 4pm? That’s about 9 hours earlier than I usually submit my summary. Unfortunately, I’m not submitting early because I was being proactive for the sake of being proactive, but because I’m leaving soon to go to DC for the afternoon and I wanted to make sure I did my … Continue reading Week 5 Summary

Here is the link to my best set on flickr. These are various photos taken and compiled over the duration of this class to this point. These are my favorite photos because of the appearance, creativity, and good feelings that the photos elicit. The shadow picture is cool because you can see the shape of the shadow on … Continue reading Best Set Reflection “Pimp up your Flickr”

Hey guys and gals! This week was visual week for us so we all had the pleasure of creating visual assignments with a story behind…

So I know I talk a lot about the outdoors and some of my other hobbies, but one big thing I’ve left out is baseball. One of the things I’ve noticed over the past couple of years as I’ve been “growing up” has been my continuing disinterest in sports and my focus on other things … Continue reading Harper for MVP

In the visual assignment titles Your Very Own Spubble, the task was this: “Learn to love yourself, grab a picture of yourself in which your body language, actions, gestures, etc. suggest one thing and then play off that using a speech bubble. Ideally the result would make people laugh—but I must acknowledge there are other … Continue reading →

Hey everybody! This week we had the pleasure of completing various visual assignments. I am not very good at Photoshop but I enjoy working with…

As soon as I read the description for this assignment, I knew exactly what poem I was going to pick! I love the poet Mary Oliver. My girlfriend ( who ironically enough, took this class and her assignment was the example pictured in the assignment description) told me about Mary Oliver a few months ago … Continue reading “What is it you plan to do with your one and precious life?”

This visual assignment was called  Apophenia and the task was to find something in my house. Take a picture. Let my imagination churn. Make as many different augmented versions as you can think of. Help others see what’s in your head. For the object in my house, I decided to go with a razor. I chose the … Continue reading →

I completed four daily creates this week. I used GIMP for all except for all of them except the first one. I’m starting to get more comfortable with GIMP after doing these daily creates and the visual assignments.   For the first daily create of the week, I had to make latte art. On that … Read More →

Hey! Important Note: I thought I posted this a few days ago but I accidentally saved it as a draft. Todays DailyCreate called for a…

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 →