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 →

My little brother is a freshman at Shenandoah University. Today, I had a day off, and we (being my mom, dad, boyfriend, and I) decided to go and see him. […]

The third Visual Assignment I did this week was for 2.5 stars. It was to make a poster of your favorite sports player. I did 3 time Olympian Misty May-Treanor. I retrieved the main picture and the USA Volleyball logo from Google. I then put the main picture into Paint an the logo into a different Paint […]

For the mandatory visual assignment this week, Apophenia, we had to look transform a picture of a regular object into what we could imagine it being. This was hard for me, because, despite having an over-active imagination when it comes to seeing every shadow as a possible intruder, I found it difficult to imagine everyday […]

TDC 1352 Scott's sad. I added tears to this panel to make Scott a bit more sad. #tdc1352 @ds106dc https://t.co/ikF1WpRjML...

For my second visual assignment I did a 3.5 star assignment. We had to create a collage with four things on our bucket list. So first I had to chose my 4 things I decided on Visit every state in the U.S. Visit every continent (I have 4 left!) Go skydiving Be a contestant on CBS’s […]

I joined the third group for the upcoming radio show assignment. I ended up in a group with Rachel Stanford, Tori Lear, and Mitchell Eubank. We have a group discussion going on Canvas to figure out what to name the show and what we would like to make the show about. Since we don’t have the group name … Read More →

My bookshelf for this semester is just filled with so many books, some aren’t even pictured here! But there’s one book that’s just for me. Something that’s just for fun, that I know I can relax and enjoy and not have to worry about analyzing and papers. Just a little bit of magic to brighten […]

Where and Why I Chose to Photoblitz So I chose to photoblitz at my boyfriend’s apartment. There is several beautiful plants landscaped outside of his complex so I thought it might be a good place. I also knew that the photoblitz list asked for unusual objects to capture and for whatever reason, there are some […]

Another week of daily creates! And ah, what a good bunch there were this time. This week I found myself drawn to the photography-related daily creates for…obvious reasons, maybe, but I feel they gave me more practice for learning different photography techniques. Anyway, he’s the collection of them, along with little blurbs about what I […]

In order to figure out what exactly this assignment was, because I didn’t really understand I looked at these two blogs (2 separate hyperlinks). I didn’t like how much they covered up the original image so I tried not to do that in my project, but I thought the coffee cup and the candle were a […]