Like Diane Arbus‘ work, many memes rely on odd-looking individuals to create attention-grabbing content. After watching a documentary about her, I think she had  a better understanding of what she was doing and how it worked than many internet users do of the memes they make. Meme All The Different Looking People! Visually outstanding individuals […]

For Wednesay– Post three photographs of your own creation with wildly different compositions and styles but with similar rhetorical purposes. Post one photo (or one photo that you are considering … Continue reading →

This week can be described in 3 words. Pictures, photos, images. But I love this section! Taking pictures is a process, in my opinion. You learn from reviewing all the shots you did. You see exactly where you messed up, what you can do better next time. I really enjoy having a theme and looking […]

Daily Shoot: Self-portrait Taken by my friend Santiago in NYC. I was waiting to hail a cab.

Daily Shoot: Portrait This is a portrait of my friend Santiago. We were together in New York City this weekend so I decided to use the opportunity to take shots for UMDST!

Extreme close-up assignment for a digital storytelling class.

lots of pictures

Working with light

Up close 

portrait

Universal theme 

Shadow 

something ugly make it pretty 

contrast

Self portrait

response to video

The year is nearly done. I’ve taken a couple pictures to be part of my photo essay. Still need to find a few more but I’ve got a couple that I really like. Also been working on the comic for the final project. I think it’s going well just need to decide on final details. 

lots of pictures Working with light Up close  portrait Universal theme  Shadow  something ugly make it pretty  contrast Self portrait response to video The year is nearly done. I’ve taken a couple pictures to be part of my photo essay. Still need...

Portrait Assignment for a Digital Storytelling class at the University of Michigan.

Taken in the Michigan League at the University of Michigan for a Digital Storytelling class.

I feel like my face has weird angles so in photos I sometimes don’t look like myself. Also for this I feel like the background tells more about me than my face does.

I feel like my face has weird angles so in photos I sometimes don’t look like myself. Also for this I feel like the background tells more about me than my face does.

In response to watching Master of Photography I thought it was really interesting. I especially liked the idea that photographs capture a moment in time and that moment allows us to scrutinized something more than we normally would. Photographs capture a single moment. I’ve seen several that we not true to what was happening. Like a photo where someone looks angry but really the camera caught them at an off moment. Photographs can also capture a moment perfectly. 

I like photographs because they let us see a moment in the past. If the picture is of something that I forgot about it’s interesting to see how the memories can come back. Sometimes photography can be deceptively simple but it can also be more difficult than people think because of all the choices that can be made to compose a piece. 

On a final note I also liked the idea that something boring can become interesting. Every once and a while I think to myself. Isn’t it amazing that we even exist. That I met someone we talked and now we’re friends. That of all the people in the world I met this one person and we decided to be friends. Its “boring” that we have friends usually people have friends but it can become fascinating when you think about it for a while.

In response to watching Master of Photography I thought it was really interesting. I especially liked the idea that photographs capture a moment in time and that moment allows us to scrutinized something more than we normally would. Photographs capture...

This was a surprisingly calm week, but I'm just waiting for the mess of a hurricane of work that is about to attack me. I can already feel it and it's already making me anxious, so here's to one of my last free(ish) evenings!This week I:Took so so many...

First off can we talk about how amazingly 70s this documentary was? The hair, the clothes, the drugged-out speeches from different people interviewed - it was perfect. And I really really loved that.This was an absolutely amazing documentary. I really ...

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My team at NationalsA LOT of things have happened in the past week. So many exciting things have happened, not to mention that the semester is wrapping up along with my time here at U of M. The two most exciting things that happened were that my volley...

CC Andrew GainerThis week provided another great round of photography. I really like the daily shoots and enjoy them a lot more than the other daily creates/design creates. The in class project is coming along nicely. I love watching gifs and making my...

Contrast. white/brown soft/hard