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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…

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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 including) from your final photo essay. Be ready to talk about how it’s going. Bring whatever media that…

Father and Son (portrait)

Family (theme)

Graffiti, lake, trees (ugly/beautiful)

Hopscotch (shadow):

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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 …

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

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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!

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Extreme close-up assignment for a digital storytelling class.

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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 …

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 …

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

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

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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 …

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 …

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…

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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 loved Diane’s pictures and, even more so, her motives …

Chair in Corner lol

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UMDST

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Houses by the IM Building

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My team at Nationals

A 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 volleyball team …

CC Andrew Gainer This 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 own has proven to be just…

Contrast. white/brown soft/hard…