The A-Z Collage was one of the more inventive one of the visual assignments. I got find out some cool fruits vegetables (like uglifruit!), so it definitely made me more knowledgable. I also used paint for this and really got to play around with dimensions of each photo. At first I tried to just do ...

When I decided to do the splash of color assignment I chose a bag that I found on the floor. As soon as I saw that bag I decided to take a picture of it because it was so blue that it was the perfect amount of color. I used a filter on my camera ...

When I chose to pick the “make-up your animal” assignment I decided to take a picture of my fish. I chose my fish because whenever I look at my fish he always is making kissing faces and although he has black eyes I believe that brown eyes suit him better. Although my fish is a ...

The idea of drawing a picture from a photograph sounds more confusing then it actually is. When I took a picture of a guitar my first thought was that I really with I could play the guitar like all of my friends. Whenever they all play the guitar together I wish that I could just join them while ...

Out of all of the assignments, the Before and After was by far my favorite. I used a video of my pet turtle, Chiquis, as my inspiration. I had to to screen shot (thank you to CogDog for teaching me how to do that!), and than used this photoframe app on my phone to get ...

The optical illusion was the easiest one to do. In this picture I got my friend Emily and my friend Laura to pose while I took a picture of them. The object of this picture was to make it look like they were holding the moon, which was in the background. Luckily the moon was full ...

When I was younger my favorite animal used to be a tiger and in art class I would always spend time drawing tigers and whenever we would have to do paper mache I always tried to make a tiger but I was not the most gifted person so my tigers always looked a little lop ...

For the assignment we’ve found your match, I decided to go with this picture of my friend because every since we were younger everybody thought that she looked exactly like Cristina Ricci, and now that she is older the similarities are clearer. She doesn’t take it to offense that she is her doppelganger because Cristina is a ...

For the Warhol Something, I decided to put the Photo Booth on my Mac to some good use and I did some pop art of my own face. Yes, I know, I’m lame but hey, it’s cool. For those who aren’t aware, this is similar to the Shot Marilyn’s that Andy Warhol did. Andy Warhol ...

For the A-Z collage I decided to use a topic that is both interesting and cool to look at which is why I chose insects. The main reason that I chose bugs was because I have always been fascinated with bugs since I was a child. Since I have always like bugs it was easy ...

Get Pickier: Instead of using your camera like a rapid fire machine gun, spend more time pre-composing in your mind. As you get more practice, you can be more selective, and more deliberate. This was a good one for me to … Continue reading →

I like meeting new people because everyone is different. My friend introduced me to his friend and he seemed like he had no emotion what so ever. He had the most beautiful eyes I ever seen so I took a picture of it and when I read this assignment I was like he would be the perfect ...

The Assignment: “For this week, you need to complete 10 stars worth of Visual Assignments — this could be doing 5 assignments rated 2 stars, etc. One of them is required by everyone, so we can all do the same one and compare our ideas, but beyond that, you get to pick the ones you ...

So this one was a little cheesy, but it was A change of emotion. I decided to let loose and have fun with this one. One of my favorite things in the world is cake ( who doesn’t love pastries?), so I depicted my emotions with it. Obviously, I’m happy with cake and sad without ...

The Assignment: “For this week, you need to complete 10 stars worth of Visual Assignments — this could be doing 5 assignments rated 2 stars, etc. One of them is required by everyone, so we can all do the same one and compare our ideas, but beyond that, you get to pick the ones you ...

Photoblitz: All photos were taken in my house Single Color: This is a tapestry of Ganesh, one of the main gods in Hindu.  I got this about four years ago when I was over in India.  I’m not gonna lie and say that it has some real deep meaning behind it, I just like how ...

My friend is really photogenic and her name is Emily, she does snapchats like all the time so I thought when I saw the Madonna make all of her more sexual faces.  I wanted to do the more modern faces you would see on Facebook. There is one picture that is too bright I honestly do not even know ...

Unlikely Intersection was the most simple but hardest one of them, which is ironic. You’d think streets like this would pop up everywhere but alas, they don’t. I was lucky because over the weekend, I went home and as I was driving to one of my friend’s houses and happened to notice she said go right ...

The Assignment: “For this week, you need to complete 10 stars worth of Visual Assignments — this could be doing 5 assignments rated 2 stars, etc. One of them is required by everyone, so we can all do the same one and compare our ideas, but beyond that, you get to pick the ones you ...

Have you ever noticed how useful an iphone can be? I never truly realized it until I came to this class. One of my professor’s often says how there is more technology in your average smartphone than was needed to go to the moon. That is such a beautiful thing, and in doing these assignments, ...

Valentine’s Day is coming up so I have to do the Valentine’s Day Caption Challenge. When I looked at the the plain cards this one stuck out to me because of how they were looking at each other. That made me think of all my friends from Arizona when I lived there and now they ...

Whenever I think of my dream car, I think of Mini Cooper’s. I know this is a joke to a lot of people especially since it’s not as lavish as most cars out there (Obviously no Mustang!) but I’m a rather petite girl, only about 5’1”. Whenever I get into one, I fit snug as ...

The Assignment: “For this week, you need to complete 10 stars worth of Visual Assignments — this could be doing 5 assignments rated 2 stars, etc. One of them is required by everyone, so we can all do the same one and compare our ideas, but beyond that, you get to pick the ones you ...

Valentine’s Day Caption Challenge! This was one of the more simple ones of all the batch of the work this week. I just took the photo, used the Mac Version of paint and I used my favorite font (marker felt!) to do this. It was fun, and stupid, which is what this assignment (I’m sure) ...

I hadn’t expected to practice David duChemin’s Ten Ways to Improve Your Craft when I went to get my haircut, but there I was, sitting in the waiting area, looking around until I see this mirror.  I used my phone to re-read ...

The Assignment: “For this week, you need to complete 10 stars worth of Visual Assignments — this could be doing 5 assignments rated 2 stars, etc. One of them is required by everyone, so we can all do the same one and compare our ideas, but beyond that, you get to pick the ones you ...

The assignment I chose is Newspaper Blackout Poetry. The activity calls for using a marker and a magazine to black out sections to create a new story. I truly underestimated the difficulty of this task. Firstly, being that I am at my girlfriend’s, the closest thing to a newspaper I could access was People Magazine. ...

Take a picture of something you made, be it food, art, or something else. Take a picture of your greatest success or triumph. Make it creative and artistic! Okay, so it’s not very artistic, or creative at all.  BUT it is a great success!!  YAY!   Take a picture of something brand new. Like shiny.

So much damn blogging this week.  Lots of stuff happened this week.  I joined a new group for a radio project. @cogdog : @l_hampson23 @caseyragg @rwyrough @dylangott1 and I are called 5th dimension! — Fairuz Maggio(@fairuzmaggio) February 15, 2013 While ...

For my last star I am doing Winterize It.  In this assignment you had to take a picture from the summer and make it look like it is from the winter by lightening the color to make the temperature appear cooler, … Continue reading →