“There are no rules for good photographs, there are only good photographs.” -Ansel Adams BUT!  There are tips. Tips. Tips. Tips. Here is the key I got from each of the resources I looked at, and I think you will find as well… they are all based on the BASIC PRINCIPLES OF DESIGN. Seems simple ...

The assignment: Here is an exercise that is a fun way to try out your visual interpretation skills. Below are a list of subjects to capture in photos that you must try and capture within a 20 minute window of time. In this case it is less about capturing artistic images, but just doing what ...

The Assignment: “Create a set on flickr, a collection of the best of your photos. Add to it every week…” So I started my set, a whopping THREE pictures in it already!   I chose these pictures for a few reasons: 1.  I like to look at them. 2.  They make me smile. 3.  The ...

Reflecting back on this week I definitely saw a theme in everything that I was working on during Visual week. Everything seemed to be based on the good the bad and the ugly parts of my college career. So welcome to my college experience through a series of photos! So for starters I now have (continue reading...)

Fridge Status, a set on Flickr. Tacky title, of course. This week we needed to amp our flickr up, and I had some difficulty doing that at first. However, once I changed my URL I started to really enjoy it. I ended up making my URL be http://www.flickr.com/photos/ofaprincess because who doesn’t love to look at (continue reading...)

The Buddy photo assignment was to, “Find a little figurine or a stuffed animal that you can carry around with you. Use that “buddy” and take photos to document where you have gone together. Luckily, I had bear. Bear and I have a long history of companionship. Yesterday, we shared deep conversation over dinner and ...

Being a photographer today means next to nothing. With Photoshop and an expensive camera, it’s not hard to make money from it. Just take a look at this site called You are Not a Photographer. It’s “cool” now to use Instagram. And I refuse to link you to that site because there are better ways ...

Another Visual Assignment that I did this week was the Valentines Day Caption Challenge.  This was worth two stars and everyone in our class had to do it. For this I had to download a blank card from this flickr set and … Continue reading →

So Photo blitzing ended up being a ton more fun than I thought it would be.  I ended up taking a ton of pictures around my room of all of the different photos that were suggested.  Here are some of the best … Continue reading →

The challenge was to add a caption to one of 30 different valentine’s day postcards. These were no ordinary valentine’s day cards. To do this activity, I uploaded the picture to pixlr and added text with the online editing tool. I realize my inserted text was a bit childish, but I think this kind of ...

The next assignment I did was the A-Z photo collage.  This assignment was worth three stars (which put my total count up to seven at this point). The first part of this assignment was to pick a theme.  I decided … Continue reading →

Take a picture of something you made, be it food, art, or something else. As I had valentine’s day dinner with my girlfriend, and she made the whole meal, I was in charge of dessert. By ‘in charge of dessert’, I mean i plopped a bunch of strawberries in chocolate. This was the first photo ...

This week I tried a lot of different things in my photos from the TEN: Ten Ways to Improve Your Craft. None of Them Involve Buying Gear that Professor Levine summarized for us.  I tried to use all of them, ...

I saw everyone was doing this “Splash the Color” assignment, so I thought it must be fun then! I knew I had some awesome photos that I had taken in the past year, so I used an old one. I wanted to highlight a lot of colors in this one, but the assignment said only one… ...

* Derived from TEN: Ten Ways to Improve Your Craft. None of Them Involve Buying Gear * 1) Create Depth: Look for ways to add dimension of visual depth in your 2 dimensional images- play with foreground, lines, use of wide angle lenses, use of dark backgrounds I used a unique point of view to create ...

This week, we had to do a 20 minute visual assignment, called Photoblitzing.  I took all of the photos in my bedroom, because I figured I would have a lot of light contrast and objects to photograph in here.  First, ...

Week 5 is passing, and thus ends another week of Daily Creates. Monday The task: Take a photo of someone other than you using your favorite type of technology I went for creepy. I thought of a lot of things that I like in current technology. I could have gone simple, maybe the phone, or lightbulb, ...

When I discovered the Mission: Defamiliarize assignment, I immediately knew that I had to do it. I love taking photographs of details, at odd angles and focusing on things in a different way. While UMW has plenty of interesting places that I could defamiliarize, I chose Ball Hall, the Residence Hall which I have lived ...

The next visual assignment that I choose this week was Pick A Bad Photo, Apply A Vintage Effect And Write Something In Helvetica which was worth two stars. I choose a picture that I had taken of a play set last weekend when I … Continue reading →

This week for ds106 we had to do ten stars worth of visual assignments.  I decided to do cropped signs for two of my ten stars. In this assignment you had to “change, alter, enhance the meaning of a sign by cropping out … Continue reading →

This week we had to do three daily creates! In honor of visual week I did all of my daily creates as photography! For my three I choose: 1. Take a picture of something you made, be it food, art, or … Continue reading →

Now, the Fandom Princess was not one to skip her scholarly courses, but if she did, she made sure to catch up with Frantic Franny, the ghost that liked to sit in on the lessons, and would ask for any information that she had missed. One morning, after using the … Continue reading →

Best of…, a set on Flickr. One of our assignments this week was to make a set on Flickr of our best work so far in ds106 and link it to our blog.  I used Kelsie’s tutorial to help link by Flickr … Continue reading →

The “A change of emotion(in two panels)” assignment immediately attracted me as I knew exactly what to draw. The two-panel drawing portrays the cyclical, year in, year out struggle of being a New York Jets fan. I am all too familiar with the heart-wrenching feeling of your sports team falling short. One day these two ...

For this assignment, we had to take pictures of some different things within 20 minutes.  Here’s the start. Alex Morgan, in case you were wondering.  Take note of the battery as well. I had a candle on the table to ...

I’ve been aiming to improve my photography skills all week. I have had my camera on me at all times (and a heavy supply of batteries…). By Saturday, I was taking photos at Hollywood Cemetery and started being a bit more picky. I originally wanted hundreds of photos of the Monument to the Confederate Dead ...

I had the most fun this week with the “Love: In Three Frames” assignment and knew almost immediately what to make mine about.  As my URL indicates, I’m really a dog person. Like…REALLY really.  Unfortunately, my girlfriend is very much … Continue reading →

That’s not true. I haven’t been. But I DID this week! The color popping assignment was a lot of fun. I’ll admit I got a little bit of a hand cramp erasing the black and white image to reveal the … Continue reading →

I own one of the chubbiest cats ever and it’s the perfect look for him, so when I saw this assignment in the assignment bank, I knew I had to try it.  When I realized I’m close friends with the … Continue reading →

One day in the winter of her third year at Mercury, the Fandom Princess was sitting in on a Game of Thrones fan club meeting when someone brought up the idea of creating a musical band. The Princess rolled her eyes; this was the fifth time that someone in the … Continue reading →