Background An important part of my daily life is the internet. I use it to do homework, watch my shows, play video games, talk to friends and family, almost everything relates back to the internet. So for #VisualAssignment1549 I decided to making a warning sign about bad wifi connection to warn others from the horrors […]

Background I decided to do #VisualAssignment1660 because in the modern age of the selfie I knew I had many pictures of myself to use and plenty of interesting faces. I thought this would be a good way to capture the many faces of Morgan Moncrief to look at in the future. Process For this collage […]

Surprise! wait..they are doing everything without you I put words over the picture.  This picture is from league of legends, the picture is a skin splash for Surprise Party Amumu.

Original assignment may be found here (2.5 Stars) I’ve made my way around the web long enough to know what a meme is. As an active Reddit user I have come across many meme’s in my life. Especially one’s involving cats. My love for superheros and comic book characters made me think of a popular … Continue reading The Super ds106 Life →

For my photo reflection I used one of the tips from the book Ten Ways to Improve Your Craft Without Buying Gear. I used the tip which stated to focus on the light. In the photo below, I used the light and shadows to compose the shot. Sunrise photos are always cool, though this one in […]

Original assignment found here (2.5 Stars) At the end of the regular season,  Johnny Manziel became the first freshman to win the Heisman Trophy, Manning Award, and the Davey O’Brien National Quarterback Award. I remember watching Manziel play at Texas A&M my freshman and sophomore years at UMW. Ryan Leaf, a former college football star turned NFL bust … Continue reading Johnny Football to Johnny Jobless →

http://assignments.ds106.us/assignments/ryan-gosling-wont-eat-his-cereal/ Here is a clip of me tickling Walter White. Behind the Creation: Breaking Bad to me might just be the greatest TV show in the history of television. I watched the entire series when it was airing live on AMC. I also bought the almost $200 dollar box set of the entire series plus […]

I took the image, added words and the wings in the background. A few examples of editors you can use to make this on your own: photoshop, gimp, and prezi.com.

Week one is done and I survived!! It is safe to say that I really enjoy this class and all the assignments we get to do. I was a little overwhelmed about the class at first because 1) the email that was sent out warning us about the class and 2) because I have never … Continue reading Weekly Summary One

This class is the first time I have ever used a blog, so all of this is new to me. It was really interesting going through everything to see what all storytelling entails through the use of photos and videos. I really took in the information given in the section on photography and how to … Continue reading Visuals of Storytelling

Original assignment found here  (3 Stars) This was a fun assignment as I love my pets. I have a few Miniature Pinschers and a Himalayan Persian. Daisy is the youngest of all the dogs. This assignment made me realize that getting Adobe Photoshop will make the visual assignments much easier. I had to refer to … Continue reading Daisy visits D.J. at UMW →

Background With the creation of the internet it has become much easier to learn about and see places you may not have seen otherwise. Any time I go on Instagram, Facebook, or Twitter my feed is always filled with pictures of exotic destinations which gave me the idea to do #VisualAssignment1674. While I have many […]

Luckily for them, these chickens will never become “tenders”- but I’m having a lot of fun tending to them this summer! For this visual assignment, I took a selfie with my current pets- this cute flock of chickens. I have a cat back home, but for the summer the animals I hang out with are […]

When I first read this assignment I thought it would be super easy just because I knew right of the bat I would do my room because I have a lot of things in my room. When I took the first picture of the time I immediately started having a tricky time finding things in … Continue reading Photo Safari Reflection

http://assignments.ds106.us/assignments/your-very-own-spubble/ Here is an old photo of me, I look like such a doofus with my egg nog. Behind the Creation I have an obsession with Wawa egg nog so I am assuming my happiness in this photo was caused by the egg nog in my hand. My mom used to be scared of my […]

What really struck me in the articles and videos that talked about visual storytelling was the idea that photography is really about what you leave out of the picture. When you look at a picture, you are thinking about everything that you are looking at, not what the photographer chose to leave out. When I… Continue reading Thoughts on Visual Storytelling

Background To start off my spubble for #VisualAssignment190 I first looked through my own images until I came across one that I thought was funny on it’s own but would be even funnier with a text bubble. For this I decided on a screenshot I had taken of my boyfriend while on Skype of him […]

I was lucky enough to start of this class having already utilized a Domain of Ones Own during my Freshman Year, however that does not mean I remembered how to use it in the slightest.  Luckily it was a lot easier to pick up this time and I did have some base knowledge on what […]

I have always been the kind of person who always has to take a picture of something going on no matter where I am, such as trips, parties, when I’m hanging out with friends, etc… At a younger age when I got my first camera I never really took into consideration about all the different … Continue reading Photo Techniques

All this squirrel can do is relax for Daily Create #tdc1596 The only tricks this squirrel can do are relax @ds106dc #ds106 #tdc1596 https://t.co/JcMt7EH6kV via @giphy — Morgan Moncrief (@MorganMoncri3f) May 22, 2016

Wow have four years really come and gone? I remember moving into Russel Hall back in 2012. Meeting my random roommate, whom I never spoke to. Our conversations usually consisted if it was okay to turn off the light or not. Besides my knowledge of accounting and erghh maybe some french, I feel I have … Continue reading My very own Grad Spubble →

Trick? Disguise @ds106dc #tdc1596 pic.twitter.com/MZsN9sL2Ir — D.J. Wernitznig (@DJWernitznig) May 22, 2016

Visual Storytelling is something that I don’t often think about if I am being truly honest.  I am a reader I have been and I always will be I enjoy creating my own image of what is happening rather than seeing what everyone else does.  However you can often capture things in a photograph that […]

I choose my bedroom as the location of my scavenger hunt. After reading most students were capable of doing the hunt in their dorm, I figured my bedroom would be suffice. Making a photo appear lifelike was difficult. I thought one of my bobble heads would be the closest to portraying something lifelike. I thought … Continue reading Scavenger Hunt →

Since people are very lacking these days on campus, I stuck with my surroundings while photographing this week. I really tried to work on the balance of my photographs this week, in order to bring focus to the correct objects in the photograph. For the photograph I took of Alvey Hall I really wanted the […]

It was a cloudy day as you can see from the in the background. However, there is light shining down on the face of the blonde male. This was my attempt at timing and lighting. I ot the idea from: http://ds106.us/open-course/unit-5-visual-storytelling/#becoming-better-photographers (section from the ds106 Handbook) It was a partly sunny day and the sun would … Continue reading Becoming a Better Photographer →

Procrastination is the key to success #no #ds106 — D.J. Wernitznig (@DJWernitznig) May 22, 2016

The Answer? A 15 minute photo hunt. This photo safari definitely did not come with a treasure map. I completed the photo safari in the yard of a family I babysit for (I have been babysitting for almost a week straight, so I had limited options). I was not familiar with their yard and what… Continue reading What’s more difficult than a Treasure Hunt?

The Photo Safari Assignment was very interesting to me because it was not something I would ever think to do or come up with as an assignment. I chose to do my Photo Safari in the University Center because I thought it would have the most opportunities for me to find things to photograph because […]