Final Reflection

What skills have you come into this class with that have been helpful? What skill have you most needed to cultivate?

A. Being able to have a good eye for what you want to take pictures of. The skill I have most needed to cultivate is taking pictures with good aperture/depth of field.

How have these skills been helpful?

A. Having a good eye makes you think really hard about what your photos want to look like, so having the ability to do that makes taking photos a lot easier. The aperture/depth of field is key because the lighting of the picture completely summarizes what your intent was for that photo.

What skills did you realize that you need to improve in order to be successful in this class? 

A. I need to improve on using my film camera more effectively and with better use. I struggled this year with the aperture and focus, which really came back to hurt my skills as a photographer.

What steps have you undertaken to improve these skills?

A. Over the summer break, as well as, in Intermediate Photography I plan to work a lot harder on using my aperture, and looking at my camera manual to understand why it hasn't been working.

What excites you about photography right now?

A. What really has excited me about photography this year is the use of studio lighting because I felt very good about the location of the lights and the quality it was taken at.

My favorite photograph I have taken is a picture of a boat in a bush using studio lights. I was very excited about the quality it was taken at as well as the variety of color. 

My favorite project this year was still life with studio lighting because i particularly enjoyed my object, the group I was in, and the photos I took. This is a project that I would like to do more in the coming years of Photography.

My least favorite project this year was the darkroom abstract project because I didn't feel great about the photos I took, and also I didn't develop them well. The aperture was off, as well as the focus. This year I had pretty good luck with the darkroom, but in this project it wasn't my brightest moment.