Wednesday, October 27, 2010

What are you feelings about the first nine weeks

The first nine weeks. The last first nine weeks of high school. I can not believe its almost over it is going so fast and i feel like theres so much more i want to do. I've had such a great nine weeks i got closer to one of my sisters and I find the things that make me happy and I am finally able to look at myself in the mirror and say "yea i have my faults and I am not perfect but I am happy being me" What i did well haha i did not break down like last year ha I think I have been a lot stronger but i need to get my priorities straight. I got better at gym and i have worked rally hard at dance and I am closer to my goals. I could not believe i got mostly all A's in my classes and the ones i did not get A's in were because i did not put my all into my assignments partly i did not even do them. So this nine weeks Im done with most of those feelings that do not really matter anymore. I am going to graduate. I am going to college. Regardless. So i do not really stress on that but i know i have to work harder on gym and dance and school in general. I look at myself and i see that i have a lot of fight. I might be scared of a lot of things but nothing ever stops me from doing what i know i need to or want to do. That fight this nine weeks faded a little because Im tired of working and part of me just wants to layback and relax which i have been doing a lot more of in my own way. A quarter of high school is over it has been really awesome i think it is only going to get better.

Tips for Taking Better Photos

The first tip is looking your subject straight in the eye i think i might need to work on this guideline because i just have a tendency to take a picture with out putting much effort into it. Now, especially when photographing children, ill pay more attention to keeping the camera at the person's eye level. The Next tip would be using a plain background this tip i do not need to work on. Using flash is were i seriously need help on. I always get confused whether to put the flash function on or off. I understand now that even when outside you might still want to engage in using the flash because the picture may still be to dark. I like getting close ups on people so this function I believe I am better at. I like the example in the article.  Its amazing how different feel of the picture is in tip 5. The way the first person took the photograph is boring and the second picture looks like it was from pride and prejudice or something. The ideal of focus i think is cool you can blur things in the photo.

Friday, October 8, 2010

Photos of the day

Photojournalism is a form of journalism in which a collection of images create a story. This is different from all forms of photography cause you need to tell a story through that one picture. Anyone can take a picture but not many can take one like a photojournalist can. There are a lot of challenges that come with taking a miraculous photo. It is art because photography is a form of art but through this art there is usually a significant purpose. this purpose is to capture the surroundings and document it to show the world what certain moments felt like with out an essay. It puts the reader in this position which changes the feeling of the moment and brings more emotion vs reading it and seeing it. this makes new photography important and memorable because a picture can always be brought back up. the picture never changes so it helps constantly remind the reader of the emotion and feeling in the moment. A photojournalist captures the idea of a moment and continue to show it over and over. The memory the feeling never dies with in the picture no matter how old the picture might have been the memory within that picture never gets old.