Reaction Paper 8, Final Paper

When I look at my work from my first project set compared to my 2nd, 3rd, and 4th sets, I can tell that my motivation to take good pictures has became better. For instance, one of my pictures from my first set was a random picture that I honestly really didn’t put much thought into. I can’t get them to upload on here so here is the link to one of the pictures on my first set. http://www.flickr.com/photos/53291164@N04/4999458080/in/photostream/ compared to this picture in my third set where I became more creative with taking pictures. http://www.flickr.com/photos/53291164@N04/4999458080/in/photostream/ I have learned a lot about taking good pictures and editing then through Photoshop to make them look like better pictures by being in this class. I feel that taking this class will help me in the future to be creative and to make pictures look good. The best and most elements that I used in Photoshop were levels hues and saturations. I felt that these really made the pictures look good. You can take a picture of something that’s dark and gloomy and by changing the levels hue and saturation you can make the picture lighter and brighter and not as gloomy. My favorite photographer was Cindy Sherman, I liked how she could take so many pictures of herself and make herself look different in each one. I thought that was very creative. Although we don’t have anything in common as far as taking picture and interests I still liked how she was creative. My favorite part of this class was taking pictures of landscape. Taking the pictures I did really showed me how beautiful my area that I grew up in is. I see it everyday and didn’t really realize how beautiful everything looked until I look at it in an actual picture. I liked that doing this made me realize how beautiful landscape really is. I feel that this class has taught me to be more artistic when I take pictures. Instead of just taking them from a straight on angle, to take them from a different angle to make them look different and sometimes even better.