Reaction Paper 8

I have learned a great deal about photography and my style of photography this semester. When I first started taking pictures for digital photography, I basically just pushed the button on my camera not expecting anything in particular and hoping that the picture will turn out. Surprising myself with whatever I capture. I also didn’t edit my pictures at all. Nor did I know how to. I believed that the picture that I had taken looked great and that was how it’s done. When I got to be more developed with my photography skills I learned how to edit the lighting, color, and much more in the photographs that I capture. This helped my pictures to look much more alive and beautiful. I also learned to take a picture with a purpose, and not just to take a picture of any old random scene. I didn’t take any random old picture for my final project, I thought about something important in my life, like my family, and decided to capture a memory. I took pictures of things that had a meaning for me and had some impact or importance in my life. I also learned how to portrait aspects of my life and at times even told a story. The most recent picture I have photographed have been influenced greatly by things I have learned throughout the semester in digital photography. I have portrayed many different techniques I have learned in my photographs. Such as levels, layers, hue/saturation, and much more. It amazes me that a small little change to the lighting of color of a picture can make such a big impact on the final portrait. I found that my style of landscape photography was very similar to Bill Atkinson’s. We both wanted to show the beauty of the earth around us, and the beauty of the earth around us. We both choose to photograph many of the same landscapes and the way we edited our photos was greatly alike. After class ends I predict that I will still utilize the tools that I have learned this semester. I hope to use my new found skills to capture memories of my family and just my life in general. I will continue to use photography to capture my life, and hopefully develop my skills to an even higher level, to help my pictures to look more and more developed in time.