Over the course of this first trimester, I have learned a lot about digital photography. When I walked in on the first day, I knew how to press the button to take a picture, and that was just about it. Now, I know all of the basics and can go on to become more creative with my photographs. One specific thing I learned to do this fall is how to use photoshop. I'd always seen it as something complicated that only professionals use. However, I now know what makes it work, and I can successfully create works of art through it. At the beginning of the year, my photoshop work looked like this: This pop art piece is decent, but it only used the most basic of photoshop tools: Hue and saturation, levels, and layer composition. Through this assignment and more that followed it, I learned more and more about photoshop until I had the tools to create more intricate and creative pieces. Here is one of my final photoshop assignments: This project required the ability to use layers, adjust the "look" of the layers, and use shortcuts to move the multiple aspects of the image, as well as many more tools. I learned a lot through these photoshop tutorials, and I am excited to use the things I've learned in future classes, or for fun. Another thing that I learned this trimester is how to take photographs that are pleasing to the eye and have multiple composition aspects to make them more interesting. At the beginning of this trimester, my pictures were two-dimensional and boring. Also, I was using photoshop incorrectly in an attempt to make my pictures look "better". Here is an example: In this picture, the colors are too vivid, and the colors themselves do not go well together. Also, the artificial light from the flash of the camera makes it look stark and ugly. Here are a few photos I took later in the trimester: As I said earlier, I learned to take photographs with more visual interest and learned to use photoshop to compliment the already well composed photographs instead of trying to make the photograph interesting through photoshop.
I gained a lot of knowledge through digital photo 1 that will help me in later photography classes, and help me if I decide to pursue photography as a hobby.
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AuthorHi! My name is Lily Cutler, and I'm a freshman at Saline High School. Archives
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