1. I created a blog post called "Final Exam" on my Photography Blog.
2. I sent an email with the subject "Period 3 - Final Exam"
3. My email signature does include my Blogspot and Weebly links.
4. My transformative picture was actually taken later in the year. This is due to the fact that it took me a few months to gain an appreciation of how difficult photography is and the amount of work that photographers put into perfecting their pictures. The photo was part of the commercial shoot that was done as a group and it included my two project mates, Hugh and Barry.
This photo legitimately altered my view of photography from an easy pastime to a tiring yet rewarding art form for many reasons. Firstly, it took an hour just to shoot this singular photo. In order to match the style of Ralph Lauren, I had to take dozens of different shots. I wanted a style of serious yet cool similar to that of Ralph Lauren and on around the 30th try, after an hour, I finally got a good picture. I thought it was the end of my work, but alas, it was not. This ties into my second reason for it for believing it was a difficult art form. Even after taking the picture, it took me another 2 hours to correctly edit it! I had edited pictures before but for this one, not only did I have to edit the brightness, clarity and contrast, but I had to mask the background as well to make it completely white. Finally, I had to make it a printable size with just the right quality! Originally, I had believed that photography was simple and all one had to do in order to take pictures was click a button. However, this photo taught me that it takes time to take a good picture and edit it, and that photography is a difficult skill.
5. Shape and Form are both elements of art, but they are inherently different. Shape is a flat image that is a closed figure and has a visible outline. For example, in a picture, shapes can include triangles or circles or even leaf-life figures. Form, on the other hand, not only expresses length and width, but depth as well. Instead of being a two-dimensional flat image like shape, form includes three-dimensional figures that have depth as well. These include cubes, spheres and cylindrical figures.
Link for Shape from my Blog: Shape
Link for Form from my Blog: Form
Two Separate websites that substantiate my explanation:
6. Pattern and Repetition are both principles of design, but are different from one another. Pattern simply repeats a figure or group of symbols throughout the work. For example, repeating patterns could be shapes like squares continuously reoccurring throughout the image. However, repetition not only has a repeating structure throughout the work of art, but it completes the work or makes the pattern less monotonous by varying its style. For example, in my repetition image, I not only showed a repeat of the sides of the bushes, but the shadows of the bush, to make the photo seem harmonic in style. Pattern is a repeat of a figure while repetition is a repeat with less monotony and makes the work of art seem dynamic.
Two Separate websites that substantiate my explanation:
7. My Weebly About Page: Simar's Weebly About Page
A Photographer's About Page that inspired me: Eric Ryan Anderson About Page
8. My last Three Project Blog Links:
I believe my best work came in my Final Project, in which I took candid shots of my family. This is my best work because of the variety of styles that are exemplified throughout the project and varying perspectives. For example. I had one picture of my cousin shooting a soccer ball while the ball was in the air, a different perspective from normal, to a picture of my sister staring at a picture which included all of the names in the family to my sister laughing at a story our grandpa told her. These unique shots captured daily life because of their candidness and did so in a different perspective than the usual direct shot, which makes the entire project so much more real in my eyes. This makes it in my opinion, my best work. Not only do I believe it was my best work, it changed me as well. Each moment that I am with my family tells a story and it allowed me to appreciate these situations not only as a photographer, but as a person as well. They let me appreciate life and enjoy every day and that is what is most important to me. In this way, photographing these moments has allowed me to value my life for the amazing thing it is. Furthermore, I see in a different view now. This project allowed me to view different moments of life as snapshots waiting to be captured. Each situation that I am in can truly represent a story. Now whenever I take a picture, I truly understand that there are a variety of unique situations waiting to be captured, and I do not even have to look further than my own home.
