I feel like taking photography this year was one of my best decisions of my high school career. I was able to further a lot of skills as well as learn a lot of new skills. In the beginning of the year, we learned about the elements and principles of photography and how incorporating those into our photos makes them more aesthetically pleasing. This skill continuously shows up in a lot more of the projects that I completed this year such as my independant photography project and the forced perspective project. However, there were a lot of things that we tried this year that I wasn’t really sure if they were going to work out. The Hockney style edits took a few tries to get them how I wanted, but in the end they turned out okay. In the majority of the projects, I worked with another classmate of mine named Julia Krauss. She and I worked as each other's models for a lot of the pictures and it really helped us become closer as friends and it helped us develop even more skills as photographers.
One of my favorite projects th this year was the forced perspective project. I had a ton of fun coming up with ideas and trying different camera angles in order to get the perfect shot. I loved how we taped different props on the walls and had to contort our bodies to make the photo look as realistic as we could. If I could offer any advice to those who plan on taking this course, I would say try to think outside of the box, and come into this course with an open mind. I didn’t have any expectations and that really helped me come up with creative ideas for projects and such. One thing that I learned from taking this course was that all art is up for interpretation and literally anything can have the power to inspire others. We looked at a lot of artwork that really changed the way I look at things. One example of this was the street art lesson. It was really cool to see how something so controversial like street art could change my outlook on art as a whole.
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I wanted to include some photos that I took for fun of the sky at different times. I love taking pictures at the sky, especially when it has all the cool colors in it, I just think that it is such a beautiful thing and it's really important to capture things like that. I only edited a couple of these photos to enhance some of the colors and to make a color splash of the sky in one of the photos.
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