independent task 2

Literal: "I the Student affirm that I completed my independent component which represents 30 hours of work."

I have completed photographs that some have been edited on photoshop(the ones I thought were the best), and some that have not to show how much time it takes to get one good shot. Most of the photographs have either been an assignment in  my ROP class, ones that I have taken on my own, or ones done for other assignments in school.

Interpretive: 

The first 100 pictures or so are the ones I took on my own with no assignment assigned. I just walked around and took photographs of what I thought was beautiful on my own. I would say it was about 6 hours because it was on separate occasions that I took these. The pictures of the cigarettes are ones that I edited on photoshop, and are planning on using for creative expression. The pictures of Emma were ones I took trying to get a good rule of thirds I spent at least 6 hrs trying out different subjects and people before I settled on using the images of Emma in rule of thirds. I edited them on photoshop, and had them printed out to use them in science fair. The picture of multiple pictures was an assignment I did in ROP which took about 3 classes (9 hrs.). The assignment was to take 5 pictures that represented you, and to place them on an 8x10 document on photoshop, and give it a creative title. Once that was completed we had to explain it in front of the class.  The photographs of the buildings were ones I took for our urban landscape assignment in ROP. This took about 2 classes (6 hr.) to complete. The photograph I ended up turning in was the black and white one at the top which I edited on photoshop. The last 2 photographs are the motion photography assignment we did in ROP. It took us about 3 classes (9 hrs) to finish. Motion photography is the hardest because in order to get the blur effect you have to pan with the moving object at the perfect timing. This takes a lot of practice, and just doing it over and over again until you get it right. The motion ones are the ones I took that were the best out of the bunch. Then during Ifest one of my photographs will be showed. For this we had to get a frame, our own matting, and choose a photograph we wanted to show. It took about 2 classes to pick out a photograph, and get it all framed.

Applied:

The more I take photographs the more I learn what is pleasing to the eye, and what is not. I use more techniques now, and am much better at composition and lighting then I was before. Now I am more experienced I can see what works in a photograph compared to what doesn't. This helped me answer my EQ because instead of reading what works in a photograph, I can now see that yest this type of lighting or composition works because I have the proof here in my photographs.