FINAL PROJECT 2009-2010

The end of digital photography is nigh. I have learned alot and I have accepted defeat plenty of times. This class has made me a better person, in the sense of light, composition, and contrast in life, as well as in pictures. Thanks, to Mr. Slade for all the things that he has put up with and the answers to all of my clarrifing and in some cases, obvious questions.

This project was very interesting as the many projects came together to produce the final result. I chose clocks for my final project becuase I had to do something easy to find, however stretch my limits as a photographer. And this assignment accomplished that. I took photos that were grey that I would have thought as good photos and went the extra mile to make them the "better photograph". I really stepped through as Mr. Slade challenged us to shoot when you don't want to, bracket the living daylights out of the same photo, etc. Clocks, to be really good photos, have to have really good light and interesting angles. These were shot around my house and in the neighborhood of downtown Salt Lake City. Wherever I went, I took my camera and shot photos. Looking for opportunities to make a good shot took a great deal of time, and my family was thinking I was obsessed with clocks. That is what it takes sometimes to produce, as a photographer, a great photo that you will admire forever. I enjoyed this course and this final project becuase I went out on a good note.

About Final Project

I think that I will do clocks. This will be interesting because I have to look for good light tp show them in. The different styles will be a great shot for me. I am looking forward to this project becuase I have been avarage all year, so I want to impress Slade on this assignment. I really want to do well. The clocks would be taken with the time and the time put into them will hopefully turn out right. I will use a tripod. This idea became a favorite because it will use the skills and time mangement that I have learned this semester. I hope that I can do well.

I wil shoot al over Christmas break and look for clocks all over. Different styles of clocks (digital, wound up, etc.) will be a great project. I will use the skills in the real world and I will decide wether this assignment will rsie in success or fall with disgrace.

Final Project Ideas

Maybe........

STUFF AFTER CHRISTMAS

Family

Sports

Animals

Christmas Trees

story

navity scenes

Christmas day

Light

Free time

portraits

birds

environments

people at work

houses with decorations

similarity

games

people

music

dance

mistakes

laughter

technology

scars

disabilities

Cliche Photos

Our world is full of cliche photos. These photos fill up the life of lots of photographers. The photos are so common that they aren't interesting anymore. These are some of the most cliche photos I could find. They feel that they are creative about the photo. In reality, they are not! Everyone does it, so don't do it. I would do it because it is lame! Photos should be creative about the subject.

Assignment #7 Re-done

Mr. Slade wanted us to re-do a previous assignment that we thougth we did poorly. The first time I did this assignment, some of the photos were blurry. I thought that I could do better on this assignment. This was taken this week. I didn't want to shoot all hundred shots, so I looked for opportunities to find different numbers in random places and with the resources that were availible to me.

Assignment #6 Portraits

This assignment was done on Tuesday night. They contain the six members of my family and some friends and their nieces down the street. These portraits show the attidtude and the personality of the person or people in the photo. These were done with a tripod!!!! YEA!!!!!! I felt in charge with telling people how to look and where to stand for these pictures. I felt like a real photographer!

Mini-Final

This is one of the first ever pictures shot by this camera. This is for the numbers assignment, the first assignment given by Mr. Slade. In my opinion, the best numbers picture taken.




This photo was taken in the Murray Cemetary for the Halloween extra credit. The movement of the camera gave a cool, supernatrual effect. On eof the best shots taken in that setting.




This photo was taken on the second off-campus trip of Fall Term. We were hiking on the trail on our way to rock climbing in Big Cottonwood Canyon. I have loved to see planes fly above the ground they look so cool.




This was taken on a bus while backing up from driving into a construction site. This pipe is a pipe that has been taken up out of the ground. It is huge! It was a challenge to keep the camara steady whil the bus backed up.




This photo was taken on Waterford campus while crossing the quad. It had briefly snowed on us and it show snow in the mountains. It shows that winter has hit briefly. It seems that it is a forewarning.



This one has cool contrast because of the very bright moon and the very dark sky. I took this at 6:30 am while I was waiting for my carpool to seminary.