John Emericas Photo's, G

What did you learn about photography that you did not know before?
I learned photography is more then just taking a picture of something. There is like a science to do. Anyone can take a picture but can you make that picture look good. I think its really cool how you can get a bad picture of yourself, lets say you have acne everywhere and honestly look really ugly. You can go on photoshop and cover your acne and look really attractive. I think this is really cool. If your photogenic you can see a good picture anywhere you go.

What did you learn about yourself this semester?
I learned that you can find a good picture anywhere. Ever since I took this class Instagram 10x times more then i did before. Because I see anything now and want to take a picture of it, change the filter and make it look cool and unique. I also learned that procrastination isn't good. Not good to wait the night before or day before to take your 30 pictures, Its best to do it when the project is assigned.

What do you wish we had done that we did not?
I think it would of been cool if we tried to find the "best" picture in the class from everyone of the task. What i am trying to say is like for instance the blur picture everyone took the pictures of there blur. It would be cool if you could summit your most favorite 5 pictures you took, the rest of the class does the same. Then you go over all the pictures with the class and make a vote of which picture is the best. I think this would of been really cool.

What was your struggle?
I struggled the first part of the semester because when I got my film camera and brought it to class the camera wouldn't work. This really messed me up and i struggled, I was lucky by me being exempt from the project. Another struggle was since i used the small white computers my blog couldn't upload pictures so i would have to load the picture onto a thumb drive so i can transfer onto another computer. This was a struggle but i got over it and made the best out of it.

What did you conquer? I conquered many things, I learned how to edit pictures, like change the color or add saturation or brightness. Changed different ways the picture could look. I learned different ways to take pictures, Like the panorama picture id stand in one place and take a picture i would turn a little eventually making a 360 degree with a bunch of pictures slightly overlapping. With this i would go onto photoshop and and put the pictures together. One of my favorite pictures we took in the class was the blur pictures i liked how when you spin with the camera and snap a picture everything is blurry but you. Or sometimes it looks like a ghost coming out of your body. I thought this was super cool.