Tuesday, January 20, 2009

Back at it

Schools back on. Im in the process of writing a creative story.  Its been fun, ive enjoyed learning the basics from Keith Grey, and the class is set up that each assignment is a part of your story, then at the end you put it all together and clean it up.  It makes me remember how much I used to enjoy writing, it was one of my fav past times back in the high schoolio days. I even won a few ribbons for my stories back then.  Maybe my dreams of becoming an aspiring author are still within reach. Deja Vu.. Sorry I think i posted all this last time I wrote. Anywho I will leave it since it has crossed my mind again.

My true love, well after Andy of course..., my photography continues to grow and change. Everything that I know so far has been self taught and  guided by a few other fantastic local photographers.  I decided I've taken it as far as i can with the time I have, so for myself and for the people who believe in my talent, I will be taking some photography courses to make sure that my trade gets as much time as it deserves.  I am very excited to fill in the gaps and learn all the fine details of photography that lay ahead of me.  My first class is on the art of composition.  This is something that I think has come fairly natural but like anything there is room for improvement.  After 1 class, (the intro class never counts) I already feel more confident in my skills and have learned a few tricks to develop the picture in my mind before snapping it with the camera.   A few of the terms if you want to look them up to learn are:  framing, anchoring, and the good old rule of thirds and fibonnaci sequence.  So my first project was a self portrait, it was to be straight forward, simple, but better then our license picture.  This was my submitted image

I need to brag just a little, my teacher called me out in class to compliment me on my photo. That was pretty cool, im not all about being the center of attention but he was very excited about it, which was really nice to hear on the first assignment, now to just keep up the good work!!!

2 comments:

Chris Van Ert said...

"the good old rule of thirds and fibonnaci sequence"

Can't go wrong with either one of those. Looking forward to more great photos this year.

Anonymous said...

Red! I LOVE this photo! Nicely done lady!