Reflection on the three assignments

1.) What is your interpretation of the purpose of each of these three assignments?
- A. Point of View- My interpretation of the purpose for this project was to be able to apply your views to every photo. That no matter what your position is in the photo you should be able to find your views in it. Every photo has an interpretation of how you feel and have a sense of it. The photos that viewed as the point view really shifted the moods I had for each photo.
-B. Macro/ Minutiae- For the Macro/ Minutiae assignment, I thought the interpretation of this assignment was to be able to see the details in the photos. I thought this assignment's interpretation was to see the small details of the subect that we normally do not notice. Macro/ Minutiae project was great for us to take photos in great detail. When you take photos in Marco you tend to notice the details in the photo more and get a good overall feel for the photo. When we placed the two inch by two inch squares of our photos into the grid, you could see the common interest and senses for them. With the photos placed in the grids, you could really see the details of the photos and the connection with all of the other photos in the grid.
-C. Motion- The assignment of the motion photos intepreted to me as being able to capture the movement of the subject. Motion pictures are great to show your photo in action and in life. the purpose for these photos would be to show the interest in motion photos. When you take a photo of a subject moving you are giving your photo life and possibly an exciting feel of the photo.
2.) What do you think the most important thing was you learned from each assignment?
-A.Point of View-In the Point of View assignment, the most important thing was that view matters. The position you take your photo in will give your viewer a certain feel. If your photo is off, the feelings may be off. When you take your photos of a subject and are trying to get say a powerful feel, you would want to take the photo from a higher position to make the subject to seem large and powerful. You would not want to take the photo from a lower position because you feel like you are small and less powerful.
-B. Macro/Minutiae- During this assignment, I came to the conclusion of what the most important thing was that I obtained. The most important thing was to make sure you were steady and took the photo of an interesting subject that has great detail in it. In order to make sure that the photo was detailed enough was to take the photo of an interesting picture that could have a common theme throughout the serires of photos for the grid.
-C.Motion-For the motion assignment, the most important thing I obtained was to get the motion perfect in the photo. That is hard to do because the motion can end out blurry or still look like a still photo. When you are taking motion pictures the action is moving but in the photo it could look still or sometimes too much movement where you get blur in the photo.
3.) Why do you suppose these three projects were assigned in this particular order?
-A.Point of View-I believe the reason why point of view was first was for us to grow and learn the ways of views. It was for us to learn how we can make certain feelings and emotions for each photo. That if we position the camera in a way to make the photo seem a certain mood we would be able to make more accurate and better photos for the next assignment.
-B. Macro/Minutiae - With the practice we received and learned from the point of view project, we were able to get better macro pictures because we could get a different view and moods on the macro photos. It would allow us to get good detailed photos of that common interest we each choose for our photos. These photos would have more views and feeling for them than if we never had the experience in working with the different point of views.
-C. Motion - Then we received the motion project. This was most like the last one because it was probably the most difficult to take. Motion pictures are hard to do because we are working with action that could change our moods and view of our photos. With the chance to do the macro and point of view first, we were introduced with easier shots and photos to take. But with motion, we had the risk of running into blurriness and the wrong or different point of views. That is probably why these projects were assigned in this order so we could have some experience in working with harder and more difficult photos. If we did not have the previous projects we would have not been able to or it would have been pretty difficult ot get the better photos of that we now have.
4.) How do you feel you did on each project? Be specific about the areas on which you think you did well and not as well.
-A. Point of View - In the Point of View project, I feel I succeeded well in it. I was happy with the turn outs of my different views and the selection I choose for the series of photos that had to show different feelings. However, I do wish I had a more creative subject in the other ones that I took. I took different point of views on a pool table, my dog and trees. I was happy with the pool table and dog ones but not so happy with the photos of the trees. That is where I wish I could fix.
-B. Macro/Minutiae - For this assignment, I liked my theme I chose. I thought my theme was good and the two inch by two inch selectionsn I picked in my photos showed the best of each whole photo. But, I wished my views for the photos were better. I would have liked to show more different feels for each individual square in the grid. I also did not like the order I put them in. I would have liked to have put them in a simpler order and smoother order.
-C.Motion - In this assignment, I thought I did okay in the motion assignment. I liked in the photo how every person got higher in the jump as you looked at it from left to right. I liked my overall feel of some group of people jumping off. I like the look of seeing people in action in the air. I wanted that as mine in the beginning. However, I did not like the number of people. I think maybe if there was less to look at it would look better.
5.) What was one thing you wishe you would have done that you didn't, and why didn't happen?
-One thing I wish I did but did not do would be to have a motion picture of a horse trotting with a rider on the horse around the arena. I would have liked this because it would be something different and nice to have a picture like that. I would think that type of motion picture would be great and beautiful to have because I think it would give the feeling of serene and gracefulness. However, that did not happen because where I volunteer at with the horses, where I would have gotten the picture, was doing another class after me. Therefopre, I was not able to get a photo like that. The photos I did take of them were of the horse moving but it looked a litle still when I took the photo, even though the horse was moving.
6.) Which was your favorite of the three projects and why?
-My favorite project out of the three was the Point of View. I liked trying to take photos of subjects in different ways where you would normally not think of taking a photo that way. I loved experimenting with the different ways of views to take and getting completely opposite feelings and moods of the same subject. When I took a photo of a subject from one angle and take it from a different position. You received a totally different feel for each picture, yet they were the same subject.
7.) Has one or more of these topics had an impact on your photography? How?
-I would have to say the Point of View project really had an impact in the photography I take. Before this class and project, I never really thought of changing my position for a photo. Normally I would have just clicked the button to take a photo, not really caring on the feeling you could have in seeing the photo. Now, I take in the consideration of my position and the subject in the photo in how the viewer will feel. I now try to take a photo with the subject in certain position and view so that the viewer might feel what I felt the subject would give off in the photo.