Goals:
A project that I would want to complete this semester is creating a map of Yarmouth or the towns around us, and presenting each town in different colors. This would create a beautiful scene of each town and or place that is beautiful to it. This would also lead me to be careful about where I place the photos and use other skills to create the map and make it look full. I think a technical skill that I would need to improve for this is depth and field with lighting. I think this would be important to this project because I would have to go around and find the different parts of my map and make sure I am clear on what the photo is trying to present for the map. This goes along with the idea of lighting by making sure the light is hitting the right object in the correct way in the photos. This would help show the brightness or dullness of the color better, which would create an overall different map of each place.
For me, a photographic theme I want to explore is the idea of documentary-style shooting, where shooting a raw subject in its everyday occurrence would show the real side of the world. This is an important style that I would want to try out because I could capture photos of everyday life without fixing it up to look like something that it isn't. Like still lifes show what you can change and what you can move around, but with documentary, everything is real, and it's not something that you can just change. I would know if I made progress by looking at my photos and seeing if they tell the story of what is happening in them. This is important because the telling of a story for these kinds of photos shows realistic times that are happening as we speak.
I think a cool real outcome would be an exhibit of pictures that I have taken because winter going into the spring is where everything changes. So showing this change over time would be really cool in my opinion. I think that even if it were an exhibit with the other students in the class, we would still be able to capture the pure moments in life over the next couple of months. Some steps that I would take are taking pictures of the beautiful nature of the world around me over time. I would make sure to choose the best photos that I like and are meaningful to my class. My first checkpoint would be figuring out what kinds of photos I should be taking based on the kind of exhibit I would like. That last checkpoint would be finding a place where I could put up my photos for viewing.
I want to improve at working with symmetry and patterns in my photos by trying to determine what patterns I can find in the moment that surrounds me. I also want to play around with different shutter speeds and figure out what shutter speed would be the best for the pictures I was going to take. I think these are the most important things to me that I want to improve so that my photos can improve over time. A measurable way that I could track improvement is by taking these different kinds of photos every week and comparing them to each other to see if I can make little improvements.