Final Project

I start my final project to day. I have decided what i want to call it yet but here are some of the photos I've been playing around with

Moma

So this weekend i went to the moma. I took a lot of notes for the paper but I'm just hoping that it is going to be enough. I really enjoyed the art work. I think my favorite photograph was the was with the moon phases. Hopefully i can incorporate that into my paper. overall i really enjoyed the trip.
I am nervous to start my photo one assignment. I have ideas but I'm really not sure when i have time to get them done. when i start shooting i will be posting it here as the project progresses.

Jim Lennon's photography studio

I really enjoyed the trip to the studio. it gave me a chance to see the business aspect of the career, not just the photography part. I was surprised to see how many technical factors there are just to produce a professional photograph. As interesting as this profession is, it made me realize that this isn't the route I would like to take with my career right now. This first semester at college has been a wonderful experience and as much as I love photography I think it needs to stay as a side project for me. It was very nice of Jim to take the time out of his day to give students a tour of his studio. I thought it was a great trip and I really learned a lot about how much dedication it takes to become a photographer.

                                                                                                     -Aneesa Baskerville

portraits

This week in photo one we did portraiture. I found this assignment very easy, but that might have been because I had an amazing model who didn't mind taking direction. What I did notice was that when taking photos outside its really important to find good lighting. When I moved my model facing a different direction towards the light. the mood of the photo changed. Overall I really enjoyed the shoot

check it out

I've already done my post for this week but i wanted to share a really awesome site I found through Tasya Van Ree's blog. She is one of my favorite photographers. I figured if you guys had some down time you might want to check out some of the photography.
www.focusontofilm.com

horror film

Last week in photo one we had to do a front and back cover of a horror dvd or book. I used the 90's nick show are you afraid of the dark as my inspiration. i was very pleased with the prints. I think that this was probably one of my favorite shoots because it went so smoothly. I enjoy shooting at night a lot more then i thought i would.

busy week

 This week for my photo one class we had to have our travel magazine shoot done. It was probably one of my favorite shoots so far only because i love being down by the water. I shot all my images down at Lake Ronkonkoma. I shot all of the images vertically, but i did shoot some horizontally just to see what it would look like. One of the main things i tried to remember when shooting was to never shoot at eye level. I tried to get down low for most of my  images. I feel like it makes it more interesting. I also bracketed my exposure just to see what the same photo would look like under different circumstances. I realized that when its late day I really loved all the under exposed images because it makes the shadows really bold. The ones I post here are actually not the ones I used for class, but the ones I decided to keep and edit at home just because I thought they were really beautiful

I also filled out the schedule time sheet for seminar this week. If anything the time sheet just showed me i am very busy. I have a lot of things going on between 6 classes, work, and school work. I have no choice but to get my work done.  I manage to fit everything and use my free time wisely.