Hello All!

Getting my senior year in high school off to a good start. Except the fact that I am stressin' out!! I don't know what I will be doing for my CP (senior year project needing to graduate), didn't pass the state test by 6 points (needed to graduate).... oh! And I have the same math teacher as I did last year and I ended up not liking her for her teaching style and she just gave me bad grades and ended up barely passing with a D... oh, that will definitely look good on college applications. NOT.

Once I got my schedule for this 2012-13 school year, I was so excited I got some classes that should just be a breeze, except for having the same math teacher, I did try to get it changed, but the only way for that to happen was to switch my 'Senior Writing' class to a 'Creative Writing' class which wasn't what I wanted at all. 

P.S. Did I mention I have math first period

.....I decided to just stick out this year with the schedule I got originally. 

I'm trying above all to make this year a good one and to try lots of new things. :)

How to upload a file to Adobe Photoshop tutorial

How to upload a file to Adobe Photoshop

1. Open Adobe Photoshop.
2. Go to 'file' and click 'open'
3. Saying your file you want to edit on is on your desktop...On the left side should you select the 'desktop' tab.
4. Just look for the title of your file and click on it.
5. There! Now you can edit your picture.

Leadership

For my leadership points in my VisCom class, I contacted The Olympian photographer, Tony Overman to come into our class and talk about what he does for a living. It took a lot of back-and-forth to get through to him because of some accident that happened to him (people graffiti-ed his camera materials in revolt of some of his photographs they didn't like).

His photography is everything from people  to school events all around the Olympia, Tumwater, Lacey and Yelm district. Tony Overman's blog <--- check out his photos!

Project 4: Taking Photos

• Description 
  1. Do: Take photos.
  2. Learn: More about photography, in general.
  3. End product: Best shots (photos)
• Timeline 
1. First  I am gonna, take pictures,
2. Using the photo studio. Learning more about light.
3. And then I am gonna, have a link showing some of my best shots. 
• Resources

1. Lighting Photography
2. People/Portait Photography

What I did: I took photos while the sun was out and the atmosphere outside was nice.


What I learned: More compositional rules. -- I experimented with the ISO because I was intrigued in motion photographs (ex: cars on a freeway). But I used flowers, when I go to Seattle I'll try it on cars and more objects! 

Project 3: Entering another photo contest

Description

1. Do: Find photos from my Hawaii trips and enter in contest for Hawaii Magazine

2. Learn: While photography just for the sake of photography is a lot of fun sometimes a competition can help you raise the bar as a photographer as you know your image will be seen by a group of judges.

Timeline

1. First I am going to look through my '09-'11 trips to Hawaii

2. Then I am going to narrow it down to at least 2 photos in the Outdoors category.

3. And then I am going to print them and send them in!

Don't need any resources, thinking about it, as of now...

In the meantime....I'll be using class time to research how to take photograph people.

What I did
I ended up looking at my photos from my trips, but don't really think many are very good. -- I still have time if I change my mind. I've been researching how to photography people and the poses for senior portraits. I looked more on certain photographers and noticed how they recommend the same poses for each client.

What I learned
Professional photographers use the same poses for each client.
More about lighting with a studio setup and in the sunlight.

Project 2: Finish up Project 1

• Description 
  1. Do: finish up WA contest
  2. Learn: While photography just for the sake of photography is a lot of fun sometimes a competition can help you raise the bar as a photographer as you know your image will be seen by a group of judges. 
  3. End product: Contest 2012 results
• Communications Standard 
  • Standards Page
• Timeline 
  1. First  I am going to print out rest of my photos.
  2. Then I am going to mat them on a reasonable size board.
  3. And then I am going to put the finalizing touches! 
• Resources 
  1. Website
  2. Website

What I did: Halfway through the week I was wrapping up on the WA State Photo Contest and then I realized, "wow. I finished what do I do now. It made me feel good that I entered in a photo contest and would like to do more of that. -- because I have been really wanting to get my work "out."


I found this contest, Alaska & Horizon Airlines Photo Contest 2012.
First I Googled 'WA state photo contests 2012' then came upon this link. I mean who doesn't read in-flight magazines!? 
...But it's too late. -- Next Year! 


Since I'm hooked on airline magazine contests... 
Hawaii Magazine
And it's still open for entries! 

Project 1: Entering WA photo contest

What I did: Choose photos to enter in the contest. Here you can see what I ended up choosing. . . Photo Contest entries

What I learned: Well, more so of what I am aware of now that I understand these concepts like, compositional rules -- angle, exposure (f-stop), contrast (with colors).