FINAL- JOEY

    The Photography class that I have been participating in for the past four weeks was a great experience. I learned more and more everyday and I’m even able to teach my mom things on how to set up and work her camera. I really enjoyed the class trips to New York and never really realized that you could take such kinds of photos that are displayed in my folders. I never had the eye to look for a photo that is not a portrait. This class really made me think and choose on the objects that I could take a photo that had the proper compositional and photography ideas. Honestly, I never knew of such terms that had to with a simple photo. For example: A photo of a street could be leading lines, repetition, lines ending in the corners, and landscape. These are all ideas that are just displayed in a simple photo of a street. Everyone in my family has taken some type of photography class except for me so when they were all using the cameras and talking to each other about their classes, I never could join in. Now, I can probably talk to them and teach them more about photography then they know.

     The "Black Sun" is a photo of a lamppost. I thought this photo was ok when I first saw it, but then it caught my eye when going through my photos for the final exhibit. It has leading lines going up to the 'sun' itself. I thought the way I focused the photo made it look cool because the 'sun' was out of focus but it still catches your eye. Also, this photo is an example of landscape and simplify the background, which to me is probably the most important compositional idea. It helps clear the main point of interest because if there was something in the background, then maybe the person would have been drawn to the background object. This photo is also an example of balance.

     The "Monastery's Organ" is a photo of the Organ in the Monastery. This photo's main compositional idea is balance. The photo is perfectly balanced with the organ itself and the shadows of Mary on each side. What also makes this photo neat is the light-and-shadow effect. The shadow creates a cool image and the Organ itself has a cool lighting effect because of the ISO of 3200.

     The "American Photographers" is an example of Street Photography in Times Square. This woman was taking a photo of something and at that exact moment I saw her, I thought it was neat. This is an example of decisive moment and juxtaposition. If a moment passed, she would have been gone so it was only the right timing for me to capture this image. Although I had the idea and was waiting for someone to go there, I still had to act fast. This is also an example of juxtaposition because it is ironic and it was planned in a way.