Carly Wonder Reflection

I chose this picture because i feel like i have started to expiriment more through this process. I really just started getting into taking photos, but when i would draw it would alsways be very abscract and thats what this picture is to me. It is like my drawings but in photo form.

I have learned so much in this class, and it has been amazing. I learned how to take photos in full control of my camera, and when i do that i become more proud of my work. I learned about the potential i have as an artist, and i can't wait to pursue my life living in art. I have learned so much about lighting and night pictures, and that really excites me! Learning so much i would look forward to class everyday. Also being with all my classmates helped me learn diffrent things that can be beautiful and having a diffrent eye for things. This class has helped me grow so much , and i was so blessed having this class in my life.

I will totally keep taking pictures, and i hope to really get down taking pictures during nights. I really would love to have photography as a side job in my life, or something that is just very enjoyable in my life. I am going to start bringing my camera with me everywhere , and i think i will get good art off of that. Doing the photo of the day really helped me just to take pictures of things people would not normally think would be beautiful.

Liz Folkman

Out of the hundreds of photos I've shot during the last three weeks, this is my favorite photo. Although all my photos were taken of people, none of the beginning pictures were able to communicate my intentions of having a portrait with emotion behind it.

I've realized that if you want something badly enough, the effort, patience, and determination will pay off in the end. Specifically with the 4x5, I was forced to slow down and put more thought into the composition and lighting. Composition was one thing that I struggled with in the beginning, and my progress is visible on photo of the day. When I first started taking pictures of people I was shy and would take the stranger's photo and leave. With time, I started becoming more curious about the people whose pictures I was taking and I began to try to learn something about them so I could try to display their personality in my work.


Looking forward, I'd like to continue with my series of photographing the people on the street. I've met a few families that I've been keeping in touch with through email and I'd like to go back and shoot more with them. I'd also like to shoot different areas of Milwaukee, rather than just the north and the south.

Self Reflection- Emily Tierney

I feel like this class overall has significantly helped me grow as an artist in many ways.  A few major things I've learned more about were how important composition, emotion, and lighting are.  It can make or break a photograph.  I also learned how to take and develop film which I had never done before, as well as learn more about manually controlling my digital camera.  In the beginning to be I honest didn't like the class as much because I thought it was so much work in so little time, but after my film getting destroyed, having to reshoot and redevelop and eventually ending up with three wonderful prints in my eye just showed me that perseverance and dedication is key.  I really had to push my self and experiment and I think in the end it payed off.  I may not know exactly where I want to go from here or what I want to focus on in my photography but at least now I have the tools and knowledge to make more than just a "pretty flower picture."  I really loved the surreal project.  Composites were something I have never done before so the whole thing was a new experience.  I may not have one project in particular that will inspire my future work but I think all of the techniques and inspiration will.  While being critiqued by a family friend one thing he said to me really inspired me. "Be you."  That may be simple but to me what I want to make sure is that I am enjoying myself, being myself and representing myself through my photography.  I think that is the biggest accomplishment I can achieve.

Self Reflection ** Bradley Ghei

I choose this photo because i love the natural reflected picture within a picture. How the colors reflect so vivid. I love the idea that the picture within the eye that is what you see first, and only later you pay attention to the second picture that is of a whole.

I feel like i have grown up so much more in this class than i ever thought i could learn in three weeks. How much we worked on one project was more than i ever could imagine. I felt like i was 5times more educated in photography after everything single day. The  class itself was actually fun. Not just all hard work and independent photography. By the end of 2nd week we were pretty much friends. Everyone became very social and allowed us to better communicate to each other about our photography. I learned all about color and lighting, Even more about composition and actual subject matter of a photograph. I learned a lot about myself in this class to. I view photography in a completely different way after those three weeks.

self reflection // sonya kozlova

This photo of mine may not be the absolute strongest of my entire body of work, but I chose to post it because I felt it represented the new direction I have been inspired to take with my photography after these three weeks at MIAD. I came into this experience completely self taught, and always relying on the vintage filters and routine color manipulation I had been using on all my photos. I still to this day have the urge to manipulate my photos in this way, maybe because of my strong attraction to that antique, vintage, just-opened-up-your-grandmas-treasure-box-and-found-this-photo kind of image.What I've come to learn is that I've been completely distracting the viewer from what I was actually photographing. The "look" of my photos were, and maybe still a bit are, more attractive than their content. I am definitely just beginning to step away from this aesthetic addiction of mine, but these three weeks at MIAD have surely helped me jumpstart that for me. The photo above portrays my new sense of framing, minimal digital manipulation, and a clear focus on the subject. As I take photos from now on, I'm committed and looking forward to the results of my photographs with my new perspective that I have taken away from these three weeks.

Self Reflection ~ Sarah Nasgowitz

I chose this picture as my self reflection photo because its different from other pictures I have taken.   I have never done anything like this before and it was fun for me to take all these different pictures and put them together.

I feel that I have grown as a photographer over the past three weeks.  At first, taking a photo of the day was hard for me because I wasn't home, I was at my grandparents which is in the city by Miad and it was a different landscape for me.  In my compositions, I tried to pay more attention to framing and to try to fill up the sides of my pictures.   In my surreal portrait assignment, I didn't really know a lot about photoshop, and after I learned more, I got more and more ideas for composites. For example in my tinkerbell photo, learning more about pasting myself in different photos and playing with scale was so much fun, and this inspired the idea of my book.   I started paying more attention to color and what color does to the viewer that makes them want to stop and look at a photo.  The critiques helped me to see some repetitiveness in my work that I didn't even see! Overall the surreal portraits assignment was my favorite and through all this I learned that I like to play with scale in my photos and I think that this could lead to a new idea for a new project for my portfolio!

Reflection

Throughout these three weeks I have grown exponentially as an artist and a photographer. I came to this pre-college program with hope that I would gain more knowledge in not only digital photography, but also gain some added skills in the dark room. Never in my life would I ever think that I would be working with a 4 x 5 format camera. I've learned how to operate my camera, enlarge prints in the dark room, and even scan a negative onto photo shop to enlarge that to even bigger sizes.
I feel as if this class has taught me how to grow and expand my eye for photography. To look out for things I usually wouldn't photograph, and to take risks. If it wasn't for a few of my photo of the day photo's and my large format exposure, I do not think I would have pushed myself the way I did to photograph more buildings and landscapes.
Every where I go, and every where I look i'm starting to see everything as a photograph. Looking at ways I could make that photograph interesting to the viewers eye, and makes them think more into it than just glancing at it and moving on.

As I move on and grow as a photographer I look forward to experimenting even more with the subject matter that i'm shooting. To move away from the diagonal angel I seem to favor oh so much, and to really find my strong suit.