hallelujah?

I finallllllllllllllllllllllllllllly feel like I know what I'm doing. =]

I have been so far behind, I'm actually failing this class right now.

But today when we had to put our topic with an issue, Ms. B. gave me the idea to do an art show, instead of just a portfolio, that way I have a final product that takes a lot more work to get to.

I just emailed a gallery across the street from here and asked for someone to email me back about an interview.

:D I wasn't expecting to catch up ever, and now I feel like I am.

Did you know...

Photographers held about 122,000 jobs in 2006, and more than half of them were self employed

When photographing children, it's good to get down to their level; expressions will be better captured and the background usually looks better as well

Some of the best pictures come from making the experience fun for the child and catching the candid moments

It's best not to use a tripod when photographing children; you need to be able to move around

Take more than one shot, the second or third one in the sequence is often the best one

Most digital cameras have an auto focus button, you have to press the shutter button halfway down

Foundation Questions

1. How do you get children to cooperate?
2. Where should you stand to take the pictures?
3. How should you interact with the children?
4. Do pictures look better taken inside or outside?
5. Which camera works best?
6. How do you have an art gallery exhibit?
7. Do you need parental consent even if you don’t capture the child’s face?
8. How do you set up an art exhibition?

(not finished yet)

wow!

I'm stuck. I don't have a clue how to do the 'did you know' thing. My topic doesn't really have statistics. What am I supposed to say? "What percent of children have had their picture taken?" That's silly.


I don't know what to do.
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catching up!

So I finally feel like I'm not a thousand steps behind everyone else. (I am sick, I may have mono and I was out a few days the past couple of weeks.)

I got my essential question, all of my key terms and half of my foundation questions done.
The collage I'm making will not take me long, I have it planned out in my head already. I enjoy doing visual things like that.




=]

oh man, oh man.

I didn't know we were supposed to post something every day.
Oops.

I'm kind of behind on my project. I finally chose a topic: Photography. I'm going to focus on children.

Some things I'm going to focus on are techniques, lighting, angles and ways to get children to cooperate, so you can take a really good picture.

I'm working on my key terms now, I'll probably finish them over the weekend, and then I'll put them up here.

ideas.

I have no clue what to do my grad project on. When I told people my idea...they kind of looked at me like I was crazy.

The interest inventory really didn't help much either.

This is going to be really hard.