Sixth week of Intro to Digital Art

 Time flies by, one day I'm entering class for the first time in January, now I'm writing about it in March! This week, we had to finish our photography projects, but before we could do that, we had peer reviews. The peer review went really well, thanks to Professor Garbutt and my peer, who, while not having 5 photos for the day, the ones she did show me were heartwarming and cute, and I wish her luck with the project since they were nice photos. Before I got to class, I made sure to at least have some semi-completed photos. I tried to experiment with every tool that I learned this week in Lightroom, but I found out when I got to class that there were more that I didn't know about. The professor showed me the separate color sliders that you could use along with a graph where you could manipulate a line in the middle in order to make values darker or lighter. When finishing up my project, I made sure to experiment with these tools. Some of the photos, I used the color tool more heavily than others. Overall, this wasn't that hard and honestly really fun. I am for sure going to use Lightroom again, and now, since I know a bit about how it works, I'll use it on some of my other photos. It really does wonders for how they look, and it helps deliver a certain mood in the photos. 

At the beginning of this Unit, I felt that I enjoyed doing photography, but I've never really tried to tell a story in the majority of my photos. However, now that I have finished this project and this unit, I'll try to tell a story more often in my photos by incorporating elements of art and design. This shift mainly happened because of the interesting video we had to watch; it made the idea of storytelling in photography and how to do it seem easier to me. To answer the last question, it felt fine to share unfinished work for me. I know for some people, they might be anxious since people judging their work while it's not complete can sometimes seem unfair since they aren't seeing the completed vision, but in my opinion, it's a great thing. It helps you rethink your decisions in your workflow, which could save you time and improve your vision. That if you receive constructive criticism, as I did in the peer review. 

This is a photo that I took of the San Carlos Beach when I was on vacation last summer. I edited using Lightroom and the summer preset that we had to do for an assignment this week.