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Last Day Reflection

   
    Throughout this semester I have learned lots about the history of Photography. I did not know about who invented the camera and the different types of cameras. I found that the pin hole camera was most interesting to me because the fact that you can get a picture out of such a simple thing is amazing to me. I think that that may have been my favorite thing i learned about in this class. I also had never been in a dark room before. I love that this school is able to offer something so unique. The developing process was different and much longer than printing out a picture at home, but going through the logistics of it was cool. I learned tons about photo shop.
   
This semester I learned how much of a hard time i have trying to portray myself in my photography. Also, I learned that portraits of other people is my all time favorite thing to take pictures of. This is where I learned how to express myself and show who I am, but using someone else's face. I realized how much I love capturing eyes in pictures. I think that it can make a picture have a completely different meaning depending on the truth in their eyes.
  
    I honestly don't think that there was anything specific that I feel I missed out on. The projects this year were very interesting and stood out. There was lots of creativity in each new assignment an I thought that was very cool. I think that a water assignment would have been really cool. There are so many different opportunities we could have to capture water. It is very remarkable; there is dew in the morning, tear drops on a face, rain, lakes or ponds. I am extremely fascinated by it  and I think that it would be a successful and interesting project to have in the class.

   I feel that I struggled a lot in this class. I had a hard time keeping up with the projects and thinking of my own creative ideas that I was able to capture with my camera and not just in my head. I sometimes had a hard time getting my lighting just right. In the portraits assignment it was hard for me to get my subject to do exactly what I wanted her to do. I think that it was time that i struggled most with. I wish I could spend hours on each assignment to get exactly what I wanted and without the perfection I didn't like the picture.

   I conquered my inability to portray the things that I wanted to. Trying to say something without saying any thing at all takes a lot more thought than I figured it would have. Each thing in a picture has its own purpose and meaning for being there. Whether it is to say something or to emphasizes the subject.  I conquered the fact that I was not very good at paying attention to detail.