Final Results: Digital Photography
April 25th, 2008
Here are the results of my digital photography class I took throughout the spring semester of 2008 at UAT. These pictures may not be the best but at least the class was fun. Actually it wasn’t really the class that made it fun, it was really the missions I went on to get photos for our assignments. I shot everything using a Pentax Optio 555. It’s a rather mediocre quality camera. There’s some things that look good from this camera, but I just think the lens is worthless. My buddy has a brand new fancy cannon with about 10 mega pixels. So I am slightly envious..
The class assignments varied by subject matter. We started with pictures of the UAT campus and worked our way out to rest of the world. This lead to landscapes, portraits, action shots and macros. I think I might have missed the macro assignment, where the teacher actually invited all of the students to her place on the weekend to take pictures of the flowers in her downtown Phoenix apartment complex.
Taking part in this course undoubtedly seemed to spark some interest from my father, a currently increasingly popular photographer. Around the middle of the class, in February, I went home to Cleveland to get my teeth checked out by a special dentist. I got to hang out with the family for a couple days and see one or two friends from the long lost past. By the second day we were already on a photography field trip to Lake Erie. I got to learn direct from one of mankind’s greatest photographers.
I think my most favorite photo from the entire 4 month semester would be the one I took with my Dad on that trip. He took a picture of me while I was prepping my camera for the shot. Shortly after, we went home to where it was warm, and checked out our results on the computer. I touched up a few things and he some prints on his high tech super big Epson printer. Not long after my flight back to Phoenix, I received a package from my Dad with the photo I took, already matted and framed. He also included a few of my favorites which he previously shot on his Sony camera. Now they are all on display in my apartment, which seems to be a common thing to do in my family- every one of our homes seem to display his work. I’m not going to lie, it gets a lot guests attention, and makes my apartment that much more pimpin’…
