Reflection on POV, Macro/Minutiae, and motion

1) The purpose of the POV assignment was to understand that you can take different snap shots of the same item and make it look so amazing because its at completely different angles and point of views in each shot. The macro purpose was to take pictures in macro mode and not so far away to get a good glimpse of what your theme was. For example, someone could have all the same color and different objects or the same theme, like take pictures of everything you would find in winter. The purpose of the motion pictures was for me to learn how to capture objects in motion and still be able to focus on that object and are able to see it clearly.

2) What I got from the POV project is that I can take a bunch of pictures and even with the same object, my pictures will still be interesting because each snapshot is unique and at a different point of view then the one before. The most important thing I learned from the macro minutiae is that pictures look so much prettier and interesting when they are placed in a grid. For the motion project, I learned how to capture people and moving objects in motion and different ways of capturing the movement.

3)I believe these assignments were assigned in this particular order because one needs to know how to take pictures in point of view photography before you can take a picture close up in macro or in motion.

4) On the point of view project I feel like I did decent. Now that I know more about point of view as we progress, I wish I could have done better on taking pictures at different angles. I thought my macro minutiae pictures were the best pictures that I have taken so far just because they were put in a grid and it makes the pictures look more organized by the spring and nature them that I chose to do. Motion was a bit difficult for me because I did not really understand how to get my object that is actually in motion to blur, so i had a rough time trying to get a picture to fit my expertise.

5) For all three of these projects I wish I could have spent more time taking pictures and put more of an effort into them. I feel like if I would have had more time to take pictures and on better objects with different back grounds and angles, maybe they would have looked more interesting.

6)My favorite of the three projects was the macro minutiae grid because it was not that hard to figure out how to take my pictures and which topic I was going to choose. I also had fun taking the pictures and learning how to place them in the grid. Every ones grid looked so good when they were finished.

7) All of these topics have had an impact on my photography because now when I take any picture I know more about my camera, how to use which function to make my picture look more professional and how to get close up and still make the pictures interesting.

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What is your interpretation of the quote "God is in the details?"

I think that if someone looks hard and close enough to different things and to the smallest details, then they will find all that God has given us. He gave us everything, the nature, a home, and etc. Just looking out at a river or a creek surrounded by trees, I see the every little bit of details God gave us.

How can we see God in the details everyday?

We can see God everyday just by looking at all organic items. I personally see the details of God just by looking in nature. We can just see all the beauty surrounding us. It is so peaceful and filled with so much green that it is easy to breath. That is when you can think, God gave this and made this for us.

How might we use our cameras in order to discover and preserve these details?

We can use our cameras to do this just by taking pictures at different angles and taking pictures naturally. Don't ever change the picture, leave it as it should be. Take bueatiful pictures of everything that God gave us and put it together maybe in an album.

Blog post 4-Gary Winogrands quote

"Photography is about finding out what can happen in the frame. When you put four edges around some facts, you change those facts." -- Gary Winogrand.

I think this quote means that photography is not just the picture itself, there is more. It is what you make of the picture. Even just a simple thing as putting framing the object you want to focus on can help the person looking at the photo draw his or her attention to the main focal point that the photographer was trying to show. Simply by framing the photo can help you with the context and and essentially maybe tell a story about the image. All frames come in different ways; shapes and sizes. One can see the frame in his or her picture just by looking at it. For example if I were to take a picture of a door or a window. The frame does not have to go around ones images, but it can be simply in them.