It seemed as thought I had limited resources but honestly everything needed to make quality pictures are pictures and creativity. I got tired of taking pictures of flowers and sunsets so one day I started taking pictures of things that I knew had potential. Finally I'm able to express them. My techniques involve using mine or my girlfriend's cellphone for taking pictures because I didn't have a nice SLR like my Mom's. A cell phone is a great tool, for it's convenience and you don't have to lug around a professional cameral all the time. The down side is that it, at least mine, doesn't have best picture quality. I only like to take pictures that nobody would think has potential.
In the beginning I took my profile pictures in my room and the bus stop. The profile pictures seemed to be the hardest because I was probably expecting to much from my self. The pencil shavings were luckily together and on top of the trash in my room, I also took the abstract profile picture in my room with my webcam. My goal was to take nice pictures without having to leave my room. It would have made a nice underlying theme. Instead for some of the pictures, I pulled them out of Facebook which worked out pretty well because I wouldn't exactly know where to start taking pictures on campus. It's easy to capture nature, but its better to take unlikely pictures that have originality.
As for the pictures, I knew drawing them was an option so I took it but this is digital arts so I saw no pressing reason to make them perfect. I tend to spend a lot of time trying doing hands on works, my focus was to get digitally creative. I never set a time to bring out that SLR I took out but when I didn't have it I'd use my phone and that would work because I experience life when I'm living it. I found the log with mushrooms behing the lake on campus. That was an example of the amazing texture that I love in nature so I had to document it. The Mario picture was taken at my work and I left all the background space because I knew something could be done with it. I also loved the reflection of myself in the water of the inlet behind my shore house.
Self Evaluation
For my overall profile, the pictures are interesting in that they say more than what they show. I like to keep things suspensful. It lets the audience use their imagination which I think is key. Life presents itself in special ways. I look at life in abstract way sometimes, this is the wandering affect. But sometimes I like to capture texture and shapes. It gives me gazing material when looking back at where I've been.
I don't know photoshop to much but I've had my fair share in high school. Browsing the internet is very helpful when I need to know how to do things or look at examples of photoshop. There has been times where I've sat in the lab during office hours and made no progress also spent time working on pictures that I couldn't even use. It gets really frustrating when I'm not coming up with good ideas for pictures but thats a problem I have, I usually over think it though.
