Senior Showcase & Photography Brief

So it's been awhile since my last update, and this one is on my photography, not web design. So today I have the Senior Showcase for e-Communication seniors. This showcase has been many months in the making. It has taken a lot of work outside of class by every focus of our e-Communication program. I was selected to be our photography for professional portraits for every senior in our program. To view all of my portrait photos check out the senior show website at http://www.onwravens.net/ecommseniorshow/. Or even better if you can attend tonight at Olathe Northwest High School. We are located at 21300 College Blvd, Olathe, KS 66061. The show is from 6-8pm and my headshots will be displayed on the brochure as well. I will have a reflection of the show up in the next few days following the show. I hope you enjoy my newest works!

Senior Project - Week 7

This week was a very eye-opening week. I realized how much time redoing my web portfolio and creating a new index page will take. I have been planning times to add content to my photography portfolio. Once I have the content I will be done with the entire photography portfolio. And of course content is the most time consuming part. I will have just about everything done. Then I can finally submit my Photography Portfolio to eMagine.
The biggest thing I took out of this week was that web design is easy after you get all of the code figured out.

Senior Project - Week 4

This week has been short but with lots of struggle and success. I have started structuring my website. I have the home page created, without content, but it is set and done. I have finished my about me page. I have linked my Flickr as well as my blog to my photography portfolio page. I am currently working on my image gallery pages. I am trying to perfect one and then I will just save as to create the rest of the photo image gallery pages I need. The CSS is being a little tricky at the moment but I will hopefully get it figured out by the end of next week. Once I have the entire website outline done, I can finally focus on my content.
The biggest thing I took out of this week is that I absolutely hate jqueries and I love CSS; however, I only love CSS when it is cooperating.

Senior Project - Week 2

At the beginning of this week I realized many issues with my current project proposal. The main issue was that I can't really schedule when to take photos. So this week I spent much of my time thinking everything out and I believe I have found the best solution as far as planning proposals go. I will be making my website and researching and testing image plug-ins for my website. Then as I go along I will periodically be taking photos and editing them. I have also decided to periodically do the rest of my Lynda.com videos, because a whole week of videos and note taking is very taxing. So I made a those changes to my proposal.

I decided that it would be a good idea to review my notes. When I went to review my notes they were chaotic and messy and overall hard to read. So I thought why not retype and reorganize my notes. I even split my notes into two different note pages, one for basic and general photography and then into portrait photography. Each has their own subsections as well. I remember more and feel better about my understanding of the notes I took. I also feel that if I do need to reference my notes I will be able to find this information much easier.
The biggest thing I took out of this week is, well two things actually.
One my proposed plans will be changing frequently due to photography's chaos.
Second is that I really need Mr. Olson (my advisor) because he really is the voice of wisdom and is so helpful.

Senior Project - Week 1

So I am starting my senior project and I chose to further my knowledge of photography. I thought I knew the basics, but it turns out I knew the basic of the basics. So I learned a lot from Lynda.com. I learned the basics of photography and then a ton about Portrait photograph, which will be my genre focus of photography for next week. Some of the things I learned about the basics of photography are discussed below.

SLR stands for Single Lens Reflex. I knew that SLR was a typed of camera I'd just never know what it stood for until now. There is also what they call Mirror Less Cameras and they are smaller and more compact than other cameras. Then there is the camera everyone is familiar with or at least heard of which is the Point and Shoot Camera. They are the cameras you get your 12 year-old for their birthday or even just your phone camera. That's it for cameras, but then with cameras their are also lenses. So for lenses the instructors simplified it majorly by saying that there are basically three very simple categories of lenses. The first of those is normal, which is how your eye sees the image without the camera there. The second is telephoto, which makes distant subjects appear closer. Then lastly is the wide angle, which is moving further away from your subject giving you a wider view. A big part of learning the foundations of photography is to learn about lenses and learning about exposure and the qualities of light and composition. I learned so much about the basics of photography. All of the basics of photography are the same for portrait, but you have to take them to the extreme and be very careful. You don't want any scary portrait photos. The biggest thing I took out of this week is that each photograph you take is a two-dimensional version of a three-dimensional scene.