Reflection on Photography Essay

Reflection on Photography Essay

            Being a photography major, this essay was really interesting to me but since I have been in photography classes for awhile a lot of the information that was given I have heard times and times again from teachers trying to get you to see a different view of the image. But for this project it was a good reminder for me when taking pictures for the final images. A lot of the time the picture I would try and take either wouldn’t look very good close up with the angles I would try and get so I would have to scoot back and lose a better picture when I was trying to get everything I needed in the picture.

Installment Photos

Process Photos

Reflection on Project

Reflection on Project

            For this project I mostly learned how to work with a group because it was harder to work with other people that did not have the same schedule as me. But once we worked it out the other problems we had were just little things like how some of the cardboard wasn’t cut the right size. So as a team we had to decide what to do; we could either buy more cardboard or hopefully find some extra pieces not being used by another team. In the end we ended up buying another sheet of cardboard because we had more than one mistake and ended up more than we though in the end.

            A bigger problem we had was where we were going to put our final installation. Our group knew we wanted to put it in front of Wescoe, where the ATM is. But what we did not know was which way to put our two huge boxes with the letters on them. We had some good ideas on how to put them before we got there but once we got there none of creative ideas worked. So we settled for an obvious attempt but it was the only attempt that actually worked for our letters and their size.

            We were happy with our final installment because we worked very hard on the construction of the letters and even though the rain, the paint, and our final location did not work too well with us we still got it done on time and our letters looked very good until the rain drenched them.

Description of Project

Written Description of Project

            For our third project, we were randomly put into groups of four and one group member picked a word out of a can. Our group chose the word “withdraw” for instance. Each group had a different word. We had to brainstorm ideas of how to build this word out of materials and it had to be three feet tall. We looked up the definition of our word and then were to think about where to install our word so it would make sense to the location.

            We were given about a week to build our words out of whatever material we wanted to use as long it was in the font Futura or Serifa. So, our class projected our words on the projector and outlined our letters so that we had the font correct.

            After the outlining came the building of the words. Some groups chose to build whole letters separately but then some groups chose to create a box and just cut the words out of the box. Once all the groups were finished we installed our final letters onto a place on campus that made sense to our definition and the rest of the classes took a tour of all the letters on campus.