On the surface, one might see this as "just another blog" due to that same familiar template you get
when you create a blog, but the appeal to this blog was definitely in the content. The metadata labels are integrated for all the photos where they're needed, and the explanations well thought-out and structured, taking viewers through each photograph. Speaking of, I definitely appreciated the aesthetic to a lot of these photos (I believe they show that person's personality in an artistic sense). The most recent post (End Q1 Best Shot) was particularly eye-catching because of how close-up the subjects are to the camera. Great blog.
Period 4 Recommendation: Taylor Katahira
I appreciated the attention to having a functional blog first, and adding all the other extra stuff second. Taylor's blog is easy to navigate, and the text within all of these posts start with "Aloha"; definitely a great opener when viewing each blog post. The text in it are all genuine in voice as well. The photos on the blog definitely do show an increasing amount of potential; a promising sign for us first year students. Rule of thirds isn't necessarily an "aesthetic", but it's a great tool to use in photography and Taylor does seem to use it here and there. Her fundamentals are definitely there too. The blog is simple, but functional.
Many of the blogs I've looked through in each of the classes did tend to stick to the same layout that is provided when you make a blog, with the probable exception of this class being Blaze and Austin's ones. On the front, it's different through the use of a different background (a variation from the stagnation of seeing all the other blogs). The photography itself in the blog is fundamentally great, and I can tell that Austin understands how to compose a photo (not just pointing a camera at something and shoot). I would definitely try to add more textual background in the posts but I don't know the parameters that Mrs. Sheets provided for her students.
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