Photo1Q3.19: Idioms, Literally Literal

My winter assignment was pretty even in what concepts I did literal and what concepts I decided to approach more creatively. 60% creative and 40% literal. What I noticed though, was that some of the more sincere and meaningful topics to me were the ones that received a figurative approach, while the more specific and obvious topics (ex: "A celebration") were literal. When I first saw the idioms video, I was dumbfounded by how hidden some of the idioms could be. There were some that were ridiculously...

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Photo1Q3.18: Let's Get Weird (A Beautiful Mistake)

I think this assignment is a set-up for a future assignment that challenges us to truly portray a message in a photo. This type of assignment is daunting at first, but that's exactly what happens when you're out there trying to capture a good photo under certain conditions. The topic I selected was "A Beautiful Mistake", which asks the photographer to make up a rule (open to interpretation), take a photo following that rule, make up another rule... etc. I selected this topic because it seemed...

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Photo1Q3.17: Blogs I Recommend (Peer Blog Review)

When observing all of the Photo 1 blogs from the given sources, I looked four things in descending order (most important first, least important last); (1) Creativity and effort in the photography and associated text, (2) Professionalism and/or obvious personality in the blog work including the construction of the blog itself, (3) Completion of the posts themselves and being up to date, and (4) Showing improvement over the span of their work. I feel that the following blogs best represent these...

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Photo1Q3.16: Not Necessarily to be Taken Literally

This is only a thumbnail, don't count this (even though it will show up later in this album). Someone in water Metaphorically, to be in water is to be congested, overwhelmed, and under immense pressure. I chose a self portrait because I believe that the topic falls pretty well in line with what is expected of me by my own self to become. In Hinduism (a religion I don't follow but was intrigued in through world history), there is a term called "moksha". It means liberation, emancipation,...

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