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 aspects.
Period 3 Recommendation: Madeline's Photohraphy
Something heavily avoided in a lot of these blogs is attention to the thumbnail of the posts. It's not necessary, but it certainly helps in making a blog appear much nicer aesthetically, and shows the strides one has made to make their blog more appealing. Madeline's blog, while it may be unintentional, does this very well. In addition, the photos themselves are clearly made with effort and aren't "last-minute" (unlike a huge portion of photo 1 students, which is understandable, but c'mon). She has her own sense of style that people can appreciate too, and I challenger her to translate that into color correction (the optional next level). She's conceptually very advanced in her work too. Very impressive. Her most recent "Not Necessarily to be Taken Literally" post was fantastic. She's up to date on her assignments as well, and responsibility is always appreciated.
Period 3 Recommendation: Danica's Pictures
Something heavily avoided in a lot of these blogs is attention to the thumbnail of the posts. It's not necessary, but it certainly helps in making a blog appear much nicer aesthetically, and shows the strides one has made to make their blog more appealing. Madeline's blog, while it may be unintentional, does this very well. In addition, the photos themselves are clearly made with effort and aren't "last-minute" (unlike a huge portion of photo 1 students, which is understandable, but c'mon). She has her own sense of style that people can appreciate too, and I challenger her to translate that into color correction (the optional next level). She's conceptually very advanced in her work too. Very impressive. Her most recent "Not Necessarily to be Taken Literally" post was fantastic. She's up to date on her assignments as well, and responsibility is always appreciated.
Period 3 Recommendation: Danica's PicturesDanica's photography is minimal and differs in creative range, but I respect the effort and thought into becoming better as she progresses in photography. I enjoy browsing through the blog (arguably the best template to use in blogger because of it's colorful nature), and enjoy the professionalism in the text pieces. They're honest, and she knows where she is in photography, as well as how to get better. I challenge her to refine her photographic style and add that extra "sauce" to make it even better. Great work.
Janel's blog is very similar to Danica's due to the theme. It's content is very detailed and there's a clear personality in her text and photography. She even put the adjustments she made to one of her ISO edits and the intention in one of those adjustments ("Cropped: To feature face as main point"). It's a small thing, but that type of attention to detail is what I like seeing in these blogs. Good work Janel!
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