reflection

Reflection

A reflection of what it shows inside of something. I chose this picture as a reflection because it shows how the mirror is in the background and the banglas are in the front. It shows a really different perspective of a positive and a negative thing.

 http://www.flickr.com/photos/54861098@N08/sets/72157625570728146/

This year I have a couple of goals for the year. I want to learn more tehniques to take better photos and in a greater variety. I also hope to focus on more then one topic this year, I hope to take pictures of alot of topics instead of focusing on one like last year. I am interested in learning how to take good portraits as well as black and white photography. I would like to learn how to use the cameras features  to my advantage as well. Here to the left I have one of my favorite pieces that I took during the summer. In this photo I was trying to focus on the bird, but instead got a really neat image of the tree and the bird, which was camoflauging in a sense. I hope to take great photo's throughout the year and to learn alot of new skills.

 (Beach and park at night)

 I've been able to contribute a lot to the Youth Voices community. Whether it was posting up my own work or commenting on the work of others, I was able to contribute as much as I could to Youth Voices. The easiest thing for me to do here was post comments. Comments were free and there required no structure as long as you were able to discuss maturely about the work of others. For me, the hardest thing on Youth Voices was uploading photos and making  the writing continue from the side of the photo. There were a lot of formatting issues with that and it was just too complicated at times, but once I got it my page looked more professional and it was worth it. Overall, Youth Voices was a great experience and I was very lucky to have my own work shared online.

 This class has been truly a blast. I love all the things we have learned and I definitely feel I have learned a good amount of things about Photography and Photoshop. I have learned so many interesting things about the way photography has come to be and all the different skills involved in photography. At first, I always thought photography was simply taking a picture, now I know all of the different traits of a photo that bring it to be what it is. This is what I have come to learn and feel is most important from what I have gathered from this great class.

I contribute a lot to the youth voices community; I add all my recent pictures, and I reflect on my work. I hope to inspire other youth voices fellows and classmates.  It is very easy for me to add things and posts to different groups and discussions.  Also, searching people, and users in the search box is very simple. Sometimes it's difficult to add good, conversation starter topics that would challenge someone else's mind.  I wish I could use photoshop in a more advanced way. 

 Youth voices served as a good bridge between my personal and school online network.  I liked the site because it promoted me to express whatever i was feeling in relation to my work.  I contributed to the Youth Voices community by posting the best of my work along with text explanations.  I also do my best to comment on other peoples work to give youth voices a real feeling of community.  It is easy to post text discussions but once we had to incorporate images it became more difficult.  Formatting the discussion with the image was difficult because of text wrapping.  After submitting many different posts i was able to determine the best method.  I wish there was better interaction between the members of Youth Voices.

 I feel like i contribute a lot to Youth Voices. i have been on the site for 2 years now and I have uploaded multiple projects as well as comments, what's ups, and discussions. Viewing the works of others is very easy to do on Youth Voices. However I found that putting up my own work, in a well formatted fashion, was hard to do. As for what I hope to do on Youth Voices, I hope to write a discussion that makes people really think on this site. Overall I have been happy with my time on Youth Voices.

I think I contribute to the Youth Voices community by adding posts, and making comments. Making the posts are easy, because we have a specific format to follow, which is helpful. Commenting is a little more difficult, because it is sometimes hard to think of what to say, however, I know that I find comments helpful, so I try to comment on other people too. I wish that I could post more pictures, because they come out looking pretty good on this site, however, I haven't really worked on many others that I am satisfied with, so I would be unable to do that. Overall Youth Voices is a good site for what we are doing in class.

Throughout the year, I've used Youth Voices to publish the work I've done in my digital photography class in order to recieve feedback. I feel like I've contributed my point of view on what photography is by sharing the work that I've done. All of my work represents my outlook on the world and so by posting my images in Youth Voices, I've been sharing my view of the world with other students. It's easy for me to just post discussions here, but it's hard to get feedback from other people. I wish that there was a better way to interact with other students, like a wall to post comments on, just like Facebook. I feel like there should be a more personal aspect to Youth Voices. Sometimes it just feels like the stuff I post is going nowhere. I would be much happier if I were able to interact with other people more.