Author: Becky N

In our J 2150 Class we had to take pictures for a project called Seeing Red. Our professor told us our central focal point has to be a red object. I went around downtown Columbia and found some great red finds! The first time I used the Nikon-D7000 I had a really hard time figuring out how to use it. Once I asked numerous friends who were camera gurus and tried to figure out what all the camera terminology “mumbo jumbo”  was, I kind of got the hang of it. Now I have a better appreciation for photographers because there are so many elements involved, such as, lighting, shutter speed, focus, angle, depth of field, etc. I never thought that using a camera would be this difficult, and now I understand that becoming a professional photographer is no easy thing. Here are the final photos I chose for the project, they aren’t exactly perfect, but still fun anyway!

When I was watching the tutorials for using WordPress, the Lynda.com instructor was showing how to insert a Youtube video. He used a video he said that he himself was in. So I looked into it, and he ended up being the creator of the Vancouver 12 X 12 Photo Marathon Contest. The contest entailed taking pictures on a Nikon film camera for 12 hours, fitting photos to 12 themes. It seemed relative to class because it involved taking pictures with a Nikon camera about a certain theme within a certain time period, like our Seeing Red project. It seemed ironic because he talked about how in order to take a good picture its about the timing, the lighting, the creativity, etc. These were all things that we talked about in class using our Nikon D-7000’s which I think overlapped by accident, but turned out to be very helpful.

We discussed what makes good storytelling in class in J2150 and I stumbled upon another blog-A Good Week– that has four great examples of visual storytelling. They show compassion, authenticity, and they give you an ambiance of actually being there with those people. Having those life experiences with them step by step just through a video. It really is a spectacular thing to see someone’s significant life memory just through a video. Since you get to see it through their eyes you get to feel the emotional impact that they felt when they were doing these actions, instead of just seeing a bunch of pictures on the screen. Being able to live vicariously through someone else in a video is flabbergasting. Enjoy!

This is my new blog! I will be posting things for my J2150 class, and probably a lot of random facts and things I stumble upon on twitter.