Going outside to find the letters of the alphabet on campus was interesting. I noticed that I began to observe things like I had never done before and even noticed some new things around campus that had never caught my eye before. I started to make "something out of nothing", like a gum stain into the letter O. After listening to some classmates talk about what they were finding, I felt a little embarrassed because my ideas weren't nearly as good as theirs. All the things we are learning are new to me so I hope to learn things from others in the class that seem to be way ahead of my thinking and abilities.
After reading the McCloud comics and his notions about icons, I started to think about his ideas. Icons really don't mean anything, we assign the meaning to them. Also, with the font exercise in class, I noticed that I began comparing the shoes to the font. I found it funny that the fonts did go well with the shoes- two things that I never thought of comparing before!
I have realized that design requires thinking outside of the box. You need to be able to see beyond the big picture and notice the little features or need to examine things from multiple different points of view. Mastering this would be great because then maybe I could step up my photography skills. Though I have none besides the basic, I have always looked at other artistic photographs and wished that I was able to take great pictures and learn how to edit them and incorporate them into different types of work.
Maybe I'll be like this guy someday
It seems like this week has been a very eye-opening and refreshing experience for you! It was for me as well. I also have very little experience with any of the new things that we are learning, so the other students who seem like experts can be slightly intimidating. It would be great to be able to learn from them to gain even more knowledge! I am sure you will be able to achieve all of the photography goals that you have for yourself, and I look forward to seeing the end product!
ReplyDeleteI agree completely with what you said about this class being eye-opening and refreshing, it was so cool to be able to go outside and take pictures- I've never been in a class that allowed me to do that before! I also don't have much experience with photoshop or taking pictures in general so this is all new for me as well, don't worry, you're not alone! I also agree with what you said about the Mc Cloud piece, to me this was the most interesting of the readings we had to do this week because of his ideas on icons. It was really confusing to me at first but once we explained it in class I grasped it a little bit better. Hopefully we can both learn how to grasp the photography aspect of everything and end up with some good images!
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