Digital Photography

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Photo restoration

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RIP Prince & Harambe

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I like this photo because it has many points of interest. The lines of the bamboo draw the eye up and down either side of the image.  The people walking down the path draw the eye towards the center, looking at them, as well as farther down the path until the image ends.  It also uses emphasis and perspective to make the viewer feel like it’s from a real, following point of view.

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I love this image because it’s so GREEN! Green is my favorite color and I love how well the lushness of this scene is captured in the low light exposure.  If the image was any brighter, it may be overwhelming and the viewer wouldn’t be able to focus on the details of the individual leaves, vines, and branches.  This is a place I want to visit to be calm and revel in nature.  This picture looks like it came from a fairytale forest, filled with singing birds and frogs.  I particularly like the small footpath that curls through the center of the photo. Compared to the size of the trees, it looks like it’s just wide enough for one person to walk down. This picture really is an escape for me.

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Light

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This image excites my imagination.  It’s so ominous and instills a feeling of isolation.  The road leads me to nowhere.  The detail and size of the trees leaves me feeling adventurous and wander-lusty.

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Intent

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Chance

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Assignment 1 Reflection

After taking on the first assignment, I’ve found more value in taking pictures daily.  Taking a picture every day of things I see frequently helped me appreciate not only physical worth to me but also their sentimental worth.  Bananas mean much more to me than a tropical fruit but I didn’t fully recognize that until I spent some time placing them under lighting and taking a few pictures. This assignment helped me realize that the food I eat is much different than the food I ate only a few short years ago when I spent little to no time worrying about nutrition and healthy dieting. A bruised banana is more than a peculiar brown and yellow fruit and I hope that the viewer of this specific photograph can understand.

           After developing the artistic side of my relationship with food, I took one of my favorite pictures from the assignment and posted it on Instagram.  It was a simple photo of a small mound of sesame seeds in the palm of my hand.  I edited the photo using VSCO so that I could enhance the contrast and exposure (among a few other features like temperature and shadows), bringing out the individual seeds in the mound and the individual wrinkles of my hand.  The only caption I offered was a silly joke: “Sesame Street.”  I found the image to be very intimate and personal, but at the same time very anonymous and mysterious.  A random viewer could look at the image and come up with many different meanings behind the photo.  I think that any one of the interpreted meanings of the image could be relevant to how I feel about it since my relationship with food is both complex and passionate.

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My goal was to take common objects that I see daily and put them under a new, more analytical, perspective. I chose to emphasize food since it is often overlooked or taken for granted. Placing it under bright lighting and in an intimate setting (like the palm of my hand) offers the viewer a close up of my relationship with food. The mind tends to perceive things as whole and individual. By breaking some of the objects using framing and grouping small things, I tried to inspire appreciation and color for ordinary things.

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#PhotographyForNonMajors (at Sesame Street)

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Cancer-associated cachexia leads to progressive functional impairment, cancer-related mortality and treatment-related complications. This PrimeView highlights some of the emerging research to tackle this important syndrome.

by Nature Reviews Disease Primers

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This Scotch whisky display from the Glengoyne distillery in Scotland is amazing! Each bottle contains the same batch of Scotch, matured in the barrel for one more year than the last. So cool! 😍 📷: Mystic_L/Reddit #science #whiskey #scotch #sciencealert #Glengoyne http://ift.tt/2mJNWEx

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Seems to fit the data: Whisky age vs color graph