Week 6

    I'm very excited and happy to announce that I finally had a truly successful week! Last week I mentioned that I didn't think I was going to complete my project. Everything I had done had to do with fixing my camera and I was worried that I wasn't going to get any pictures taken. This week, I proved to myself that I could take some awesome photos and that I can work a camera.
    I am currently in the process of editing photos. Thanks to my good friend Sydney Anderson, I had the opportunity to shoot some portraits. Taking pictures of people is a lot different than taking pictures of landscape. I was very excited and discovered that I enjoy taking pictures of people a lot more than I like taking pictures of landscape.
    The most successful part of my week was figuring out the issues with my camera. All of the pictures I took were in focus and are fairly easy to edit. All I had to do was brighten them a bit using my Adobe Photoshop 11 app on my computer. It was the first time that I didn't have to enhance the focus which is a great improvement.
    With only a few photos to finish, I have to start thinking strongly about in which order I will present them to the class. My initial thought is to present my landscape photos first and then my portrait photos. I can't wait to show off my hard work and progress!

Week 5

    With the last week of genius hour right around the corner, I'm getting worried that I won't finish with the quality of work I had hoped for. I have learned quite a bit about photography and will continue to work on getting better after the project is due. I'm disappointing that I couldn't find time to take the pictures that I had hoped to take. Hopefully I can squeeze in a photo session before my week 6 post.
    Although I didn't get to take a lot of pictures, I did find an app to download on my phone that is easy to use. I made the decision to switch to this app because I don't think I have the time to learn the editing process on the Adobe Photoshop. The editing app I downloaded is called Photo Editor. With it I can brighten or darken photos, eliminate red eye and blemishes, whiten eyes and teeth, enhance photos, sharpen or blur, add effects, and much more. It includes all the qualities of Adobe Photoshop that I would be using but much easier to use and learn.

This shows how I enhanced the photo and brightened it to enhance the quality. As you can see, the photo on the left is much darker and of less quality than the photo on the right.