Over the past few weeks I have been experimenting with digital photography. I am thankful to have had the opportunity to learn more about this medium and explore its artistic possibilities. I have been taking pictures with my DSLR camera for several years, but I was mostly using the automatic settings. Through the readings and assignments on photography, I was able to learn more about using manual settings and how this can enhance my photography. I am beginning to understand the relationships between the ISO, aperature and shutter speed, and how to use meters to know if the shot will have the right amount of light. I really enjoyed the framing photos exercise. I like framing subjects in unusual ways and this exercise gave me more ideas on how to do this and create an appealing shot. I also experimented with different perspectives, lighting and movement. I learned how to adjust manual settings to stop or blur motion. I still consider myself very much a beginner, but now I can build on the basics I have learned to improve my picture taking skills.
Editing digital images is a way for an artist to add their own personal vision into a photograph. I have learned some basics in Photoshop and I am eager to learn more about this program and what I can do with it. I really enjoyed working with the colors of some of my pictures. I think that creating colorized photos adds more of my own artistic spin on an image. Editing also allows me to narrow in on particular aspects of a photo that I would like to highlight. This process may challenge some people’s ideas on photography. Since the finished photo may have little resemblance to the actual picture that was taken, it may not be viewed by some as an authentic photograph. Unaltered photographs can be viewed as art, but there has to be a distinction between photographs that merely document what we see and those that have been manipulated into another form of art.
Here is the link to my digital photography website: www.lissabphotography.weebly.com
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