What DSLR stands for
Diagram of a camera
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Camera obscura means dark room. It's the natural optical way of projecting an image on a wall. It starts out with a room pitch black, and a tiny hole on the side where natural light shines in, AKA the sun. On the other side of the wall, will project what is outside, upside down. It's the tangible image of what our eyes see before our brain flips it upright. Later improvements of the camera obscura involved putting in a lens or two to reflect it where you please. The start of the camera obscura and its improvements led to the creation of images being captured with the camera. Our photography class was bale to experience a camera obscura. Our teacher, Mrs. Moncure, called us in two at a time into her dark classroom. A student and I were the first of her period to be called in, my first impression was that I was in trouble because the room was dark and she said "stand right there", pointing towards the wall where she had it. We sat and she had us hold up a box, that had one of it's side cut out, and she asked us "what do you see?". I thought it was a video or something because things were movie on the projection. The student that was with me said he saw a tree and people, and then right away I saw what was on the outside, upside down.
My surrealistic selfie conveys one of the two dedications in my life. School. It took me a bit to bring out my creative side, but I knew it had to do with something I enjoy and a vast part of my life. For my selfie, I used two apps (not including the camera app), PixLr and Adobe photoshop. PixLr was very helpful with the editing, with the filters, the contrast, the vibrancy and all of that good stuff. It took me some time to think of my final design, so with that I had to find a photoshop app. Fortunately, Adobe photoshop was really helpful and easy to make my selfie included into my whole self portrait. The editing didn’t take long, it was the design that took me a while. Once I planned that out, it was very simple and fun to edit my self portrait.
The two photos that are double exposure are two of my favorite buildings, which I took on college visits. The UCSD Geisel Library and the famous mission-style building at SDSU which consists of lecture halls. These photos represent my goals that I’ve had since middle school, they represent my hard work in where I want to be next year and after. My actual selfie I took in one of my classrooms, which also relates to my hard work and what my high school career has been dedicated to in order to be sitting in either of those buildings next year. So putting all the photos together ties what my life basically consists of, school because I want my goals to be accomplished. My selfie actually says a lot about me. It says that I am driven, dedicated, and sure. I am driven in accomplishing my goals, I am sure of what I want and where I want to be, and that is why I’m so dedicated to school and always have been. For me, it’s a perk that I enjoy school because I want to gain as much knowledge as I can, I know with that mindset, it can be beneficial. I have a big smile on my face while I’m doing my work, and people may think it’s “odd” that I enjoy school, but I know I’m not the only one who has goals like I do. I think everyone should have that same drive and mindset if they have similar goals. I know that in the end, “hard work pays off”. |
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May 2017
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