All About Colors

For the next lesson in photography, the teacher explained that would learn about portraying colors in a photograph so that they stand out and become the essential key in that photograph, so this lesson also revolved around using Adobe Bridge to edit our pictures. I was extremely excited to start learning about how to use Adobe Bridge and to professionally edit photographs. This course was definitely very challenging because we spent weeks learning about the basic tools that you could use to edit, and it started to become very difficult when we started to get into the very detailed aspects of Adobe Bridge and Photoshop.

I have to admit though, I am grateful for these tutorials that she made us watch, participate, and complete in order for us to fully understand the capability of all that we could do to make our photographs the best quality. I was really astounded by all of the cool effect that we could apply to our photographs. Our teacher, Ms. Taylor, also made a point for us to realize that natural effects can sometimes be just enough to make the photograph look professional. She informed us on tips that we should think about while taking the photograph, and I think her small warning foreshadowed our next assignment.

The Challenge

In the next week of photography, the teacher decided to challenge our photography skills and give us a complex assignment. We partnered up with someone, then we were told our next lesson would be to take a photo shoot of motion and "frozen" or still pictures. In order to take a still picture of a moving object, and to take pictures of a moving object and give it a cool blur effect, we had to learn about the camera in depth.

We had to take a whole entire week just learning about all the functions of the camera and all the different ways we could use it. Eventually, I was really looking forward to the photo shoot. When the week came up, me and my partner had so many great ideas. We took pictures of moving bushes, jumping in the air, and we even brought baggy clothes to dance in so we could give off a cool effect. The results turned out incredible. I was really surprised by the turnout and I couldn't wait to learn more about other ways to use the camera to take mind- blowing photographs.

First Post!

Hi, I'm a student at Oxbridge Academy and this blog was created to explain about my love for photography. Before I enrolled and was accepted into OA, I was never really interested in photography. Then, when OA informed the student body that they would be offering a Photo 1 Class, I figured it would be better than Public Speaking, so I signed up. I never really expected to end up being so passionate and eventually knowledgeable about the class. In the beginning of the course, the teacher informed us to keep a portfolio of all our work and a sketchbook of our ideas and notes that we have and will take.

We started out by learning about reflection and light photography. The school provided the photography classes with high-tech Canon Rebel cameras. I was so excited to have the privilege to be able to use and take home with me such professional cameras. We learned the basic functions of the camera and then we were sent off to take our first photo-shoots of light and motion! The results turned out great. I was really surprised on the outcome of our shoots. The pictures turned out great and looked really professional. Ever since then, photography has become my favorite class and my new hobby.