Category: Warm Ups

For today’s warm up, I’d like you to find out a few things and put them onto your Visual Journal.

1. What side of your person are you trying to show in your indoor photo?
2. What side of your person are you trying to show in your outdoor photo?
3. Find an example of an indoor portrait you like online and download it and put it on your visual journal.
4. Find an example of an outdoor portrait you like online and download it and put it on your visual journal.
5. Find an example of an indoor portrait you like online and download it and put it on your visual journal.

For today’s warm up we will look at last semester’s Indoor Outdoor photos. Choose two photos to write about, one outdoor and one indoor. Download the photos and put them into your visual journal, then answer the questions below.

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Choose one indoor and one outdoor portrait that you think does the best job of showing a side of your subject? Can you tell what side of the person’s personality the photographer is trying to show? Why are the successful ones successful? What side are you going to show of your person? Will it be as successful?

For today’s Warm Up, post your Mi Familia photo to your Visual Journal. Then answer the questions below. Post your reflection into your visual journal.

1. How well did the Mi Familia photo turn out?
2. Can you feel the love you have for this person in how you photographed them?
3. What kind of angle did you use?
4. What could be done to better show the love you have for this person?
5. If there would be one thing you could change about your photo, what would it be?

Post your reflection into your visual journal.

A screenshot from my Instagram account of some photos took back in December.

My current favorite is this one:

Why I like it: As a photo teacher, I know that I used the rule of thirds in this photo, so my daughter Zoe isn’t placed in the middle, but off center, to the right.

I love how in focus she is. I like the look on her face, I like that we get her looking away from the camera, not at the camera at all. I love this part of the beach, it’s Manzanita, and Neakahnie mountain is right behin, and I love the lines in the sand. I love the filter I used. I made this photo using the Hipstamatic photo app. I love the patters in her shirt and how different they are to the rest of the photo, that contrast pleases me. Also it’s of my daughter, its frozen time. She is now almost a year older than she was in this shot .

Look through your Instagram. Choose your favorite picture. Then write a paragraph about why you like it. Post the photo and the paragraph to your visual journal.

Warm up is due today, 1/30