Anthony's Visit

Today, my friend Anthony came to visit me at UMass to work on an unfinished assignment for his photography class. The details of the assignment were basic -- rule of thirds, different textures, lines, shapes, etc.; things I'd done in photo classes before. It was fun to do them again after gaining more experience with my camera. These are a few of my photos from the day.

Saturday Morning: The Chase

Before the chase.

The chase.

Yours truly, photo taken by Sam :)

Desk Art

Note: I did not draw this. It's on a desk in Fernald 11.

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Daily Shoot 9/15/10

The Daily Shoot for today involves the use of "hard" shadows to emphasize texture and edges. While I'm still relatively unclear on what exactly they mean by "hard shadows," I feel as though I managed to pull it off somewhat. This is the Fine Arts Center at UMass. When walking in this direction in the morning, the light makes this triangle, the shadow hitting each column in this super particular way and forming a triangle of light. Especially in the column on the left, you can see ridges in the concrete (making it more obvious that it is in fact concrete) where the column's inner support was constructed. When you're walking in the opposite direction (towards where I stood from the opposite end) in the evening, you see the same thing. I wonder if the people who designed the building designed it this way on purpose.

An afternoon with the birthday boy and his boy scout socks.

Today is my boyfriend Sam's 21st birthday. We had some time between lunch and classes, and the weather was completely perfect, so we set up camp on a shady patch of grass for a while and compared shoe damage.

Distractions

Left: What he should have been doing. Right: What he did instead.

Dorm sweet dorm.

It's good to be back.

Daily Shoot 9/8/10

Today's Daily Shoot assignment was to take a photo of your primary mode of transportation. I've been trying to do more of their assignments, and although it's hard to find the time, it's too good and simple a way to develop your photography skills and it's a reason to take a photo on one of those days when you can't think of anything you want to shoot. Since I'm back at school now, walking is how I get around. Unfortunately for me (and this is irritating me to no end), the crop tool in my Photoshop Elements is no longer working. It's SO annoying.