8.1 SUMMARY & 2 WEEK PLAN

 6.2 FINAL TWO WEEK PLAN!

GOAL ONE:

Brainstorming is how I started my first goal this week. I found myself excited for exceeding my own boundaries as a photographer, so over these next few weeks I decided to step out of my personal "box". I went to Boston to seek out some new art to take pictures of for my website, and I made a list of things I'd be looking for in the city. 

• a city skyline
• streets, during day or night
• busy people, people watching
• lights; holiday lights or street lights or lights from buildings 
• sunset, weather views

Although the list was short, it gave me ideas to walk into Boston with. I brought my canon digital camera on my trip. 

Although this camera is my first from 2010, I still use it because of it's quality and convenience. I spent the whole day taking photos and picked out the best ones out of the group. Deciding which ones are the best can be hard, but lighting and photo quality makes a big impact in the decision. After finding the final cuts, I got excited to take the photos to my website and add more personal photos on the pages. 

GOAL TWO: 

Editing can be fun when it comes to pieces for my website- it allows me to have fun and be creative. I enjoy bringing out contrast and brightening up certain colors to have an affect of dark and light. I have gone through multiple editing apps, and have seem to found that the best edits are the ones you create yourself, especially when you are just figuring it out. I edited the photos adding film borders to them and light grain to soften up the dark parts of the photo. This step is the easiest and is very fun to complete. Editing photo's makes a big difference in the quality of the content page. 

GOAL THREE:

Goal three is to upload all of the content! I made the page outline plan and made all of the artwork come to life on the new "locations" page. Although there is a small group of photo's that made it on this page, it created a great base for me to continue adding on that page for the future. 

8.1 SUMMARY:

My weekly goals helped me support myself for the future. Now that I added this page it opens up a lot of artistic possibilities for me and the next steps I'm taking. I'm exciting to seek out new locations and add content to this page and make it full of artwork that isn't what I'm used to. Another impact of this past weeks goals, is I brought my camera to a place with a lot of artistic content. The city is like a playground for photographers, with lots of content and photo-taking possibilities.