5th Blog Post

          After doing research on my last four blogs, I have learned many things about photography that I did not know before this creative process. Before doing this creative process, I thought photography was just simply point and click. I never thought it was a lot of skill to be a photographer, or that you needed an expensive camera. After doing the previous blogs, I found I was completely wrong and it does in fact take skill and a nice camera clearly works better.

            I really did enjoy this entire process especially the two blogs where we had to take pictures. I thought the Michael Jordan reenactment with Pat and Christian was really fun. This is where I found that a nice camera would be very beneficial because I took it off an iPhone and it took me several tries. Also, I wasn’t able to zoom in as much as I had hoped, but I still really enjoyed it because it was funny taking a picture of one of the more famous dunks. I also really enjoyed blog 4, where I had to do a time lapse of the Budig flowers. Some people gave me looks like I was a tourist or that kid posting a picture on Twitter or Instagram of their campus, but it was actually really interesting. It was cool seeing how much the flowers actually changed every single day, and I was pretty shocked at how well it turned out. The nine-day span for blog 4 couldn’t have come at a better time because I was able to take my first picture when there was only one tulip, and my last picture had every flower fully bloomed. Maybe next time, I would have also gotten a time lapse of a tree to compare how quickly the flowers bloomed, compared to all the branches to fully gain their leaves.

            I think photography is important to me because it’s crucial to having pictures of your life. Whether it be a trip you took with friends and family, or a school picture, or any picture you can take daily, it is always fun and good to reminisce on those days. It sound cliché, but when you do have that picture that counts as a thousand words, or is a priceless photo, it is great to have framed and hung in your house, to remind you. I just think photography is very important in this day of age with social media, because it makes keeping up with people you don’t see a whole lot much easier because you can see any changes in them since the last time you saw them, or what they are doing. I think I experienced flow during this blog and blog 1 because it was writing, but I don’t think I did with the photos because I had to take just one a day in front of Budig, and get one picture of Pat acting like Michael Jordan. I really enjoyed Dylan’s golf videos because I thought the juggling of the golf balls was really skillful, and his new ways to make golf more fun for viewers was very interesting. I think creativity is trying to do something in a different way than normal, or becoming more adapted to that topic than you were before.