In New Media class today, we talked about photography. We poured over our photos from last week. The teacher with his veteran eye, giving his critique on each one, mostly a softy. He said I did nice work. He had nothing bad to say after I explained why there was a school bus in the portrait of Charan (I didn’t post this picture because the file is too big and it is still in RAW and on a mac at the school. I haven’t had the know-how to import it to this blog.) Was my photo that prosaic that he didn’t even want to fix it? He kept emphasizing how important it is in photography to get new and unusual photographs because our world is currently saturated with images.

We spent what seemed like an hour pouring over professional photographs, exemplifying our next assignment: window light. Our teacher Robbie really geeks out over a good photograph (he kept boasting how his pet quality was a good close crop). We as a class admired the crisp lines and soft lighting and interesting detail brought out by the sly reflector that any skilled photographer should have in her toolbelt. Each photograph he preseneted had a special wow component, details in reflections,  controlled flares, interesting repetition.

This afternoon, I did some more folded-paper reliefs. I am planning on collaging them for my poster due in a couple of weeks.