Roscarli Morel

Meghan Healy
Photography
6/12/15
End of Course Reflection
Before taking this photography class I wasnt so advanced in
photography as I am know. I am not a professional photography, but I could
say that now know more than I did before. Before I used to take many
pictures, but I just took them without knowing how to. Now I learned that
pictures can be taken in different angles. There is the birds eye view, which
is from above, and the worms eye view, which is from the ground. There is
also composition, where your main focus is in the picture. For that you can
use the rule of thirds, which is using a grid to help the composition.
My favorite assignment this semester was the obstacle illusion one.
This was my favorite because it was fun. I times it was difficult but it taught
me to be patient. My group and I had to take a few pictures using distance.
Making it look like something unrealistic was realistic. For example my group
and I took a picture of Andrea and I hanging from the locker as if we were
falling off of it. In reality we werent really falling off the locker but grabbing
on to it from the floor. The difficult part was that we had to make it look as

realistic as possible but we could do that without someone precisely directing

us.
One famous photographer that uses some of the things we learned in
class is Dorothea Lange. Lange uses composition, point of view and rule of
thirds in her photography. Although all her pictures are in black and white, all
of her pictures have composition. Whether the main subject is in the middle,
or not, it is easy to catch an eye on it because of its composition. Lange also
uses points of view in her photography. Some pictures are taken from the
birds eye view, and others are taken in more of a worms eye view. The others
are just taken in a straight angle but uses the rule of thirds.