Blog Post #2

I have continued taking pictures and writing through this whole week, and overall it has been very enjoyable. I have put up a reminder on my phone because the first two days I forgot to take a picture until fairly late in the evening. I don't really need the reminder anymore, but I am still going to keep it up for the rest of the week just to make sure I don't forget again.

This past week, one of the most interesting things I have gotten to do was experiment with aspect and ratio. Usually when I take photos with my phone they are just of something I see and want to capture it quickly, but now I have been paying more attention to what I capture. I have tried out doing horizontal and vertical, which seems to be one of the main flags that a picture was taken with a phone and not a camera. When a picture is vertical it seems to look more unprofessional, because it seems phone-like. Another thing I have been testing out has been close ups and long shots. Taking a picture at a different distance seems to change how you look at and think about the objects in the picture. When a picture is from far away it feels more like you are capturing an event, because of all the things you can fit in the frame. On the other hand, when a picture is a close up it feels like you are capturing a single object. This difference had also been influencing what I wrote about each picture. You can see that, for the most part, the long shots are a story and the close ups are a description or part of something. This was not intentional, but the photos influenced my way of thinking. 

The one thing that I am a bit behind on is typing up what I have been writing. I often feel more creative when I write in a notebook, so I have been writing all of my quotes, poems, and stories in my creative writing notebook. I will probably copy them all over onto my blog in the next few days, but I've had a lot of other homework that has prevented me from doing that. Although it is just adding another step by writing it down in my notebook first, I truly believe that doing this has made me able to thing more creatively while doing this project. I have been writing a lot of stuff that is different from what I normally do, and am enjoying trying out different styles.