Nibbles The Panda's Crazy Photos: January 2013

Over the past semester I have learned so much about photography that I never would have known if I hadn't taken the class. I now know how to develop pictures in a dark room which is amazing. The whole process from beginning to end, every time I did it managed to blow my mind a little bit. The fact that by exposing light onto the paper would then create an image is just amazing. The pinhole camera's I had never even heard of until I stepped foot into the room and they are absolutely amazing. The fact that a photo can be made from just having a hole in something as simple as a can is thrilling. This semester, I learned a few things about myself. The first thing is probably that I get frustrated with myself when something I do doesn't turn out the way I want it to. The second thing, is that I love art, and well more so the process. A picture isn't art to everyone for whatever reason...but to me every picture is a form of expression. I learned that art is my way of expressing myself, and that I keep working on things until I get it to a point where I personally fell proud of myself about it. Something I kind of wish that we had done that we didn't was more landscape pictures! I love seeing all the beauty in things I see everyday when I take a picture, so landscapes would have been pretty cool! Doing night time photos would be pretty awesome too! I think a lot of cool uncaptured things appear in the night. My struggle was definitely remembering which tool was which in photo shop, they can be a little bit confusing. I think the tools are easily the hardest part of photo shop, and once you know how to use the tools and remember which one is which its easier. So the more we repeated tools, the easier it got to do projects that used the same tools! Oh, and that one time where we took the film out of our cameras and then the room was all pitch black and we put it into the container thing so we could develop the film...but that was also fun. But overall, being patient was probably the hardest struggle. I'm not patient. So sometimes I would have to be patient and wait for a good idea to come to my mind, or for the right image to appear. Photography taught me patience is important. I think what I conquered was visually, and mentally speaking. Now I see everything around me as a form of art. I don't judge much at all anymore. I see everything now as more of a way of expression, and everyone has their own way, everything for that matter has its own ability to express something. Whether its through words. Facial Expression. Clothing. Music. Painting. Acting. Drawing. Photography. Piercings. Tattoos. Sports. Food. I mean I guess you could say "The Sky is the Limit" when it comes to expression... Anything and everything is possible . So...yeah photography helped me conquer understanding of expression.