Prints

Dear students, I left yesterday all the prints in the dark room at Fiorentini. You can pick them up.

Thanks

Dear students,

I want to thank you for this intense and passionate semester. I spent with you good days

S.A

Monica/Nicole/Taylor's Final

Serafino,

As I previously stated in a comment, I have my biggest final today and am going to be unable to come to your posted final. I had thought that our final was on Friday (as that's what the school list says), but now that it has been moved to Thursday I am going to be unable to attend. I will post my Final here on the blog. Thank you.

This Digital course was very influential to me. Although I have spent the last three years taking photos and teaching myself the science of photography, I really enjoyed being able to participate in a class in which I was taught rather than teaching myself. In this course I learnt how to focus on the photo taking process rather than the post-production process. I learnt how to capture the image just how I wanted it in the camera without having to rely on post-production methods. 

While never having made a video of my photography before, this class allowed me to showcase my work in both print and digital form. 

I thoroughly enjoyed this class. Both the students and professor were fun, passionate, and all-around good people. There was so much energy and excitement in class, I truly loved it all. I really appreciate all that I learned and I can't wait to take my knew knowledge out into the real world and see what I can do!

Thank you so much for everything!

Taylor Hotter

(Nicole)

Rola's Final

Dear Professor Amato,

I'm unable to attend the Final. I thought it was Friday and today I have another final exam. Thank you anyway for this wonderful semester and I will see you around in fall!

What I learned most from this class is stop thinking about the editing process, but rather try to take a picture the way I desire it to be immediately, appreciating the outcome as raw and as natural as it is. This has really affected the way I take pictures. I think twice before snapping a picture now because I try to use the options on my camera consciously for obtaining the results that I am looking for without the need of editing.

Another thing I learned during the class is that something simple can be beautiful and that sometimes it is those things we ignore that can be beautiful pictures. That's what comes to my mind with the picture below.

One thing I still love to do in the editing process is convert some images into black and white because with B/W photographs there is close attention to composition, lighting, and perspective, making it just right for the picture on the left.

With these three pictures I learned that sometimes it's a good idea to place pictures together and let them tell a story. I think Nicole also illustrated that beautifully with her pictures during the exhibition.

Final

When I look at previous photos from the beginning of the semester they all look somewhat forced.  It looked as if I was trying too hard to create the perfect shot.  I was trying to hard to take pictures that were too complex and overwhelming.  My photos were all close ups and I never took the time to create an open space with the finished product.  In this class I learned to not make my photos so difficult for a viewer to enjoy.  I started to learn about creating open spaces and I focused on not using the zoom lens as much.  I wanted to take pictures without so much complexity and blurry objects.  In these photos my main focus is to create the feeling of being smaller than that of the subjects.  I attempted to make the subjects look larger than they were.  In the picture of the graffiti that was taken in the beginning of the semester I feel was too close up.  I feel that I should have zoomed out and made the space seem more open than it appears in the photograph.  In the picture of the Gianicolo Residence which was taken on later during the semester I wanted to capture as much of the building as possible and put it up against a blue sky so that it made the building look even larger.  In the picture of a cupola at St. Peter's Basilica I created the large empty dark space to make the colors of the sunlit area stand out.  This course has taught me this new style of photography and I feel in the long run it will benefit me greatly.

Hope everyone has safe travels home!

PS
I think we should all continue to post our photos to the blog!