Freeee topic.

I took your advice about being able to go to a concert on a weekday and I am going to see The Maine on Thursday, May 17th! I am so excited. I think I'm only going to bring my old point and shoot camera though instead of my newer, bigger one that I brought for the last one. I feel like I paid TOO much attention to taking pictures and videos and not enough to the actual concert, so this time I plan to pay more attention to the music, and take photos when I feel it is right. I am so excited!

March 23 Journal.

I think my photography would be different if I had never learned film because it made me learn methods used to make things look different manually. It's kind of hard to explain but I think I appreciate how cameras work more now because I had to learn to do things manually instead of automatically. I think it make my photography different in the way that I have to work a bit harder to get a good image. I feel like I would think that photography is more simple than it actually is if I never learned to use an analog camera. This makes a difference in the amount of work I put into capturing an image.

The Alphabet Project.

So far the alphabet project has been going well. I found around 8 letters fairly easily. I actually enjoy this. I like having to look at things in a different way in order to find the letters. I've been noticing detail in things around my house and other places that I never would have paid attention to if it wasn't for this project.

Free topic yaaaay

If you haven't noticed, I really like the band "The Maine" and they are on tour again in the US and are coming to NY for 4 shows in May. I really wanted to go to one, but they're all on weekdays except one, which is on a Friday. I got SO excited when I found this out because I really want to see them again. I asked my mom and everything was cool; I only had to get tickets. Before I did that I looked at where the concert is. It's in Clifton Park, NY. So, I went on Google maps and learned that it's three hours away :(  My mom said we might be able to go but we would need to get a hotel and I don't know any friends that would be able to come because we would have to miss the school day. So now I might not be able to see them until the next time they are on tour in NY or NJ. I also missed a show for another favorite band of mine, "Mayday Parade". They were in NJ and NY at the end of last month and the beginning of this month. By the time I found out about the show, the tickets were all sold out and I wasn't able to go which is also a downer:

March 2 Journal.

Reading and learning about Ron Galella as a paparazzo and the death of Princess Diana due to paparazzi really surprised me. It's crazy that someone can die because of people trying to get pictures of them. I would not want to be a paparazzo. It seems that they all get bad reps, and they might get a lot of money, but I would rather have my dignity and photograph other things to make money rather than stalk celebrities to get a picture of them that most people wont really care about.

Feb 24th journal

If I was a paparazzo I would follow around John O'Callaghan from The Maine. First of all because he's one of my favorite celebrities and because I think he would be easier to shoot than others. I don't think he is the kind of person to really run or hide away from the paparazzi. I would shoot him in less typical situations than most paparazzo. I wouldn't just shoot him at concerts or with his band, I would shoot him in other places where maybe people don't always see him .

Feb 10th journal

If there was an assignment from this year that I could re-do it would be my self portraits. I think they could've been a lot better than they were. I'm not sure I completely got my point across from the way I shot and manipulated them. I think if I took more time on them and thought it out a bit more they would've been better.