Past student-High Key

High Key-Abby

Atypical class day is looking through recent blog posts to see who put up new words and pictures.  Frustratingly lately, there have been few.  When work is posted, I'm excited to see what photographs have been shot, what manipulations have been applied and if assignments have been fulfilled. Again, that fulfillment has been lukewarm at best lately and I try to get across that the shutter has to be pressed....a lot in order to have successful images to share.

When students venture outside of classwork, and experiment with their camera, or in editing software, it can be really rewarding for me to see what they see.  A past student, Alyssa, was (is?) someone like that.  In class one day we ran across a high key photo and talked about how to shoot them or edit images to get that effect.  It wasn't long and she fired off 50 or 100 frames of her favorite subjects (brother and sisters) and posted up the best.  This one was my favorite-the composition, reflection in the eyes and the slight smile.  A great photograph in my opinion.  Just reinforces the thought that experimentation can pay off.