FINAL LAMP!!!!

The final lamp is done and working!!!

Making final lamp

Making the final lamp has been a mess... this is my room while making the lamp

More Skins

These skins were made from bristol board, the material that would be used for our final lamp.

Lamp Skins

The beginning process of our lamp project. Working with different types of skins that would potentially lead us to our final lamp.

Photo Op and Photography Relfections

Photo Op and Photography Reflections

                I thought that the Photo Op reading was very interesting. Most of the topics I have learned in or just talked about in my previous photo classes that I took in high school. It was cool to see the images that went along with each subject so that you knew exactly what the author was talking about. I thought the images for the Movement section and the Continuous Mode were really neat and creative. It is so crazy how creative one can get with a camera. I don’t always bring my camera around with me, but I definitely should start, because you never know when something will inspire you or you just see something that you really want to take a photo of.

                I thought that the Photography reading was interesting as well. It was long, but since I am a photo media major, it kept my attention. “Photographic documents are central to our culture and we all have a sense of what they look like and what they do.” (16) I liked this quote; it really made me think about things. Without photography we would not have a lot of things. Photography helps you learn and has helped in the medical aspect. The images in this reading were very moving. I thought that the Valley of Death picture was the most interesting, and the one that caught my attention the most. Not a soul or living thing was captured in that photograph, so the title really goes with the image. I really liked the quote by Robert Capa, “If your photographs aren’t good enough, you aren’t close enough.” I could relate to this because when I take an image, and then get closer and take another one, that second image is always better than that first one. I think closer up images are much more creative and catching to the eye; especially with certain subjects. 

Capture Pictures

Group Word: Capture

verb (used with object)

1.

to take by force or stratagem; take prisoner; seize: Thepolice captured the burglar.

2.

to gain control of or exert influence over: an ad thatcaptured our attention; a TV show that captured 30% of theprime-time audience.

3.

to take possession of, as in a game or contest: to capture apawn in chess.

4.

to represent or record in lasting form: The movie succeededin capturing the atmosphere of Berlin in the 1930s.

5.

Computers.

a.

to enter (data) into a computer for processing orstorage.

b.

to record (data) in preparation for such entry.

noun

6.

the act of capturing.

7.

the thing or person captured.

8.

Physics. the process in which an atomic or nuclear systemacquires an additional particle.

9.

Crystallography. substitution in a crystal lattice of a traceelement for an element of lower valence.

What Language Looks Like: Squeeze

The word I chose for this project is squeeze.
verb (used with object)

1.

to press forcibly together; compress.

2.

to apply pressure to in order to extract juice, sap, or thelike: to squeeze an orange.

3.

to force out, extract, or procure by pressure: to squeezejuice from an orange.

4.

to thrust forcibly; force by pressure; cram: to squeeze threesuits into a small suitcase.

5.

to fit into a small or crowded space or timespan: The doctorwill try to squeeze you in between appointments.