Week 1:
Our class was held at Balboa Park.
For the first week, the homework assignments my teacher had us do, was taking pictures of things like a vertical line, diagonal lines, lines to triangles, patterns of squares, simple curves, pattern of circles, etc...(Sounds easy doesn't it?) It was hard to find all of these things in a week, and then we had to post our pics on the blog. By the time I got everything done, it was Saturday and time for class again. I'm still having fun though!
Week 2
Class was held at Heritage Park in Old Town.
I learned about negative space, balance, blocking, caps anchors, colors and tones, groups of similar shapes, odd man out and groups of similar colors. The homework was very hard to do, except, now I was seeing lines and triangles everywhere I looked. The brain is an amazing organ, training it can be tricky:)
Week 3
Class was held at Balboa Park
Where we learned about symmetry and asymmetry, implied shapes color and shape grouping, more lines and lines with rhythm, 2D & 3D blocking etc...and more homework assignments. It gets kinda tricky when you are looking for new things and all you keep seeing are tons of the things that were so hard to see the previous week.
Week 4
Class was held at The Marston House
This was to be our last class and where we took our test. It's a beautiful Craftsman style house in Balboa Park on the west side of 163. The grounds are open to the public, if you want to go inside you can pay for a tour.
For our test we were given a list of 10 pictures to take with all different requirements. I stressed about it way too much. But it really was a fun day! It is so true that you get out of it what you put into it. I think I'm going to take a break before I take another class just so that all of this information can sink in and I can get more practice with it. The next class I take will be the Flash Photography.
I am going to miss my classmates,who were so encouraging to each other Linda T., Nyree, Racine, M.A. and Lee.
Special thanks to my teachers Rod and Robin Deutschmann they push very hard and you learn a lot.
I loved this class, even with all of the tough assignments. The homework isn't required, but if you want to get the most out of the class you will do it all and you will do it well. And then........you will see that your environment looks totally different than it did before training your brain and your eyes. It's all fun, hard, challenging and very very rewarding. I'm loving it!!
