Composition Class, May 2010

I finished my Composition class, it was a lot of fun. I had wonderful classmates and the class size was small, six people. It wasn't an easy class, there were tons of assignments and I was pretty stressed out about it.

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!!

a rose after the rain

This Saturday May 1st, 2010 I start a new photo class called "In Focus II, Composition" I can hardly wait to learn what this is all about.

I took this shot yesterday after the rain, it's one of my favorites for it's color.

Random Shots in April 2010

I'm posting some random pics that I took in April. The photo below was an experiment, of a technique called finger painting. I like the fade in and fade out look of it.
Those are some big shoes for grandson Trenton to fill.

A church in Little Italy.

This sign is so confusing, I don't know which way to turn!

This is Mr. Jay

Lindo Lake

What's New...

I'm in between Photography classes right now, so I'm kinda on my own here. The next class I plan to take is called "In Focus II", Composition. I think the class may have to wait until fishing season is over, and it has only just begun! }<)))))0>

I went to Little Italy last week and took these shots. I'm not sure about what I did with the second one. It kinda looks like water color.....This weekend there is an art walk!
Little Italy comes alive with the largest art festival on the west coast! Come on down to Mission Federal ArtWalk San Diego on Saturday and Sunday, April 24th and 25th from 11am to 6pm. Art, Music, Food and Fun for all! See you there!

In Focus I Class, week IV

On Wednesday March 24, my photography class was held at the Embarcadero. My teachers (Rod and Robin Deutschmann) had the class do a Scavenger Hunt, we were all given the same list,

of the types of photo's required. We were allowed to take them of whatever inspired us.
We were only allowed to keep the shots that were required.

I think by doing that we were forced to make sure we got THE ONE. When you've taken THE ONE, you know it! It's the one you can be proud of!!!

All of my classes have been so much fun, and I have learned so much more than I ever expected to. An SLR camera, it just sounded intimidating to me. Rod and his wife Robin are excellent teachers and artists. They are encouraging, patient and it's so obvious that they love what they do.

I still haven't taken my camera out of manual, I never will, there is no need!!!

In Focus I Class, week II

I took this pic when I went fishing on Sunday March 14th, trying to do a class assignment called "Perspective" I call it "Man Eating, Fish" or is it "Fish, Eating Man"???
This is the pic that I took during class on Saturday March 13th, our classmate is soooo little that you can hold her in the palm of your hand!

The pictures below are some that my teachers took during our class

Just having fun!!!

Robin helping us with our task

Learning about our shooting and aiming stance. Rodney was a marksman teacher in the Marines.

In Focus I Class, week I

This afternoon I was practicing taking blury pictures.......Yes, you heard me right!!!

It's called depth of field or DOF.

I like the results!

I'm having a blast with these photography classes :)