Independent Component 2

 L. I, Jessica Velasco, affirm that I completed my independent component which represents 30 hours of work. For my second independent component I decided to do more hours in my Digital Photography ROP class where I do my service learning and collected all the photographs that I have taken throughout that time. Some photographs are from the assignments that have been given to us, and other photographs I have taken with more of the techniques and skills that I have obtained from taking my ROP class.


I. My component represents 30 hours of my work, by then being able to show how I was able to apply the techniques and skills that I have learned throughout the past 8 months that I have taken ROP. It also represents my growth as a photographer when compared to my very first Independent Component where I showed the first photographs which I believed where good. Now with my second Independent Component my photographs have become better and I also believe that my growth as a photographer is noticeable and is shown with this second Component.

A. Doing this as my Independent Component helped me answer my EQ in many ways, first of all it taught me all about a photograph's composition and how the subject does not necessarily have to be set in the middle. That it is usually better to follow the rule of thirds unless you find an amazing way to break that rule which is pretty hard (and is only recommended once you know all the rules of composition) to pull off unless you are doing Macro photography. By sitting in class and having a professional like Jack to learn all these things from was the biggest help. The second thing was being able to learn these techniques and then being given assignments using them, because that way I was able find a way to take a photograph and apply those techniques to my photography's composition with my own creativity. Which is the best way for me to learn things, rather then just sitting in classROP Log of hours learning about photography.  

Rop hour log

Pictures from a Story Telling assignment we had.

Motion Photography, using the technique I learned in ROP in January.

 Nature Photography and Macro Photography

Animal Photography

One of my favorites

Using Surrealism.

 

Helping 2013

I interviewed Cynthia Garcia
on Monday, April 23 at 1 o'clock

Question. What Ideas do they have for their senior project and why?
Answer. Cynthia said that she would really like to do something related in the medical field because she would really like to become a doctor but she was not very sure what specifically to do. She then also said that she might want to do something in the medical field having to do with babies.
 Feedback. Since she said that she wasn't sure whether or not she would be able to find anything in the medicine field due to reliability I then told her that she should really check the San Dimas Hospital about doing service learning there since many seniors were able to find service learning there.

Question. What do they plan to do to complete the 10 hours or service learning(working with an expert) prior to senior year starting?
Answer. Her answer was that she was thinking about checking a Hospital maybe the Kiser in Baldwin Park Hospital and then doing the 10 hours of service learning there since they're having an orientation or at Queen of the Valley Hospital since its near her house. She then asked how many hours were needed in total.
Feedback. I then told her to make sure to be able to find something since it had been difficult for many seniors to be able to find things in the medical field. As for her question I told her that for service learning we needed a total of 50 hours and then for each independent of the two components another 30 hours, but we didn't need the 10 hours prior to starting the school year.

Question. What do you hope to see or expect to see when watching the class of 2012 present their two hour presentations?
Answer. She hopes to see that when we present we know what we are talking about so that the seniors won't suffer while presenting and so that the audience won't suffer at your presentation either. Also she hopes to see a range of topics, different than everybody's to know what to expect next year about the different topics that you can do. She then asked how long the presentations actually were according to speaking time. 
Suggestions. I then suggested that she pays attention to mistakes that we make to remember NOT to also do them when her time comes to present her two hour presentation. As to her question I then broke down the two hour presentation according to the activities needed and the speaking time.

Question.  What questions do they have about senior project?  What additional recommendations would you give the 2013 student about senior project?  Be specific and note what you told them.
Questions they had. My junior had questions about -How many hours we needed in total, including service learning and independent component? - How long the presentation time actually was, if it was actually two whole hours or less of speaking? -How was I able to chose the topic I chose?
Recommendations. recommendations I gave my junior were to make sure that she was able to get service learning in the medical field since it was a bit difficult to find, but that it would probably be easy for her to find something at the San Dimas Hospital, to pay attention to any mistakes we make in our two hour to make sure that they don't do them in theirs, to make sure that they really do like their topic because they will be stuck with it for the whole year and because people will be able to tell whether they enjoy their topic or not. 

Answer 3

EQ: What is most important in creating a visually appealing Nature Photograph? The subject of a photograph is as important as it's composition. Perhaps even more important because if the observer finds no interest in the subject then they won't even take ten seconds to look at your photograph, going against what I have learned from service learning and from my third interview, which is that a photographer's main goal is to get the viewer to want to take a second glance and take in the whole photo. Nearly every time that I go out to photograph for ROP we are told that the subject HAS to be interesting to other people, not just your self. That might determine everything in a photograph, whether its visually appealing and whether its salable or not.

http://casaveneracion.com/framing-the-subject-in-photography/

http://www.dsexls.com/photography-subject-in-photography.html

http://www.articleclick.com/Article/Choosing-A-Subject-In-Photography/931248

3-Column Chart

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0ApjKsWjPV5e-dGl3LTlkM1NEdXoxUUJGOXdsOVREdFE#gid=0