Homework for 10-26-11

I orginally took 164 pictures, I narrowed those down to 22 and with a lot of contemplating I choose, what I think, are the best five images to represent fall. Here they are . . .

Pictures to represent fall: 

While I was shooting I came across this extremely colorful tree that you see above. 

I edited the photo by making a curve in the red and green, as well

as changing the contrast, sharpening, exposure and others. I like the

photo because I feel like the colors really represent fall and I like the

contrast between the tree and sky. 

In my neighborhood we have a really nice bike path where I took this 

photo. I like the light shining across the path, as well as the leaves and shadows.

I edited the contrast, exposure, levels and curves. I like how the path disappears 

in the distance and I think its funny and unique how the yellow lines are wavy.   

 I big part of the fall is well the leafs falling, I tried to show that in

this photo. I edited the contrast, exposure and a bunch of other stuff.

I like how the grass/leaves sort of disappear in the horizon.

 I really really like the textures in this photo, I like how the leaf 

is sort of crunched up and how the pavement is a bumpy background.

I edited the photo by sharpening it and turning up the contrast so you can 

really notice the difference between the black asphalt, the pine 

needles and the leaf.

I think the mixture of the colors in this picture are just amazing. 

I love how the green tree and blue sky make a really awesome 

background and then having the beautiful, vivid orange and yellow

 leafs with the light shining through behind them. I edited the image 

by turning up the brightness, exposure, contrast and sharpening to

make the colors shine through as vivid as they can.

Thanks for looking!

-Grant William Howard Snodgrass 

Homework for 10-19-11

Ok, here is the photo that I made from scratch in pixelmator. The first photo is the original and the second is the one I made. Thanks!

^ Original ^

^ The one I made^

Thanks!

-Grant William Howard Snodgrass

Homework for 10-12-11 #2

I enjoy playing soccer. I choose to take and edit the photo this 

particular way because I like how the ball is in focus and most 

everything else is blurred.

I again, I feel the photo shows that I like soccer. I got the idea 

for how to shoot to picture from other photos like it and Jonny 

also suggested it. 

By now you probably this that I am obsessed with soccer or something
from all the photos of soccer stuff that I have put up, but the fact is im 
not really obsessed, but I thought these objects would look cool in a photo.
I wanted to make this picture look kind of old fashion, so that was what I 
tried to do in the editing and shooting.

I think this was shows who I am because the pictures is of

the front of my house and my address. My home is a important 

place for me because I know at home I can be just chill and I 

know the people who live there with me will always be there and 

won't judge me.

Music is a fun thing I do in my life. I think this

photo kinda shows that.

Two of my favorite things to wear are hats and ties. I wanted to

show that by putting this photo up here. =)

I have a chain-link fence attached to one wall in my room. 

On that fence I hang: hats, jackets, magazines, ties and pretty

much everything else. I feel there is no better way to show

my personality through my photography then to take a 

picture of where I hang all my stuff.  

Thanks for reading. 

-Grant William Howard Snodgrass 

Homework for 10-12-11

     How do I view the world around me? Well, that is a very broad question and to be honest I don't really know how I view the world because I just view it, I don't really think about how I do. Some people look around them selfs and might try to look for creative or unique scenes or circumstances, in some ways I would say that I do the same, although like Jonny was saying everyone views different things as beautiful or creative. When I go to a new place and look around I try to take everything in and explore the area. I try to look for possible conflicts in the area as well as cool unique things as well. So all in all I would say the way I view the world around me is looking for new things while taking in the common things as well.
     What inspires me? Cool, another broad question, I am starting to see a trend here. I am inspired by people or things that are better/more experienced then me. I am not going to be inspired by someone who is not a moral person because immorality is not something I strive for. I am going to be inspired by someone/something that is kind, generous, moral and has good integrity, because those are the kind strive for. So I guess what I am saying is that I am inspired by great things that I strive for, if that makes sense.                  
     Who inspires me? This goes back to my last answer that I am inspired by things greater than me. Like a lot of people my parents inspire me. Just seeing everything they have to go through and deal with is really humbling, I mean they have to go through life with me as a son, thats enough to inspire me already ;). Other people in history like MLK, Theodore Roosevelt and such really inspire me because they did the hard stuff to stand out from the crowd and because of what they did they are remembered and respected to this day.  
     How does my personality come out in my photography? Everyone's personality and creative view are unique. So how my personality comes out in my photography is going to be different than anyone else. I take pictures of things that I think are cool and interesting. And the way I view things that are cool/interesting is apart of my personality, so thats one way my personality comes out through my photos. Another is that I can show feelings and my mood by what I take photos of. Say that I am feeling sad or lonely, maybe I will go out and take pictures of nature and quite things to express that feeling that I have. 
     What are my hobbies? I have lots of stuff I like to do, hang out with people I like, watch movies, play games, that kind of stuff. But if I had any actual hardcore hobbies they would be: listening/playing music, traveling (I don't really know if this counts as a hobby or not), but really I don't have that much that I spend lots of time on constantly. Some people have hobbies like crafts, reading, legos, etc., but I really don't enjoy that kind of stuff that much, I guess I am just weird. 
     What type of photography interests me the most? I would say nature, landscape, buildings/cities and time-lapse. I like the first two because you can use lots of natural light in those I enjoy working with natural light, its just cool. I really really like photographing cities just because its fun to include all the life that goes on in a place and you can really show the feel of the place. I really liked photographing New Orleans on the Heartlife road trip last year because of all the cool buildings and people and showing that in the pictures I took. The reason I like time-lapse is it shows progression and life moving, while using one still image instead of video. Doing time-lapse is something I look forward to learning from Jonny this year. 


Please excuse my bad grammar, thanks!




-Grant William Howard Snodgrass 

Assignment Due: 10-5-11

What are my creative interests?


     I don't really view myself as a very creative person, so as you might guess it is hard for me to list my creative interests, but here it goes. I enjoy doing creative type stuff on my computer I think a little more then I do physically. Although, I don't really mind pottery, drawing, painting and stuff like that I enjoy doing computery stuff like photo editing, simple graphic design and photography.
     I kinda like figuring things out and math/logic type stuff. I also enjoy listening and attempting to play music. The musical instruments I mess around on include: ukulele, drums, keyboard and a little bit of guitar, so I guess those could count as creative interests. I find music really cool just because you can let out and feel emotion while listening/playing it. Some of my favorite bands are: Nickelback, Lifehouse, The Beatles, Switchfoot and a bunch of others. 
     I feel like my interests can relate to the class this year because, like I said before I like and want to learn more about technical kind of stuff and after all this is computers class so thats good. I am looking forward to a really great year, learning a lot more from Jonny Long and having a good time. 


Some things I would like to learn more about this year are: 

• Getting deeper into photo editing on Pixelmator and others programs.
• Learning more about photography such as:  Nature, Architecture/Buildings, Portrait, Light drawing and timelapse
• Just getting deeper into our computer and learning new cool stuff that we can do with them. 
• While I don't find it fun it would be cool to improve on my typing skills this year.
• Just learn as much as I can from Jonny, because he has so much to offer and teach us, I can't wait to dive into another school year of computers class. 

Thanks for reading!

-Grant William Howard Snodgrass