Overall, this opportunity that the Capstone gave me to expand mu knowledge was amazing. Having photography as my topic definitely worked both my critical and creative thinking, because there's a lot of situations and thinking in order to capture a master piece. A lot of organization came into this project, mainly because I had to somehow shove in some hours of photography into my booked schedule. When I am out getting some hours done, I am always asking myself "Is this scenery or object worth being captured on my camera?" During my first few hours, most of the time went into communicating with my mentor. She gave me a lot of ideas and paper that gave me a good insight into photography. Later as a I got more hours, the communication died slowly, this was a method my mentor gave me in order to practice and improve. The communication increased slowly as my mentor and i met up again. She saw how my skills of photography has improved so much from the first day I used a manual camera.
My experience from the capstone project expanded my creativity. I grew up thinking that building things with legos would make me really creative, but photography made me even more creative than I thought I could be. Photography didn't improve me socially, but it definitely increase my intellectual mind. A lot of factors had to be thought through in order to decrease my chances of making mistakes. The main thing that the capstone essay did to me was help me think outside the box.
The main challenge I encountered with throughout the project was my lack of patience, because photography is extremely time consuming. Especially using a manual camera, having to adjust the aperture and the shutter speed made me extremely impatient. If anyone was to see my common mistake, it would usually be because I would just take the picture, rather than manually adjusting the camera. This was a silly mistake that could be fixed easily, because the more I went out, the more I became patient. Improving my patient was way more simpler than I thought it would be, because it just took time for me to adjust to this new experience.
