Photography Up and Beyond February 2, 2014

         Though Saturday didn't have the best weather to take some pictures, it didn't stop me from wanting to take advantage of my free time to go get some photography done. I drove and walked up to sign hill holding all my equipment that I would need to get work done. The walk was quite miserable, but it was definitely worth the view I got up there. I could get the whole view of South San Francisco easily by looking down. I quickly went to work taking all sorts of pictures. I was amazing having this opportunity to take photos of a city with so much different culture. Next time when I go back up there to take photos, I hope the weather will be sunnier than it was that day.



Time Logged for this session: 1 hr
Total Time logged: 8 hr

Quad Game Frebruary 13, 2014

Because I am a huge fan of basketball, I decided to go to one of our quad games which was against El Camino. This mainly focused upon my ability to take action shots, which took a lot of patience and precision to do so. It was hard at first because everything was coming out blurry or slow, thus became quiet irritating because everything seemed to challenging to do. I took a lot of time adjusting the amplitude and shutter speed of my camera. Finally when the boys varsity game started, I was able to adjust my camera to the way I want it to function. My feelings was definitely great as the boys varsity was playing. It was quite unfortunate though when my camera ran out of batteries, because that's when the game got exciting and emotions were high. Taking pictures of a basketball game had it's sweets and sours, but it was  definitely a good opportunity to take some awesome pictures of basketball. 

Time logged for this session: 3 hrs

Total time logged: 7 hrs

Adventuring January 25, 2014

Today my mentor came over to my house and reviewed some basic information that I learned from the last session. After a bit of reviewing, we went to my backyard where we put the camera to some good use. My mentor gave me a good half an hour mastering some techniques into taking some pretty cool pictures. It took me quite the time though to figure out how to balance out the lighting when I was standing in a sunny side. After that, my mentor showed me how to change the shutter speed of a camera. This gives the camera to take an action shot, like a picture of someone jumping. This pretty much tested my reaction skills, because I had to take the picture at the right timing, or else the picture would look really awkward. After fooling around with that, I decided to drive down to Orange park to review some technique work I've learned with the camera that day. I pretty much just walked around the park taking pictures of different areas. I think my photography skills are improving bit by bit, but I still got a long way to go!


Time logged for this session: 3 hrs
Total time logged: 4 hrs

Great Way to Start the Project!

       Today was the first hour I completed for my Capstone Project! I went out to Skyline College to get a nice scenery of the pacific ocean and the environment around me. I probably spent a good half an hour there taking some photos and getting use to the camera. It's a lot of work at first trying to adjust the camera to take a picture, but it was a great first experience!

       Later on today, I had the chance to meet up with my mentor. She gave me some notes on basic vocabulary about photography and it's function. These three words all had to do with adjusting the camera to different lighting, so that it would be easier to take a photo. At first it was quite a challenge to adjust the Aperture for the lighting (controls how much light comes in through the lens.) Overall, I'm really excited to go more in depth with the use of a camera! This is going to be a really fun project.

1 hour

First Thought About Possible Topics

The three possible careers I would be interested to be in is a physical therapist, businessman, and a advertising sales agent. These three careers really stick out to me from the other careers that I have researched. Three possible courses I would like to study in college would be business, Social Science, and photography.