As an artist/photographer my main focus was to capture photos of what I go through in life, my culture and what interests me. Many of the photographs I captured have to do with nature and its wonderful beauty. I also love to take photographs when I am at family events because everyone has their own ways of having fun with their family.
One person that inspired me to take photographs was Tina Modotti because her work was very cultural and the photographs she would take involved children or women in unusual situations. The way she would edit her photographs was also different, she would either make them black and white or some other different shades. Most of my photos were de saturated with a pop of color.
I mainly edited my photos in black in white before I found out about the sponge tool which de saturates. I liked using this tool because I felt that it could make the littlest things pop out if I partially de saturated. I also adjusted the lighting and contrast in the photos because it would give it more of a retro look and the entire photograph stood out.
Now that I’ve learned what photography is about, I feel more confident in taking pictures and I also feel like I know more about the world of photography. I never thought of photography as something important, I would just take pictures and that would be it, I paid no attention to editing it. But now that I learned about all these things that can make a photograph look ten times better I will keep it all in mind when I go off and take more photographs.
