Alejandra Gonzalez

At this point, it is my hope that you are no longer just taking images to satisfy a class assignment, but are starting to recognize what attracts you and catches your attention when you make photographic images.  What are you thinking about when you are shooting?  What things tend to catch your attention? When I am shooting I think about what will be a good angle and view point for the people looking at my subject. What catches my attention is lighting and how it reflects on my subject and making sure everything is in perfect alignment down to the facial expressions of my subject. Other than a class assignment, what is your point in the images that you take?  What kinds of things are happening when you think “that would make a great image?” The point of my images are to capture a story that I will want to remember later on of how I set the subject up and what I was thinking. When I ask myself "what would make a great image" I think of what the person looking a my pictur...

Which type looked the most interesting to you and why?  I find portrait photography to be the most interesting to me as it is more detailed and able to tell a story through the image one one person up close. Which type look the least interesting to you and why? The type I find to be the least interesting is the Candid photography because it seems a little to much like a snapchat and as if it took little to no work at all. Which type was the most surprising to you and why? The most surprising to me was the Hi Speed Photography as it is able to show clear movement in the subject while also being very interesting to look at. Given that you live in Texas, which 5 types do you think would be the easiest to do while living here? The easiest for me to do in Texas would be Portrait, HDR, Architectural, Long exposure, and Mobile photography. Given that you live in Texas, which 5 types do you think would be the hardest to do while living here? The hardest photography to do in Texas is R...

What do you most want to learn about photography right now? I want to learn more about how lighting effects a great piece of photography and how to work with different angles. What is your passion that is NOT photographic? My passion is learning new things. How can you tie your “other passion” and photography together? I can use my passion of learning to explore things I have not tried in photography and learn different techniques to create beautiful images. What idea interested you the most from the second article? I am really interested in shooting under water and capturing an image of a person lying beautifully in water and using a different perspective. What are your usual sources for inspiration? My usual sources at inspiration is Pinterest and others around me help me think on the spot about what to shoot. What would you assign yourself as a personal (not from me) project if time and money were no object? I would assign my self an adventure around the world taking images of...

What is your reaction? My reactions to these images is just how unique and abstract they are. I find both these images to be very interesting in wanting to know what is happening and their vibrant colors. How do you think they do it? They first take actual pictures of what can be made and then they must have put the image through photoshop to create more vibrant colors and the unrealistic things attached to both the bird and the women.  Which gallery was the most interesting and why? The most interesting gallery to look at was the Fine Art because the images all told unique stories with the water and creatures under the water but still making the feel like real life. Which gallery was the least interesting and why? The Commercial gallery was the least interesting for me to look at since they overall don't look realistic and seem very odd to my liking and random. Read the “about r&m” page? Who are they and who does what? Ransom and Mitchell are a  still and motion crea...

In order to primarily control shutter speed, our Canon cameras need to be set to which mode? Canon cameras need to be set to in a faster shutter speed and with a sharper focus on the object. The article gives four reasons why motion techniques in photography may be used. What are they? 1. Blurred subject with background in focus 2. Blurred background with subject in focus 3. Freeze the entire field of vision or blur everything 4. Using the continuous shooting feature on your camera called chrono photography.  The faster the shutter speed,  the sharper  the focus on the subject. The slower speed will _blur_ a moving object. Blurring the subject with a focused background is achieved by _using a slower shutter speed_. Having a blurred background with a focused subject is also called _planning_. What do you have to do to successfully pan? When you have a clear view of the moving object and ample room to swivel you camera. How would the image look if you pan in the OPP...