Playing with Pixlr

   In high school I took a class called digital photography. In this class we were given the opportunity to walk around campus and take pictures of the things that visually excited us. We learned about shutter speed, aperture, and a lot of other things that I never truly and fully grasped. All of these things did not matter though, as long as you had an understanding of the "digital" photography part. While our cameras had the function to automatically take pictures, we were forced to do everything manually. This often times left us with awful pictures. How did I pass this class if I had no idea what aperture and shutter speeds actually did? I used the computer!
   After our day of taking pictures, we would come inside, upload pictures, and begin playing with them online. The photoshop editor is very similar to the pixlr editor. This made making this project slightly easier. Obviously I have forgotten plenty of tools and trades in the four years since I have take digital photography, but surprisingly enough; some things actually stuck with me. I was able to blend the rose in more effectively because of the blurring tolls I had learned in that class. While it was also nice to have taken that class, I found myself searching for buttons and shortcuts that I did not remember, which ended up taking up a lot of time. 
   This is my favorite project thus far.

Haiti's Grim Past and Present

Ignite It

Haiti has had an increasingly difficult time economically and socially. Because of this children are found without homes every day.