...Graduation?

I've been asked several times recently if I'm excited that I'm graduating.

WHAT. I'm graduating?

I.... I guess I am.

It's funny how it actually never dawned on me that finishing this semester meant I'm "graduating".

I've mostly just been thinking of it as closing one chapter of life and starting a new one with YWAM.

But, hey, I'm graduating! Weird.

 Hello Associates in Arts with emphasis on Photography.

I feel like I put in enough work in these last three years for that degree title to be a little more impressive, but I couldn't be more pleased with the education I've been given. Jonathon is an absolute genius, and I feel so lucky to have learned from him all six semesters. Nobody realizes how lucky we are at our little community college, but our program is amazing because of him. The man lived and studied with Ansel Adams for a period of his life, c'mon!

That being said. These are my finals for the digital image processing II class. 

The only guidelines we had were to come up with 10 color images of completely different subjects, and have them mounted (the way we've been taught over the years) in a pristine manor.  

I've always been a fan of natural light, and capturing it on film (preferred) or a digital sensor.

This semester Jonathon really pushed us to "See The Light". It opened my eyes as to how light at different times of the day can completely change your image.

Some are definitely stronger than others, but overall, I'm happy with the final ten for this semester. All images were sharpened at various stages, and boosted with a mid-tone contrast as well as the occasional bit of dodging and burning. No further editing was done to many of them, as we're not supposed to for his classes.

Okay. Enough talk. Here they are.

 

 

 

This last one is not a photograph, although that would be awesome. It's from our Scanogram project. Two photographs put together, scanned and made into one image. Pretty cool, eh? I like it.

Not a single portrait this time around. Ah well..

That's something I plan to focus on in the future. I want to capture life moments and all things good.

You deserve a gold star if you actually read this whole thing. Phew!

-Kelsey