How and Reasons: This single photo changed me because in my old view for photography is that I always believed that good photos were always taken in a original state, do not need the technology to fix or edit. However, from this project, it changed my view for photography how amazing that photography could turn an ugly or simply stuff to pretty and distinctive. Beautiful things are probably not its most original state. Like this photo, how ugly or worldliness is a single badminton birdie, however, through I took it in a container then edited, I made the birdies more interesting and beautiful to see.
Link to another photographer's About Page who inspired you: Trey Ratcliff http://www.stuckincustoms.com/trey-ratcliff/
Link 2: Presentation Project
Link 3: Final Project - Badminton
Choose: Of the last three projects, I think “the Final Project – Badminton” was my best work.
Link of my best work: http://yilongzeng.weebly.com/blog/final-project-badminton
Reasons: I think this was my best work. Based on my other two projects’ experience, I concluded them to do this final project. I paid more attention on lights, like I took picture at different time of day; Also, I made up the badminton birdies, for example, I put the LED lights in each birdie, make sure the feather of birdies are clean and smooth After took this picture, I used camera raw to edit it, made them more colorful.
How did this project change you: This project changed me, Because not like other two which are teamwork that I can relax or do less thing than other people, however, it's a individual work, so that everything should be done by myself, also spent a lot of time to search topic, considered where to take, what to take and how to take. And it direct me to research online that how to adjust camera during different types of situation and how to edit in camera raw, so that I learned the camera and photoshop usage deeply. In short, this project made me solving problem more aggressive, and no one can help you solve, you should do your own thing.
How did you learn to see differently: From this class and after all project, I learned that we can’t compete the works each other. Because everyone is spending time to work, thinking about their work, and actually do their work, they will take photos when they think it’s the best work. I now see no one’s work will be same or relate same stories in it. I see the different parts of whole world in every different cameras.
