The End...Or Is It?

Now that I think about it, that Reflections post should have been the very last post. Hmm...oh well.
It's hard taking photographs that have the kind of meaning I want them to have. I'm really more used to taking pictures of places and people I've visited. That doesn't really require much skill, other than being able to hold the camera still.
Although actually, that can be hard if you're trying to take a picture of your own hand. My final image is of me and my roommate Libby holding hands. We went through at least ten pictures before I found two that could work. Half of the images were just so blurred that you couldn't tell what was going on! I mean, there was the vague shape of a hand, but the rings were blurred out, and our hands looked really weird. Both of us had that problem. I don't know why - some of the pictures were perfectly fine, and when I was just taking pictures of my own hand I didn't have that problem. So that was weird.

Lighting is also a problem. I had wanted a lot of contrast in the hand image so that it would be easier to cut out the hand. Well, we took all the pictures in the same place at the same time, and some of them came out dark like the one in the viewer, and some were pretty light like the one I posted earlier. Just a slight change in angle completely changed the lighting. I'm a little worried now about taking a photo of a sunset (or at least an evening photo). It looks like there's plenty of light still, but sometimes the image is just way too dark to see anything. Also...the image that I see on my camera and the image that gets uploaded to my computer look different. So sometimes I'll think a picture is too dark, then I'll load it onto the computer and it'll be fine. So weird...but in this case that's probably a good thing.

(Okay...someone turned the thermostat down again. I can feel the freezing air being blown in on me. Grr....)

I like my idea for this project, because it is something that I am very interested in, and one of the main reasons why I think America still has a long way to go before we are worthy of being called a "great" nation (there are lots of other reasons though, don't get me started). I just hope my final product can convey some of that feeling to my audience.

(The nachos were very good, by the way.)

Good night and farewell!