Photo 102, Week 1

I'm taking my second photo class from the talented Nicole Hill. Here classes are amazing, but unfortunately she is moving in January, and this is the last month that she'll be teaching here in Utah. The first class I took focused on learning to use the manual settings on your camera instead of automatic. We mainly took pictures of people. The advanced class is more about creativity and still life photography (so for me, creative=very hard). For one of our assignments we had to pick a random item out of a bag and shoot 6 unique creative pictures using that object (I picked a deck of cards). And for our other assignment we had to try different types of window lighting. So here's a few highlights from this week: