I didn't come into this photography course with a great attitude. I struggled monumentally with black and white film photography, and I don't enjoy not having something come easily to me. Part of this course deals with Photoshop, which is a program that I had absolutely no experience with before this class. All aspects of this class made me nervous. I almost dropped it during the first week of the trimester, but gradually we were introduced to cameras, and I actually had an understanding of what was going on. Because I had just taken a different photography class, I knew the basics. It allowed me to get ahead in the class, which is a contrast to how I was in black and white photography. I wasn't struggling because I was behind. I remember the first day we took out the cameras. Being used to SLR film cameras kind of ruined my expectation for digital cameras. When we pulled out these tiny point and shoot cameras, I thought they were the most bizarre looking things ever.
The first Photoshop assignment. I don't think any school assignment has ever made me so anxious. It wasn't even just one assignment. At least seven over the course of a trimester on an application that I've never used, never wanted to use. I'm laughing at myself looking back at how I reacted. The class is for beginners in both the photography and Photoshop aspect. The first Photoshop assignment passed by in a breeze of demos and step-by-step instructions. I knew that I was really going to improve as a photographer when we started off the class with the composition assignments. Also, being able to pick what assignments we were doing week to week really allowed me to bring out my creative side. The freedom to choose and be in complete control of what I wanted to do really helped my confidence and how much I like photography. By the end of the trimester, we would turn in one photo assignment and the next day I'd already be thinking about what I wanted to shoot for next weekend. Definitely not the same feeling I had in black and white photography. I feel very comfortable in Photoshop too. I started off not knowing how to do anything, but now I finish Photoshop assignments within one or two days of being assigned. I also don't have to rely so heavily on the directions. Overall, I feel that I've improved in my range of photography, and I have a much better understand of Photoshop.
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