Project: Photography (Next Week or Weekend)

Outdoor Flash: Basically the idea is to use ambient light from either inside or outside and combine it with a fill light that is the flash. This makes for some really nice looking pictures.

ADDED (SOME ACTUAL EXAMPLES OF WHAT FLASH CAN DO)

WITHOUT FLASH

WITH FLASH

Here are some examples:

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As you’ll notice the subject is lite from the flash which makes them stand out.

Project: Problems Digital Media

CONCEPT

There is something wrong with the way we live. I believe we’re all trapped within ourselves, afraid to do what it is we truly want to do. In this society we live in, success is based on wealth. Wealth is pressed into our minds as the only way we can truly be happy. So we go to twelve years of  schooling followed by college simply to get ahead of others in a never ending struggle to be the best.  We’re taught that the only way to be successful is to have this education so we can have a nice job, family, kids, cars, and so on. We spend a good fourth of our lives doing so as well. In the end, most of us find that wealth does not equal happiness, but by that point we have no where to go. We have no way out so we continue that life, trapped. The way we all feel this sense of constraint differs from person to person. To some of us it simply has to do with not having the life we want, but not being able to change it. Better yet not knowing how to change it. Some base their lives off making others happy, such as their parents, they’re told what they should be or what they should do even if it’s not what they themselves want.This can be related to a career path, education, or even who is the right person for them to be with. It then becomes a choice of their happiness versus the happiness of those other people controlling their life. Some manage to work up the courage to follow their own dreams, many don’t. There are various ways one can feel this suffocation, this feeling of total hopelessness, and so I want to know other peoples stories. I want to share them as well as my own in this project.

I see my own future and looks rather grim. My parents tell me it’s just life, that we all just have to accept it, but I believe that’s the problem. We all just give up and accept the way we live saying at least I’m better off then these people. I watch myself trapped in this box unable to move, slowly suffocating, and there is nothing I can do about it.

We often deal with this feeling  by having comforts that help with the sense of hopelessness, but in the end they do nothing to fix the problem, they just numb the pain for a while. These comforts can be anything from food to someone you love and in the project they will be represented by the white chair you see in the screen shot below.

I don’t know how to fix this problem, if I did I most likely wouldn’t be here. However, I do believe by making this it will allow more people to realize they’re not alone. Perhaps when they do, one of them will know a way to fix the problem.

HOW TO

I can explain this in person as it’s a little difficult to do so online. You can check the screen shot below for the general idea though.

Concept Art

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