Final Intention Statement

Where shall I begin in my journey of trial and error? I successful met, photographed, and questioned 30 strangers. I can sincerely say I had such a great experience. The point of my work was to improve on my photography skills, and I also wanted to capture people in their essence in the photographs. I was able to do that with a select few. The only tricky part about it was I felt that the fact that people knew they were being photographed for my project, so they put on a big smile and tried to look good. I didn't care about how their hair looked, or their makeup, or whatever. The answers I got to my questions  weren't what I expected, and I don't think many people took my project seriously. Maybe they did take it seriously, and just answered to the best of their ability. I'm going to try this project out in the city and compare the answers I get to the answers I received in school. Much of my inspiration came from the photographers Vitor Shalom, and Zhang Jingna. Another main source of inspiration for this project came from Humans of New York. 

I was able to learn many new techniques from the past four days of researching. I learned about using different ISOs in different conditions, and I was able to experiment with them. Also, I learned how to successfully use a hand held light meter! Hands on experience with it helps you learn much more than just watching a video. With learning about light meters, I learned about the difference because reflected and incident metering.  The pictures I took the first few day were so terrible, and I thought they didn't capture my skills well. As the week went on, I definitely saw progress in my shots, but of course there's always room for improvement. The problem with my shots the first day was the lack of appropriate lighting, and overall the shots lacked quality. But, this project made me want to work in a studio and improve on my shots, experiment with different lighting, lenses, cameras, etc etc... My friend asked me if I would be interested in renting a studio for a few hours with him, and I really want to do it now. I still want to do some more research about new techniques before I put the money into it. If I'm going to make the investment, I might as well get my money's worth.

I think I had a very successful week, and I am pleased with what I've learned and discovered about both myself and photography. 

My project can be found here: http://lisaboneta.foliohd.com/view/Hlt