Since January, I've been taking a college course on digital photography. Although the first couple of weeks got cancelled because of snowstorms that only occurred on Mondays, my class has been a grand experience nonetheless. I have a Canon T3i, but I didn't know much about using it. Things like aperture and ISO always scared me from using my camera's manual settings. This class had been a huge help in this area. Having an amazing teacher and friendly classmates helps, too.
These are a few outtakes from my final assignment. I was supposed to take twelve images of a discrete item, place or idea using the techniques we learned through our previous assignments, and a friend of mine suggested that I do my record player. I'm proud of my photoset, and even some of the pictures I didn't use are some of the most beautiful pictures I've taken.
I've always been the family's go-to person for family portraits and postcard-worthy views, but during this period in which I'm taking my class, photography has fascinated me. It amazed me that I could turn a couch corner into a mountainous terrain, my knuckles into hills, stacks of paper into valleys. It convinced me that God took parts of nature and intertwined them into a human being, that we're made of microscopic landscapes and galaxies. I understand how crazy that sounds, but it makes me so happy.
