Alphabet

At first, I thought this project was going to be horrible thinking, "where the heck am I gonna find all these letters??" It took me a while to actually get focused and look for the different letters in everyday life. I decided to take a walk around town and discovered that there's a lot more letters in everything than I thought. The hardest letters to fine were probably Q, R, and F. Overall I think this project turned out pretty well, I really like how it looks!

CD Jewel Case

Cover Page

Middle Page

        I thought this project was both challenging and easy. When I picked Contemporary Country as my music genre, I was flabberghasted! "Country?? My least favorite kind of music? Great." But once I looked in to what the album covers of Country artists looked like, I figured it would be pretty easy to find some content that could unleash my inner Country star. Right. SO for the cover page, I decided to do a collage of what  country was in my mind. You see things like an old car, a swing, a farm, and a cowboy hat (that last one was inevitable). For the middle page of the CD case, I chose the picture of an old building in downtown Neillsville. I thought the light was hitting it really nicely, and I just loved the general structure of the building. For the back page of the CD case, I used the farm picture from the front. I liked that picture because it gave me somewhat of a blank area to put the song titles, but still had a bit of interesting content in it. For the overall album, I used the "Antique" feature on iPhoto to give the pictures a more warm, Western-y type feel to them. 

Multi-view

For this multi-view project, I decided to take many pictures of one of my favorite pairs of shoes. On the tongue of the shoe, there's the small "for the <3" design, and I really thought It would look neat if I cut that almost in half. I used many filters and adjusted the saturation a lot. I really like the bright neon looking colors!

One Subject

For the One Subject project, I chose to take pictures of the playhouse in my yard. I remember my dad building the playhouse from scratch and me being so happy to help him (I only painted a wall or two from what I recall!) This playhouse has been in our yard since I was probably around 7 years old. I remember having my friends come over and we would play house and have so much fun playing on this HUGE playhouse. Eventually I grew too big to play in the playhouse, and my cat started taking refuge on the high level during the summers. I have so many good memories in this playhouse and I'm sure going to miss seeing this every day when I go to college.

Warmth

As we transition into spring everything becomes seemingly warmer, both physically and mentally. The sun is shining more and starts melting all the snow. For this assignment it was somewhat hard to take good pictures outside because all of the mud and puddles aren't very appealing to look at. 

Aperture: f/ 3.5 ISO: 320  Shutter Speed: 1/8

In this picture, my mother was just about to put in some potatoes for supper and I stopped to take a picture. I like this picture because you can see the hot coil on the bottom and almost feel the intense  heat coming from it. I also bumped up the "warmth" on this picture to give it a more heated feel.

Aperture: f/5.3  ISO: 64  Shutter Speed: 1/100

I took this picture on my way to Marshfield with my mom. I yelled at her to pull over because I didn't want to miss an opportunity for the picture. This was taken along Hewett Street in town. The people in this house are collecting sap from the trees in their front yard. You often don't see many people collecting sap in town like this, and I thought it was a good way to show that spring and warm weather is coming.

Aperture: f/4.6  ISO: 160  Shutter Speed: 1/20

Last weekend (the Saturday before Easter) I went with the Neillsville band to a Milwaukee Bucks game. We were able to come to the game early and play a pregame music session. Before playing, there was some time to kill so I decided to whip out my camera and shoot some of the players WARMing up. See what I did there? ;) I like how this picture has the (very tall) player getting ready for the big game ahead. You can see all kinds of players warming up and shooting free throws in the back.

Nature Shots From Last Spring

These are some pictures I took last Mother's Day when my parents and I went down to Milwaukee to see family. On the way back we stopped in the Dells and went on a boat tour to see the unique formations in the area.

Typical Day

This is what a typical day in the life of Julie looks like! In the first picture, I show that my alarm is set for 7:25am, but most days I tend to ignore it and wake up at 7:40am (oops!). I then proceed to get ready by gazing into my closet to put something on. If there's time, I straighten my hair too. Then I make sure that everything I need is packed up in my backpack and ready to go, and I drive myself to school. Early in the morning, the hallways are almost deserted and I like walking down the long, serene walkways by myself. I hang my backpack and coat up in my locker and get to class. Before lunch, I do some homework which requires me to read out of a horrible 1700 page English book ("Pocket Edition", my butt!) I also go to band and practice tunes for our upcoming concert/events. Being on a computer is also a large part of my day, since most of my classes require you to do online work. When I get off from school, I go home and do some leisurely reading before supper is made. After supper, I do some more homework and then get ready for bed.

For this collage type assignment, I chose to have the pictures overlapping and sharp instead of blurring the edges down so they connect together. To me, the sharp edges make it seem like the things in the pictures each have their own specific time slot.