Personal Narrative-Lack Of Timelapse Photography

My first experience with art was an obsession with how I could photograph a flower, its beauty shown through my great lack of technique and knowledge of photography. This experience was important because it allowed me to start to see the world through an artist’s eye. With more exploration I moved beyond the flower and began photographing other subjects. What I was photographing was mostly nature, very clichéd imagery. I fell into the trap that many High School students do.

It wasn’t until I started exploring timelapse photography that I was able to find more interesting techniques to make art. My photographic field-work ranged from watching the clouds and stars, to driving down the road, to melting crayons. I created a motorized camera slide to allow movement within a normally stationary timelapse.

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Working with them to find ways to visually express their ideas with an innovative solution has become exciting. Each client is a new challenge and is always an opportunity and problem to solve and I am attracted to that.

While enrolled in school and taking art classes, I have had very little time to make my own graphic art. At first this bothered me being in the introductory courses I have felt very constrained to the mediums and concepts we were using in classes. I had reservations about other mediums but they have opened up many other ideas and opportunities for me to explore art. I am already applying many of the things that I have learned in my classes to my work. The principles of design are very helpful in organizing and presenting the my art.

Even though I started to explore art though photography, I have found much more satisfaction through graphic design. I have found a new appreciation for other art forms and I am able to incorporate parts from many forms into graphic