In concluding my final fifteen hours of my senior project, I have aquired many skills that will be valuable further on in my adult life, and have had experiences that I will cherish for years after the project has ended.. Since I chose a project that I was already very passionate about, the last fifteen hours flew by, and actually turned into an abundance of hours, exceeding the required 30 hours total. In taking my passion for photography and turning it into a project, Having two different aspects of my senior project, one aspect being photographing my peer’s senior portraits, and the other photographing beautiful wildlife, I have been able to acquire a lot of valuable knowledge that will further help me in my photography career. I have learned
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Many of my hours were a result of me connecting and giving back to my community by taking senior portraits for free. I took around nine individual’s senior photos, which was a blast each time getting to photograph all types of different beauties in these people. Not only was I happy to photograph my wonderful peers, I was very happy to do them exempt of charge, knowing that normally photographers for senior portraits are very spendy, thus causing many to not want to get them done. In doing them for free, people who would have normally skipped the ordeal and settled for the school-taken photo in the yearbook due to prices, I was able to provide them with portraits that boosted their self esteems, and made them glad that they went through the sometimes uncomfortable process of taking photos. There were many challenges for this part of my project however, mostly due to time related issues. I had to learn to manage and adapt my little free time to find times that would work for both me and the person I was taking photos of, which was sometimes very difficult to align two people’s very busy lives. Another challenge I faced was more personal; being a portrait photographer while having social anxiety is a bit of an intimidating experience. At first I was very, very nervous to meet with individuals that I did not know very
Many of my hours were a result of me connecting and giving back to my community by taking senior portraits for free. I took around nine individual’s senior photos, which was a blast each time getting to photograph all types of different beauties in these people. Not only was I happy to photograph my wonderful peers, I was very happy to do them exempt of charge, knowing that normally photographers for senior portraits are very spendy, thus causing many to not want to get them done. In doing them for free, people who would have normally skipped the ordeal and settled for the school-taken photo in the yearbook due to prices, I was able to provide them with portraits that boosted their self esteems, and made them glad that they went through the sometimes uncomfortable process of taking photos. There were many challenges for this part of my project however, mostly due to time related issues. I had to learn to manage and adapt my little free time to find times that would work for both me and the person I was taking photos of, which was sometimes very difficult to align two people’s very busy lives. Another challenge I faced was more personal; being a portrait photographer while having social anxiety is a bit of an intimidating experience. At first I was very, very nervous to meet with individuals that I did not know very