Photography Reflection

I really enjoyed researching the domain of photography and the photographer Gordon Parks. I learned a lot from not only researching but also imitating the work of Gordon Parks and then exploring my own creativity within photography. I liked the Imitation section of the project. It gave me a chance to photograph from Gordon's eye. His style, once again, is to capture a natural shot, which basically means to photograph someone in their natural state, not posing; he also photographed in black and white, which I really liked.

What was most fun to me was imitating his work. I like to learn first hand what creative people see when they are in their prime and I was honestly curious on how exactly Parks did this. When I got the photo, I realized that taking photos of someone without them noticing takes patience and some sneakiness. It's important that they don't see you but you don't necessarily hide the camera, you just capture people in their moments.

What I found to be difficult is to accept my creative nature when it comes to taking pictures because me personally, I don't like to take pictures of myself or posing because I like to just take good pictures of people in their regular state. I also like to take pictures of cities and landscapes too in color so in a sense my style of photography is similar to Gordon Park's style of photography. So next time I know to not be so critical of my work and to just be accepting of my personal style of photography.

I chose photography because on-upon-a-time I was interested in photography which what made this project a little fun for me. Also, to be honest it was pretty easy to explore as well, but I guess that's were I experienced flow because it didn't feel like work and I actually enjoyed photography.

I admired everyone's work because no one in class really slacked on their research. Everyone obviously showed some type of curiosity or passion that they had. Whether it had been origami, music, painting, drawing, and etc. To me creativity is simply an interest that you took seriously and did something with it. Everyone in class took an interest and explored it and that seems to be the most important step into being creative.