Midterm Post:
Intro: I started out with no photography experience whatsoever. The first and last time I had picked up an HDRI camera in high school, I was immediately confused by even the settings on auto and gave up on taking pictures when I realized I spent an entire thirty minutes taking pictures of my Principal with the lens cap on. Good times! Black and White: I've always liked the graffiti around my apartment and some of it shows some wit. There's a permit parking sign just outside another apartment that someone vandalized, and I thought the design was simple and effective; the meaning was easily understood even with judicious cropping, so I figured it would work for an assignment where most of the subject would be coming off the edge. I took the photo knowing that I wanted the sign to be the most prominent element without much distracting from it. When editing, most of my edits were made to the sign itself, my focal point, lightening up the text and darkening the graffiti