Photography

First Attempt

So here we are. The first stepping stone. The first print. The first memory I have of using a non digital camera, but to sum it all up, my first picture taken in my photography class. Despite it's imperfections it has a certain charm that makes it feel like mine.
When I was first brainstorming ideas for this assignment, "shoot a portrait of someone" I was clueless to what subject matter I wanted to incorperate in here. All I knew was that while everyone was testing their hand at serious model-esque shots, I wanted mine to branch out from the rest. I wanted mine to have simple "feel good" feel to it.
I then began listing things in my mind that made me feel good and after going through a great deal of time going about naming things that I simply could not incorperate I fell upon the subject matter of books. Six shots later, this particular one was able to capture my attention primarily because of my models expression.
It's a bit odd how the light was able to play about in this photo, and I am well aware that her face is out of focus, but I don' think photography is necessarily about always taking the sharpest picture. It's something greater then that.
It's about capturing an emotion before it fades. It's about being in the right place at the right time. It's about learning to appreciate light. It's about making the simplest things interesting