Fr. Nguyen, a priest of the Congregation of the Holy Cross, was born in the country, Vietnam, and moved to the United States in the very late 1970s. In 1995, he was admitted into the Department of Art, Art History, … Continue reading
In this first project I started out kind of confused on what I was suppose to produce. Over time it became clear to me when I started to visit South Congress. I started off taking pictures of things I thought … Continue reading
Project 1 Reflection: Production, Presentation, Critique! Production I learned a lot about my own abilities and interests (what excites me and what I’m good and not-so-good at) as well as the expectations of quality and thoroughness for projects within this … Continue reading
I think that I was fairly successful with my first project. I really feel like I got a lot out of the critique, and now I know how to clean up my final project even more. I had fun taking … Continue reading
Critique Reflection This critique was one of the first serious critiques I had this school year. The other one I had already experienced was for my drawing class and it was more about basics and the common principles in drawing … Continue reading
Based on the critique I received in class on the Gestalt project, I have a better understanding of what it means to “edit” the collection of photos I am presenting and choose a set that compliment each other but that … Continue reading
This first project for me was filled with some confusion, but I feel it transitioned me into college art classes. In high school, there was so much handholding and concrete guidelines like how many images to take, and what subject … Continue reading
The experience of critique was something I don’t think I was entirely prepared for. I went into the first day confident in my project, but nervous about how my presentation would go. I was definitely taken aback by how quickly everything … Continue reading
After finishing my project and going through the entire presentation process over the critiques, I realized I spent too much time on trying to capture the Gestalt principles in my images, rather than taking images and applying principles to those … Continue reading
Looking back over the time I spent on this first project, I realize that I worried about the Gestalt principles more than I should have when I first started shooting. For a while I was very conflicted about the group … Continue reading