reflection on finds 1
Mood:  not sure
Topic: reflection 1
finds 1
When reflecting on the experience of creating my blog, I am overwhelmed with many different emotions. The process of taking pictures for my blog, was intially exciting. I thought it would be fun to capture on film important influences withing and surrounding my environment. After a hectic week mixed with rainy weather, I turned to a different approach. Instead of creating all my images new and neatly packaged on a disk, I began to mix and match the old with the new. I took some new pictures on a borrowed digital camera and compiled the rest from old photos. It took some time and deliberating to decide which ones should be used. Althoug the process of deciding was kinda fun, because they were all my world and what I wanted to share about me. I settled on the ones that showed the things most important to me and the ones of my physical surroundings. Getting the pictures all in one place proved to be a little frustrating. Some pictures were very old and had poor quality. I found myself spending time trying to impove the quality. After what seemed like a long time, I was able to get my choosen pictures neatly on a disk. I am not the most computer savy person, so I was looking forward to creating the blog together in class. But circumstances decided to keep me from class. I took it in stride telling myself, that's okay, I can follow directions on a computer how hard can it be? Well, let's just say, the birth of my blog was long and painful. When I first attempted to create my blog, I ran into trouble downloading my pictures. All the treadious work that I had done perfecting the quality of my pictures was for not. The polishing touches I had put on my images only caused distortion and enlargment when displayed on the blog screen. So, I went back to work trying to undo the changes that I had made. Sometimes, I had to start over from scratch and re-scan my pictures. I was also unsure on my comments of the pictures. I was confusing my reflection with the description of the picture. I am still not sure if I put enough information in my captions. But that was my first clue that I may have done something wrong. I got thinking, where do I post my reflections? I went ahead and finished what I had begun, just in case I was correct, and e-mail April to ask for guidance. My suspicion was correct and I completed posted my pictures in the wrong area. So, once again I began playing with my pictures. After finding the correct area to post my pictures, I once again ran into problems. Some of my pictures would just not upload. Several times I got errors. Eventually, I had to re-scan two pictures and post them without any changes. They look smaller than the others on the screen but I could not figure out how to make them any better and still be able to upload them. This was very frustrating to me. I thought about totally eliminating them from my finds, but I thought they were too important. Finally, I was able to get them onto the blog side with some polishes but not onto the photo album builder side. I still don't understand and merely settled for what is posted. Working with the online environment is what has been most frustrating to me. The process of selecting the pictures was very enjoyable. Composing the captions for the pictures was also fun. I struggled somewhat with how much or how little to say. I settled for what I think is a happy medium....hopefully.